Systematic Monitoring provides entity-centric event monitoring workflows that deploy production-ready surveillance for any theme or event across named entities. Using Bigdata.com’s Search API and research tools, these workflows transform entity-specific news into structured event intelligence, focusing on companies and people to produce dated outputs for monitoring and analysis.

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Overview for Finance Professionals

Systematic Monitoring turns raw news text into event timelines and structured datasets by combining:
  • Entity-Centric Retrieval: Searches over configurable time windows and sources
  • LLM-Powered Event Detection and Feature Extraction: Identify events, detect roles, then extract structured attributes with high precision and include qualifying information from the text
  • Automated Timeline and Report Generation: Consistent, dated outputs with supporting quotes

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Key Capabilities

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Event Monitoring

Deploy workflows tailored to governance and credit events. Each workflow provides:
  • Multi-Mode Search Options: Precision/recall control with strict, relaxed, and post-filtered modes
  • Role Detection & Validation: Identification of rater/ratee or person-company relationships
  • Temporal Analysis: Activity comparisons across configurable time windows
  • Optional Source Filtering: Focus on trusted sources where applicable

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Quantitative Foundation

Each workflow produces structured outputs suitable for monitoring and backtesting:
  • Feature-Rich Datasets: Clean tables with entity IDs, timestamps, event attributes, and metadata
  • Custom Metrics: Configurable KPIs tailored to governance or credit monitoring

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Use Cases

Our Systematic Monitoring implementations demonstrate real-world applications across governance and credit domains:
  • Board Management Monitoring: Track exposure of specific executives and directors, compare search modes, and analyze temporal patterns and source diversity
  • Credit Ratings Monitor: Detect rating actions, outlooks, instruments, forward guidance, and key drivers; generate timelines and visual summaries
Each use case provides complete implementation examples, from initial API configuration through execution and export, with focus on entity-centric monitoring requirements.

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Getting Started

  1. Review Use Cases: Explore the Board Management and Credit Ratings workflows
  2. API Configuration: Set credentials and access to Bigdata Search API
  3. Define Entities & Events: Select watchlists (people, companies) and event attributes
  4. Pilot Implementation: Run a scoped pilot over a date range and validate settings
Systematic Monitoring provides the foundation for scalable, entity-focused event surveillance that integrates into governance, risk, and research workflows.