Import.io vs. Price2Spy

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.

Incentivized

It generates reports to be analyzed through diagrams and graphs that allow price differentiation on the product in real-time. It extracts IP addresses, e-mails, and images, since the platform does not limit its search to present elements, but also does it internally. It manages product data, price list data, profit margins against competitors, multi-channel communication, import/export data, sales data, customizable data, etc.

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• Monitor your competitors' prices and promotions in real time.
• Allows you to offer deep discounts on your products at a specific time of day, or when a competitor has an offer.
• Track the evolution of your competitors' prices over a period of time, and plan accordingly.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• Being a low-cost system the company does not sell a complete package with all the applications that the organization needs.
• The packages are adapted to the demands of the client.
• The incorporation of products is limited, only 25 products can be uploaded.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

[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.

Incentivized

• Study and analysis of the product within the web (performance, behavior, demand, supply, etc.).
• Supervision, control, and monitoring of the product and the brand against the competition.
• Monitoring of sites (URLs) according to their internal position on the web.

Incentivized