Business & Competitive Intelligence

Automate your Business Intelligence

The majority of business intelligence (BI) applications on the market today focus exclusively on internal, structured data from data warehouses, financial systems and CRM tools, missing a wealth of critical information. According to IDC, 40% of corporate users can't find the information they need to do their jobs on their intranets. There's valuable data buried in unstructured electronic documents, and a wealth of information beyond the corporate firewall in public sources on the Internet.

QL2 can extract information from both the World Wide Web and unstructured documents, and integrate it into your business intelligence for a 360-degree view of your business and the market. Whether it's mining competitor websites, online catalogs, news feeds, and regulatory filings or extracting data from PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, Word docs and email archives, QL2 Software fully automates the process.

Real-time and Error Free

Integrating unstructured data from both sides of the firewall into your business intelligence, is generally done by information analysts cutting and pasting data from one place to another. According to a recent study by IDC, information workers can spend 15-20 hours a weeks just searching for and copying information. QL2 can save you hundreds of man-hours wasted in the mechanical and tedious chore of collecting data, so you can focus on analyzing, interpreting and acting on your business intelligence.

Not only are manual methods time consuming, they can also be fraught with error. Data can be re-keyed incorrectly, incomplete, or outdated by the time a report is ready for review. With QL2, you can fully automate your data collection to ensure it's accurate and comprehensive. Plus, you can refresh your business intelligence as often as needed, so you never risk relying on outdated information.

Superior business and competitive intelligence endeavors require a variety of information types in order to be strategic. QL2 allows you to monitor your competition, news and word of mouth, stay in tune with what the competition is doing and offers dynamic reporting options that combine internal data with real-time data on the web.

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IT is Optional

QL2 automates your data collection from your desktop without a massive IT undertaking. QL2's easy-to-use software or online client center puts business users in control of which websites and document repositories to query, the type of information to collect, and how the resulting data should be presented.

Integration without the pain

QL2 lets you bypass the needs for data warehousing and other backend integration solutions by automatically extracting data directly from existing systems, interfaces, and the web then seamlessly integrating it into any format or system necessary. QL2 delivers critical data directly to where its needed quickly and easily— without the expense and resource investment complex integration solutions require.