Connotate Rolls out Agent Community Version 3
October 16, 2010
Daily Finance from AOL reported that Connotate released the new version of the company’s Web data monitoring and collection system. The new story said:
Agent Community allows non-technical users to capture and analyze dynamic Web content and data via a patented visual abstraction technique and easy-to-use interface. Agent Community V3 includes new features such as increased automated Web data collection capabilities, improved text analytics, “slice-and-dice” Agent subscription and management views, and compatibility with the Mozilla Firefox Web browser.
The AOL news story summarizes the “track and collect” functions of the system. The new version includes tools to make it easier for users to edit and subscribe to Agents, essentially software robots that do the heavy lifting. Connotate’s CEO is reported to have asserted:
Agent Community automates previously manual, tedious processes, allowing users who don’t have programming skills to quickly gather insightful information from millions of websites and sources. Our customers have built tens of thousands of Agents in only a few weeks — and these Agents are resilient to the transformations a website goes through over time, including changes in URL or potential dead links. This enables Connotate to deliver the durability, scalability and reach organizations need to absorb and use information in today’s highly-competitive economic environment.
With competitors such as Fetch Technologies and JackBe, Connotate has some formidable competition. Other companies with findability and content acquisition technology are pushing into the “agent” sector. Should be interesting.
Stephen E Arnold, October 16, 2010
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