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Dana Incorporated is a Fortune 500 company that supplies integrated drivetrain and propulsion systems. In 2020, the company approached us with a challenge: they wanted to improve their strategic decision-making processes by obtaining detailed reports that analyze millions of different data pieces. Our team rose to the challenge and created a custom web scraping solution that helped Dana achieve their goals.
Pricing insights
Our web scraping solution helped Dana discover the average price of specific product types among their competitors.
Product intelligence
Dana learned that their competitors offer a new features in some of their products that are similar to one of their own models.
Market overview
Our solution helped Dana understand a scale of rising demand for electric cars in the global market.
Advanced & automated data mining tool
Our solution involved building 25 custom web scrapers for competitor websites and gathering around 12 million unique product data pieces.
We also created an ETL script that filled Dana's internal databases with standardized, aggregated, and loaded data into cloud databases. The gathered data helped Dana gain competitive insights into the automotive market and make informed decisions.
Dana's project presented several challenges that we had to overcome. Firstly, we had to scrape competitor websites that had highly complex forms with around 1000 different permutations of options chosen.
Secondly, to prevent access restrictions, we rotated our IP and used proxies while limiting the speed of each scraper to follow the rules of robots.txt.
Finally, we had to run ten machines asynchronously and on each machine multiple scrapers, which resulted in ~250 crawlers running simultaneously.
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Fresh data on demand
Our fully automated pipeline can be run whenever our clients need the newest information and reports.
Data cleaning
We helped Dana clean the data while implementing advanced data analysis techniques to uncover insights and trends
Expert support
We provided Dana with guidance and expertise to help them understand the insights that emerged from the data.
Market intelligence through data mining
In conclusion, our data scraping and monitoring solution proved to be a game-changer for Dana, providing them with invaluable insights and enabling them to make informed decisions to stay ahead of their competitors in the ever-evolving automotive market.
By leveraging our custom web scrapers and advanced data analysis techniques, we helped Dana analyze millions of pieces of product data from their competitors' websites, providing them with pricing, product, market, and brand intelligence.
Our solution not only saved time and resources but also improved the accuracy and completeness of the data, leading to better decision-making and strategic planning.
Frequently asked questions
We've put this list together to give you quick and easy answers to questions you might have when reading about our custom data mining solution.
If you don't find the answer to your question, don't hesitate to contact our team.
We will be more than happy to help you out!
1. Is the Data Mining Solution a SaaS product?
No, the tool is not (yet) a SaaS product. At this point, it is a custom solution that we created from scratch based on the specific needs and preferences of our client, in this case, Dana Inc.
All of the projects listed on our website serve as an inspiration for coming up with your own unique ideas. The solutions created by us are always tailored to your specific requirements.
2. What would be the cost of a similar solution?
The cost of your tool will depend on its complexity, the systems to integrate with, and the support needed. We created solutions within budgets starting from 1000$ and ending at hundreds of thousands.
We will be happy to discuss your requirements and give you a detailed quote during a free discovery call.
3. How long would it take to develop a similar tool for our company?
The development process of this particular project took around 2 months. This includes the discovery call, where we worked closely with our client to understand his unique needs and preferences, as well as the entire development and implementation of the solution.
Our team works diligently to ensure that the solution is developed in a timely and efficient manner, and the dedicated Project Managers keep our clients updated on the progress throughout the whole process.
4. Who owns the tool after you build it?
Once the project is completed and implemented, the client legally owns everything necessary to build, maintain, or extend the software in the future, such as "executable" files, scripts, project files, source code, etc.
Dana Inc. has agreed to let us share the specifics of this particular project, and we are thrilled to showcase the solution we provided to help them achieve their business goals.
However, please note that we don't talk about many of the projects we have worked on due to Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) with our clients. We take your confidentiality very seriously and always adhere to the terms of our agreements to ensure your privacy and security.
