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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

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    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AOwler is a sales intelligence app developed by the company of the same name San Mateo and acquired by Meltwater June 2021, providing competitive insights, company information, and other sales relevant information.

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    TrustRadius for Buyers

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ATrustRadius delivers the most credible B2B technology decisioning platform, helping buyers confidently make decisions with comprehensive, vetted product information and customer-generated content.

    $0

    per month

    Pricing
    OwlerTrustRadius for Buyers
    Editions & Modules
    Plus (personal use)
    $99
    per year
    Pro
    $420
    per year
    Teams
    Contact Sales
    Free
    $0
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OwlerTrustRadius for Buyers
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    OwlerTrustRadius for Buyers
    Considered Both Products
    Meltwater
    No answer on this topic
    HG Insights
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    OwlerTrustRadius for Buyers
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of Owler and TrustRadius for Buyers
    Feature
    Owler
    7.1
    16 Ratings
    8% below category average
    TrustRadius for Buyers
    -
    Ratings
    Advanced search8.716 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identification of new leads6.114 Ratings00 Ratings
    List quality6.114 Ratings00 Ratings
    List upload/download6.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting7.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Load time/data access8.713 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Owler and TrustRadius for Buyers
    Feature
    Owler
    7.9
    16 Ratings
    2% above category average
    TrustRadius for Buyers
    -
    Ratings
    Contact information7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company information7.916 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry information7.915 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Owler and TrustRadius for Buyers
    Feature
    Owler
    6.2
    15 Ratings
    18% below category average
    TrustRadius for Buyers
    -
    Ratings
    Lead qualification process5.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations5.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salesforce integration5.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company/business profiles5.314 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders7.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data hygiene7.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh7.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tags7.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Owler and TrustRadius for Buyers
    Feature
    Owler
    7.9
    5 Ratings
    6% above category average
    TrustRadius for Buyers
    -
    Ratings
    Sales email templates7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Append emails to records8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Enterprises
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
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    User Ratings
    OwlerTrustRadius for Buyers
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (18 ratings)
    8.8
    (220 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.5
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.5
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OwlerTrustRadius for Buyers
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Meltwater
    This is a free service, so it should be compared to free and low cost alerting (e.g. Google Alerts) and PE/VC funding profile (e.g. Crunchbase) services. Owler is well suited for competitive intelligence professionals, named account reps, and marketing professionals tracking company news (web mined company mentions and press releases) and social media (blogs, Video, YouTube). The alerts are high precision and tag for three key events (M&A, Funding, Exec Changes). It is the alerting and social media tools which are the key strength of the service. The company claims two million profiles, but only has 60,000 with full address information. Content includes competitors, user polls, and funding / M&A data. Owler should be viewed as a free complement to other online company research tools, but it lacks the depth to replace subscription services. Missing content includes long business descriptions; financials and discrete sizing data; family tree linkage, and executive profiles (only the CEO is covered) While they offer list building functionality, it is quite thin and non-downloadable. As such, I would not recommend Owler for sales and marketing prospecting at this point. A unique feature is a set of company polls about the direction of the company and CEO performance. Unfortunately, the response rates are often too low to be statistically meaningful.
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    HG Insights
    Well suited: For a company or organization that knows what they need to solve problems or optimize processes. TrustRadius for Buyers is ideal as you can check out categories and alternatives and read super-specific reviews that apply to your use case. Less appropriate: If you are unsure what you're trying to accomplish or the area/function to optimize with software, you can be overwhelmed with the vast offer of reviews because you don't know where to look.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Meltwater
    • Owler enables the user to quickly find the data and information that he or she needs.
    • I appreciate the customizable dashboard where you can set alerts and track companies you select.
    • The latest news regarding the funding rounds of startup companies is especially helpful.
    • The top competitors to companies provided by Owler often give me a great point of reference for my competitive analysis.
    Incentivized
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    HG Insights
    • [The] overall rating helps to filter a low rated software without wasting time [and] the user can research high rated software products for making a purchase.
    • The pros and cons can be viewed for every software, which speeds up the [research] on the key points of [the] user experience [of] the software.
    • [The] features scorecard helps to see how effectively the software's features [are] helping the user.
    • [The] alternatives features help the user to see other competitive software or platforms, which provide a solution for the user.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Meltwater
    • The information provided is useful but at times the variation with other websites and tools is substantial which makes it difficult to rely solely on owler
    • Information only about bigger companies is available not for smaller and research on smaller ones are important as there are not many tools that do that
    • There are few companies that appear as defunct or do not exist but in the actual market there is a lot going on with them and being in market intelligence industry owler needs to capture that
    • It would be great if they provide revenue or growth of the in the past three years or so. As it would save our time and efforts to some extent
    • They need to maintain the database in aperiodic manner with precise information
    Incentivized
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    HG Insights
    • Sorting of the default view of reviews since the initial reviews can play a big role in decisions.
    • More visibility into what went into certain product's score for the rating it has.
    • Help secure great deals on the softwares for which reviews are available.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Meltwater
    Not really an applicable question as this is a free service, but if they charged $100 / year (GageIn's price) I would still license the service.
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    HG Insights
    since
    it is a page that provides data although very long to read are specific and
    technical as they are, data of people who have used or use the program you may
    need for the company, and help us solve a problem, without the need to hire
    external consultants or expensive programs, saving us money in the company
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Meltwater
    I think it's well designed but always room for improvement. Maybe more customization in layout or information presented. Maybe even a layout that allows comparison and ranking of companies in a similar industry or vertical, or company size, and geography
    Incentivized
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    HG Insights
    It is very helpful for me in buying softwares. I come up with a practical and confident solution once I use it. The reviews I saw were genuine. I was able to save time and increase my productivity with the help of TrustRadius for Buyer's. Also, overall interface is well structured
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Meltwater
    I have yet to see the platform down or running slowly, but there have been multiple instances recently (Q2 2015) when the user links to a news story and Owler gives an Oops message. Users simply click on the story a second time and the story is displayed. This is a nuisance bug. I also have a sense that the system is not processing alerts as quickly as before, but I haven't tracked this closely, so I could be wrong about it.
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    HG Insights
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Meltwater
    The news precision, which is the most important feature for me, is very accurate. They have editors review the news to ensure it is properly tagged by company and event type.
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    HG Insights
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Meltwater
    Problems have been closed quickly and professionally.
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    HG Insights
    We did not need to contact support. I tried to skip the question like it says to but the system wouldn’t let me
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Meltwater
    Focus on setting up companies that have limited news coverage first. Public companies are well covered and it is easy to track them. Furthermore, the surfeit of news around public companies can crowd out smaller companies with less news. It is smaller companies where you are most likely to see a benefit in their tracking of news, blogs, press releases, and videos.
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    HG Insights
    Again, I didn’t have much to do with the implementation of the product. I heard from internal sources that there were few issues with scalability but they were resolved
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Meltwater
    I believe Lead411 and Owler go hand in hand, rather than one over the other. I believe Lead411's contact generation is far stronger based on the cost, but Owler allows you to broaden your horizon for prospecting whereas Lead411 is more of a user-driven search rather than an platform-driven search.
    Incentivized
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    HG Insights
    While G2 and Capterra cover a wider range of categories, TrustRadius focuses specifically on business technology solutions. TrustRadius is known for its emphasis on verifying user reviews and providing in-depth insights. Their user base consists of professionals and decision-makers, making it a valuable resource for trustworthy and detailed feedback. G2 and Capterra offer broader market coverage and a wide range of products. I personally do not prioritize any specific platform. Wherever I find detailed information, I use it.
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    Return on Investment
    Meltwater
    • The personalisation of emails has definitely helped us to earn a higher reply rate, with the knock-on that this will be helping with future deals.
    • Keeps us very relevant in our conversations with contacts. They are often impressed by the research and knowledge we have on their company and how we have aligned ourselves to help. Again, small differences at the start of calls but this will be helping with the number of opportunities created.
    • Reduces SDR prospecting time. Quick and easy to get updates allowing them to process a great number of accounts on a daily basis.
    Incentivized
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    HG Insights
    • It's had a positive impact in helping us be confident in the selections we make
    • It's also had a positive impact in opening us up to other products/offerings we would not have known about
    • It's further allowed us to have deeper conversations with vendors about potential pitfalls we would not have known about otherwise
    Incentivized
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