Crayon Intel Pro vs. Factiva

I love this tool. It has been amazing for my team. We've gone from being reactionary with competitor intel to being proactive with it. We're able to go to our Sales, Marketing, and Executive Leadership teams and say, "here's what we're seeing from competitors. This is what we're going to do as a result". It's allowed us to make great strides as a Product Marketing Team and we're seeing big results in more closed deals.

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A large part of our work depends on the ability to source quality media content from a breadth of dependable sources globally. This is Factiva's bread and butter: it has a very comprehensive list of 'quality' media sources such as nationals, dailies, business journals and magazines from around the world that are easily mined for the content they hold. If you're thinking about anything other than these 'traditional' media sources then Factiva probably isn't your thing. It doesn't do social media.

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• Win/Loss Analysis
• Competitive Listening
• Battlecard Creation

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• Factiva offers excellent search builders so that I am able to narrow my search to specific companies or topics very easily.
• Factiva combines a large number of credible sources into one place and allows me to search all of these sources.
• Factiva's use of timestamps helps me understand when the news was known by the market which allows me to analyze how (if at all) that particular piece of news impacted the company's stock price.
• Provides an excellent starting place for learning about a company and/or industry.

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• Filtering for Crayon Impact
• Dislike option for when mentions of non-competitors get tagged
• Better editor for the share option on boards

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• The UX leaves room to be desired
• There are often repetitive entries
• The functionality can be confusing

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The core features of all of these are essentially the same. Crayon Impact (the win/loss side) is what won us over compared to the other tools that we demoed

Incentivized

At the time, Factiva was already being used by the company I worked for - they had developed procedures specifically for using Factiva, so there wasn't really an option. I've used Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg exclusively for legal research, so there wasn't really an overlap with Factiva.

Incentivized

• Has helped us close more deals when going up against competitors
• Identify where we're weak on messaging and rebuttals for certain competitors

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