Scraping, methods and tools for business intelligence

Data has become the "oil" of the 21st century. Despite this, many companies are still unaware that they possess, and can find on the Web, gigantic repositories of under-utilized or dormant information and data. These are warehouses that have been stratified over decades of technical evolution, and which, little by little, as companies have evolved, have seen their destinies changed, sometimes disappearing, often forgotten. Cybersecurity issues, however, have prompted some reflection on the subject.

Web scraping" can be understood and known by several terms or technologies that might reflect what you're looking for:

• screen scraping ;

• data collection and automated data collection ;

• Data Mining ;

• website scraping ;

• data extraction ;

• Crawling data.