In 2017, HPE sold its remaining Autonomy assets, as part of a wider deal, to the British software company Micro Focus.

[7][8] It used a combination of technologies born out of research at the University of Cambridge and developed a variety of enterprise search and knowledge management applications using adaptive pattern recognition techniques centered on Bayesian inference in conjunction with traditional methods.

[14] October 2007: Autonomy acquired Meridio Holdings Ltd, a UK company based in Northern Ireland that specialised in Records Management software, for £20 million.

[16] January 2009: Autonomy acquired Interwoven, a niche provider of enterprise content management software, for $775 million.

[20] For the 2011–12 season Spurs' Premier League shirt featured Autonomy's augmented reality technology Aurasma.

[22] On 18 August 2011, Hewlett-Packard announced that it would purchase Autonomy for US$42.11 per share with a premium of around 79% over market price that was widely criticized as "absurdly high", a "botched strategy shift" and a "chaotic" attempt to rapidly reposition HP and enhance earnings by expanding the high-margin software services sector.

[1][32]: 3–6  External observers stated that only a small part of the write-off appeared to be due to accounting mis-statements, and that HP had overpaid for businesses previously.

[1] The Serious Fraud Office (United Kingdom), and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission joined the FBI in investigating the potential anomalies.

[41] On 31 October 2015, Autonomy's software products were divided between HP Inc (HPQ) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) as a result of the Hewlett-Packard Company separation.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise retained ownership of the remaining software and legal entity of Autonomy Corporation Limited.

[44] In 2017, HPE sold its Autonomy assets, as part of a wider deal valued at $8.8 billion, to the British software company Micro Focus.

[46] Legal entity and former parent company Autonomy Corporation Limited was merged with fellow HPE subsidiary ACL Netherlands B.V. and ceased to exist.

[47][48] In April 2018 Autonomy's ex-CFO Sushovan Hussain was charged in the US and found guilty in of accounting fraud,[49] and subsequently allowed out on bail after his appeal raised a "substantial question over his conviction.