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Connotate Selected to Automate Knowledge Management Process at The Associated Press



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02.10.2007 21:13:29

(live-PR.com) - - CDPR Public Relations Corinne DePalma, 917-207-7594 CDPR@AOL.com or Connotate Technologies, Inc. Gina Cerami, 732-296-8844, Ext. 1078 gcerami@connotate.com Connotate Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of solutions which transform the Web into standardized, reliable information and applications, today announced that The Associated Press (AP) has deployed Connotate's Agent Community GEN2. AP's goal is to automate the collection of content from thousands

 

of member newspapers, radio, television and global broadcast companies in order to supply an enriched, standard view of that data to their members and a web 2.0 audience.

"Connotate has allowed us to automate a tedious, time-consuming process with an enterprise class solution for content detection, extraction and acquisition," said Lorraine Cichowski, AP's Senior Vice President, Technology. "This has dramatically increased the reach, timeliness, and accuracy of our news ingestion operation."

AP is the backbone of the global information system serving thousands of daily newspaper, radio, television and online customers with coverage in all media and news in all formats. Leveraging the flexibility, robustness and scalability of Connotate's Agent Community GEN2 solution, AP can now automate and enhance the way it ingests and normalizes news content from disparate sources.

"The ability to provide a unified view and be alerted to new content will greatly enhance AP's ability to provide important news to their members," said Bruce Molloy, CEO of Connotate Technologies, Inc. "It takes a thought-leader like the Associated Press to harness the wealth of knowledge available through the semantic Web and deliver only the relevant, unique news to their customers."

About Connotate Technologies

Connotate is changing the way businesses leverage information from the Web and Enterprise.

Connotate's premium solution goes far beyond search allowing users to create actionable intelligence 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 GEN2 is a robust, flexible and scalable platform. Agents are created using an intuitive GUI that supports fast and easy configuration by end-users without programming experience. Content is delivered over any number of media including XML, RSS, email, text messaging, and direct feeds to SQL and Excel databases.

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; and federal and state government agencies. Connotate has been named one of the "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management" by KMWorld for the third consecutive year. Connotate's investors include Goldman Sachs; 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 Technologies, visit our website at www.connotate.com.

Agent Community GEN2 Provides Enterprise Class Solution for
Content Detection, Extraction and Acquisition



 

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