# Web Data Scraping - Trends, Insights, Reports | PromptCloud

## [Differentiating Big Data Analytics from Big Data as a Service Market](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/big-data-analytics-or-data-as-service-what-is-the-difference/)

Big Data Analytics According to IDC, the value of the big data market was $6.8 billion in 2012, which is growing at a rate of 40% every year and is predicted to reach $17 billion by 2015 (Source: IDC – PDF). Organisations all across the world have come to realize that the most successful business […]

## [Big Data Analytics in Advertising, Industrial Automation & the Food Industry](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/application-of-big-data-analytics-in-advertising-fast-food-service-industrial-automation/)

In this series, we earlier covered how big data is being used across industry verticals. Though our coverage of most of those applications hovered around modern, IT-based industries such as banking, retail, and analytics, here we have identified some big data applications in traditional industries such as manufacturing and the food industry. Although big data isn’t […]

## [Does DaaS have the Potential to become the Next Big Thing?](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/does-data-as-service-daas-have-potential-to-become-the-next-big-thing/)

Gartner predicts that the Software-as-a-Service market is set to reach $22.1 billion by 2015. DaaS is poised to become an integral part of business intelligence and analytics, possibly garnering a decent share of this pie in the process. Big data has become a crucial aspect of strategic intelligence of many corporations, providing them competitive advantage […]

## [Scraping Data: Site-specific Extractors vs. Generic Extractors](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/site-specific-extraction-vs-generic-extraction-after-scraping/)

Scraping data is becoming a rather mundane job with every other organization getting its feet wet with it for their own data gathering needs. There have been enough number of crawlers built – some open-sourced and others internal to organizations for in-house utilities. Although crawling might seem like a simple technique at the onset, doing […]

## [Two Mission-Critical Big Data Use Cases in Real Time](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/two-mission-critical-big-data-use-cases-in-real-time/)

The rise of web 2.0 and a subsequent explosion of user generated content and social media has got companies interested in what people are talking. Collecting real-time data through sensors installed in systems or through live conversations isn’t a problem any more. Instead, converting this unstructured data into actionable takeaways for business – and doing […]

## [Metrics for Measuring Email Marketing Campaign Effectiveness](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/what-metrics-to-use-for-evaluating-the-effectiveness-of-your-email-marketing-campaign-efforts/)

Earlier we had discussed why email marketing is a powerful weapon in any business’ overall marketing arsenal. Hoping that you’re convinced by the benefits of using email marketing, we would now like to focus on how you can measure the effectiveness – mainly in terms of increase in the number of prospects in the funnel. […]

## [How Big Data Trends and Insights are Shaping Up Deutschland (Germany)](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/big-data-insights-initiatives-and-trends-in-germany-deutschland/)

Big data technology trends phenomenon, having already engulfed the west in its awe, is now moving towards the other parts of the planet. It especially seems to be gathering a lot of momentum in Asia and Europe, merely starting from people referring to it as the ‘next big thing’, to companies that are spending huge […]

## [How your Business can benefit from Big Data as a Service (BDaaS)?](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/how-big-data-as-a-service-bdaas-can-help-your-company/)

Cloud-based technologies have proliferated at a tremendous rate in the past few years. We have seen a rapid growth in the as-a-service space, such as from Software as a Service (SaaS) to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Network as a Service (NaaS) and even ‘X’ ( anything & everything) as a […]

## [Small Business Owners: Should you care about Big Data?](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/small-business-owners-should-you-care-about-big-data/)

Just about two decades ago, most of the information was accessible only by a handful of individuals and organisations. This changed remarkably with the advent of User-Generated Content (UGC), which led to the ‘democratisation’ of data. Small Business Owners have gained most from this transition. As information became the new paradigm, most new opportunities arose […]

## [Retain your Best Customers: 7 Tips for creating Loyal Customers](https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/how-to-retain-your-best-customers-7-tips-for-getting-loyal-customers-for-life/)

Small or medium business owners and marketers are well aware of the importance of getting customers that stick around for a lifetime. Savvy marketers understand the fact that the cost of acquiring a new customer is as much as 7-10 times the cost of retaining an existing customer. Loyalty means a customer is willing to […]