{"id":25712,"date":"2021-03-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insidebigdata.com\/?p=25712"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:28:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T19:28:19","slug":"interview-luminati-ceo-or-lenchner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidebigdata.com\/2021\/03\/04\/interview-luminati-ceo-or-lenchner\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Luminati CEO, Or Lenchner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I recently caught up with Or Lenchner<\/em>, CEO at Luminati<\/a><\/em>, to discuss his company’s Data Collector product, an automated data collection tool, allowing customers to collect the most accurate data at scale quickly, easily, and without getting blocked. Ever since his appointment as CEO, Lenchner<\/em><\/em> has continued to expand the company\u2019s market base, as a data collection operator, dedicated to maintaining the openness, transparency and integrity of the online ecosystem. Among Luminati\u2019s 10,000+ customers, you will find Fortune 500 companies, major e-commerce firms and sites, prominent travel companies, ad agencies, security firms, finance services, government offices and more. Prior to his career at Luminati, Lenchner founded and managed several web-based businesses, developing digital assets and online marketing programs. Joining Luminati as head of product development, Lenchner\u2019s career and evolvement at the company has been driven by his firm belief in a transparent, ethical by design web-environment benefiting both, enterprises\/businesses and consumers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

insideBIGDATA: <\/strong>Many of our readers are data scientists and data engineers who are hungry for new sources of data. Web scraping is a solution that keeps growing in popularity. Can you give us a high-level view of your Data Collector<\/em> product and how it satisfies the accelerating desire for more data?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or Lenchner:<\/strong> The <\/strong>Data Collector<\/a> is the first-of-its-kind automated data collection tool, which allows our customers to collect the most accurate data at scale quickly, easily, and without getting blocked. The Data Collector integrates and automates all stages of the data collection process for customers but leaves them in full control over the data they collect. Customers can choose from hundreds of existing collection templates. They can \u201cclick and collect\u201d a new target with the Data Collector extension without any prior coding knowledge. Alternatively, they can use the IDE code editor, where they can write more complex crawl code, and the system extracts the data they need without any manual intervention or onboarding required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For customers, building a system from which to collect data effectively usually takes months and requires ongoing management and maintenance. The Data Collector solves this issue and allows them to collect the most reliable data at scale in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

insideBIGDATA:<\/strong> How do your customers approach the scraping process in terms of customizing data collection: where to search, what to do, and how you want your data extracted?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or Lenchner:<\/strong> Every customer wants to execute a data collection process that is as easy, as fast and as reliable as possible. We serve thousands of customers from multiple sectors with a wide range of data needs. Taking all that into consideration, the data collection requirements usually meet the same kind of clear frameworks across the board.  Once you have served 20-30 customers, you have probably covered most of the different cases, excluding the cases placed at the edges, which will always exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n