Milestone is generating e-buzz with social media monitoring that helps clients manage online reputation.
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Challenge
- Launch a social media management service (www.ebuzzconnect.com) that would enable hotels, restaurants, and businesses to monitor and manage online reputation and social media channels from a single integrated interface.
- Needed to extract reviews, rankings, and blog posts from 40 hotel and hospitality sites, including hotels.com, Orbitz, and FaceBook.
Solution
- Enables hotels to monitor and manage online reputation by aggregating content from dozens of sites in real time.
- Offers powerful reporting and the ability to provide actionable reports that can help hotels improve services to customers and increase profitability.
Results
- 3 developers maintain the site, with plenty of time to focus on adding new features and content to grow the service.
- Milestone was selected to present eBuzz Connect™ at the 2009 Travel Innovation Summit. Out of hundreds of competing innovators from around the world, Milestone was one of only 30 to take the stage.
- eBuzz Connect won a Silver Award in the Web Applications Category from the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI), the largest and most prestigious travel marketing competition globally.
Kapow partnered with IBM to create a full production Web 2.0 Expo conference scheduler iPhone application in just 3 hours.
Challenge
- Create a Web 2.0 Expo conference scheduler iPhone app.
- Showcase Web 2.0 technology
Solution
- Kapow partnered with IBM to create a full production Web 2.0 Expo conference scheduler iPhone application in just 3 hours, with no coding.
- In 90 minutes, Kapow built web automation robots to access relevant business logic and data through the browser and created a REST service as output.
- With an additional 90 minutes, 1 developer used IBM's rational EGL development tool to create the application presentation layer with a familiar iPhone UI.
Results
- The Web 2.0 Expo Conference Scheduler iPhone app was developed in 3 hours.
- Thousands of conference attendees were able to get conference information in real time through their iPhones.
With Kapow, Jobs2Web can extract all the web data they need, even on sites using JavaScript and Ajax.
Challenge
- Jobs2Web is the leading provider of interactive recruiting solutions.
- They were using Fetch to allow employers to track job applicants on Applicant Tracking System (ATS) websites, but they needed a solution that could extract information from sites using JavaScript and Ajax.
Solution
- Kapow was able to build robots to extract information from several of the problem sites in minutes.
- The company now uses Kapow to automate web data extraction and integration.
Results
- "With Kapow Technologies we are able to instantly pinpoint relevant matches among literally thousands that are buried in online job boards and automatically integrate this information into our system so our team of HR professionals can find the perfect job for Jobs2Web's clients." Ken Holec, CEO, Job2Web
Lenovo, the fastest growing of the top 5 PC manufacturers, chose Kapow for fast and effortless content migration to Interwoven.
Challenge
- Lenovo needed to migrate legacy content from a variety of sources and formats to Interwoven.
- This required access to content in Quest DB, Domino DB, static HTML and custom .NET applications.
Solution
- Using Kapow, they were able to migrate content automatically.
- Content migration required no coding and no content freeze.
Results
- Dramatic time and cost savings compared to scripting or manual approach.
- Zero data conversion errors.
Lexmark, a leading provider of printing and imaging products, migrated content from 50+ country sites to Vignette.
Challenge
- Lexmark needed to migrate their entire set of websites (50+ country sites) from Vignette into Documentum.
- Traditional content migration methods were too costly and time consuming.
Solution
- Using Kapow, they were able to migrate content automatically.
- Content migration required no coding and no content freeze.
Results
- Dramatic time and cost savings compared to scripting or manual approach.
- Zero data conversion errors.
Red Hat saved 67% in time and cost by using Kapow for content migration to eXo.
Challenge
- Red Hat needed to migrate about 5,000 pages of static HTML into an open source CMS called eXo.
- Accenture estimated it would take nearly 3,000 man hours to do this project manually.
Solution
- Using Kapow, they were able to migrate content automatically.
- Content migration required no coding and no content freeze.
Results
- Over 67% projected savings in time and cost compared to manual method.
- Zero data conversion errors.
With Kapow, Live Matrix can extract data from any site to feed their innovative real-time events portal – even content from sites using JavaScript and Ajax.
Challenge
- The Live Matrix site is a real-time events portal, collecting and displaying data on all types of live events, but they had problems extracting content from sites using JavaScript and Ajax.
- They needed to scale quickly.
Solution
- Kapow enables them to extract data from sites using JavaScript and Ajax.
- Kapow's visual scripting environment enabled the Live Matrix developers to scale quickly.
Results
- Based on a successful POC involving 20 challenging sites, Live Matrix decided to move to Kapow for web intelligence.
- With Kapow's state of the art software, Live Matrix met their launch date and became the first TV Guide for the web.
Automating integration of new account information was key to business growth for XING, a leading social networking site for business professionals in Europe.
Challenge
- XING competes with LinkedIn and other social networking sites aimed at business professionals.
- To encourage adoption of their service, they wanted to automate integration of customer account and contact information from LinkedIn, FaceBook, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail to XING's profile and contact databases.
Solution
- With Kapow, a new XING user can enter his third party network credentials into XING's registration form and robots will log into the third party sites and collect all additional profile and contact information to enrich the new XING account.
- Collected contacts that are not currently registered XING users receive an invitation to join XING.
Results
- Customers save time by having all their contact and profile information entered automatically, making the new service instantly useful.
- XING gains valuable marketing information at no cost.