Intuitive Design
The main function of a robot is to automate the steps that a user would take to collect web intelligence manually, harvesting data from any information source on the public web.
Kapow OnDemand provides an intuitive-to-use, but very powerful visual scripting environment for building the services and feeds that automate the harvesting and delivery of web intelligence to your desktop or application of your choice.
Data the Way You Want It
Getting at the data you need is only half the battle. It's critical that you are able to convert these unstructured data sources into something that you can write to a database, consume in business applications, or make available as an on-demand feed for spreadsheets or other mashup environments.
With minimal training, web-savvy users will be able to build robots that extract, transform, and output web data to Excel spreadsheets or to a database in a matter of hours.
Handling the Variety of the Web
Technologies and design practices used by web developers are constantly evolving. Web pages change in unanticipated ways that can break robots in products not equipped to handle the dynamic nature of the web. Kapow robots are simply better at handling dynamic changes to websites than any other product on the market today:
| *Robust ability to handle sites that use AJAX and Javascript |
| *Use of HTML tags & DOM-aware layout to adapt to page changes |
| *Sophisticated error handling capabilities |
| *Not a "black box." Developer has total control of the robot |
| *Visual debugger that highlights specific failure points |
|