Attivio, a leader in unified information access, uses Kapow to automate web intelligence and integration with regulatory management systems.
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Challenge
- Attivio needed to capture regulatory information from public websites, including content in JavaScript and PDFs, for their end-customer, a major financial institution.
Solution
- With Kapow, web data – including content in JavaScript and PDFs – is automatically fed into Attivio's Regulatory Active Management System, which runs on the Attivio Active Intelligence Engine.
- Attivio built a connector to their software so data output from Kapow robots is automatically transformed into the correct format.
Results
- Web data is collected automatically to support regulatory compliance.
- Based on their success with the financial company project, Attivio will be using Kapow robots to automate web data extraction on 200 additional sites.
McClatchy, the third-largest newspaper company in the United States, improved news aggregation throughput by 5X – from 20,000 to 100,000 articles per month.
Challenge
- McClatchy syndicates content to customers like Lexus/Nexus, Factiva and other papers.
- They were looking for a way to streamline news aggregation for syndication.
Solution
- McClatchy uses Kapow to harvest and categorize content from local papers.
- Kapow eliminates hand coding by technical staff and provides self-service tools that news editors can use.
Results
- McClatchy collects over 3,000 news articles daily.
- Throughput has improved 5X, from 20,000 stories per month to 100,000.
ProQuest uses Kapow to automate web intelligence, enabling them to expand their line of university research and Spanish language articles.
Challenge
- ProQuest collects, organizes and publishes university research and Spanish language news articles, which are then repackaged and resold to education customers.
- The number of unstructured sources has grown significantly, and ProQuest needed to harvest research from public and private sources where electronic feeds weren't available.
- They also needed to aggregate and syndicate unstructured university research and Spanish language news articles
- They needed easy integration into existing syndication infrastructure.
Solution
- They use Kapow robots to automate web intelligence. This has enabled them to expand their product line of university research and Spanish language news articles.
- Competitive advantage is gained by independently harvesting the research supply chain.
- Kapow is a core component of their internet content acquisition (ICA) platform.
Results
- As a core element in their internet content acquisition platform, Kapow has had a direct and significant impact on revenues and margins.
- Kapow is an integral part of their value proposition as an information provider.
With Kapow, the energy division of IHS can monitor thousands of sites for factors affecting supply and demand, without relying on offshore resources for web intelligence.
Challenge
- The energy division of IHS needed to monitor thousands of government regulatory product vendor websites for factors that influence oil and gas supply and demand.
- They were relying on off-shore resources to access web data, reducing their control of what is a strategic aspect of their business.
Solution
- With Kapow's automated web data acquisition, they can gather and aggregate critical web information in real time without outsourcing.
- No coding or manual data extraction is required.
Results
- Increased efficiency with automated data extraction.
- Enhanced and improved quality of master data.
- Enhanced product offerings based on better web data.