Import.io vs. Kofax Insight

We used Connotate as a data mining tool for web research as a teaching assistant for the College of Information Sciences and Technology. You could train agents to automatically gather data in a variety of ways, which I used in my own research. Connotate's analysis was not as useful to me as the data itself, because we were using it to inform us of trends rather than make decisions.

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Ease of use and rapid deployment Ability to understand data in the context of the business processes. Insight enables rich dashboard development in minutes with a browser-based, drag and-drop interface, including custom navigation Scenarios less appropriate: Statistical data can be provided by leveraging R functions and models

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• Scrapes specific parts of webpages
• Crawls pages and scrapes based on patterns you specify via examples
• Very effective and accurate when it comes to scraping data of large URL lists

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• Powerful UI
• No code required
• Insight’s MapAggregate
• Easy of Deployment

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• Stability. software frequently crashed previously.
• Training. Students had a had time understanding how to use the tool, and then where to use it.

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• Data Goverance
• BI Needs/initiatives
• Integration other third party tools

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I do not think I would have the budget to use it currently. When using it previously, was working with the developers to improve the product and was given accounts at no cost

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[We selected Import.io because] They were top ranking in SEO. I will never work with them again though.

• It really helped to collect large chunks of data from the web.
• When compared to writing a script from scratch, it is very simple to use for creating a web agent.

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• Ease of Process Discovery
• Intuitive Dashboards
• Rapid Design and Development
• Native Metrics smart

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