Without Screen Scraping tools

Tools are needed to manage all available information including the Web, subscription services, and internal data stores. Without an Screen Scraping tool (a product specifically designed to find, organize, and output the data you want), you have very poor choices for getting information. Your choices are:

Use search engines Search engines help find some Web information, but they do not pinpoint information, cannot fill out web forms they encounter to get you the information you need, are perpetually behind in indexing content, and at best, can only go two or three levels deep into a Web site. And they cannot search file directories on your network.

Manually surf the Web and file directories Aside from the labor-intensive aspect of this option, the work is tedious, costly, error prone, and very time consuming. Humans have to read the content of each page to see if it matches their criteria, whereas a computer is simply matching patterns, which is so much faster.

Create custom programming Custom programming is costly, can be buggy, requires maintenance, and takes time to develop. Plus the programs must be constantly updated as the location of information frequently changes.

Inefficient methods means the information analyst spends time finding, collecting, and aggregating data instead of analyzing data and gaining the competitive edge. This also affects the application programmer who has to spend time developing extraction tools instead of developing tools for the core business.

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