RiverGlass recognizes that effective management of web data is the new way to drive business success – leveraging the amazing potential of the internet to identify market opportunities and real-world corporate risk.    

Significant investment has been made in internal systems, from customer databases and sales force automation to BI and reporting, but in this virtual age how can businesses afford to ignore the largest, fastest growing data resource – the internet? After all, good business decisions depend on taking advantage of all the information available to you – and there are a lot of conversations going on out there about your company, its products and services…some good but others downright threatening to your business’ reputation and well-being.  

It is time to augment your current information access, management and reporting practices to include open source content. Freely available, substantive web content can help you understand emerging market prospects and keep up on the competition but, as importantly, it can be invaluable in conducting due diligence across a host of activities – from M&A and partner/personnel whetting to monitoring activities, events and groups that could bring harm to your business.  

It is becoming increasingly obvious that companies can no longer disregard the internet's overwhelming promise in spotting new commercial opportunities and mitigating business risk. While the fundamental need to maintain a strong competitive edge and strategic advantage remains unchanged, the information landscape has evolved greatly. Businesses are at a critical crossroads if they wish to get – or remain – ahead of their competitors. The answers to many vital questions await discovery, camouflaged under the mass of data that inundates us every day. The efficient, effective discovery of data, and its conversion to meaningful and actionable information, is critical to success in the modern marketplace. By engaging RiverGlass, business institutions maximize their opportunities while taking pressure off their bottom line – making themselves more competitive and more successful.

RiverGlass solutions offer singularly advanced technology for efficiently locating, integrating and disseminating the open source information most relevant to you and the business purpose at hand. Context-aware search capabilities, coupled with cutting-edge text analytics and visualizations, deliver consolidated and meaningful results – eliminating the time and frustration typically spent in trying to locate content of interest.

RiverGlass provides the leading edge insight into information analysis that companies need to differentiate themselves in an evolving marketplace. By successfully and continuously responding to the volume of data available, Fortune 2000 organizations are able to stay atop issues relating to compliance, new product opportunities, fraud detection, legal and press issues, customer satisfaction and competitive analysis.

RiverGlass’ collaboration with companies like Country Insurance & Financial Services has developed a superior business intelligence solution. The construction of a domain-specific ontology provides a flexible, intelligent framework – meaning organizations can now discover highly relevant information, whether they already knew it was significant or not.

RiverGlass Enables Businesses to:

Maximize opportunities. To be successful, you must not only effectively manage and understand the massive amount of data available, but also you must do so faster than your competitors. By engaging RiverGlass, business institutions better understand the market space, their prospective clients and their competitors. In short, you are able to optimize sales opportunities and mitigate risk – all while taking pressure off the bottom line.

Identify patterns of behavior. By better understanding the behavior of its competitors and its customers, an organization is able to react to the current market and predict and prepare for future changes.

Automatically seek out and monitor websites containing relevant data. Analysts are inundated and overwhelmed with extreme amounts of information. RiverGlass tools allow analysts to activate searches that intelligently and continuously scan the web for information relevant to them and their organization. Because of its access to the context of an organization through a customized ontology, RiverGlass solutions can more quickly discover where relevant content exists, while simultaneously freeing the user from tedious and time-consuming searches.

Find relevant items contained within the data. RiverGlass query results are mapped into distinct categories enabling the organization and presentation of data according to real-world concepts. Analysts view data in terms of the subjects of a query and can also quickly find and access documents that show relationships across different subjects.

Access all data from a single place. In addition to the internet, a single sign-on federated query capability also allows analysts to quickly access data across internal databases, file systems, web documents and subscription data services without juggling multiple applications and login information.