Companies Need Web Info To Survive, A Research Shows

PRLog (Press Release) – Mar 31, 2008 – For more and more companies, the collection of information from the internet has become an essential prerequisite for conducting daily activities, a recent survey suggests.

The amount of information that companies collect from the Internet has now reached record levels. Let’s mention just a few examples: there are now many news sites that have no field staff at all but rely solely on information from internet sources like reputed news agencies; or business directories that have virtually no contact with the businesses listed; or marketing agencies that collect contact information for surveys and promotional campaigns.

This trend has resulted in great demand for specialized software solutions for the collection of web content. One of the leaders in this industry, the Toronto-based Ficstar Software, points out that demand for its website content grabber has become enormous, and is to continue to rise over the next years.

Few companies are now willing to make compromises when it comes to collecting web content. While manual web data collection is a very time-consuming, expensive, and mistake-prone task, none of these problems occur when using specialized software for web data collection.

Demand has grown to such an extent that companied like Ficstar Software now offer a wide range of services intended to meet the specific needs of companies which use the website content grabber tool. E-commerce, Contacts grabber, and the Custom-designed web grabber are among Ficstar’s most popular products.

Ficstar Web Grabber E-Commerce makes it possible to instantly capture complete, up-to-date product details from anywhere on the Internet.  This solution significantly increases efficiency and prevents errors by eliminating the need to manually find and copy online product information. The Ficstar Web Grabber E-Commerce allows clients to easily search for and “scrape” key product details from any other e-commerce Web site – including product names, categories, prices, part numbers, descriptions, inventory levels, images, and more.  

The Web Grabber Contacts solution enables companies to quickly and easily collect results from online business directories, member listings, and other Web pages that contain important contact information.  It allows retrieving vital data such as names, job titles, phone and fax numbers, mailing addresses, email addresses, Web site URLs, and more – from virtually anywhere on the Internet.

For companies who consider their web data collection needs to be unique, Ficstar has developed the Custom-Designed Web Grabber. Many other data extraction solutions on the market today collect content from different web sites without any changes to the software source code. This “one size fits all” approach can deliver results that are incomplete and inaccurate, forcing companies to return to time-consuming manual procedures to get the results they need. Ficstar customizes its solution for each customer by modifying the software to fit the specific requirements for their target web sites. As a result, it can provide its customers with the exact solution they need to meet their unique needs.