Mike Lynch set up Autonomy in 1996, new demands for corporate governance when he was just completing his PhD at as one of the reasons Autonomy is Cambridge University. Since then, it has gaining more customers. Firms must grown rapidly, becoming Britain's now reveal more and more for biggest software company by market government and industry regulatory value, overtaking Sage in the process. bodies. When firms are involved in Autonomy's success has owed much to lawsuits, it is particularly important to Lynch's entrepreneurial drive, although produce all the relevant pieces of he plays down comparisons with Bill information to the court, showing an Gates of Microsoft. Mr Lynch built the audit trail extracted from all kinds of business in the growing sector of data, including email, text and audio. enterprise search. Its business is Mr Lynch cites the advantages of his described on the company website as firm's programmes in complying with "meaning-based computing', or the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, software which handles unstructured which lays down the rules for court data. Unstructured data can be text, documentation. images, audio and video - anything which is not numerically based. Law firms are among Autonomy's Organizations are accumulating more customers, as are financial firms. These and more unstructured data, now areas have brought in new clients in the accounting for 80% of the world's data. wake of the financial crisis. Mr Lynch With the rise in global communications speculated in 2005, 'What happens