CB Insights vs. FactSet Workstation

It is great for investment teams looking for new opportunities. Good for inside sales teams looking for well-funded clients.

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Often has data where other sources would not have Well suited for large sets of data and analyses on public company data with a lot of public companies, getting the formulas to pull data is very helpful and saves a lot of time. Less appropriate for pulling investor data and co-investment data that PitchBook seems more suited

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• Transparency - lets me separate the hype from the reality.
• Real-time intelligence-packed reporting. The graphs and metrics they provide along with their perspectives allow anyone to apply their own understanding and reproduce a nearly identical perspective.
• Their daily e-newsletter is chock full of intelligence presented in such a fun and entertaining way, it makes you want to pay for it too!

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• curating outside in intelligence
• enabling account plans target addressable market estimation
• competitors tracking
• value proposition pitching
• RFP deal support

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• Might only suggest more corporate events

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• Often unclear where estimates come from
• Excel popup for formulas is often difficult to use and glitchy
• Providing source of data

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The technical support motivates us to continue using FactSet, we will not stop using the advantages that this software offers us.

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FactSet is great because it has a plethora of data, so much so that it is often hard to even find a company that I am looking for. However, sometimes this can make it more difficult than normal because you need to sift through tons of data. The webpage often glitches out.

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Very responsive and eager to maintain client relationships.

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I think the data delivery could be improved, but it's a good data set.

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Better Pricing & Better ROI !

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PitchBook is better for private company data and getting contacts. It is also more useful for capital raises and data AlphaSense is great for more targeted searches which FactSet is very bad at. FactSet often makes it hard to do searches and then once you get to a specific company you need to continue searching through all of the tabs

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• Positive from the operational efficiency of getting this intelligence in a ‘breaking news’ format from this highly trusted resource.
• Positive From the extensive, highly detailed reporting they do on both the markets that matter to us today, and those that are shifting so quickly that we should have them on our radar too.

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• improved time to complete an analysis
• Often data is incorrect or no source provided
• Only source we've found to support a rights plan and takeover defense analysis

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