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What is a research engine?

A research engine is an application that intelligently filters the most insightful information and trends from the web about:

• companies,
• the markets they operate in, and
• the business trends impacting their market

What problem does it solve for you?

Searching for targeted information from the web can be challenging. You need to quickly and efficiently find relevant, high quality data available to you from the worldwide web. In order to find the right information you need to:

• Get rid of highly duplicative content and group similar content -- as documents are frequently syndicated and copied throughout the web
• Create intricate relationships around content- making sense of the largely unstructured, scattered and untagged content on the web

This is a problem that you can't solve on your own- you NEED the research engine.

How does it solve your web research problem?

FirstRain identifies a vast range of web sources from around the world:

• Mainstream business sources
• Local and world news
• In-depth industry and subscription sources
• Blogs
• Company websites
• Governmental and regulatory agencies

After identifying a variety of content, the research engine creates relationships between companies and among business topics. These relationships create a holistic approach to company research -- a view of the company's ecosystem (business lines, industry topics, competitors and company specific topics). This process allows you to see meaningful trends, relationships and analytics from the vast amount of qualitative data available on the web.

How can you use the research engine?

The FirstRain research engine finds and analyzes the latest information on companies and their markets from the web for you -- the business professional. It's designed so you can research new ideas, get prompted when something's changing and stay on top of the areas that are important to you- quickly, easily and without being distracted by irrelevant information. It solves the web research problem for you by generating highly targeted results, analytics and reports that reveal what's new, changing and interesting.

Research business relevant web content that connects companies and topics within their ecosystem -- business lines, competitors, company specific topics and industry topics.
         Prepare for important meetings and calls quickly and efficiently.
                  Monitor companies, markets and topics that are important to you.