• The Chairman of Kinnevik Group wanted an intuitive, automated, intelligence-gathering application
  
  
• Previous 3rd-party development attempts were over-time, over-budget and ineffective
  
  
• The 3rd-party product was plagued with reliability and effectiveness issues, and key functionality was not implemented
  
  
• Develop (or “fix”) a fast, effective, automated business intelligence gathering tool
  

Ephibian built a Java-based Collection application, with a flexible Keyword search to simultaneously check multiple data sources. Once the system finds the topic or keywords within any of the sources, it uses a sophisticated threaded, queuing mechanism for downloading the pages of material. The number of simultaneous threads is a configurable parameter, and can be optimized for the server hardware and available network bandwidth. The system is able to search Web pages (main frame and subframes), and Message Boards, leverages search forms, and implements a WebCrawler functionality to search throughout any of its sources.

The relevance-matching logic is separated from the Collection logic, and, now, provides summaries, details and confidence factors. Ephibian’s implementation eliminates redundant responses.

Ephibian greatly enhanced the systems administrative capabilities with an Administrative GUI, configuration utility, error log, and comprehensive statistics log.

The relevance-matching logic is separated from the Collection logic, and, now, provides summaries, details and confidence factors. Ephibian’s implementation eliminates redundant responses.

Ephibian greatly enhanced the systems administrative capabilities with an Administrative GUI, configuration utility, error log, and comprehensive statistics log.

• Fast, Effective, Used Daily; Efficient, Flexible, Intuitive
  
  
• Fault tolerant download
  
  
• Eliminates duplicate sources
  
  
• Scalable, and configurable to the available server hardware and bandwidth
  
  
• Sources can be WebPages, Search Forms, Message Boards, or Web Crawlers