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    AlphaSense

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AAlphaSense is a market intelligence platform used by companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, their AI-based technology has helped professionals make business decisions by delivering insights from public and private content—including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, and equity research. The platform boasts users among 4,000 enterprise customers. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,000 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, and…N/A

    Meltwater

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AMeltwater Media Intelligence platform is a set of public relations software tools for media monitoring, social media monitoring, and collecting brand insights. The four areas of functionality are Monitor, Analyze, Distribute, and Engage. (Note that this product combines features from the vendor Meltwater's former Buzz, Press, and News products.)N/A

    The Q4 Platform

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AQ4 Inc. is a provider of IR Ops software offering access to their proprietary investor data, purpose-built to remove obstacles between public companies and their investors. Q4 gives investor relations leaders, C-Suite Executives and their teams tools to attract, manage, and understand investors.N/A
    Pricing
    AlphaSenseMeltwaterThe Q4 Platform
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    Pricing Offerings
    AlphaSenseMeltwaterThe Q4 Platform
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AlphaSenseMeltwaterThe Q4 Platform
    Considered Multiple Products
    AlphaSense
    Chose AlphaSense
    Special features of AlphaSense that made us decide on this CI platform:
    - US-based market and competitive intelligence platform with various premium content (broker information, expert calls, earning transcripts, original company documents etc.)
    - AlphaSense is a trusted CI …
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    Other platforms are not as user friendly nor have useful data outputs and sentiment analysis
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    It has the best search functionality, surfaces information most easily, and contains broker research.
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    Klue doesnt populate information from the past. Having past data in AlphaSense is invaluable. Both Crayon and Klue have limitations on the number of competitors you can track. Not having this limitation on Alphasense is also invaluable.
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    Comparable to FactSet but I think the usability on Alphasense is better
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    AlphaSense is just smarter - it's that simple. Easier to use, more sources, and understands the users ask without hours of customization required.
    Incentivized
    Meltwater
    Chose Meltwater
    Meltwater does not limit competitive searches in the same way that Crayon and Klue do. Meltwater also captures different sources of information than aggregation tools. While Meltwater doesn’t provide access to expert reports like a different platform that I rely on for deep …
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    Q4, Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
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    63%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    62%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
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    69%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    193 Answers
    63%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
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    81%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AlphaSenseMeltwaterThe Q4 Platform
    Financial Research
    Comparison of Financial Research features of AlphaSense and Meltwater and The Q4 Platform
    Feature
    AlphaSense
    7.9
    187 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Meltwater
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    The Q4 Platform
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    Private Company Data5.5153 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry-Specific Information9.2179 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Independent Research Access9.1172 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    M&A Analysis8.8142 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Supply Chain Data8.097 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    ESG Data6.596 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Credit Ratings Reports6.084 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Macroeconomic News9.1132 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search Tools9.1174 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    AlphaSenseMeltwaterThe Q4 Platform
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    Help a Reporter Out (HARO)
    Score5 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    S&P Capital IQ
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Cision Communications Cloud
    Score8 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    S&P Capital IQ
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Cision Communications Cloud
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AlphaSenseMeltwaterThe Q4 Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
    (255 ratings)
    7.2
    (73 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (251 ratings)
    5.6
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    9.0
    (22 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
    7.4
    (22 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Support Rating
    8.4
    (17 ratings)
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.4
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    6.1
    (2 ratings)
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    Configurability
    5.9
    (5 ratings)
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    6.9
    (22 ratings)
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    Professional Services
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    1.0
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    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    AlphaSenseMeltwaterThe Q4 Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    AlphaSense
    AlphaSense is very well suited to investing teams that need a research management system that has a robust database behind and rich content management features for note-taking. AlphaSense may not be well-suited to individual investors who want data access but don't need to be sharing notes to a wider team. The sharing features are what make AlphaSense most useful.
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    Meltwater
    Meltwater is well-suited for agencies that have an engagement team who is looking to service a variety of client needs such as social media reporting, public relations outreach, and community management. If you're looking to have a platform serve just one need, you can still use Meltwater but will get more bang for your buck if you are needing a variety of tools.
    Incentivized
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    Q4, Inc
    This is one of two providers to go with if you are considering an investor relations website. We evaluated both of them and landed on Q4 Desktop due to their reputation of solid customer service. The additional CRM software is a nice to have as there are many other solutions you may have access to before you make that product your main go to.
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    Pros
    AlphaSense
    • Summarizing information across multiple company documents via their new Generative Grid tool.
    • Aggregating the latest insights from diverse sources - broker research, expert insights, company documents, and news.
    • Providing a repeatable way to query information.
    • Smart keywords to help you search, e.g., car = auto = automotive.
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    Meltwater
    • Media research - you can search for relevant publications and journalists to add to your media list.
    • Earned media coverage - you can search for coverage of your brand and find news stories that also include data that may be useful (how many people did the story reach for example).
    • Building media lists - if you have no current existing list, you can build and export one in Excel for example.
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    Q4, Inc
    • easy to use
    • comprehensive database access
    • good looking ux/ui
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    Cons
    AlphaSense
    • I believe the AI agent could be improved to answer more detailed questions and provide better data.
    • Access to real time financial data in a similar vein to Koyfin.
    • The ability to easily search across all company decks to be able to quickly gather all relevant slides for a specific topic, similar to what Quartr offers.
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    Meltwater
    • The dashboards are not user-friendly, customizable (color, font size, etc.), or worthy of presenting to a client. All of the insights from a dashboard get pulled from the platform and placed into a more client-friendly presentation.
    • Paywalls for certain publications connected to who-knows-what. DowJones racket limits media monitoring capabilities and results in manual searches for a growing number of publications.
    • TVeyes, the broadcast monitoring arm of the media monitoring capabilities, just needs TLC and to become more client-facing. Currently, the links produced to share clips look sketchy, and they have a relatively short shelf life.
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    Q4, Inc
    • speed of platform
    • lacking mobile app
    • pricing structure is fragmented
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    Likelihood to Renew
    AlphaSense
    AlphaSense is a very useful tool and is reasonably priced for our organization. While I may not be a hyper-active user, it's a great resource when I need to quickly do a competitive landscape survey, review publicly available documents (transcripts, etc.), or review Wall Street research
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    Meltwater
    Meltwater works well for our organization and has allowed us to meet our internal goals. We are always open to new products and services that may be able to provide similar or better features; however, our experience has been that many of Meltwater's competitors are not up to the task.
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    Q4, Inc
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    Usability
    AlphaSense
    AlphaSense has a very intuitive user interface, and I can tell they have been focused on expanding their product breadth and continuing to innovate on current products. Some basic features are missing or I can't find (I can't just sort expert calls by only the ones that are applicable to that ticker, most relevant is the one that works best, but I want just the ticker)
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    Meltwater
    Once you get some basic training it's pretty easy to use. I would like to see training manuals, or instructional videos to help me explore features I'm not currently using.
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    Q4, Inc
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    Reliability and Availability
    AlphaSense
    The availability of Alphasense is great. I have used the software for multiple years and cannot remember ever having an outage issue. This is surprising actually, as I use other software applications that do not have regular outages, but still have outages periodically. Alphasense, on the other hand, never seems to have any outages. Good sign if I can't remember the software not working :).
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    Meltwater
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    Q4, Inc
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    Performance
    AlphaSense
    Loading or performing searches on AlphaSense platform is reasonably fast for most of the time. However, it is sometimes unacceptably long for me to load PDF files (earnings presentation, supplementary financial report) on AlphaSense. Certain features might also take very long time, such as loading for "similar tables" across EDGAR filings, or downloading tables from EDGAR filings
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    Meltwater
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    Q4, Inc
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    Support Rating
    AlphaSense
    Customer support is very prompt. I get personalized support for search recommendations and content that I could not find in my own search. Support checks in with me on a bi-monthly basis to keep me informed of the many different feature additions, I cannot find a more kind, understanding, and supportive team.
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    Meltwater
    Our account rep at Meltwater went dark for a long time. Then, a couple of weeks ago, our new account manager reached out to set up a meeting. Apparently, they had a big shakeup in the company, and there were some personnel changes. Our new account rep was great in discussing the platform's capabilities that were available to us and even offered to schedule a follow-up meeting with his technical team to introduce our new social media team members to the platform and how it could help them with their jobs.
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    Q4, Inc
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    In-Person Training
    AlphaSense
    The person was prepared, attentive, understood the nature of my questions, was willing to work through any difficulties or misunderstandings, was patient, and super pleasant to work with. Great customer service.
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    Meltwater
    Again, really in-depth and helpful for a program that is really easy to use.
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    Q4, Inc
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    Online Training
    AlphaSense
    Our online training was led by a AlphaSense representative. The training is always good. The bigger issue is our time availability to remember the training and utilize it. The trainers will show us examples and then ask us for real industries or companies of interest to use so that the training is most relevant.
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    Meltwater
    Walked step by step through program. Very informative on a program that doesn't require much training.
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    Q4, Inc
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    Implementation Rating
    AlphaSense
    use friendly UI made the transition seamless
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    Meltwater
    You are only allowed 15 users, so make sure you've identified who will have access to use the tool.
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    Q4, Inc
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    Alternatives Considered
    AlphaSense
    Special features of AlphaSense that made us decide on this CI platform: - US-based market and competitive intelligence platform with various premium content (broker information, expert calls, earning transcripts, original company documents etc.) - AlphaSense is a trusted CI platform by world’s leading corporations and financial institutions - AlphaSense’s proprietary AI stack has been meticulously engineered over a decade so that their AI accelerates speed-to-insight so clients can act with confidence when making critical decisions - Private and public companies, therapeutic areas and products can be monitored - Datalog is available up to 15 years, and advanced search is supported for them - Curated newsfeed is available from more than 3,500 top news publications, client requests and hand-picked vendors for premium subscription - Very advanced company profiles are available by default with newsfeed, original company documents, expert calls and reports - Newsfeed and alerts can be also set by admins and individual users
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    Meltwater
    I was looking for a full-service option. I did some research. What really sold me was the presentation. They offered products that were helpful, and I wasn’t even aware of them. It is more expensive than the other products that are out there, but you get more. The other companies are good, but Meltwater Media Intelligence is more full service.
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    Q4, Inc
    Q4 Desktop had the highest market share and good customer references.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    AlphaSense
    It has been very simple. Contract terms are standard for an online portal. Of course, I would like unit pricing to be lower so I could get more users on the license or to rotate seats to get more value out of each license. Billing frequency has been standard as well. This could be more significant for a larger customer.
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    Meltwater
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    Q4, Inc
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    Scalability
    AlphaSense
    The sharing features provides by AlphaSense mean that it can be readily scaled for teams within an organization and, subject to compliance requirements, with client organizations. The ability to share annotations of transcripts and investor releases is valuable, and facilitates collaboration between analysts.
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    Meltwater
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    Q4, Inc
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    Professional Services
    AlphaSense
    Very professional and knowledgeable team. Easy to work with and communicates in a way that's helpful for users who aren't experts on the platform
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    Meltwater
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    Q4, Inc
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    Return on Investment
    AlphaSense
    • AlphaSense has allowed us to generate deeper competitive insights. For example, we conducted an in depth analysis of the aerial data analytics (drone) industry, and AlphSense helped us narrow in on the market leaders and their various strengths / weaknesses.
    • AlphaSense has improved our team's overall efficiency. With Stream in particular, we are able to pinpoint insights in a matter of minutes through the transcript feature as opposed to having to conduct a series of calls ourselves. This is a significant time saver.
    • AlphaSense has allowed us to make more informed decisions on our public holdings by providing us with unfettered access to equity research analyst reports.
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    Meltwater
    • As a PR firm, we rely on the media databases that [Meltwater Media Intelligence Platform] supplies to deliver the media exposure that they expect from us.
    • We utilize their tracking of media hits for our overall reporting to our clients.
    • Both of these are advantageous in helping us to not only keep our existing clients happy but also to gain new clients (and, in turn - revenue), as well.
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    Q4, Inc
    • reduced engineering time for website maintenance (2 hours per release)
    • reduced collaboration time with marketing team
    • automatic press release postings
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    ScreenShots

    AlphaSense Screenshots

    Screenshot of AlphaSense's AI search, available across 2,000+ premium business data sources including SEC filings, earnings calls, broker research, business journals, and news. It can be used to stay ahead of market-moving trends and instantly surface critical information buried within millions of documents.Screenshot of a single view of the industries, companies and themes within a fully-customizable dashboard, that can be tailored to fit any research process.Screenshot of a purpose-built generative AI that offers insights from a premium content universe.