Autonomy Receives Outstanding Achievement of the Year Award

Cambridge Business Magazine Accolade Recognizes Autonomy’s Market Leadership, Unique Technological Offering and Strong Financial and Commercial Success

Cambridge, UK and SAN FRANCISCO, CA, July 20, 2009 -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that it has been bestowed the Outstanding Achievement of the Year award by Cambridge Business Magazine, a leading East-of-England publication. The one-of-a-kind accolade celebrates Autonomy’s market leadership, strong financial performance, innovation and trend-setting vision. The last 12 months have been momentous for Autonomy with key achievements including its entry into the FTSE 100, the analyst-acclaimed acquisition of Interwoven dubbed as a “masterstroke”, and becoming the winner of the “Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: Innovation.”

"I have followed Autonomy's progress from the outset and watched this great company emerge with Founder and CEO Dr Mike Lynch confounding all those who say you can't be a brilliant academic and a brilliant businessman,” said Jenny Chapman, Business Editor of Cambridge News and Cambridge Business magazine. “Dr Lynch has created a jewel and set an example of the type of company which will lead us out of recession and into a new post-manufacturing era of prosperity for this country."

Born out of research at Cambridge University in 1996, Autonomy has grown to become the UK’s largest software company and the global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise with a current market cap of $5.5 billion. Autonomy is widely recognised as a trend-setter in the IT industry, investing over $100 million in R&D per year. At the heart of Autonomy’s revolutionary meaning-based technology lies the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) software which forms an understanding of all data in the enterprise including human-friendly formats such as Web pages, emails, voice and video. Autonomy’s IDOL technology is used by over 20,000 customers worldwide to generate real business value, enabling organisations to fully leverage these traditionally untapped data assets and automate a raft of processes in the organization.

Source: Autonomy Corporation plc