"IBMs WebFountain is an advanced text analytics technology that collects, analyzes and stores millions of pages of structured and unstructured data weekly. The analysis applied to the data extracts trends, exposes patterns and discovers relationships which can affect business. The sources include all types of electronic data such as: news feeds, a full crawl of the worldwide web, industry-specific data sources, licensed feeds and company documents. The results produce valuable business insight enabling customers to make proactive, strategic and timely business decisions based on objective information."

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