CI tools/technology

[Sridhar]

I am new to CI and my interest comes from a provider of tools perspective. 

I am assuming CI is about monitoring and finding 'relevance' early on. The tools could be diverse from eaves dropping to esoteric spy gadgets. I will restrict myself to realm of digital information especially that which is published online or accessible over the web. For this scope, are the tools primarily, search engines, saved searches, monitoring of traffic or spikes in data, episodic event monitoring, new entities recognition and detection, and so on.

What are your experiences vis-a-vis tools for CI. Or more broadly, technology for CI. I will appreciate your replies, experiences, links to look up, other references.

Thanking you.

Kind regards,

Sridhar