Our web mining solutions are:

• COST EFFECTIVE, because you don’t need to hire people with web mining expertise, assemble your own web mining software stack, or buy, configure, and maintain a cluster of servers. The typical cost of a web mining proof of concept from Bixo Labs is only $1,000. For companies without an experienced web mining team, doing these projects in-house is risky, with potentially large start-up costs and lengthy schedules.
• FAST & EASY, because we do the work using our library of reusable, high quality web mining components and the Amazon EC2 cloud. The typical time from the start to proof-of-concept results using Bixo Labs is a week. Doing it in-house has higher risk and much longer lead times – typically many months – if you need to train existing staff or hire someone with the right set of specialized skills.
• LOW RISK, because you get an experienced web mining team that can quickly deliver quality results and maintainable code. You own the code and resulting web mining system, and aren’t locked into a single vendor.
• SCALABLE & RELIABLE, because we build our web mining applications on top of industrial strength open source components such as Hadoop, Cascading, and Bixo – software used by many of the biggest names with the largest datasets, including Yahoo, EMI, and AOL.

Work with the Experts to Define the Right Project for You

Bixo Labs is led by Ken Krugler, one of the world’s leading experts in scalable, reliable web crawling and data mining, and a well-known participant and contributor to key open source projects such as Hadoop, Cascading, Lucene and Tika. Solutions from Bixo Labs are built using these and other widely used and well supported open source packages, providing maximum flexibility with no commercial lock-in.

Our solutions are designed from the ground up to be extensible by the customer, and we structure projects as needed to include smooth, supported transitioning of code and operations to your team. We’re also available to provide training or consulting as needed. Our services engagement process reduces risk and cost by breaking projects down into well-defined milestones with clear decision points.

Regardless of whether your goal is to use us as an ongoing data provider, or to run your own in-house web mining operation, Bixo Labs is the most effective way to get high quality results quickly, with lower risk and startup costs.

Still not convinced? Take a look at our comparison table to see how Bixo Labs stacks up against in-house and traditional outsourced alternatives.

The First Step to Solving Your Web Mining Problems

Fill out the “First Step to Web Mining Solutions” form to arrange a short phone call with Bixo Labs. Your discussions with Bixo Labs will help clarify your web mining needs and improve your understanding of web mining options. Based on this conversation, we’ll be able to quickly provide you with a proposal for a cost effective, highly reliable and scalable solution to your web mining problems.