Case Study: The Blue Book Building and Construction Network® achieves faster, comprehensive construction lead harvesting with Connotate

Fueling Online Information Services with Web Content

The Blue Book Building and Construction Network® needed to keep BidScope® current and comprehensive by quickly finding the latest construction tender opportunities, news, and leads across a rapidly growing set of web sources. To do that, they turned to Connotate to help harvest content from thousands of sites and add new information sources as soon as they were discovered.

Using the Connotate web content extraction platform, The Blue Book in-sourced its web scraping function so non-technical researchers could build agents in an hour or less, usually without programming. The result was faster collection of new leads, more control over data sources and intellectual property, and dramatically reduced manpower requirements, with 1,000s of web sources harvested and about 10,000 agents monitoring news, tenders, and bids.

The Blue Book Building and Construction Network®

Ken Keeler

Manager, Data Aggregation