MicroFocus K2

End of Support for IDOL 5 and IDOL 7 Announcing the end of support for IDOL 5 and 7

MicroFocus K2 version 7 (K2 7) extends the product line by delivering K2's robust enterprise search capabilities on the IDOL kernel, providing performance and scalability improvements and access to over 500 advanced features. The K2 product line includes K2 Enterprise Search, Profiler, Federator, Collaborative Classifier, and KeyView.

The K2 Customer Assurance Program delivers a lifetime support guarantee to customers who are on Autonomy's maintenance program by providing support for all currently supported releases as well as an upgrade to K2 version 7 with no additional software license fees for previously licensed K2 functionality. No migration is necessary as existing K2 applications run without change. No additional hardware is required to realize significant performance improvements that include a doubling in indexing performance and seven times increase in simple keyword query performance.

Autonomy was bought by Hewlett-Packard(HP) in 2011 for 11.7 billion dollars, and have since discovered this was over valued. HP released a statement announcing a non-cash impairment charge of 8.8 billion related to Autonomy. More than $5 billion is linked to serious accounting improprieties, missrepresentation and disclosure failures discoverd by an internal investigation by HP. In 2017 MicroFocus acquired IDOL from HP.

K2 7 highlights include:

Existing K2 applications run unchanged; no need to migrate Linear scalability through a multi-threaded, 64-bit architecture Access to more than 500 advanced IDOL functions simply by adding API calls to customers' existing K2 applications Out-of-the box support for automatic hyperlinking, agents and alerting, automatic clustering, implicit query, automated query guidance, video and audio analysis