• Ease of maintenance by replacing your custom indexing, security and applications by out of the box connectors, modules and functionality
• Out of the box connectors to integrate K2 7 with almost any content source such as Document Management Systems, Content Management Systems, Relational Database Servers, Email, Collaboration Software, File Shares and Internet / Intranet.
• Improved scalability, performance, stability and security.
The following enhancements have been quantified in Autnomy's benchmark tests: Indexing performance will double, four times as many documents per instance can be handled, and simple keyword query performance will increase by seven times.
• Out of the box support for Automatic Hyperlinking, Agents and Alerting, Dynamic Clustering, Implicit Query, Automatic Query Guidance, Video and Audio Analysis.
• Access to more than 500 advanced IDOL functions simply by adding API calls to their existing K2 application
• Risk Mitigation through continuity of support and stability.

Cost Benefit:

• Seamless Upgrade to K2 7 Organisations can continue using their K2 applications
• Ability to upgrade directly from any version of K2 v5.5 or K2 v6.x. to K2 7
• Supported K2 APIs protect existing investments in user interface development. With API support for C, PHP, COM/+, HTTP, Java, and .NET, all users can continue to work with existing K2 user interfaces.
• Investment in VQL is protected too K2 custom queries will work transparently with K2 7. All Verity Query Language (VQL) calls remain operational; no changes are required. Performance will also improve since queries will be executed natively.
• Ease of Upgrade - K2 7 is deployed rapidly with an intuitive and interactive wizard. This "environment aware" framework can step through the scan, ingest and upgrade an existing K2 footprint for direct use in K2 7.In addition, the upgrade of K2 database files is native and automatic. K2 7 can elect to query existing collections or automatically import all relevant metadata and security information from within a collection. And in all cases, the collections can automatically be rendered into the new K2 7 format to allow full use of the extended operation set that the upgrade will allow.
• Reduced implementation times, thus reducing cost of implementation.

What We Offer:

Best Practices Analysis, Planning and Implementation:

Your company has already invested time and money in Verity K2 product suite and in order to remain ahead in today’s competitive market, now is the time to take advantage of the opportunity to move your organisation to Autonomy’s cutting edge Enterprise search platform, IDOL server.
Our consultants will work closely with your company’s business users, and IT personnel to help us collectively understand your current K2 implementation and utilisation so we can best advise you on the upgrade paths. Workshops are held on-site and will take one to three days (depends on the scale of project). The outcome of the workshop will be a roadmap report providing you with information regarding your requirements, search business architecture, mapping of your functional requrements to K2 7 functionality, costing, timeframes and resourcing.

Upgrading Verity K2 to Autonomy K2V7 server: Our technical staff specialise in both Verity K2 and Autonomy K2 7 platforms. We can implement the upgrade to Autonomy IDOL server 7 on any platform such as UNIX or Windows servers using different frameworks and programming languages such as .Net framework or J2EE/Java framework etc. We can implement a one-to-one upgrade, out-of-the-box functionality, or provide you with a solution customised to your current and future business needs.

For a no obligation discussion on your current K2 environment and future business search needs, please contact us.