NetPeriscope is a competitive business intelligence service that offers online, real-time access to competitive information. This enables merchants to optimize their competitive market positions online using NetPeriscope’s advanced Content Recognition Engine (NP-CRE) to locate and extract specific, publicly accessible information on the Internet. Clients can then query, retrieve and analyze this information using a standard Internet browser.











Real-Time:
This feature enables merchants to key-in product numbers for a specific industry and obtain competitive intelligence in real-time. In Search by Item, up to five product numbers can be queried. For larger queries, the Search by List feature allows merchants to submit a file of product numbers for live, real-time comparison. Products can be queried by SKU, ISBN, manufacturer, model, or part number.














Queries/Data Integrity:
This feature allows merchants to enter simple or complex queries against competitors on a variety of information such as price, products, availability, delivery, etc. An added benefit of this function is the assurance of Data Integrity for merchants, which has become a vital component of e-Business, as the efficient detection and correction of online errors is essential in maintaining consumer credibility.














Statistics:
This service is beneficial for merchants wanting to analyze information over a period of time, rather than for a specific point in time. A feature of this service may include a trend analysis for price optimization. Currently, the information retrieved can be broken down into specific categories for easier analysis, such as:
  • Discount Analysis: Compares discounts across categories by competitor
  • Inventory Analysis: Compares inventory across categories by competitor
  • Shipping Analysis: Compares shipping times across categories by competitor









Net Monitor
This feature allows merchants to track and monitor any product information changes on specific web pages of a competitor's web site. The Competitor URL Change feature will detect the product changes on these targeted pages, by URL, and alert merchants when a product change has occurred. Merchants are notified either through the NetPeriscope Inbox, through their own email address, or through a text message-enabled device.

Performance Monitoring: The NetPeriscope content recognition engine (NP-CRE) utilizes intelligent agents, which determine and record true, end-to-end response time of competitor web sites. NetPeriscope has been built on a dynamic, scalable infrastructure, which permits the launch of virtually thousands of these intelligent agents. This feature makes Net Periscope ideal for load and stress testing of web sites and web applications.








NetPeriscope is offered through an ASP service and is based upon a sophisticated Content Recognition Engine (CRE) that tokenizes digital content. 

NetPeriscope uses unobtrusive stealth technology and web agents to intelligently analyze website content and then parse the appropriate information into a hierarchy of tokens. From these tokens, the NetPeriscope agents extract the appropriate intelligence information and organize the presentation of this knowledge into comprehensive reports that can be mined through customized queries.

NetPeriscope incorporates various technologies such as XML, for web content standardization and B2B integration, wireless technologies for mobile subscribers (complete with update alerts) and personalization engines for setting user interfaces and preferences.


Real Time Queries and Analysis Statistics Net Monitor