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KB Crawl combines all essential functions for Web monitoring at all levels of the monitoring chain: collecting, processing, distributing.

Detecting new features on the visible and invisible Web:
• Document indexing: PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Static and dynamic pages
• RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds
• Flash websites
• Secured websites (HTTPS or SSL connection)
• Search and identification form management
• Connection to online databases
• News groups (NNTP: Net News Transfer Protocol)
• FTP (File Transfer Protocol) websites
• Intranet or Extranet

Setting up notifications
• For all types of changes in a website (contents, broken links, etc.)
• Using keywords or queries (exact expressions, keywords with accents, etc.)
• Using advanced notifications (truncation, proximity operators, Boolean operators, etc.)

Implementing a monitoring schedule
• According to a predefined frequency (week/day/hour/minute)
• According to a predefined date

Filtering the noise
• Date and time
• Advertising banners
• Monitoring only or not monitoring specific page types
• Advanced filters (pattern, wildcard).

 
Archiving notifications
• Storing in a database
• Archiving different page versions
• Optimizing data storage.

 
Performing searches
• Full text and multicriteria search
• In all indexed documents (Web pages, PDF and Word documents, etc.)
• In the archives.

Distributing monitoring reports by e-mail
• Defining the periodicity of distribution
• Managing distribution lists
• Defining notification profiles for users
• Validating and enriching e-mails before sending
• Personalizing e-mail layout.

 
Exporting data
• Automatic or manual export
• Exporting notifications in XML format
• Collecting all types of files
• Coupling with other types of tools: EDM, semantic analysis, cartography, etc.