Case Studies

Extracting E-Commerce Data from Competitive Web Sites

A leading online retailer needs to track product pricing changes on their competitor websites. The Internet store is seeking the capability to rapidly and easily monitor many other Web shops – each containing tens of thousands of products. As a result, they can gain a huge competitive advantage by instantly adjusting pricing and product offerings based on real-time business intelligence from marketplace.
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Collection of Web-based Data about Real Estate Properties

One of the country’s largest mortgage lenders needs a fast, effective, and cost-efficient way to collect data from across the Web in order to keep their large database of available residential real estate properties up-to-date at all time. The company needs a single, fully-integrated Web Data Extractor that made searching for and retrieving data from their targeted websites fast and simple. By utilizing the fully-automated web data extraction system, they can save time, increase staff productivity, and improve the integrity and accuracy of the information contained in their database.
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Extraction of Data from Online Classified Auto Ads

The leading U.S. provider of vehicle data and statistics wants to reduce the time, effort, and cost required to collect and compile information about millions of “for sale” used automobiles, as well as their sellers or dealers, from various partner sites across the Web. A powerful Web Crawler is required to utilize pre-defined criteria to search multiple websites simultaneously, generate the required results automatically and continuously, and provide the needed data faster than ever before, while eliminating errors and dramatically reducing time and expenses. Processing speed and capability of the Web Crawler is the key for the success of the project as millions of web pages need to be scanned and parsed to in a very short time.
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