New Brunswick, NJ – November 4, 2014 – Connotate, Inc., a leading provider of technology and services that enable companies to harvest and monetize content sourced from the world’s 1 billion+ websites, today announced the latest release of its industry-leading platform: Connotate 4.3. The new release includes significant enhancements to current functional capabilities, including a new browser engine that expands coverage to a broader array of dynamic websites, productivity advancements that make it faster to build and publish Agents, and for the first time, the ability to deliver to MongoDB and other SQL databases.
“Businesses turn to Connotate when their success depends on building and running the most efficient, reliable, and scalable data factory possible.” said Venu Venugopal, Connotate’s chief product officer, ”This latest release of the Connote platform ensures our customers can continue to reach the broadest number of sites, extract the widest amount of information, integrate it seamlessly with their business, more cost effectively than ever before.”
Connotate 4.3’s advances are particularly valuable for companies in the information industry, who rely on Connotate’s scalability, highly automated production processes, and built-in data transformations to support their high-scale, 24/7 operations. Key improvements include:
1. Performance and Expanded Coverage: through a new browser engine based on the latest Webkit release that supports extraction from even the most advanced and dynamic websites
2. User Experience: through enhanced UI and navigation
3. Productivity: by allowing copy-and-paste for JavaScript injection, adding new runtime debug features, and providing leaner Agent footprint for publishing
4. Integration Capabilities: by supporting Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB as delivery databases, custom XML delivery format for RSS, and additional parameters and error checks on Web services API
“Connotate’s technology is central to our operations, allowing us to efficiently harvest website content for our customers all over the world,” said Matt Manning, president of Information Evolution, Inc. (“IEI”), which provides services and technology to the information industry and other data-rich sectors. “Connotate 4.3’s enhancements in site coverage, Agent publishing time, and delivery options ensure we can deliver our services with even higher reliability, productivity, and timeliness,” he added.
“From automated change detection to powerful workflow management tools, our aim is provide an industry-leading platform that flexibly handles high volumes, reduces run-times and post-processing requirements, and cuts human labor requirements.” Said Rich Kennelly, Connotate’s chief executive officer. Today’s release continues to widen our industry lead on these fronts, and there is much more to come.”
About Connotate
Every day, global companies turn to Connotate’s technology and managed data services to help them efficiently harvest, structure, and monetize content sourced from the world’s 1 billion websites. Our industry-leading platform is at the heart of the Web data monetization operations of many of the world’s leading information services companies, including Thomson Reuters, McGraw-Hill, and the Associated Press, among others. Our custom datapipes reliably deliver a flow of high-scale and high-quality Web data to analytics applications developers, marketers, and consultants seeking to improve predictive models and derive fresh insights. Connotate’s FetchCheck product delivers millions of automated pre-employment background checks per year, and our AdStats offering is being used to automate the collection and aggregation of online advertising statistics for three of the top five demand-side ad exchanges.
For more information, please visit www.connotate.com or www.connotate.co.uk, follow us on LinkedIn, and on Twitter at @Connotate.
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Contacts:
Gina Cerami
Connotate, Inc.
(732) 964-1380
gcerami@connotate.com