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Now let’s look at the sources of surveillance information, where they come from and how you organise them.
Unlike “favourites” lists in browsers our sources are shared within the community and can be things which
aren’t WEB site addresses. This is important because you don’t want to lose valuable insight when someone
leaves the company and also you will want to look at information coming from outside the company (i.e. the
internet) alongside information coming from inside the company, i.e. applications, metrics,
performance data and reports.
In the surveillance edition of the Artesian product, the sources are limited to internet based ones.
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Organise your sources of information – Every business has a domain of information that is specific and relevant to it, this is normally obvious and well known to the constituents of that business, for example products and services that the company provides, their customers, their prospects and competitors etc. Some domains of information are common to most companies, for example information about the economy or information about the financial markets, news etc.
The number of potential sources is vast; the quality of those sources is also extremely variable; our surveillance solution gives you one place to organise those sources that are beneficial to your business; think of this as a shared and centralised “favourites” collection, rated for trust, relevance and importance. |
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| Where do sources come from? –
There are many places that useful intelligence can come from, for example, WEB sites, Blogs, News Feeds,
Community sites, business applications, search engines, business intelligence systems etc. At its simplest
level you can capture a few dozen useful WEB sites and away you go; at the most sophisticated levels you will
probably need our help to “plumb” into your business applications to extract useful
metrics
and data to aggregate alongside internet based information, sometimes this means thousands of sources.
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