Business intelligence, knowledge management systems, news aggregators, mashups, and more

Connotate's machine-intelligent software Agents have helped companies throughout diverse business sectors harness the value of information on the Web and across the Enterprise. Users are building their own knowledge management tools, creating mashups from divergent data sources, and gathering new business intelligence with point-and-click ease. Find out more about how Connotate has helped others go beyond search to access, share and deliver.

Major Investment Bank

Problem:	Automate web data gathering efforts, which were being performed manually by analysts on an occasional, haphazard basis. Innovate ways to generate new ideas and gather web data in order to cultivate alpha boosting ideas.
Solution:	Deploy Connotate intelligent software Agents to automate data harvesting Automate complicated tasks such as monitoring online consumer marketplaces in several countries – an extremely difficult task to perform manually. Agents go out at the same time every day and gather thousands of data points from disparate web sites to compile and deliver it in whatever format is desired
Results:	Deploying Connotate Agents freed analysts to expand their research efforts and spend more of their time making the sorts of decisions and judgments that only humans can. Automated monitoring of source sites as frequently as desired for new or updated information Enabled innovation by delivering information that could be used in new and interesting ways to reveal patterns and provide new angles on the direction that a given publicly traded company is taking. Substantial results within one year
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$8 Billion Hedge Fund Case Study

Problem:	First mover trading advantage is essential to fund strategy. Content acquisition is the limiting factor. Speed, reliability and quality are key performance criteria. Trading strategy requires precision extraction of quantitative data.
Solution:	Install Agent Community GEN2. Automate the monitoring and collection of data from scores of Websites. Deliver content to internal modeling systems.
Results	Productivity increases and reduced operational costs New trading strategies enabled Large scale and rapid content delivery opportunities Fast time to benefits

Media \ Publisher Case Study -- The Associated Press

Problem:	Large-scale content ingestion, aggregation, and enrichment Aggregating content from a host of technologically dissimilar news sites Pulling all the information into a centralized web repository Enhancing the information and developing new sources of revenue for the company and its members Accomplishing goals efficiently, without placing additional burden on member newspapers already grappling with financial pressures
Solution:	Deploy Connotate intelligent software Agents to automate content ingestion and aggregation Agents collect information and metadata, apply contextual information, and send it to a database where it is normalized and indexed Agents provide data in a standardized schema for consumption by the existing infrastructure
Results:	Creation of a new revenue stream Tagging content with a robust set of metadata More hits from search engines triggered Customized content and grouping of content items Support of contextual advertising Powering widgets to further distribute content

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Media \ Publisher Case Study -- Financial Publisher

Challenge:	Providing up to the moment information on over 3.5 million financial instruments to over 150,000 financial services professionals is a huge challenge. Vast amounts of relevant data are available on the Web, but manual and slightly-automated approaches have been the only way to gather the data. How does one of the world’s leading financial publishers achieve quantum improvements in data collection operations including reach, efficiency, accuracy and timeliness of data monitoring and extraction? Connotate!
Solution:	The publisher uses Connotate’s solution to automate the capture of Web data from tens of thousands of corporate, government, exchange, media and other sites. Corporate financial filings from over 10,000 sites around the world are extracted within one hour of being posted. Top tier Web sites for the customer’s service including market data, analytics, trading, trade order management and news are visited as frequently as every minute. Requirements of the solution include: Enterprise Grade – scans tens of thousands of sites within specific timeframes on a 24x7 basis. Workflow – supports the customer’s process workflow which continues to evolve. Business Users – enables business users to be experts with the tool rather than relying on software programmers. Downstream Automation – download documents as well as meta data to facilitate automated processing in successive steps in the customer’s workflow. Language Independence – works with Web sites in any language. Connotate’s premium solution allows users to create personalized, actionable insights and intelligence from the Web. Its 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 and enable productivity gains of 10 to 100 times while providing a competitive edge. The firm built a team of non-programmers to create thousands of Agents with Connotate’s solution.
Benefits:	With our cost-saving solution that boosts accuracy and timeliness, the publisher secured a stronger competitive position and while becoming more cost efficient.

Healthcare Case Studies

Problem:	Need to automate and expand collection of frequently changing Medicaid policy changes. Manual process of reviewing Websites and printed data for minor changes. Time-consuming and unreliable process.
Solution:	Connotate's Agent Community GEN2 Monitor for new policies and changes to existing policies Notify employees of policy changes and updates Eliminate and automate the task of physically reading through hundreds of Web pages and printed documents
Benefits:	More timely information results in increased revenues Competitive edge in providing better information to healthcare professionals Staff charged with manual collection of data reallocated to other needs, enhancing productivity.

Case Studies

Major Investment Bank

$8 Billion Hedge Fund Case Study

Media \ Publisher Case Study -- The Associated Press

Media \ Publisher Case Study -- Financial Publisher

Healthcare Case Studies

Learn how Agent Community GEN2 can satisfy your need for data mining, accessing and analyzing dynamic content across disparate resources, both on the Web and within the Enterprise. Click here for more information or call 732-296-8844.