Introducing Import.io Insights – enabling you to visualize and analyze web data directly in the Import.io application! Import.io is a leader in extracting and transforming accurate web data. Now, you can quickly gain valuable insights from web data without leaving the browser. Data visualizations and charts are stored in the…
The value of web data is increasing in every industry from retail competitive price monitoring to alternative data for investment research. As the trusted research firm, Gartner, stated in their blog: “Your company’s biggest database isn’t your transaction, CRM, ERP or other internal database. Rather it’s the Web itself…Treat the…
More and more equity research firms are taking the “intuition” out of their research and basing recommendations only on data. One huge source of data is news. By extracting headlines and article copy and using that data for predictive analysis, investment firms gain valuable insight into trends, events, and shifting…
Businesses are going big with their big data strategy. According to a 2017 study by New Vantage partners, 37.2% of surveyed organizations have invested more than $100M in a big data strategy within the past five years, with 6.5% investing over $1B. And it’s paying off. Nearly 50% of companies…
Today, shoppers can easily check pricing on multiple websites and buy at the lowest price. According to a recent study by Market Track, 80% of respondents said they would compare prices online before making a purchase – whether online or in-store. Investing 20 minutes to compare pricing of one product…
This article answers the question – what is big data? Big Data is getting bigger. This market growth has led to a proliferation of technology vendors touting themselves as “Big Data solution providers.” In fact, the volume and variety of Big Data vendors seems to rival the volume and variety…
We are excited to announce two new Import.io features that make web data integration and storage easier and more efficient. Using Import.io webhooks you can specify the URL or application, such as AWS, Zapier, or Google Cloud, where you want the data to be stored. Once the data is extracted,…
Web data is here today, but may be gone tomorrow. Anyone, at any time, can change the information provided on a website they control. Prices and products change, content changes, statistics change, news may not always be archived, companies go under, and websites disappear. The point is, you don’t know…
