The richness of the Internet lies in the diversity and the volume of information that is published there. However, manual exploitation of this information is problematic in most cases, as repetitive tasks take up a lot of time and require significant investment in financial terms. But the different families of intelligent agents make it possible to automate part of the current awareness activities (checking for updates in sources, automation of searches, composition of personalized press reviews, etc…)
Our team of researchers, specialized in information science, has monitored more than 7 years all the tools used to automate the current awareness process. This process contains 3 distinct phases that correspond to the following groups of tools:
 Collection tools (metamotors, crawlers, Cybion Eye™, etc.)
 Categorization tools to assist analysis (statistical analysis technology, semantic and/or syntactic analysis, analysis by cartographic representation, etc.)
Dissemination tools (newsletter builder, portals, push software etc.)
No computing solution is adapted to the automation of all the different strategic watch cases. Some technologies are particularly effective at processing informal sources. Others are more efficient in the analysis of structured documents. Complete automation of the current awareness cycle generally requires the successive and complementary use of different technologies.
Our Agent Lab, comprising experts in the assembly of collection, categorization, analysis and dissemination tools, offers many services:
 Audit of current awareness systems
Advanced tests of software and solutions available on the market
Benchmarks and comparative studies
Configuration and personalization of tools
Made to measure training courses
The work of the Agent Lab takes form in different ways:
1- Tests for the general public (client software) are often published on AgentLand, our portal dedicated to intelligent agents. See the reviews
2- Professional tests (server solutions) are carried out on request. That said, the technical reports from Cybion's Agent Lab have over the years become a reference, and have been brought together in a study presenting the tools on the market dedicated to the current awareness process. (to purchase the study or for more information, contact us)
Each year, you get a panorama of all the automatic language processing technologies as well as tools and their use within the strategic watch process.
Tables based on a multi-criteria approach have been designed in order to compare the different current awareness solutions, an example of which is given here:
Detailed report: Copernic Empower
Extract from the Cybion study of tools dedicated to the current awareness process
For more information about the Agent Lab or to order the study, you can contact us by telephone on +33 (0)1 53 32 46 00 or by e-mail
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