Collection of competitive intelligence is the process of monitoring your competitors and marketing competitive situations. It analyses the strong, weak, opportunity of the business behaviors based on the enterprise strategies to support the decisions directly or indirectly by collecting the competitive intelligence legally.

Competitive Intelligence System takes advantage of information technology such as computer, network and database to collect and process the event situations and the alteration of the data and information of enterprise and its competitors and output the results to decision makers of enterprise

Architecture of TRS CIS, process oriented

TRS CIS covers the full lifecycle of competitive intelligence including planning, collection, processing and service and evaluation with rich intelligence management functions based on TRS mature content management infrastructure.

Figure Architecture of TRS CIS

Overview of functions
Phase 1: Intelligence planning
Define and maintain intelligence classification system
TRS CIS supports hierarchy structure of classification to facilitate users define and maintain the structure in many fashions and the automatic relationship between the classification and information sources could be established based on the pre-configured rules.

Planning and managing Key Intelligence Task
TRS CIS fully support KIT/KIQ model which the users can establish according to the requirements and KIT could be divided into several KIQs. The computer aid competitive report will be produced by establishing relationship between KIQ and intelligence source using the function of intelligence association.

Organization architecture supported
TRS CIS supports application model including privilege, role and user to let user create the working role such as collector, processing worker, manager and endow the role with the privilege and configure the multiple kinds of relationships between user and role.

Collecting images and forms
TRS CIS analyses structure of web pages and recognizes the images and forms associated text and stores them in local repository.

Phase 3 : Intelligence processing
Processing intelligence automatically and intelligently
Automatic classification: TRS CIS provides two kinds of way of classification which are content based and rules based. Content based classification method will load the training templates to train the computer to produce characteristic classification template automatically. Rules based method is based on keywords and rules edition to recognize and classify the contents.
Duplication checking automatically: TRS CIS can check the relevancy of two articles to judge if they are duplicated accurately.
Producing abstract and extracting keywords automatically

Write the briefing and report
TRS CIS lets users write briefing and report and establish the relationship with intelligence sources. Also, the system will produce the briefing and report automatically based on configurations of end users.

Text segmentationBased on rules and statistic to reduce ambiguity efficiently
The segmentation technology is based on rules and statistic to segment the text into meaningful words or characters.

Intelligence searching and meta searching service
TRS CIS provides full text search service with the functions of title search, author search, date search, searching template and searching history. TRS CIS also provides meta search services to transfer the user request to several Internet search engine such as Google and feedback the summarized results to users. Users also can choose some results to import the systems in batch.??

Intelligence management layer
Sharing the intelligence from the every level in the enterprise based on the privilege of the end users so that improve the involvement of the employees.
TRS CIS can break out the silo of the information to implement the information sharing in the enterprise to let more and more employees reach the service of intelligence.