ClearForest Corporation, a provider of text-driven business intelligence solutions and Kapow Technologies, the leader in Web Integration, has announced a strategic partnership designed to broaden customers' ability to access Web content for business intelligence applications. Under terms of the partnership, ClearForest and Kapow will jointly market solutions that leverage the Kapow Web Integration Platform to enable Clearforest's text analytics platform to extract and analyze information from any Web source.

Kapow's Web Integration Platform uses a visual browser interface to automatically collect Web-based information, including Web pages, blog posts, text, documents, files, Web Services or other data. The Kapow Platform can also automate the cleansing of this data to isolate only relevant content by removing navigational elements, advertisements, and other irrelevant information.

This can then be fed through the ClearForest text extraction engine to identify entities, facts, and events contained in the content. The combination of ClearForest and Kapow Technologies provides customers with the ability to quickly and easily collect unstructured information from external Web content and combine that with data from within the enterprise to supercharge business intelligence applications.

"It is critical for our clients, especially in publishing, to have easy and reliable access to all types of text and content. The partnership with Kapow Technologies removes barriers seen with home grown crawling technology," says Barak Pridor, CEO, ClearForest. "We have now expanded the reach of our industry leading platform enabling our clients to easily integrate any internal or external information, structuring text and unifying it with enterprise data, to discover opportunity and support intelligent decision making."

"We are excited to have been selected by ClearForest as the new generation of content collection and look forward to work in this partnership to deliver content for ClearForest clients with a speed and efficiency unheard of before," says Stefan Andreasen, founder and CTO, Kapow Technologies.