Resources
Connotate is a thought leader in Web data monitoring and collection – and we are happy to share our knowledge and insight with you. Below are resources in which we analyze and explain critical Web data issues, identify solutions and define best practices to help you bring optimized data capture to your organization.
Our Resources are broken down into these types:
Featured Resources
Case Study
FactSet: Gathering Information on a Global Scale with Connotate
This IDC update discusses FactSet, a data aggregator that has gathered and published company and financial data on a global scale since 1978. With the advent of the Web, FactSet needed to automate its data gathering process to keep up with the growth and quick-changing flood of information on the Web. This update discusses the challenges that FactSet faced in finding software to automate the process intelligently, why it chose Connotate's Agent Community solution, and how it deployed the solution. This update concludes with recommendations to CIOs about the process and the technology.
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NetProspex Case Study: More Accurate Data Through Web Validation
Using the Connotate solution, NetProspex is able to expand its verification efforts beyond email and ohone into an additional dimension of Web validation.
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Thomson Reuters: Growing Automatic Data Capture with Connotate
Thomson Reuters used the Connotate solution to deploy an enterprise-scale, content monitoring and collection service offering for client groups throughout Thomson Reuters called Rapid Source Automation (RSA). Today the RSA program is being utilized globally by a number of groups throughout Thomson Reuters from both a top-down and bottom-up approach. The RSA program is well-received as an easy-to-use solution with a high success rate in which internal clients can often realize the benefits of data automation in 30 minutes. Using Connotate has enabled the Thomson Reuters RSA team of 3 people to lead internal groups in the monitoring of more than 20,000 Web data sources.
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StrategyOne: Doubling Productivity Within Two Months
StrategyOne, a full-service market research and communications analysis firm, selected Connotate’s Agent Community solution to further power online monitoring and analysis across its customer engagements. Within two months of using Connotate’s patented “intelligent Agents” solution, StrategyOne realized a 118% increase in productivity – in essence, more than doubling productivity -- related to capturing relevant digital content, thereby allowing StrategyOne to deliver valuable insights to its clients more rapidly.
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Customer Presentations
Connotate in Thomson Reuters
This session discusses what tools and processes Thomson Reuters chose to address its business problem and how their Rapid Source Automation team markets its center of excellence internally.
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Work Smarter, Not Harder with Intelligent Agents
One of Connotate’s clients is taking full advantage of their information access and acquisition solution. Faced with the challenge to do more with less, respond faster to client needs and generate more revenues, the search for an easy-to-use, robust and scalable solution to address their intelligence gathering and sharing challenges was realized using Connotate intelligent software Agents.
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White Paper
The Web is the Ultimate Source for Financial Research
Delivering More Alpha Using the New Research Platform
The Web is the ultimate database for financial research. Financial researchers and investors can use technology to data mine, mashup, and analyze the Web's vast amount of information. While the sell-side and independent researchers provide a starting point, buy-side professionals are challenged to dig out and organize the high value data. Emerging technologies can empower financial researchers with unique and proprietary insight. Connotate’s solution enables you to rapidly create applications that unveil fundamental trends, market moving alerts, company cockpits, quick idea validation, and more.
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Empowering the Enterprise to Accelerate Business Insights
Enterprise decision makers are challenged to find the right information at the right time from an exploding array of digital information updated moment by moment. Enterprises need to pinpoint data that can drive decision making by helping subject matter experts extract the best information from any Web site or Enterprise data source – without having to wait for their IT departments to develop new databases or software applications.
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Empowering Editorial Teams to Build Agile Digital Media
Publishers are having a hard time finding enough content for their digital media to compete effectively with new Web content producers and aggregators. Connotate helps publishers keep up with the dynamic Web by enabling editorial staffs to harvest the best of the Web
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Agent Community – What’s it All About?
Agent Community: Intelligent Software Agent Types
Not sure how intelligent software Agents can interact with information on your behalf. Watch this brief video to learn more about the many kinds of Agents including: Web Extraction Agents, RSS Agents, Database Agents, Email Agents, Spidering Agents and PDF Agents.
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Intelligent Software Agents Will Change Your World 
KMWorld, IDC and Connotate presented a short webinar to educate participants on how intelligent software Agents can be used to deliver amazing ROI. Specific examples include how financial services clients may leverage intelligent Agent technology and how the Associate Press leveraged intelligent Agent technology to create a multi-million dollar revenue stream.
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The Basics of Agent Training
Creating Your First Web Extraction Agent
No programming required! Does it sound too good to be true? Watch this short demo to learn just how easy it is for a business user to train a simple Agent using Agent Studio.
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Enhancing Your Web Extraction Agent
You’ve created a Web Extraction Agent – and you didn’t need any programming knowledge! This next demo shows how easy it is for that same business user to be trained to go deeper into a source and perform more difficult tasks. And there’s still no programming required!
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Training Agents to Follow Links
The data you want may be behind a hyperlink or a form – and you can still train your Agent without any programming experience! This short demo shows you how easy it is to train an Agent to follow links and deliver even more value!
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Personalizing an Agent Subscription
It's easy to personalize Agents to deliver the precise data you want, when you need it and in the desired format. Watch a brief video that illustrates how easy it is to personalize an Agent and set scheduling frequency.
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