Functional Assessment Table

The table below complements the functions described on the previous page and lists all the functionalities needed to monitor the Web efficiently.

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FUNCTIONALITY	CATEGORIES OF INTELLIGENCE TOOLS
FUNCTIONALITY	Intelligent Agents	KB Crawl 3.1	Monitoring Platforms

Configuration
Single Workstation
Client-Server
Support
Training
Guaranteed user support (hotline)
Maintenance and updates
Help with configuration
Interface
User-friendliness
French/English interface
Queries in French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch
Supported Formats
Static pages (HTML)
Dynamic pages (PHP, ASP...)
RSS feeds
News groups (NNTP)
FTP websites
Flash applications (Macromedia)
Indexes PDF, Excel, Word and PowerPoint files
Indexes the text content of pictures (OCR technology)
Invisible Web
Manages search forms
Manages websites requiring authentication (HTTPS, SSL connection)
Connects to on-line databases and/or press aggregators
Data Storage
Stores data in a database
Archives modified pages
Stores the results of tracking
Indexes PDF, Word, PPT, Excel documents
Storing capacity above 20 GB
Search
Full text and multi-criteria advanced search
Meta search-engine
Close keywords
Contextual search in the body of the text
Manages masks, truncation and proximity
Types of Alert
Modifited contents
Newly appeared keywords / on queries
Dead links
New pages
Alert Keywords and Queries
Checkes for newly appeared keywords
Manages masks and truncation
Manages Boolean operators
Manages proximity operators
Filters
Date and time
Advertising banners
Selected pages
Selected URLs (pattern, wildcard)
Scanning Frequency
Defines the monitoring frequency
Frequency ranges from every minute to every week
Manages a monitoring schedule
Email Alerts
Defines frequency of emails
Defines alert profiles for users
Validates emails before sending
Defines importance levels
Defines reliability levels
Annotates results
Customises layout (HTML)
Data Import/Export
Imports Favourites with their original structure
Exports Favourites in XML format
Imports/exports lists of keywords
Collects files (PDF, pictures, Office...)
Exports data in XML format
Project Management
Creates a personalised filing system
Selective distribution of emails according to user and subject
Result Processing and Analysis
Validate data manually before distribution
Semantic analysis of documents
Cartographical analysis of information
Compatibility with Existing Information System
Combines with EDM tools
Combines with text mining tools
Combines with semantic analysis tools

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