Internet
has totally changed the whole information gathering and dismention process. On
the World wild Web you can find any piece of information no matter how minute
it is. But sometimes this info is scattered, protected or in form which in not
organized and can’t be downloaded. If we try to download and save them
following problems are often encountered like
·
User have to log in or
sign up or register
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Data is breaks down to
HTML encodings and hence have to remove tags manually
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Data can be accessed
but cannot be saved
To
overcome this problem, Web Data Extractor came into play. This software retrieves
data out of unstructured data source, process and stores it for further use.
Typically unstructured data includes emails, PDFs, web pages, documents,
scanned text, mainframe reports, spool files.
Web
Data Extractor and business
Web Data Extractor software’s are becoming an important source for businesses especially for those who promote their goods on the Internet. With extraction software, companies are able to collect information related to consumer and their competitors (their confidential rates to other essential data).
Following
are the ways by which it has revolutionized the online business
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Can track the habits of
customers- With this you can track down the activities of customers like at
which time of the day they come in crowd, which page of the site is more
popular in them etc. You can do this on your own website or on the rival
company’s website.
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You can have a constant
vigil on the activities of your competitors- With this software you can
download the pricelist of all the products which your competitors are offering.
You can use this pricelist to adjust your prices of the commodities.
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Effective customer
communication- With this you can chalk out the plans about how, when and in
which format you should contact your customer. You can use the scraped data to
make aggressive policies to lure in more customers like you can take the
decision of by which mean (email, message, call etc) a customer will attract
towards your site.
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Keep updated with the
incoming trends- With the scraped data, you can keep a constant tap on the
incoming trends in the market by keeping a track of your customers and competitors
activities.
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Can also monitor web
server availability and status- It has a great importance in the business and
scraping address it to full measures.
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Can gather lead from
online e-commerce websites- It definitely helps an online business to buck up
its competing strategies.
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Can get product images,
specific info as well as the shipping rates- This will help a business
organization to make its pricing policy more aggressive.
How does web data extractor helps your online business?