Avalon Consulting Launches Expanded Enterprise Search Practice

Practice promotes enterprise search as powerful extension to online content solutions.

DALLAS, August 25, 2006 - Avalon Consulting, LLC, an innovator in the design and delivery of enterprise content solutions, has broadened its enterprise Search business segment practice to enable the newest and most sophisticated elements of search functionality for the enterprise. The expanded knowledge management unit will use IDOL™ technology from Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), as its cornerstone for facilitating advanced operations in all data Search and management situations.

The growing business division enhances Avalon’s recognized expertise in content solutions and portals by continuing to bring together the world’s most advanced enterprise design and implementation strategies. The result is high impact solutions for organizations seeking a competitive advantage in today’s age of information overload.

“While Search applications have always been a part of our enterprise competency,” said Tom Reidy, founder and president of Avalon Consulting, “the formalization of Search as a focused practice within Avalon allows us to establish a greater stake and focus in this area of content solutions delivery. Our clients receive rich intelligence capabilities across their varied content repositories and are enabled to launch this power through their portal for a unified Search experience. These clients, in turn, empower their employees and their customers to easily and quickly find answers, securely share information across corporate boundaries, reduce duplication of effort, and often discover intelligence and expertise the organization did not know it possessed.”

Avalon’s custom implementations of Autonomy’s advanced IDOL™ Search technology drive efficiency within organizations and demonstrate measurable return-on-investment. The IDOL™ product family allows deep functionality and real-time response in all elements of today's critical business information management segments including e-commerce, CRM, knowledge management, business intelligence and enterprise information portals.

About Avalon Consulting, LLC
Avalon Consulting, LLC, with offices in Dallas, TX, and Washington, DC, designs, builds, implements, and manages Enterprise scale content solutions for Next Generation Web, e-Learning, business process efficiency, and Search. The company expertly delivers critical, customized content management systems and portals; collaboration applications; state-of-the-art, interactive and innovative e-Learning courseware; and secure, reliable, and meaningful Search solutions across the enterprise. Continual and expert mentoring, knowledge transfer, and a hands-on customer service philosophy further guarantee Avalon delivers solutions that matter and are easily adaptable and maintainable. Avalon enjoys strategic partnerships with key industry organizations such as Autonomy, Outstart, and Vignette Corporation.