[June 22, 2006]

Connotate's Information Agent Suite 6(TM) Transforms the Web Into a Research Goldmine; Newly Released Platform Provides Access to a New Universe of Web-Based Data, Trends, and Trigger Points

New Features in Information Agent Suite 6(TM)
    Enhanced "RSS Enabling" AlertMonitor - "RSS enables" any site,
    and provides a real-time, scrolling desktop event display.
    Intelligent Quality Monitoring - Auto-learning, artificial
    intelligence ensures quality and reliability of output even
    when sites change.
    Enhanced Change Detection - Allows user to richly specify
    exactly the kind of changes that are important.
    Data Annotation- Users can specify agent annotations for both
    browsing and retrieving Agents. Additionally annotations can
    be part of the output stream.
    Normalization Capabilities - New capabilities have been
    provided to ensure standardized output.
    Automated Parameter Set Generation - Supports easy iteration
    through large numbers of pages.
    Enhanced Server Architecture - Scalability and reliability
    continues to be improved. New additions include:
    priority-based queuing, parameter framework, and enhanced
    audit functionality.
Real World Applications in Finance
  -- Utilizes Valuable, Unique Data Sources and Creates New Data
    Feeds - Data agents can be configured to monitor any of the
    600 billion Web pages currently available. New information
    posted to a site can be automatically converted into real time
    data. Exotic foreign market sites, energy sites, commodity
    sites and many more can be transformed into streaming data.
  -- Monitors Specific Market Moving Events - Monitoring agents
    associated with a company's site can watch earnings releases
    during scheduled windows of time. Agents can wait for
    unexpected news. Sites can also be monitored for changes in
    management, product news, partnership developments, and
    business opportunities. Results can be sent to several devices
    including E-mail, workstations, databases, and IM.
  -- Configures Automated Personal Research Assistants - Research
    agents can monitor and aggregate information from numerous
    sources. This information can be personalized through filters,
    classifiers and value-added processing. Complete personalized
    HTML reports can be generated and delivered automatically.
    Research departments can leverage existing expertise and
    greatly enhance productivity.
  -- Arbitrages Inefficient Markets - Harvesting agents enable the
    creation and execution of new arbitrage strategies. Areas of
    opportunity include energy, commodities, foreign, exotic and
    emerging markets.
  -- Integrates and/or Aggregates 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; diverse portfolio,
    fund, and account information can be integrated and/or
    aggregated.
Connotate Agent Suite(TM) - Feature Rich
  -- Agents Empower Every Information Consumer in the Organization
    - From an organizational perspective, agents are highly
    effective conduits for connecting individual users with the
    data sources they require. By making the output of given data
    sources consistent and reliable, productivity increases
    significantly as less time is spent on manually monitoring,
    scrubbing, and formatting information.
  -- Connotate Agent Suite(TM) Offers an End-to-End Solution. Based
    on market input, and hundreds of meetings with both companies
    and industry analysts, Connotate created the Connotate Agent
    Suite.(TM) Combining Connotate's Agent Studio,(TM) Agent
    Library,(TM) and the AlertMonitor(TM) into one unified
    offering, the solution builds upon Connotate's Visual
    Abstraction and Web mining technologies, along with the
    company's easy-to-use GUI.
      -- Agent types include harvesting, monitoring, alerting,
        and integration.
      -- GUI-based agent creation, incorporated with machine
        intelligence, eliminates programming.
      -- Robust platform is reliable, scalable, and fast.
      -- APIs include integration points with data-feeds,
        databases, and other systems.
Connotate Agent Studio(TM)
  The Agent Studio offers a comprehensive solution for monitoring,
  harvesting, mining and integrating content from the Internet,
  Intranets and Extranets. Its point and click user interface is
  intuitive and easy to use.
  -- Create Robust Agents in Minutes Using AI Graphical Interface -
    The entire process is GUI- based requiring no programming.
  -- 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 databases and other destinations including E-mail,
    spreadsheets and XML.
  -- Agents Navigate on Your Behalf: Follow Links, Fill in Forms,
    Utilize Passwords - Software agents can navigate to the
    sources of information using a variety of techniques.
  -- Mine the Deep Web Using Automated Parameterization - Agents
    automatically step through lists of parameter values, and
    return sets of results.
  -- XML, Web Services 'Wrap' Any Web Site - Integration agents can
    be invoked programmatically through a standard Web services
    API. Content-driven applications can now make calls to the
    "World Wide Web Data Warehouse."
Connotate Agent Library(TM)
  The Agent Library is an intuitive, user-centric interface for
  accessing a variety of powerful software agents. Users can
  subscribe to and personalize selected agents. A subscription
  screen is provided for managing and editing subscriptions. The
  Agent Server(TM) provides value-added processing such as advanced
  filtering, classification, and change detection. It is designed as
  an extensible platform.
  -- Subscribing to an Agent Takes Minutes - Upon entering the
    Agent Library, a user can select an agent by category or
    keyword. Creating subscriptions is easy.
  -- Watch Lists Help Manage Subscriptions - Users are given their
    own window for monitoring and editing subscriptions.
    Configurations and schedules can be changed at any time.
    Subscriptions can be made active or inactive reflecting
    seasonal or quarterly events.
  -- Personalization Includes Filtering and Change Detection -
    Users can customize each subscription. Change detection
    watches for given changes and delivers data only when they
    occur.
  -- Rich Scheduling Capabilities - The Information Agent
    Library(TM) provides basic and advanced scheduling modes.
    Schedules can be created to give more attention to selected
    event windows.
  -- Information Delivery For Both Humans and Computers - Agents
    can deliver to E-mail, Blackberry, IM, spreadsheets, desktop
    news displays, databases, XML, and more.

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