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The CEO of Connotate, Bruce Molloy, reportedly gave an interview to Ron Powell and the BeyeNetwork, discussing among other topics Connotate’s approach to the problem of how to monitor and gather business intelligence from the Web. Molloy talked about using intelligent software agents to combine data from Web and enterprise sources.

 

“Companies seeking competitive advantage in the current economic environment need to employ tools that create efficiencies in the workplace so that they can quickly adjust to the market,” Molloy told Powell. “While businesses have invested massive amounts of workplace resources and money to keep abreast of changing sentiment and market conditions, they often fall short on delivering something that can combine the intelligence mined from Web sources with intelligence buried in enterprise systems.”

 

Molloy says his company’s Agent Community GEN2 was built with “the needs of the non-technical business user in mind” for such issues. Powell, Co-founder and Editorial Director of the BeyeNETWORK, said without the need for programming, such agents “carry out the tedious data-collection and aggregation tasks.”

Connotate officials say the firm’s machine-intelligent agents “can do anything a human can do to monitor, mine, analyze, mash-up and deliver content.” The agents operate 24 x 7, and content is delivered “over any number of media, including XML, RSS, e-mail, text messaging, file systems and direct feeds to SQL databases and Excel.

 

Last month the BeyeNetwork announced the official launch of www.BeyeCONNECT.com, a community platform designed to meet the social networking needs of the global business intelligence community.

Participants in the community “will be able to join interesting and relevant groups, communicate with other members, share their opinions about content and gain closer access to leading industry experts in an interactive environment driven by the community,” company officials say.