Autonomy IDOL Delivers World Class Performance for Kenexa

WAYNE, PA--(Marketwire - March 31, 2008) - Kenexa® (NASDAQ: KNXA), a leading provider of talent acquisition and retention solutions, today signed a long-term contract with Autonomy Corporation for the use of Autonomy IDOL (Intelligent Data Operating Layer) as part of its comprehensive technical strategy to provide best-of-breed solutions across all of its human capital management applications.

IDOL is Autonomy's flagship product that provides a platform for understanding the meaning and significance of information: additional industry specific functionality can be seamlessly integrated with IDOL in order to perform advanced operations on human resource data. IDOL is a scalable solution that is well suited to Kenexa's hosted solution offerings. Kenexa selected the best enterprise search technology for its customers that provides powerful search and candidate to job match capabilities.

In deploying the IDOL Meaning-based Computing technology, Kenexa is executing on part of its earlier announced comprehensive strategy to consolidate technologies across products, thus providing customers with the best solutions available without interrupting their service and upgrading functionality as part of the normal release schedule.

"By executing our technology strategies, our key stakeholders will continue to enjoy a stream of the best solutions available," said Jim Restivo, chief knowledge officer, Kenexa. "We are especially excited about our relationship with Autonomy because the technology provides additional opportunities for innovation and functionality that will benefit customers in the months and years ahead."

Kenexa continues to aggressively implement its technical strategy to federate and upgrade technologies across its hosted solutions. By doing so, the company is accomplishing a number of goals including bringing best-of-breed solutions in a way that positively impacts customers by negotiating consolidated licensing contracts; and unifying software development efforts across products with increased focus on those technologies that will continue to deliver the best solutions for customers.

About Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU) (LSE: AU.L) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data including unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, call center solutions, rich media management, information risk management solutions and security applications, and is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in enterprise search.

About Kenexa

Kenexa® Corporation provides software, employee research and consulting to help organizations more effectively recruit and retain a productive workforce. Kenexa solutions include applicant tracking, recruitment process outsourcing, onboarding, skills and behavioral assessments, employment branding, performance management, employee surveys and HR Analytics. Headquartered in Wayne, Pa. (outside Philadelphia), Kenexa employs more than 1,400 people worldwide. More information about Kenexa and its global locations can be accessed at www.kenexa.com.