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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AlphaSense

    Score9.4 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

    Hootsuite Insights

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AuburVu (for a time known as Hootsuite Insights) analyzed big social data, combining monitoring capabilities, data analysis and reporting features to show insights like influencers, stories, and trends. It was acquired by Hootsuite in 2014, and has since been discontinued.N/A
    Pricing
    AlphaSenseHootsuite Insights
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AlphaSenseHootsuite Insights
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AlphaSenseHootsuite Insights
    Considered Both Products
    AlphaSense
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    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    255 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    191 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    249 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    194 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    211 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    AlphaSenseHootsuite Insights
    Financial Research
    Comparison of Financial Research features of AlphaSense and uberVu (discontinued)
    Feature
    AlphaSense
    7.9
    190 Ratings
    7% above category average
    uberVu (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Private Company Data6.1156 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry-Specific Information9.2182 Ratings00 Ratings
    Independent Research Access8.6174 Ratings00 Ratings
    M&A Analysis9.0144 Ratings00 Ratings
    Supply Chain Data7.9100 Ratings00 Ratings
    ESG Data6.598 Ratings00 Ratings
    Credit Ratings Reports5.886 Ratings00 Ratings
    Macroeconomic News9.1134 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search Tools8.6176 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    AlphaSenseHootsuite Insights
    Small Businesses
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    Mention
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    S&P Capital IQ
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Mention
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    S&P Capital IQ
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Social Suite by Reputation.com
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AlphaSenseHootsuite Insights
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
    (258 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (254 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (22 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (22 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (17 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.4
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.8
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.9
    (22 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AlphaSenseHootsuite Insights
    Likelihood to Recommend
    AlphaSense
    Amazing at reflecting customer feedback into the product. In my work, great for executive requests for feedback. Less appropriate for now in terms of daily integration into my workflows, but has the potential to be as the platform grows into an all encompassing work and insight tool. Can expand beyond intelligence into all work
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    I liked uberVU a lot, and thought I was lucky to have found them (they actually responded to my tweet when I was vendor-searching, which was good to know as they were doing just what we were planning to use the software for). They are relatively small, which allows to have a great personal relationship and we felt very valued as a client. They provided great value - some of their competitors allow for more features (which explains their higher price), but there was no way to opt out of the unnecessary features to lower the price - uberVU didn't have any of that, it was just what we needed and in our price range
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    Pros
    AlphaSense
    • AI summaries of earnings reports are helpful at a high level, but be wary of repetitive content.
    • AlphaSense handles images and screen captures pretty well, making research notes more useful.
    • Isolating content is pretty intuitive. Example: I can enter a ticker, and under the content options I can click for "transcripts only" so that I'm not endlessly scrolling to find the transcript I want.
    • Audio is embedded with most transcripts so it's easy to listen and follow along in the text, highlighting what I need for later reference.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Easy to see what people are saying on social media about clients.
    • Creates reports that can be limited to certain time frames.
    • Able to see the reach of users so you can breakdown by influencers.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • I honestly didn't have any issues with them. Being able to set the real-time alerts as "every 15 minutes" took some figuring out to do, and we were still in the trial mode while we did that - it wasn't particularly intuitive for other users, but once we walked them through, everything worked well.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    I find it a great tool in the digital strategy world to see what people are saying across social platforms. It's much more efficient that doing a search on the platform itself and provides a lot of information extremely quickly
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    Usability
    AlphaSense
    AlphaSense has the highest-quality content among the platforms I use. Your search is only as good as the database you're querying, and AlphaSense provides access to the best, most trusted sources of data. I've especially enjoyed the new sources they've been adding, such as expert interview transcripts.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    All the users found the product intuitive and easy to use.
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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 :).
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    A couple of times it was a little slow, but this didn't result in any negative impact for us. There was no downtime as I could recall or notice.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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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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    Discontinued Products
    Every time we needed help, the support was great. We had no issues, mostly needed usability walkthroughs and had questions about features.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    I got the training while I was evaluating and in the trial period. Then I trained the others myself
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    Implementation Rating
    AlphaSense
    use friendly UI made the transition seamless
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Not applicable since it is SAAS - all we needed was to sign up, which was easy
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    Alternatives Considered
    AlphaSense
    Compared to FactSet and PitchBook, AlphaSense is a good tool to fill my suite of financial analysis. PitchBook is superior for private company and transaction data, as well as screening for similar companies (the sourcing feature of the job). FactSet is superior for financial analysis for public companies, as well as charting data. AlphaSense is superior in research for documents and deep dive industry research (mostly qualitative) and grabbing data from financial documents
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Radian6 and Brandwatch were on the short list. We picked uberVU for its combination of price and features. It did not have extra features we didn't need, they were customizable and flexible enough to meet all of our needs
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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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
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Easier to handle crisis.
    • Ability to find out statistics to quantify and qualify what you're doing for customers.
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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.