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Connotate Announces Agent Suite: A powerful, easy-to-use platform for harnessing valuable streams of real time web information. It empowers users through a wide-range of software agents that provide content, data and unique and essential information not available with any other tool.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – June 8, 2004 – Connotate Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Web Mining and Web Interaction solutions, today announced the introduction of the Connotate Agent SuiteTM The suite combines Connotate’s Web Mining ServerTM, Agent Libraryä, and the Alert MonitorTM in one unified offering. The solution builds upon Connotate’s machine intelligence and web mining technologies, along with Connotate’s easy to use graphical user interface that eliminates the need for programming.
“There is a tremendous amount of data streaming constantly from the World Wide Web” says Bruce Molloy, Connotate’s CEO. “It is highly valuable but difficult to use. With the introduction of the Agent Suite, it is now possible to harness this information easily, quickly, and reliably.” Many web sources update several times a day or more from the Web, which is currently estimated to contain 500 billion pages and counting. The need for Connotate’s Agent Suite that extracts, processes and reports data and information quickly, efficiently and cheaply, is critical to any organization hoping to maintain a competitive edge.
Application areas for the Connotate Agent Suite include Finance, News, Publishing, Homeland Security, and Business Intelligence. The real world applications in Finance, for example, include the following:·
Utilize Valuable, Unique Data Sources and Data Feeds – Data agents can be configured to monitor any of the 500 billion web pages currently available. New information posted to a site can be automatically converted to real-time data, and exotic foreign market, energy, and commodity sites can be transformed into streaming data.·
Monitor Specific Breaking News Such As Earnings Releases – Monitoring agents associated with a company’s site can watch earnings releases during scheduled windows of time. Agents can wait for unexpected news on that company’s site related to management changes, products, business opportunities, etc., and results can be sent via a number of devices including email, workstations, databases, and instant messaging.
Configure Automated Personal Research Assistants – Research agents can monitor and aggregate information from numerous sources, and the information can be personalized using filters, classifiers and value-added processing. Complete personalized HTML reports can be generated and delivered automatically to leverage research departments’ existing expertise and greatly enhance productivity.·
Arbitrage Inefficient Markets – Harvesting agents enable the creation and execution of new arbitrage strategies. Many areas of opportunity exist in the energy, commodities, foreign exchange, exotic and emerging markets.·
Integrate and/or Aggregate Valuable Web Content – Integration agents can be placed on any HTML web site, thus “XML/Web Service enabling” the site in just hours. Government databases can be extracted and repurposed, while diverse portfolio, fund, and account information can be integrated and/or aggregated.
Connotate Agent Suite - A Complete Solution
From an organizational perspective, agents are highly effective conduits for connecting individual users with the data sources they require. The Connotate Agent Suite empowers every information consumer in the organization. By making the output of given data sources consistent and reliable, productivity increases significantly as less time is spent on the manual monitoring, scrubbing, and formatting of information.
Based on market input, and hundreds of meetings with both companies and industry analysts, Connotate created the Connotate Agent Suite. The Suite is a complete, end-to-end solution, which combines Connotate’s Web Mining Server, Agent Library, and the Alert Monitor in one unified offering. The key features of the Agent Suite include the following:
- Agent types include: Data extraction, Monitoring, Research, and Integration
- GUI based agent creation, incorporating machine intelligence does not require programming
- Robust platform is reliable, scalable, and fast
- APIs include Integration points with data-feeds, databases, and other systems
An in depth description of each of the Agent Suite’s three main components is attached.
THE CONNOTATE AGENT SUITE
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Connotate Web Mining Server
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A comprehensive, scaleable solution for monitoring, harvesting, mining and integra-ting content from the Internet, Intranets and Extranets. Its point and click user interface is intuitive and easy to use, and is unlike anything else available.
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Create Robust Agents In Minutes Using AI Graphical Interface
– The entire process is GUI-based requiring no programming.
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Transform The Web Into Your Own Database – Information Agents can be configured to transform unstructured web data into valuable structured information and deliver this information to database.
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Agents Navigate On Your Behalf: Follow Links, Fill In Forms, Utilize Passwords -– SoftwareAgents can navigate to the sources of information using a variety of techniques
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Mine The Deep Web Using Automated Parameterization
– Agents automatically step through lists of parameter values, and return sets of results.
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XML, Web Services ‘Wrap’ any Web Site. Enhanced Web Services/API Interface – Agents can be invoked programmatically through a standard web services API. Allows content-rich applications to make calls to the World Wide Web “Data Warehouse.”
Connotate Agent Library & Server
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The Agent Library is an intuitive, browser-based interface for accessing a variety of powerful software agents. Users can subscribe to it and personalize selected agents. A subscription screen is provided for managing and editing subscriptions. The Agent Server provides value-added processing such as advanced filtering, classification, and change detection. It is designed as an extensible platform.
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Subscribing To An Agent Takes Minutes – Upon entering the library, a user can select an Agent by category or keyword. Creating the subscription is easy.
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Watch Lists Help Manage Subscriptions – Every user is given his or her own screen for monitoring and editing subscriptions. Configurations, schedules can be changed any time. Subscriptions can be made active or inactive.
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Personalization Includes Filtering and Change Detection – Users can customize each subscription as required.
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Rich Scheduling Capabilities – The Information Agent Library provides basic and advanced scheduling modes. Schedules can be created to give more attention to selected event windows.
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Information Delivery For Both Humans And Computers – Agents can deliver to email, Blackberry, IM, spreadsheets, desktop news displays, databases, XML, and others.
Connotate AlertMonitor
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Configure your own personalized news monitor.
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Alert Monitor - Monitoring and Alerting – This allows users to choose what information is important and to keep a small ‘news ticker’ on their screens.
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User Information Consolidation – Alert Monitor provides a single, consistent, unified view of Web site information originating from multiple sources.
About Connotate Technologies, Inc.
Connotate is changing the way people and organizations use the web.
Connotate’s premium solution goes far beyond search to allow users to create personalized, actionable insights and intelligence from the Web. Its personalizable machine-intelligent Agents can do anything a human can do to monitor, mine, analyze, and deliver high value content. Agents operate on a fully-automated, 24 x 7 basis. Connotate’s Information Agent Suite™ is a robust and scalable platform; Agents are created using an intuitive GUI that supports fast and easy configuration by end-users without programming experience and content is delivered over any number of media, including XML, RSS, email, text messaging, and direct feeds to SQL and Excel databases.
Connotate’s clients include many of the largest global publishers and online media companies; major hedge funds and financial services firms; pharmaceutical, energy and internet companies; and federal and state government agencies. Connotate has been named one of the "100 Firms That Matter" in Knowledge Management by KMWorld for the third consecutive year.
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