Alacra Raises Its Pulse
February 19, 2009
Alacra Inc., http://www.alacra.com/, released their Pulse Platform today. Along the lines of Beyond Search’s own Overflight service, Alacra’s Pulse finds, filters and packages web-based content by combining semantic analysis and an existing knowledge base to target and analyze more than 2,000 hand-selected feeds. The first platform app is Street Pulse, which carves out “what do key opinion leaders have to say…” about a given company. A press release says it “integrates comments from sell-side, credit analysts, industry analysts and a carefully vetted list of influential bloggers.” It’s offered free at http://pulse.alacra.com. There’s also a clean, licensed professional version with bells and whistles like e-mail alerts. More apps will follow that mayfocus on hush-hush company droppings that everyone loves to muck through. Alacra’s jingle is “Aggregate, Integrate, Package, Deliver.” Since so many people are already wading through info dumps, we see this service growing into a critical search resource. We’re certainly on board the bandwagon and will be watching for further developments.
Jessica W. Bratcher, February 19, 2009
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