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Kale Consultants and MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. enter into a partnership to jointly help address the Business Intelligence (BI) requirements of the Logistics & Transportation Industry

Mumbai, Maharashtra, November 2, 2009 /India PRwire/ – MAIA Intelligence, a leading provider of powerful, intuitive and robust Business Intelligence (BI) tools for ad-hoc reporting and complex analysis that meet the dynamic MIS needs of corporate business users, today announced a tie up with Kale Consultants as its OEM partner. Kale is a leading technology solutions provider to the Airline, Logistics and Travel (ALT) industry.

1KEY BI is a comprehensive Business Intelligence application catering to Strategic, Tactical & Operational data analysis & MIS reporting needs of multiple vertical industries. 1KEY BI combined with Kale Consultant’s FMSTM (Freight Management System) and CAPELLATM (CFS/ICD management solution), offers its customers in-depth analytics and an integrated choice to pick and choose modules. It will enable organizations to deploy a robust BI framework with minimal investments and will bring forth the value proposition and expertise of both players to the forefront.

“We are pleased to enter into this new venture with Kale Consultants,” said Mr. Sanjay Mehta, Chief Executive Officer, MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. “This strategic partnership will jointly help address the important BI requirements of the Logistics and Transportation industry with a better approach and greater insight. 1KEY BI combined with Kale Consultant’s Logistics and Transportation solutions shall offer the benefits of reduction in the time spent in analyzing and most importantly, empower the end-users to enhance complete visibility in business performance with the freedom to generate customized reports. With minimum IT involvement, the end users can access and interact with ad-hoc and dynamic reports efficiently.”

“At Kale, we are constantly looking at enhancing our solutions with innovative and best practice parameters, so as to deliver the best to our customers. Our partnership with MAIA Intelligence is aimed at adding significant value to the business intelligence function of our logistics solutions. 1KEY BI would enable clients to deploy a performance management and analytical platform around the rich data generated by our solutions.” said Sumeet Nadkar, Head –Logistics SBU, Kale Consultants.

The Logistics & Transportation Industry is under constant pressure to improve on-time customer service, while keeping the cost structure low. Moreover, due tocut-throat competition between travel & transportation service providers, firms are surviving on razor thin margins. BI solutions help such firms control costs, increase productivity and employee efficiency thereby increasing profitability. Kale Consultant’s deep domain experience in theindustry combined with 1KEY BI will allow firms in this sector to increasingly use the power of analytics to gain insights so as to rapidly respond to the dynamic competitive environment.

MAIA has a proven go-to-market methodology along with the comprehensive service offerings necessary to ensure quick time-to-success for partners. With the use of MAIA’s 1KEY BI solutions, OEM partners can standardize on a single platform to deliver functionality as customers demand it. It will enable OEM partners to bring 1KEY-compatible affordable solutions to market jointly with their core applications.

Notes to Editor

About MAIA Intelligence:

Founded in 2006, MAIA Intelligence is a young, innovative company in powerful business intelligence reporting and analysis software product space. The company with its mission to democratize BI and take it from few expert users to the operational managers, frontline executives to back office team is on its way to become the company with the largest BI user base within India. MAIA is Microsoft Gold Certified partner and has been selected as one of the NASSCOM Top 100 IT INNOVATORS in 2007. MAIA’s 1KEY BI software has been tested and certified by Microsoft for ISV/software solutions. MAIA Intelligence is Microsoft’s 1st Indian ISV partner having its product 1KEY BI compatible with Windows 7. Microsoft on its website published case study on MAIA Intelligence and 1KEY products.

MAIA recognized among Red Herring Finalist 100 for Asia in 2008 and was also named as India’s Most Trusted IT Vendor by a CIO survey by The CTO Forum. MAIA has been one of the first few companies to be listed in the Microsoft start-up Accelerator program. MAIA’s 1KEY Agile BI Suite has been featured in Microsoft Solution Directory 2008. Readers of IT magazine voted MAIA as the 3rd Most Successful Startup Company in 2008 that will rock 2009. The product was also one of the only Indian BI to be recognized by NICSI (National Informatics Centre) and empanelled in BI Tender alongside MNC products. MAIA has been written in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2008 & BI Market Trends for 2008-09 APAC Reports.

MAIA corporate blog on Business Intelligence http://blog.maia-intelligence.com,Visit www.maia-intelligence.comfor more details.

About Kale Consultants Limited:

Kale Consultants Limited is a leading solutions provider to the global Airline, Logistics and Travel (ALT) industry. Committed to innovation and excellence, Kale delivers world-class software products, technology, managed process, hosting and consulting services. Kale employs over 1600 talented professionals who focus on delivering quality service to over 120 satisfied customers across 30 countries.

Kale’s Industry Solutions are driven by active partnerships with industry bodies and customers, and unparalleled domain knowledge. Kale’s Customised Approach in deploying these solutions supports clients with best fit solutions to match to their requirements. Visit www.kaleconsultants.comfor more details

Partnership Enables Customers to Integrate and Replicate Heterogeneous Data With Significant Cost Savings

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, November 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Attunity Ltd. (OTC BB: ATTUF.OB), a leading provider of real-time data integration and event capture software, announced today a strategic partnership to market solutions that enable real-time business intelligence and efficient data integration based on the companies’ data integration products. The solution, based on Microsoft’s SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Attunity’s low-impact change data capture (CDC) technology, enables efficient and real-time integration of heterogeneous data with significant cost savings.

Enabling real-time business intelligence and guaranteeing consistency of business information across heterogeneous data silos are challenges facing many organizations looking to improve customer service, optimize operations, and increase margins. Delivering on these capabilities in a cost-effective way has become more and more challenging as data volumes continue to grow, especially in heterogeneous IT environments.

Attunity is a Microsoft SQL Server connectivity partner and a leading independent provider of low-impact CDC technology that enables capturing and processing only the changes made to heterogeneous enterprise data sources, relational and non-relational, on platforms ranging from Windows to the Mainframe. The integrated offering of Attunity’s CDC with Microsoft’s SSIS is now available for many heterogeneous data sources and targets, enabling customers to reduce ETL load times and enable real-time, continuous data integration for data warehousing and operational reporting. By processing significantly lower data volumes, leveraging existing licenses and common skill sets, and using an easy to configure solution, customers can expect cost savings in hardware, software licenses, and implementation services.

“Microsoft SQL Server, as a business intelligence platform, provides customers with a powerful set of tools to integrate and manage their data in order to support modern business intelligence requirements,” said Tom Casey, general manager of SQL Server Business Intelligence at Microsoft Corp. “We value Attunity as a partner and its product suite extends SSIS to enable customers to address enterprise and real-time integration requirements across a heterogeneous environment using the tools and applications they are already familiar with.”

“The need for real-time information is growing and with it the costs of making it available for business users to support decisions and operations,” stated Shimon Alon, Attunity’s chief executive officer. “In having a strategic partnership with Microsoft, we have invested in extending our suite of ODR solutions integrated with Microsoft SQL Server so more customers can benefit from its cost-efficiencies and capitalize on the value of real-time information.”

About Attunity

Attunity is a leading provider of real-time data integration and event capture software. Using our software solutions, such as Attunity Connect, a real-time connectivity software, or Attunity Stream, our log-based, real-time change-data-capture software, Attunity’s customers enjoy dramatic business benefits by driving down the cost of managing their operational systems, creating flexible, service-based architectures for increased business agility, and by detecting critical actionable business events, as they happen, for faster business execution.

Attunity has supplied innovative software solutions to its enterprise-class customers for nearly 20 years and has successful deployments at thousands of organizations worldwide. Attunity provides software directly and indirectly through a number of strategic and OEM agreements with partners such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, HP and SAP/Business Objects. Headquartered in Boston, Attunity serves its customers via offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific and through a network of local partners. For more information, please visit us at www.attunity.com, the content of which is not part of this press release.

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(c) Attunity 2009. All Rights Reserved. Attunity is a registered trademark of Attunity Inc. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Press contact: Itamar Ankorion, Director of Marketing, Attunity Itamar.Ankorion@attunity.com +1-781-328-0960 , x5220

SOURCE Attunity Ltd

Big Blue shows off InfoSphere addons

By Chris Kanaracus
Published: 14:19 GMT, 27 October 09

“If they don’t play up the SPSS acquisition to the hilt, they’ll be doing themselves and customers a disservice,” he said.

There is no doubt IBM has big plans for SPSS. It formed a new services arm dedicated to business analytics, staffing it with some 4,000 consultants. A key focus of the organisation will be no doubt to push predictive analytics, which focus on determining future events and exploring “what if” scenarios, versus generating reports from batches of historical data.

Predictive analytics is the next hot area in BI, according to Forrester. In a report published earlier this year, the analyst firm called IBM’s SPSS purchase “a tipping point” followed by a wave of similar acquisitions.

SPSS will indeed have a significant profile at IOD, according to Ashe.

Recent money spent just the beginning claims Big Blue

News | 28 Oct 2009 : 

IBM will continue acquiring companies involved in business intelligence and analytics, because demand from its clients for the technology is so great that it needs to keep pressing forward.

So claimed Ambuk Goyal, general manager for business analytics at IBM, in an interview at the company’s Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas.

IBM has already invested $12 billion over the last five years on business intelligence and analytics, with the recent purchase of business analytics company SPSS this year complementing a previous acquisition of Cognos.

He said the revolution around what was called ‘information led transformation’ was as big, or even bigger than what happened around ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) 20 years ago.

“Information led transformation has just begun,” said Goyal. “We are way ahead, but to me we are just beginning, because everybody is going to follow us. I say this is bigger than ERP and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) combined.”

He added: “If we want to remain ahead, we have to deliver value to our clients. Every day, clients are telling us what kind of problems they can’t solve.”

IBM had around 15,000 new clients in the business intelligence space, and Goyal said that it was looking ahead with a huge research department doing first of a kind projects,

“Our investment in this particular space will continue and we will build by partner,” he said. “There’s so much demand. It’s an investment trend. Not only IBM is behind it. When we went to Wall Street, we said this is our growth strategy.”

Of IBM’s previous investment, Goyal said that the purchase of predictive analytics firm SPSS nicely fitted with the Cognos systems it already had.

“Now you can make every point of impact, whether it is call centre or point of sale, far more effective,” he said. “Now you can make a predictive call centre or a predictive point of sale.”

He added: “We don’t have to integrate, so we can focus on innovation for businesses to transform themselves.”

Posted by Loraine Lawson Oct 29, 2009 4:27:41 PM

Enterprises – and vendors – are still trying to figure out where mashups make the most sense.

The most popular, low-hanging fruit for mashups seems to be replacing portals, or at least making them more Web 2.0-like, and smaller data-integration tasks that don’t quite rate as a priority, but nonetheless need to be done for some business purpose.

One use that seems to be capturing the enterprise’s collective imagination is the idea of using mashups for business intelligence applications, according to a recent TechTarget article, “Enterprise mashups: Tools build data integrations.”

As the article points out, one of the good things about mashups is you control how far you want to go. When it comes to using mashups for business intelligence, Forrester Research analyst James Kobielus says there’s four types of BI mashups, starting with lightweight, presentation mashup used to  generate reports and ranging to a still-theoretical collaborative mashup where data is stored centrally and governed by IT policies.

Kobielus says mashups aren’t something IT can force on users. The drive for adoption needs to come from users, and that means making it fun, highly interactive and – of course – easy.

Kobielus co-authored a white paper on the topic, “Mighty Mashups: Do-It-Yourself Business Intelligence For The New Economy,” which I found  for free on Inetsoft.com’s site. The report makes it clear business users are hungry for the sort of self-service, down-and-dirty data mashups can provide:

“Though still immature, BI mashup is well on the way to becoming an enterprise-ready approach for self-service development. The key enablers for enterprise-grade BI mashup are IT governance practices such as design templates, version controls, and monitoring. When supported by strong governance, information workers can mash up personalized views from reusable analytic components that are developed and managed for them by IT. Mashup enables nontechnical users to build dynamic views of disparate data that are personalized, context-rich, role-tailored, and ad hoc to explore this data in greater depth.”

You would think this would make mashups a shoe-in, but as with all things techie, politics and corporate culture can gum up the works. In part two of the TechTarget enterprise mashup series, Pfizer Research Fellow Michael Linhares relates how culture attitudes had to change first. Because of the importance of research findings, there were those who didn’t want to share their data. What’s more, IT had to expand its mindset to realize that not all infrastructure tools are IT tools, the article explains.

But if you can overcome these political and cultural issues, data mining can be a great way to justify your investment in mashup tools, according to Michael Ogrinz, an enterprise architect and author of “Mashup Patterns: Designs and Examples for the Modern Enterprise.” In a podcast, also published by TechTarget, Ogrinz says these types of mashup projects can deliver a quick ROI. In fact, he felt strongly enough about it that a good deal of his book focuses on data mining mashup patterns.

The TechTarget article lists a number of companies offering enterprise mashup products. Kobielus recommends those interested in enterprise BI mashups check Microsoft Project Gemini and IBM Cognos.

In my experience, analysts are a bit shy about recommending specific vendors when talking to journalist, so the fact he mentioned specific vendors and prodcuts caught my eye. His reason is that those are the two products he felt were far enough along to allow companies to reach that level four mashup maturity, where you can build collaborative mashup, data is centrally stored and the mashup permissions are governed by IT policies.

Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:00am EDT

SWC Technology Partners Survey Campaign Uncovers Trends in Midmarket
Information Technology

OAK BROOK, Ill., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ — SWC Technology Partners has launched
a survey campaign that will reveal the evolving trends and tempo at middle
market IT departments. The surveys will provide new insight into the climate
at Midwest businesses as they re-prioritize, make do with fewer people and
smaller budgets, and work to increase or maintain market share in an
increasingly competitive marketplace.

The first SWC survey gauged the moods of 170 IT decision makers at midsize
businesses and divulges which projects hold top priority, which deliver the
greatest ROI and which areas are seeing the most staffing cuts this year. At
the same time, the survey exposed a potential risk and a paradox that
illustrates the current climate at many Midwest businesses.

IT and business-line managers taking part in the survey shared their opinions
on the technologies, strategies and tactics generating the greatest impact
during this challenging economy. The majority of responders were IT senior
leaders from organizations in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana in industries
including manufacturing, retail, education, construction, healthcare,
accounting and non-profits. More than half of the respondents manage
environments with a user base between 100 and 2,000 individuals.

The Economy: Lower Revenues Yet Higher Market Share

More than 58 percent of respondents report lower revenues and 46 percent see
decreased profit margins this year. IT budget cuts or freezes have affected 62
percent of respondents. Yet, 89 percent of respondents report they have either
maintained or increased market share. Only 11 percent say they have lost
market share in recent months.

Of note is the contradictory manner in which the shrinking economy has
translated into market share. SWC President Bob Knott believes this could be a
result of the recession “weeding out” poorly performing businesses and the net
outcome is an increase in market share for stronger providers. Additionally,
companies may be tapping into new technologies to amplify their marketing
effectiveness, business intelligence and operating efficiencies. Either way,
Knott acknowledges that the survey respondents represent a more successful
group of organizations than the general business population.

IT Priorities: Security Rises to the Top

Respondents cite security as the highest priority technology project category,
with 55 percent indicating it holds top importance. Business intelligence is
the second highest priority, with 38 percent saying it is highly important.
Other top priorities are storage, web development and LAN/WAN infrastructure.
The least important technology project category is proprietary systems, with
57% indicating it holds low importance.

Of interest is that security projects typically have little or no impact on
revenue generation or creating operational efficiencies. This may reflect the
fact that IT managers are focusing their limited resources on crucial areas
that cannot be compromised, or it may be that that this category has been
neglected during the recession and managers fear the consequences of such
neglect.

Staffing: Application Development Grows; End User Support Shrinks

IT staffing levels remained generally steady for respondents over the past
year. However, the area seeing the greatest increase in staffing (13 percent)
as well as outsourcing (6 percent) is application development, not surprising
as you consider the complex, customized ERP and/or proprietary environment
work that are typically seen as mission-critical.

End user support was cited most often as experiencing a reduction in staff (13
percent of respondents), followed by network management and email management.
These figures may reflect a trend to outsource these functions to a third
party through managed services.

At the same time, all categories surveyed saw a net decrease to internal
staff.

Technology ROI: Virtualization, Collaboration and Web Development Deliver

Survey respondents cite virtualization as the technology with the greatest
return on investment justification (109 votes), followed by
collaboration/document sharing (97) and web development (90 votes) as most
often having either high or medium cost justification. Respondents rate
proprietary systems as having the lowest ROI justification.

ROI has been thrust to the forefront of any mid-market business decision.
Determining which technology provides the greatest, and more often, the
fastest ROI has become a first step in selecting which projects to advocate to
senior leadership.

Virtualization technology – consolidating multiple computing environments into
virtual servers that run on the same physical machine — is the clear winner
in this category. Virtualization has become a widely adopted and accepted
platform to consolidate and manage server infrastructure, thereby reducing
costs associated with hardware acquisition and management as well as reducing
the physical footprint of the server room itself.

Those surveyed also report that collaboration and document management
technology provide great efficiencies around workflow and business processes.
Enhancements to document management help them reduce inefficient periods of
search and content creation.

The Risk of Reliance on a Single Individual

Forty percent of respondents indicate that their organization is absolutely
dependant on a single individual for his or her systems knowledge and
expertise. Only 8% of respondents say they never had an absolute dependency on
a single individual for his or her systems knowledge.

This dynamic has presented itself frequently within the mid-market, and the
SWC survey responses support the fact that dependency on a single IT
professional remains relatively prevalent. While the survey did not explore
the vulnerabilities this situation presents, budget cuts, reduction in
staffing and islands of dependency can become a recipe for disaster. It may be
this formula that has led to the increase in managed environments noted
earlier.

Looking Ahead

Overall, 51 percent of respondents categorize their business outlook for the
next 12 months as “cautiously optimistic.” However, slightly more than eight
percent say they are pessimistic, and three percent classify themselves as
“highly pessimistic.”

Bob Knott, President of SWC Technology Partners, said, “This survey provides
insight into what drives the technology decisions in the middle market right
now. The biggest surprise to me was the degree of reliance on a single person
for IT oversight and expertise, and the fact that survey participants report a
stable or increased market share despite budget and staffing reductions. After
analyzing these results, we’ve decided to conduct additional surveys to delve
deeper into these issues and look beyond the numbers to understand what’s
driving these actions.”

A follow-up survey will reveal whether technology priorities have shifted as
the calendar year concludes, whether staffing reductions flatten and whether
top-line technology priorities change. SWC also seeks to uncover the factors
that enabled companies to maintain or increase market share despite cuts in IT
budgets and staff.

About SWC Technology Partners

SWC Technology Partners (www.swc.com) is a leading provider of innovative IT
solutions to small and medium-size businesses. For nearly 30 years, SWC has
excelled at providing strategic guidance and delivering solutions tailored to
the needs of growing organizations. SWC’s areas of expertise include
best-in-class Managed Services, Performance Management, Business Applications,
Messaging & Collaboration and Network Infrastructure & Security solutions.
Headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, SWC is a Microsoft Gold Certified
Partner, a Symantec Gold Certified Partner and a Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
Partner.

SOURCE  SWC Technology Partners

Jennifer Daniels of Visient Partners, +1-312-957-0204,
jdaniels@visientllc.com; or Elliott Baretz of SWC Technology Partners,
+1-630-286-8173, elliott.baretz@swc.com

Jaspersoft, provider of the world’s most widely used business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that it has been chosen by leading research firm IDC as an “Innovative Information Access Company Under $100M to Watch(1).” Jaspersoft is the only open source software company to make the report.

Nine companies were chosen by IDC analysts for harnessing information in the enterprise with applications that assess, manage and analyze data. IDC assessed hundreds of companies in the BI, search and content relationship management (CRM) space with a two-phased process for determining its Innovation Awards contest winners. The first round consisted of a panel of IDC analysts who specialize in access technology. The second round evaluations narrowed the entries with assessments by key IDC research executives.

IDC’s “Companies to Watch” reports are a qualitative evaluation of a set of vendors within a specific market – they are not a stack ranking nor do they represent an exhaustive evaluation of all companies in a segment or a comparative ranking of the companies in the report.

“IDC is one of the world’s most respected research firms, so we applaud our customers, the vibrant community that distinguishes Jaspersoft, and the global Jaspersoft team for working together on a level that has garnered this praise,” said Brian Gentile, CEO of Jaspersoft. “We are experiencing first-hand the trends that the IDC report points to, especially the advanced expectations from a new generation of executives and managers who demand more from their information access tools. We’re committed to delivering on those expectations.”

IDC’s “Companies-to-Watch” were identified by their ability to address the latest customer requirements in the following categories: innovations in the user interface that require little training and incorporate Web 2.0 and social networking concepts; unified access and management of all types of information; and intelligent process automation that mechanize repeatable, operational decision-making.

“Innovation for broader, more comprehensive and more pervasive access to information is occurring at a rapid pace,” said Dan Vesset, program vice president, Business Analytics at IDC and co-author of this week’s report. “Newly minted executives, managers and operational staff who have been exposed to better, more integrated information access, analysis and management tools will expect to use them to increase the performance and competitiveness of their organizations.”

Jaspersoft was also chosen for its open source software technology and community development model, which IDC reports is helping to accelerate BI deployments among small, medium and large companies. IDC also cites that Jaspersoft’s development model creates a “community effect” that enables extended design and testing.

About Jaspersoft Corporation

Jaspersoft’s open source business intelligence suite is the world’s most widely used BI software, with more than 9 million product downloads worldwide and more than 11,000 commercial customers in 96 countries. The company’s Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite provides a web-based, open and modular approach to the evolving business intelligence needs of the enterprise. Jaspersoft’s software is rapidly updated by a community of more than 100,000 registered members working on more than 350 projects, which represents the world’s largest business intelligence community. More information is available at www.jaspersoft.com and www.jasperforge.org.

(1) IDC, Innovative Information Access Companies Under $100 Million to Watch, Doc # 220450, October 2009

Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:20am EDT

Premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events
recognizes Connotate for product adaptations and innovations
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.–(Business Wire)–
Connotate, a leading provider of solutions, which transform information from the
Web and enterprise into user-empowered on-demand applications and actionable
intelligence, today announced their inclusion in the “Innovative Information
Access Companies Under $100M to Watch” study published by IDC1.

The first study conducted by IDC of its kind, the nine companies selected by IDC
as innovative information access companies were chosen based on how well they
embodied one or more of three trends prevalent to information access software.
The trends focused on software requiring minimal training and incorporating Web
2.0 capabilities; unified management of and access to information; and
intelligent process automation. Companies were recognized on the final list
based on their product adaptations and innovations addressing the trends IDC
identified.

“IDC recognized Connotate for its innovative approach to harvesting and
delivering Web information quickly to its customers in multiple formats,
including targeted alerts, spreadsheets, data streams and time-series trending
data that can be customized by each user, and shared with others” said Sue
Feldman, IDC’s VP for Search and Discovery technologies. “Some of the
requirements for qualifying for this award included Web 2.0 interactivity, and
unified access to multiple sources . Connotate provides both of these features,
particularly with its Agent Studio. We congratulate them.”

“Connotate is proud to be recognized as one of the innovative information access
companies under $100M to watch list,” says Bruce Molloy, CEO of Connotate. “With
top global publishers, content aggregators and distributors, financial services
and government agencies relying on our solution to help them increase
productivity while reducing costs, we`re proud of the product innovations we
continue to develop. It makes us even more committed to deliver not only a high
value solution but, more importantly, a high-value solution that delivers an
amazing ROI.”

IDC’s “Companies to Watch” reports are a qualitative evaluation of a set of
vendors within a specific market – they are not a stack ranking nor do they
represent an exhaustive evaluation of all companies in a segment or a
comparative ranking of the companies in the report.)

The study was announced on October 26th by IDC on http://www.idc.com. To learn
more about Connotate, visit http://www.connotate.com.

About Connotate

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

Connotate`s premium solution transforms web and enterprise data into high-value
information assets — to feed content products, grow market and business
intelligence, enable mass data aggregation, migration and integration.
Connotate’s patented intelligent Agent technology empowers both business users
and technologists to quickly create data sets, new applications and content
products. With Connotate, customers experience productivity gains, reduced
costs, mitigated risks, more informed decision-making and strategic &
competitive advantages. Agents operate on a fully-automated, 24 x 7 basis and
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, file systems and direct
feeds to SQL databases and Excel.

Connotate`s clients include many of the largest global publishers, content
aggregators and distributors; online media companies; financial services firms;
pharmaceutical, energy and 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 five consecutive years. For more information on Connotate, visit our website
at http://www.connotate.com.

1 IDC, Innovative Information Access Companies Under $100 M to Watch, Doc #
220450, October 2009

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