• Trading & Risk Management - Wireless
• Corporate News/ Intelligence Briefing - Medical Industry

The problem is information overload. Nowhere is this problem more pronounced than in regard to scanning a marketplace for relevant news and blog articles. The Medical Equipment Sector is an example of a market where thousands of weekly articles need to be scanned, filtered and patterned for possible threats and opportunities. Somewhere amongst these innumerable articles might be emerging competitor, technology, supplier, government regulation or other trends that are invisible without advanced filtering and patterning tools.

Problem: 1,151 stroke articles per week
A news editor is flooded with irrelevant news and blog articles in her job of providing a daily briefing about "stroke" issue for a medical company. Her keyword searches are producing too many items, many of them irrelevant. She uses keywords to collect news from public sources, RSS feeds, Google Alerts and other email alerts. Nevertheless, with traditional keyword filters, she is overwhelmed with "stroke of midnight," "four stroke engine," "breast stroke'" etc. irrelevant articles.

Swarm Intelligence Filters Expanded Scope of General News/Blog Collection - Increased Efficiency of Relevant Stroke Related Stories

Solution: 843 stroke articles, a 27% noise elimination
Smart News Filters are created to receive news from almost any RSS or G-Email alert - in fact from almost any news or blog source. With more exacting filtering at the individual channel filter level, news editors can focus on relevant news - not noise. Company RSS feed from this channel filter was a success.

Swarm Intelligence filters are innovative modules of simple filters, that combine to form powerful networks to find and pattern relevant news from any digital source. Once relevant articles are discovered, briefing and intelligence reports can be created and shared via email, browser feeds and internal RSS feeds.