Kapow Mashup Server
Product Family
 
Solutions Focus        
Create a batch process for collection of specific web content from a list of target url’s. Define filters and specific criteria for data extraction and/or data reformatting.Large Scale Collection of Web Content & Data (crawling, scraping, transformation)
     
Automate the end-to-end process of collecting, transforming, and repurposing a wide variety or enterprise data (web pages, PDF’s, RDBMS, Excel, XML) into and web application or relational database.Automated Complex Data Integration Flows
   
Setup search criteria and filters to crawl specific web pages or blogs for competitive information or market intelligence. Scan catalogs and extract pricing or product data and reformat for your own business use.Collection of Market & Business Intelligence
     
Integrates web content and data into EMC Documentum, extending the reach and value of enterprise content management systems.Migrate Content, Interoperate Between Content Management Systems  
   
Kapow Mashup Server is the fuel that feeds mashup modeling and composition tools, providing programmatic access to unstructured web content and web services to create AdHoc mashups and composite applications.Web 2.0 Business Applications & Mashups    
 
Quickly and easily converts web data into RSS, Atom feeds or REST web services. Feeds can be published to a shared repository, RSS readers, or mashup modeling tools.Generate RSS/Atom and REST Mashup Feeds    
 
Clip web content, or even entire web pages and publish directly to a portal server as a JSR168-compliant portlet.Rapid Point & Click Portlet Generation      
Key Features & Functionality        
Convert unstructured data or content from any web application into structured data that can be used by other applications or written to a database. This is sometimes characterized as “intelligent web scraping”.Access and Reuse Any Web Based Data Source (Internal or External)
All versions of the Kapow Mashup Server include a powerful and intuitive development environment for “point and click” interactions with web sites to collect, transform, and integrate web content.Highly Productive Visual Scripting Environment
The Kapow Mashup Server is integrated with WebSphere or WebLogic, supporting direct deployment of Kapow-created Portlets, or Java data objects, into those environments.Quick Deployment Wizards for WebSphere or WebLogic Environments (or Tomcat)
 
Execute software agents (which we call robots) directly from Java or .NET applications, or schedule them to be run in batch mode at preferred time intervalsBatch Scheduling or Real-time Operation
 
Generate API’s for collecting and repurposing of data from a variety of structured and semi-structured data sources in the enterprise, executable from with Java or .Net applications.Programmatic access to structured and semi-structured data sources (PDF, Excel, RDBMS, XML)
For developers who want to “roll their own” mashup solution, use our wizards to create API’s that work with your favorite development tool to enable calling of mashup feeds from a Java or .NET application.Generate API’s for Java, .NET, or AJAX Tools
Integrate business functionality or data from applications where an API or adapter is not available or does not exist, with no changes required to either the source or target web application. Point-to-Point Data Integration Between Web Applications (swivel chair integration)
     
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