Darren Stephens's Contact Details

Darren Stephens's Company Details

Kites

Kowloon, Hong Kong, • 1 - 10 Employees
Information Technology and Services

At Kites' core is a real-time framework that aggregates, enriches, reconciles, and deploys point of interest data. The Kites Platform builds and maintains millions of data fields for over 100 thousand local businesses in Asia.AggregationKites collects raw data from publishers, government agencies, and local businesses. Our platform has automated tools to extract both unstructured and structured data from hundreds of sources in real time. This data is instantly translated and canonicalized into Global Location Format: a universal data format designed by Kites's engineers.EnrichmentKites' service-oriented architecture allows us to leverage both proprietary and third-party technologies to clean, organize, and enrich our data. For example, KitesPostal improves geocoding accuracy by semantically analyzing full addresses to structure them into premise, street, and district components.ReconciliationKites merges, deduplicates, and maps our data across multiple sources. Our platform's reconciliation process ensures each place has accurate data for as many attributes as possible, while flagging inconsistencies and other statistically unusual activities that warrant investigation. Kites engineers have developed algorithms to automate this process to a significant degree.DeploymentKites analyzes the dynamics of your firm, and determines how we can customize the Kites platform to your unique data requirements. Upon deciding a firm specific deployment timeline, our engineers work behind the scenes to connect your system with the appropriate data feeds.