There are more than 165 million websites on the public web today, growing at an annual rate of 35% - and a very large number of corporate websites on the private web. This collection of web based content represents an enormous repository of information with significant potential business value for companies who are able to access it.

Innovation Creates Opportunity

Forward-thinking companies today are finding ways to tap into this vast web repository of information and apply it to everyday business uses that help them get more out of their existing application infrastructure to create a competitive edge. They are becoming smarter, sooner.

Examples of Web Intelligence

What You See Is What You Get

Most data is accessible from a database, but has greater value when you see it in on a web page "in the wild", because you can understand the context of that data, and more importantly, see how it relates to other pieces of data, that collectively, add more value. Kapow harvests web intelligence by interacting with the web interface to collect web content and convert it into a structured form that can be written to a database or used by an application. Essentially,

The Sky Is the Limit

This concept of web harvesting can be applied equally well to web applications behind the firewall. Kapow makes it very easy to create composite data models that bring together data from public and private web sources and combine it with data from internal SQL databases.

The possibilities are endless. Having the ability to access and utilize any web-based data source, in an automated way, either on-demand or in batch mode, on a massive scale, changes the playing field.