CHICAGO- December 15, 2010
Nextpoint, Inc., the nation's leading provider of cloud-based regulatory, compliance, and litigation products, today announces the release of SmartCrawlTM technology in Cloud PreservationTM, the web archiving service that securely captures and indexes data from social media and public-facing websites. SmartCrawl technology brings an unprecedented level of customization to the crawling, rendering and capture of web-based content.
Cloud Preservation's SmartCrawl technology feeds specific navigational cues to the application during a crawl to engineer a desired return. This latest advance allows for detailed custom crawls to be performed on web sources of all kinds, and offers fine-tuning of crawler/web source interaction to deliver the most comprehensive and accurate data archive available on the market today.
For the first time, SmartCrawl allows archiving of Flash, streaming multimedia including YouTube and Vimeo, Javascript, Ajax, customized use of API feeds from numerous social media communities, and enhanced file capture from PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and a host of other file types that may be made available for download.
"Cloud Preservation is being deployed by corporations, municipalities, law firms, and institutions of all kinds to develop a defensible archive of their Internet-based content," said Rakesh Madhava, Nextpoint CEO. "Each of these entities has unique needs based on the wide-range of laws, regulations and business requirements they are operating under. SmartCrawl allows each of these customers total crawl-customization to ensure they have the complete archive of pertinent web-hosted data that they need."
More information on Cloud Preservation can be found at www.cloudpreservation.com
Nextpoint (www.nextpoint.com) is a leader in delivering cloud computing products and services to the legal industry. Our world-class, cloud-based platform answers the unique legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements posed by data stored in "the cloud." Trusted by leading corporations and blue-chip law firms, Nextpoint provides a better platform to manage sensitive business-critical information.
Elyse Ellman
eellman@nextpoint.com