7 top competitive intelligence tools for: data manipulation

These are some of the tools we use in competitor research for our customers - to analyze competitors, understand what they are doing and what they plan to do next.

  1. 80 Legs - custom web crawling tools.

  2. BatchGeo - easy way to map many locations and other geographical information e.g. all the locations of a competitor’s stores, or their datacenters or anything else.

  3. Digimind - social listening and web monitoring platform.

  4. Diigo - fancy bookmarking and tagging platform; these are less popular than they once were, but useful if you need more features for bookmark management than are available in your browser.

  5. I-Metrix - various data manipulation tools from EDGAR Online for company financials.

  6. Mechanical Turk - the original crowdsourcing marketplace for assigning microtasks to contractors around the world.

  7. Spotfire - advanced visual analytics tool (and we would list Tableau on this page too except that it’s now part of Salesforce and not really standalone).

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