KapowTech!
Kapow is a business mashup server software that allows you to collect and mashup all the data you want and display it. I attended a walk through with Andrew Lasko from Kapow and was really impressed with the capability of Kapow.
Some of the really cool features of Kapow includes Content Migration, Synchronization and Integration, Transform functionality to mobile compatible and Rapid portlet development. The demo that was present to me was absolutely amazing. It not just some simple screen scraping tool or data collection tool. It has the ability to collect almost anything you can think of structure or un-structured and you can then manipulate the information add some functionality to it and display the stuff you want. In a very skewed way of looking at this, a company could (if they wanted to) do a business transformation project using Kapow.
I am now having a play with the Kapow’s mashup server and would update more when I have finished playing. In the mean time, take a look at the Kapow Demo. Very interesting.
Jeremy Thomas said,
So, have you had a chance to play with Kapow? What do you think?
Sean said,
Yeah I did. I haven’t done much so far, just some screen scraping and retrieving data from database. So far its looking pretty good. Seems like there is a large range of information you can collect. My only concern is that if an organisation does these sort of mashups, the exploration of data is rather constraint (based on the rules of the mashup). I do feel that to complement this sort of mashup well, a good search should be in place as well to discover information outside the boundaries of the mashup.
Marcus said,
We are currently looking for a web scraping solution. But IMHO Kapow is overpriced. It seems that iMacros can do the job as well in our case. Did you test this tool as well?http://www.iopus.com/imacros/web-scraping.htm
Marcus
Sean Lew said,
Looks interesting. But Kapow does much more than iopus. It allows database connection with read and write. If its just web scrapping, Dapper can do the job for free.
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