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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Heap

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Heap is a web analytics platform captures every user interaction on web iOS with no extra code. The tool allows you to track events and set up funnels to understand user flow and dropoff. It also provides visualization tools to track trends over time.

    $0

    per month

    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ARadian6 was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2011 and - along with Buddy Media - became Salesforce Social Studio. The product was retired in November of 2024.

    $1,000

    Per Org Per Month

    Pricing
    HeapSalesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    Up to 10k sessions/month
    Growth
    Starting at $3,600 annually
    Up to 300k sessions/year
    Pro
    Contact Heap Sales
    Custom sessions per month and unlimited projects
    Premier
    Contact Heap Sales
    Custom sessions per month
    Basic
    $1,000.00
    Per Org Per Month
    Pro
    $4,000.00
    Per Org Per Month
    Corporate
    $12,000.00
    Per Org Per Month
    Enterprise
    $40,000.00
    Per Org Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HeapSalesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsHeap pricing is based on session volume. A session is a period of activity from a single user on your app or website. It can include many pageviews or events.—
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    Community Pulse
    HeapSalesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Contentsquare
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    216 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    149 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    215 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    117 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    121 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    HeapSalesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Heap and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    Heap
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    8.8
    11 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Heap and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    Heap
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    8.0
    11 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Heap and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    Heap
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    9.0
    10 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings9.99 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Heap and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    Heap
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    8.5
    10 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Heap and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    Heap
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    8.3
    11 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Twitter00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings6.86 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings6.54 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Heap and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    Heap
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    8.3
    10 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Heap and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    Heap
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    8.5
    10 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
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    HeapSalesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
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    Mixpanel
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Sendible
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Gainsight PX
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Emplifi
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Gainsight PX
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Sprinklr Social
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HeapSalesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (233 ratings)
    10.0
    (52 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.3
    (9 ratings)
    8.8
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (65 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.6
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    8.4
    (61 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.8
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HeapSalesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Contentsquare
    Scenarios when Heap was well suited: It is when a user claims that he encountered a bug without giving us the details of the error message. Scenarios where it is less appropriate: Its when we try to capture user interaction in our mobile app
    Incentivized
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    If you're tasked with publishing content to social on behalf of your organization then this tool is certainly worth considering. You have quick and easy capability to schedule across multiple platforms with drag-and-drop simplicity. It ties into Salesforce's real strength of its CRM platform so you can quickly tie social activity and leads to those already in your database. And it does a good job at monitoring and analyzing brand and competitor content across multiple media types. Having said that, if you're into deep-dive and full functionality SaaS tools then this might not be for you as it covers three areas adequately, but not in enough detail or strength to make it a star performer
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    Pros
    Contentsquare
    • Realtime interactions which are captured automatically is a unique feature which no other product offers.
    • Low code implementation is a big plus for marketing teams, as there is less dependency on engineering
    • Detailed customer behaviours can be studied with captured replay sessions
    • Due to all the above points - it helped to improve customer experience
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    • The amount of the information that radian6 can pull from multiple social platforms is absolutely phenomenal. Its just not only the pull but the way the information can be presented in dashboards was way good. It helped us understand in various aspects of our social presence.
    • Multiple profiles helped us to break down the Big/Huge social buzz cloud to smaller and more manageable pieces. This helped us concentrate on the lows and helped us to plan better on turning them to highs.
    • Radian6 allowed us to follow thru the crowd trends with the latest information presented in a single view. This also helped us to collect the social opinion on the product releases.
    • The ease of use, one need not be an expert to start using this platform. The interface is easily understandable by anyone.
    • A keyword can be edited quickly to tailor the needs and the results were quick.
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    Cons
    Contentsquare
    • I think Heap can improve its onboarding; I would love to see some info that is helpful for someone who isn't in Heap every single day.
    • Sharing dashboards can be tricky, it feels like a huge learning curve that I already have forgotten how to do.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Instagram Social Listening - it currently does not offer much social listening in terms of Instagram.
    • Instagram Owned - It currently stops pulling once an update is "old" by their standards, even if it receives recent comments. They can force pull, but you have to work with their tech team to do so.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Contentsquare
    It's a great platform. I'm glad that one of our product managers introduced it because it has allowed us to create all kinds of new functionality. We're not only able to create a better product experience from our communications because of Heap, but we're also able to generate all kinds of helpful analysis.
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    I spent a lot of time researching the right platform for me and our organisation (thanks to the other reviews on TrustRadius also). Having used other platforms when I found frustrations getting my everyday work done, I knew exactly what I wanted and this is why I chose Social Studio. While there have been a few hiccups, the quarterly update releases and the outstanding tech support have kept me more than happy.
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    Usability
    Contentsquare
    On a scale from 1-10, I find Heap to be incredibly user-friendly and easy to use. I enjoyed the training videos available and was quickly able to pick up how to create events and reports to track user interactions on our product. I would recommend Heap for its usability first and foremost.
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    • Would rate this a 6. The User Interface is pretty intuitive, but the platform was still considered pretty intimidating by our non-technical staff when they first saw it. It took a while to get used to it and feel comfortable. There was quite a lot of setup work in the beginning (for example, we had to build our own reports using a canned report as a template, and this was not simple). Although it took a while to get it setup correctly, it’s quite intuitive once that work has been done.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Contentsquare
    I've never run into any issues with Heap's availability, Heap is always there when I need it. I haven't run into any issues like application errors or unplanned outages during my 2+ years of using Heap. Each and every time I log in to Heap I have a completely functional experience
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    The platform is rarely down
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    Performance
    Contentsquare
    Heap doesn't affect page load times considerably nor has a large impact [on] our overall score, as far as page loading times inside of the tool its pretty reliable to retrieve data as much as "instant" that it can be the delay seems to be on data getting tracked into the servers to be read but it's not significant.
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    No issues with performance.
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    Support Rating
    Contentsquare
    Heap support has allowed us to troubleshoot and test a lot of different items. Their support team is always helpful and friendly, even when we come to them with the most complicated questions. I think this greatly improves the value proposition of the product because their support team is knowledgable and friendly.
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    As mentioned previously, it can be hard to get through to people who can help you. On occasion when I have spoken to customer service/tech support, they all seem nice and try to be helpful, however instead of admitting the system cannot do certain things, they will persist it saying that it can, which results in many wasted hours overall.
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    Online Training
    Contentsquare
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    • We initially received dedicated online training for our team which was delivered by our account rep. This was pretty effective since it happened after our data had been loaded into the system and it had been configured for specific needs our organization. The training was perhaps a bit shallow though, as it was only an hour long. Online videos are available to be taken individually, and these have been useful.
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    Implementation Rating
    Contentsquare
    The implementation was smooth and easy. The Heap team helped us with implementation and it went great! Within a few weeks, we were fully up and running and utilizing the platform to its full capability. This is an additional thing that has made this platform so great and we couldn't recommend it enough.
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    Implementation was pretty simple. Just a matter of giving the account rep a list of our search terms and having him set the system up to pull the data we wanted to see. Once this had been done, we tweaked it with his help. Process was pretty smooth, although there was some back and forth until it worked the way we wanted.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Contentsquare
    Heap offers a ton of functionality on a single platform.It also has an smart data science layer to offers suggestions for next steps in the analysis, allowing us to explore alternative paths we may not think to take. The low-code option for updating data is appealing, and there is a lot of automation with minimal engineering effort.
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    Compared to Radian6, I found Meltwater Buzz, Simply Measured, and Sprout Social to be much more user friendly. Meltwater Buzz and Radian6 are very similar products with many of the same functionalities but Buzz presents your analytics in a way that is much easier to understand. I did a two week trial with Sprout Social and absolutely loved the product but our company needed the capability to connect to Salesforce, which is available on R6 and Buzz. Simply Measured is my all time favorite but I have only used the free version so I am not completely sure how it stacks up to Radian6
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    Scalability
    Contentsquare
    The most challenging part of using Heap in a growing organization is the naming and structure in which reports and dashboards are organized. I work within the marketing department and our Heap leader internally works within the IT/Product department, which makes it challenging because we often don't speak the same language, so the learning curve has been steep without any specific use-case examples to leverage online.
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    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Contentsquare
    • It has helped us make decisions on what products to scope for our MVP based on the usage data.
    • It's allowed us to measure success with our beta product.
    • It's helped us view our conversion rates in an easy and usable manner.
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    • Monitoring social brand awareness is not something you can consider to have a meaninful impact in your business ROI short term, however it's a must for taking care of long term relationships and customer intimacy.
    • Radian6 connects with other analytical tools like webtrends, Google Analytics, etc..however it's not directly linked to a revenue driven platform, you can´t see the immediate ROI generated in the tool.
    • If you bet for social relationships you should consider this tool, no question on that. Social Commerce might be of course impacted postively by the proper use of this tool.
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    ScreenShots

    Heap Screenshots

    Screenshot of Dashboard in Heap (Use to get Product or User Behavior Insights)Screenshot of Effort Analysis provides the first-ever quantitative measurement of user friction, capturing the difficulty users face when moving through every step of every user flow across the digital experience.Screenshot of Heap Illuminate looks for the most common events between two steps in a funnel and generates a Top Events table that displays how well paths including different events convert to the next step so you can understand how that behavior is helping or hurting conversion.Screenshot of From Top Events you can choose an event and use Path Comparison to fork your funnel and see how the selected behavior impacts conversion downstream.