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    Crayon Intel Pro

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ACrayon headquartered in Boston offers the Crayon Intel Pro marketing intelligence suite, including competitive intel and analysis, market and product trends, and search tools (e.g. filters and views) for making data intelligible.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
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    Crayon Intel ProThe Q4 Platform
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    Crayon Intel ProThe Q4 Platform
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    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Crayon Intel ProThe Q4 Platform
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    Comparison of Market Research features of Crayon Intel Pro and The Q4 Platform
    Feature
    Crayon Intel Pro
    9.2
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    The Q4 Platform
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    Ratings
    Competitor Research7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitor alerts10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Market Insights and Reports10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Crayon Intel ProThe Q4 Platform
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    User Ratings
    Crayon Intel ProThe Q4 Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Usability
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Crayon Intel ProThe Q4 Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Crayon, Inc.
    Elsewhere in my review, I've talked about Crayon's incredible capabilities to track competitors, make ingesting intelligence about those competitors automatic, and how easily it incorporates that intelligence into dynamically and automatically-updated battlecards. I've also talked about their expanding use of AI to improve user experience and to improve the final work of CI professionals. All of which is to say that Crayon is the best tool I've ever used for intelligence analysis- it's incredible. Another area of consideration is analytics, particularly around win/loss data - Crayon's integration with Salesforce creates insightful analytics for understanding which competitors you're winning against, which you're losing against, which sellers are having a hard time, which are succeeding, and which sellers are utilizing the battlecards during the sales cycle. Proving ROI is simple with Crayon's analytics, as well, with a tool to show how much revenue you (as an individual) or your team have influenced with your battlecards.
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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
    Crayon, Inc.
    • Win/Loss Analysis
    • Competitive Listening
    • Battlecard Creation
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    Q4, Inc
    • easy to use
    • comprehensive database access
    • good looking ux/ui
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    Cons
    Crayon, Inc.
    • Crayon has been innovative in incorporating AI into the tool, both to enhance productivity and to enhance the outcomes of analysis. The fantastic thing is these features started rudimentary, have gotten better, and are set to get better still - I could recommend this to Crayon as an area for improvement (I suppose), but they're already working to take advantage of the latest AI features to make the user experience and our outputs even better.
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    Q4, Inc
    • speed of platform
    • lacking mobile app
    • pricing structure is fragmented
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    Usability
    Crayon, Inc.
    Crayon is super easy to use - regardless of level in the organization. As a power user, it's easy to curate the most important information about competitors and then distribute it out to leadership and other teams so that they can stay informed on the most important competitor trends. It allows me to share out information via email or through Slack and our competitive intel channel
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    Q4, Inc
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    Crayon, Inc.
    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.
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    Q4, Inc
    Q4 Desktop had the highest market share and good customer references.
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    Return on Investment
    Crayon, Inc.
    • Crayon has centralized what was previously a dispersed collection of competitive intelligence analysis, streamlined sharing of competitive insights, and allowed the CI Team unprecedented visibility into our impact on the business. This helps our business by: making sharing of analysis more efficient and creating a self-serve mechanism among our stakeholders, reducing the number of bespoke requests we receive; fostering competitive discussions among the wider workforce, which pulls in multiple perspective to ultimately shape and improve the quality of finished analysis; clarifying the impact of the CI Team's role on the business, which makes discussions around ROI with leadership much easier now that they're backed by hard numbers rather than a reliance on anecdotal evidence.
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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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