In any major enterprise, it is a risk to take someone else’s data at face value. Which is why companies are investing in building their own datasets. The web represents the largest dataset ever created and it is largely under-used by companies, meaning that there is a lot of opportunity…
Your company needs data to thrive. Quality data leads to key insights for businesses, and factors heavily into their decision-making. But where do you find quality data? While much of your company’s data will come from internal sources such as CRM and ERP software, even more of it will come…
Before embarking on a project to write your own web scrapers, here are 10 questions to ask yourself and your team: Does your team have the experience in writing code for web scraping? (It is harder than it looks) What are the server / networking / storage costs to continually…
Why one company stopped building their own web scrapers and decided to work with Import.io instead What follows is the story of one Import.io customer who recently joined us after having built and operated their own web scraping team for over 15 years. Names and some key details have been…
The changes made to our lives as a result of the measures taken to reduce the spread of COVID-19 are not changing the future so much as accelerating it and pulling it forwards. Remote working and learning, video calls with friends and family, food delivery, ecommerce for everything…all of these…
By Import.io CEO, Gary Read, Forbes Councils Member Forbes Technology Council Original post: Forbes Technology Council While the alternative data market is thriving—and projected to be worth $350 million in 2020, up from $183 million in 2016—we have witnessed organizations suffer from alternative data fatigue in 2019. The same groups of alternative datasets are…
Revenue management can make a huge difference in the revenue of a company in the hospitality industry. Putting effort into this area has the potential to significantly increase revenue. However, revenue management strategies require a lot of data and time, which can be a difficult investment. We’ll walk through the…
Download the free online travel ebook now! To attract an online travel customer, you’re not just trying to gain a ticket or room sale. You’re gaining the opportunity to engage with a customer throughout their travel experience, to upsell or cross-sell them higher-margin services, and ultimately, their loyalty. Quick and…
Joining CDOs from across the country at the CDO event in NYC on November 8th? Find out how you can use web data to differentiate from the competition by attending a roundtable from our Founder and Chief Data Officer, Andrew Fogg. Through real world customer case studies, this session will…
If you’re at all familiar with data analysis, then you’ve encountered data visualization. It is a key part of data analysis. We’ll explain how it is used and discuss each of the different types of visualizations, but first let’s make sure we all understand what it is and why it’s…
