Fetch Rolls Out Live Access 4.1

September 28, 2011

With more and more data available through the web, documents and emails companies are seeking professionals to sort through all the junk and relay only the relevant data. The article, Fetch Technologies Unveils Breakthrough Web Data Extraction Capabilities and Reports Record Results, reports the newest version of one of the services which performs just such services as listed above.

According to its Web site: Fetch “…automatically aggregates, normalizes, and integrates online data into the system of your choice.” With an impressive list of clients from Dow Jones to Shopzilla, Fetch appears to be doing something right. As the article explains of the newest version:

Live Access 4.1 expands Fetch’s already robust capabilities in precision Web data extraction, enabling clients to easily collect, augment and transform data through all available APIs. In addition, Fetch clients can now extract data from Websites that employ AJAX and other dynamic content technologies. The release also offers access to completely new sources of data, including PDFs, Microsoft Office documents and images.

The benefit of a service such as Fetch’s is that it allows a company’s employees to spend their time on authentic work instead of wasted hours searching. One study estimates that one out of every ten hours worked is spent on searching for data with 35 percent of that time wasted as the information is never found.

Data management services are the logical answers. Fetch moves beyond the obvious need and offers data aggregation and uses the same technology to provide its clients efficient and fast background checks.

Content processing vendors are on a treadmill. As the volume of data available to businesses goes up, content processing systems have to enhance their offerings. With the volume of data in digital form expanding rapidly, we anticipate quicker and quicker system upgrade cycles. Shorter cycles impose significant challenges on vendors and licensees alike.

Catherine Lamsfuss, September 28, 2011

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