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…
Web scraping software enable webmasters, bloggers, journalist and virtual assistants to harvest data from a certain website whether text, numbers, contact details and images in a structured way which cannot be done easily through manually copying and pasting due to the large amount of data that needs to be scraped….
In an effort to provide the consumer the best price, online retailers are employing software to monitor rival websites to know their pricing. Known as ‘scraping’, it helps retailers adjust their own prices. By: FE Bureau | New Delhi | Published: July 29, 2018 12:17 AM Original article here In the world of…
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…
Data has never been easier to obtain from the infant stages of scripted search engine queries and web scraping to large-scale API and big data initiatives. Original article on Forbes Tech executives have been enabling businesses to run in an organized and efficient manner for decades, but system uptime alone…
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,…
This new price data will gathered in a process known as “web scraping” Original story on The Telegraph The UK’s official number crunchers are transforming their data gathering in order to measure the “Amazon effect” on the prices of goods and services. No longer just based on a traditional “shopping…
According to WaletHub, 150,000,000 hotdogs are consumed during the 4th of July holiday in the US. Considering the demand, we thought it would be interesting to find out if online grocers increase hot dog prices around the holiday. We set up price change reports on both Amazon and Walmart to…
