DECEMBER 2019CIOAPPLICATIONSEUROPE.COM 19archive social media due to limitations of social media programming APIs, KEN helps users create web archive the exact copies of their online versions. "Above all, KEN's easy-to-use interface and seamless archiving process deliver a smooth, clean, and simple user experience for our clients," states Hafri. KEN archives ~50 million web pages on a daily basis without the need for any human interaction. This is the reason why the largest insurance firms, luxury brands, consumer goods corporations, advertising companies, and banks are Aleph Archives' customers.To extend its unparalleled web archiving functionalities to users that do not have extensive archiving needs, Aleph Archives has built a free, smaller, and lighter version of KEN--RAY. "This free version delivers the same unparalleled archiving capabilities of KEN to students, researchers, universities, journalists, police departments, and companies with smaller budgets," mentions Hafri.At the centre of both, KEN and RAY's superior archiving capability and relatively low requirement for computing power is Erlang/OTP--the programming language that is used in the popular instant messaging app, WhatsApp. "Erlang/OTP is our secret-sauce as it drives flexibility and robustness, which allows us to add new features quickly, ensure high archiving quality, and maximize fault-tolerance capacity in all our products," explains Hafri.Looking ahead, Aleph Archives plans to incorporate AI and blockchain into KEN and expand its functionalities further. With AI, KEN's crawlers will gain the ability to detect crawler traps and interact with forms intended for humans, thereby enhancing the archiving coverage. As a result, KEN will be able to access the dark web and record criminal activities for law enforcement agencies. Secondly, with blockchain, KEN will be able to ensure non-repudiation of data stored in the WARC ISO file format by extending the storage capability to a global distributed ledger. "Keeping in line with these upgrades, our main goal has always been, is, and will remain at simplifying web archiving solutions and deliver it to our clients seamlessly and cost-effectively," concludes Hafri. Unlike other alternatives that cannot effectively archive social media due to limitations of social media programming APIs, KEN helps users create web archive the exact copies of their online versions
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