Connotate Enhances Agent Community GEN2[TM] with New On-Demand Features.Latest product innovations include Excel plug in; one-click Agent subscription and new Agent creation capabilities NEW BRUNSWICK New Brunswick, province, Canada New Brunswick, province (2001 pop. 729,498), 28,345 sq mi (73,433 sq km), including 519 sq mi (1,345 sq km) of water surface, E Canada. , N.J. -- Connotate, the leading provider of solutions which transform information from the Web and enterprise into user-empowered on-demand applications and actionable intelligence Having the necessary information immediately available in order to deal with the situation at hand. With regard to call centers, it refers to agents having customer history and related product data available on screen before the call is taken. , today announced new features that significantly increase usage scenarios, speed deployment and deliver amazing ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). . The Connotate solution is a powerful way to access and monitor, interact with, harvest, and mashup data and information. Putting these on-demand capabilities into the hands of your workforce not only empower the individual but also enhance corporate agility, productivity, and sharing of best practices. This latest release makes it easy for business users to share and transform web and enterprise information sources into focused sets of actionable, highly personalized and differentiated intelligence. Once deployed, the Connotate solution fosters an environment of community collaboration and social contribution through creation and personalization of intelligent software Agents. Armed with personal Agents to perform monitoring, precision harvesting, and rapid integration tasks, you gain a unique, proprietary view of the playing field -- no matter if you are seeking market, competitive, or business intelligence. The new features are a result of market and customer feedback. Focusing on usability and efficiency, these latest innovations are meant to reduce or eliminate product training altogether so that users can quickly achieve productivity amplification and speed to ROI. Enhancements include: * On-Demand Library - The On-Demand Library offers a collection of user-generated Agent applications. A robust Search and Tagging feature allow you to quickly locate popular and relevant Agents of interest. * Express Subscriber - The Express Subscriber feature enables the user to instantly see sample Agent output (in graph or table format) while browsing in the library. Once viewed, a one-click subscription and quick personalization process is available for any Agent in the library. * Community Categorization - Users, authors and publishers have the ability to browse by tag cloud A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Often, more frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized, while the displayed order is generally alphabetical. or keyword making the most popular and relevant Agents easy to find. * Portal Enhancements - Portal features allow for greater control over graphs and trend lines; a one-click export to excel feature for quick download of Agent results into personal data models; and the ability to browse portlets by category or alphabetically. * JavaScript Execution - The execution engine enhances data extraction Data extraction is the act or process of retrieving (binary) data out of (usually unstructured or badly structured) data sources for further data processing or data storage (data migration). from Java-based web sites via native execution, increasing the number of sites that can be accessed by non-programmers using Connotate's intelligent Agents. * Excel Plug-in -The plug-in enables users to run and deliver Agent data subscriptions directly from Excel. Users can also export data directly from the Agent Portal to Excel for further analysis with one-click. * Studio Publishing & Link Following -- Enhanced Agent Studio features allow for central management of Agents and streamlined processed for creating and publishing Agents without leaving the Studio environment. The Link Following feature enhances automated spidering and filtering of sources for faster Agent creation. "The amount of information that people need to sift through and analyze to make decisions is enormous," says Bruce Molloy, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Connotate. "Connotate customers are given the tools to make sense of all this information -- we're seeing some amazing ROIs." About Connotate Connotate is changing the way businesses leverage information from the Web and Enterprise. Connotate's premium solution goes far beyond search allowing users to quickly create and share on-demand applications that discern high value information, automate repetitive tasks, provide analysis and alerts from information found on the Web and across the Enterprise. Its machine-intelligent Agents can do anything a human can do to monitor, mine, analyze, mashup and deliver high value content. Agents operate on a fully-automated, 24 x 7 basis. Connotate Agent Community GEN2TM is a robust, flexible and scalable platform. Agents are created using an intuitive GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. that supports fast and easy configuration by end-users without programming experience. Content is delivered over any number of media including XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. , email, text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. , file systems and direct feeds to SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. databases and Excel. Connotate's clients include many of the largest global publishers and online media companies; pharmaceutical, energy; financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. firms; Internet companies; and federal and state government agencies. Connotate was the recipient of the 2007 KM Promise Award and has been named one of the "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management" by KMWorld for four consecutive years. Connotate's investors include Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. ; a relationship that includes a joint marketing agreement in which Goldman Sachs' Hudson Street Services offers Connotate's solution to its investor client base. For more information on Connotate, visit our website at http://www.connotate.com. |
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