Also discover the WebNews Channels: a ready-to-use solution for online news threads drawn directly from source: competitors, prospects, customers and partners !
Functions offered by the WebNews module
WebNews™ is an intelligent agent that automatically scans, extracts and aggregates news on the web.
It can build personalized news threads using its own information sources on the web.
It is therefore particularly suited to monitoring all types of news, such as press releases, articles, announcements, events, product launches, nominations, etc.. directly at source: companies, organizations, institutions, professional associations, research teams, trade unions,…
What is different about WebNews?
WebNews is currently the only solution on the market capable of automatically recognizing news on any type of webpage and in any language, with a success rate of over 95% thanks to its advanced proprietary algorithms based on topology and standardized vectorial space theories.
WebNews’ key benefits for intelligence:

- Personalized sourcing: users can add their own web news sources to the surveillance agents – without requiring any technical intervention to add or change any of the pages being monitored: WebNews automatically recognizes the news on the pages under surveillance (success rate of over 95%).
- In-depth surveillance: WebNews follows the link from each identified news title and scans the whole of its content.
- Automatic extraction and aggregation: WebNews extracts relevant news and aggregates it in personalized information threads that can be easily used and distributed in the company (xml).
What are the applications for WebNews ?
- Competitive and commercial intelligence: from press releases, financial announcements, nominations, product launches and other key events for your competition.
- Technological intelligence: from articles, studies, white papers and other technical or scientific publications from research bodies and laboratories.
- Regulatory intelligence: from regulations, decrees, authorizations, prohibitions and other changes to your regulatory environment.
- Media intelligence or personalized news threads: from any editorial news source.
Webnews functions in detail
Surveillance of your own information sources by simply adding the address (http://…), with no need to configure descriptive files for each monitored page. Option: themed packages for surveillance, set up by DIGIMIND (known as “channels”), such as the “pharma channel”.
- Immediate updates of the monitoring process by the customer (adding/modifying/deleting information sources).
- Automatic recognition of all dated information on any webpage, whatever the format
- In-depth and comprehensive filtering of the identified news using surveillance queries (key words or advanced Boolean queries)
- Automatic extraction, collection, indexing and archiving of the filtered news (title, author, date, summary and link to the original item)
- Pushmail summarizing alerts sent to surveillance managers on a frequency of your choice
- Broadcasts alerts and filtered news threads in Tracker’s collaborative intelligence portal and is automatically integrated in DIGIMIND platform workflow.
