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Autonomy Corporation is an enterprise software company based in Cambridge, United Kingdom and San Francisco, USA. It develops a variety of knowledge management applications using adaptive pattern recognition techniques centered on mathematical Bayesian analysis.

In 2002, Autonomy acquired Softsound, a company developing speech recognition software. In 2003, they acquired Virage, a software developer of Video search software, and in June 2005, acquired etalk, and German consulting company global linxs GmbH. In December 2005 Autonomy acquired Verity, one of its main competitors, for around $500m.
 
Autonomy's software is used by various large global corporations and public sector agencies.