Our Approach

Surviving in today’s competitive market requires finding new ways to make your work processes smarter and more efficient. With the number of Web and Enterprise resources exponentially increasing, and each department within an organization having their own unique set of decision-making criteria, it is easy to recognize the need for a central repository of best-practice solutions and applications. While the challenge is no longer getting information from the Web and other sources, it has become sifting through the data - which may not be presented in the same format - for quick comparison and inference. Agent Community GEN2 draws from a library with hundreds of Connotate-created Agents to address customer business issues. Completely customizable and scalable, these applications and solutions fall into two categories: Industry Applications (for automating surveillance, data extraction and aggregation to aid in well-informed decision-making) and Enterprise Applications (for automated content gathering, Web monitoring. mining and extraction, integration and aggregation that create actionable insights from Web and Enterprise resources).

Connotate's applications are tailored to specific audiences, delivering personalized actionable intelligence unique to the individual end-user. Connotate’s Agent Community GEN2 augments your workforce by providing an Agent Studio, Agent Library and Agent Portal ecosystem of virtual researchers, data gatherers and aggregators that can interact with the Web and Enterprise, 24 hours a day. Each subscriber has the ability for one-click subscription to Agents as well as the ability to personalize delivery, aggregation and output parameters of any Agent in your company's Agent Library; depending on the subscriber's role, activities, and business processes within the organization.

Where else will you find a workforce willing to work 24 x 7 x 365, with no breaks or downtime?

Connotate’s premium solution allows users to create personalized, actionable insights and intelligence from the Web using machine-intelligent Agents that can do anything a human can do to mash up, harvest, monitor, mine, analyze and deliver high-value content to leverage in decision-making. Operating on a fully-automated basis, Connotate Agents have exponentially increased productivity gains at businesses by effectively navigating and extracting information from the Web and Enterprise, providing unsurpassed:

• Automation of content acquisition and manual search processes
• Deep-Web navigation including login automation (where required), completing forms, providing links, etc.
• Operation 24x7x365, with no breaks or downtime.
• Extraction of unique, specific data, text and graphics accurately and precisely
• Monitoring Web pages at any timed interval, even as often as once per second
• Alerting multiple devices or downloads to databases quickly
• Data Conversion to XML so that it can be enhanced, personalized and delivered to any database

Connotate goes beyond search to create actionable intelligence from Web and Enterprise sources while employing Web 2.0 and Enterprise Information Access (EIA) best practices. Agent Community GEN2 empowers the end-user to quickly create and share on-demand applications that discern high-value information, automate repetitive tasks, and provide analysis and alerts. Our patented machine-learning software transforms infinite passive data from the Web and Enterprise into a focused set of actionable and highly personalized data sources. The results...

• Increased user productivity by greatly reducing the time spent gathering Web content
• Access to the entire Web - the "deep Web" and the fast-changing "dynamic Web"
• Integration of Web and Enterprise data sources for a correlated holistic view
• Extraction of both quantitative and qualitative information using visual abstraction
• Automated change detection at the element level of a Web page
• Converting data points to "trigger" points for decision-making
• Creating enormous business value and competitive edge

The Connotate Edge

Connotate’s Agent Community GEN2 is an Enterprise application offering automated and systematic access to unique content and unique machine learning intelligence.

Ease of Use

• Point-and-click interface. No programming required!
• Personalization of delivery options, run schedules, filters
• Robust. Our trained Agents “understand” the page and are able to find content despite site changes.
• Powerful intelligence. Patented machine learning algorithms infer your informational needs.
• It’s a Platform, not a tool! The Connotate solution is a complete platform for Intelligent Agents that include both the front-end user-friendly components for creating and using Agents, as well as the back-end Enterprise-level server for running the Agents.
• One-click individual or mass subscription management
• Returned results are fully searchable
• Self-contained, portable Agents
• Immediate results preview

Enterprise Class Application

• MS .net Platform
• Scales To Any Application Throughput
• Flexible and Open Architecture (SOA)
• Workflows And Support For Multiple Roles, QA and Maintenance

Automated and Systematic Access To Absolutely Unique Content

• Internet, Intranets, Extranets, RSS, Databases, Other Data Stores
• Flexible Delivery
• Timely Delivery
• Automates PDF File Extraction

Unique Machine Learning Intelligence

• Patented Technology
• Authoring Agents Is About The Content
• Change Detection Capabilities
• Graphical Interface Means No Programming
• Unprecedented Reliability Versus Scripting Methods

Agent Community GEN2 Client Services

To help unleash the power of Agent Community GEN2, Connotate supports customers with a highly skilled Client Services team to assure effective deployment via a GEN2 QuickStart. Connotate's services team works with you to create customized Agents that monitor, mine, extract, mash up and aggregate data from the Web and Enterprise sources important to your business. One-month QuickStart services that will streamline your evaluation and adoption of GEN2 include:

• Connotate Analyst – utilizing a structured approach for efficiently gathering information, Connotate will collaborate with your subject matter experts to identify initial automation and innovation goals for Web information.
• Hosting – employing our secure, hosted computing environment, we will create a private community for you, as well as manage the environment, to ensure performance and availability.
• Agent Production – leveraging best practices learned from building our own army of Agents, Connotate will produce the initial Agents in your community.
• Training – advancing from basic Agent creation to complex approaches for penetrating the deep Web and Enterprise applications, and best practices for managing communities, Connotate prepares you to successfully capitalize on the use of Agent Community GEN2.

Get more information about our competitive intelligence and business intelligence tools.  Contact us or call (732) 296-8844.