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 BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Connotate Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of solutions which delivers actionable intelligence from the Web, today announced the release of Information Agent Suite 6(TM). The new release offers several innovative features which further enhance the platform's ability to access high value, Web-derived research. Building upon the company's Visual Abstraction and Web mining technologies, Connotate's Information Agent Suite 6(TM), eliminates the need for programming.

"The world of financial research is changing rapidly," says Bruce Molloy, Connotate's CEO. "New limitations curtail analysts' ability to directly access the companies they cover. At the same time there is a rich, near-infinite supply of fast-changing data on the Web covering almost everything including prices, inventory, pipeline flows and market-moving events. Connotate's solution is uniquely suited to transforming this information into highly valuable research for both the Buy-side and Sell-side."

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.

About Connotate Technologies, Inc.

Connotate goes beyond search to create actionable intelligence from the Web. Its machine-intelligent agents can do anything a human can do to monitor, mine, analyze, and deliver high value content from the Web. Agents are able to operate on a fully-automated, 24 x 7 basis. Connotate's Information Agent Suite(TM) is a robust and scalable platform. Agents are created using an intuitive GUI that supports fast and easy configuration without programming.

Connotate's clients include many of the largest global publishers and online media companies; large hedge funds and financial services firms; pharmaceutical, energy and Internet companies; as well as federal and state government agencies. Connotate has been named one of the "100 Firms That Matter" in Knowledge Management by KMWorld for the second consecutive year. For more information on Connotate Technologies, visit our Web site at http://www.connotate.com.