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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Salesforce CRM Analytics

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau CRM) is a cloud-based business intelligence solutions and analytics software. It provides users with automated data discovery, CRM-connected analytics, top-down views of data, augmented analytics, predictive insights, and customizable data visualization tools.

    $125

    per month

    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/ASysomos was a social media listening and marketing solution for content discovery, planning, publishing, moderation, and analytics. Sysomos was acquired by Meltwater, and is no longer available, but the features of the former Sysomos are now part of the Meltwater platform.

    $1,000

    per month

    Pricing
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsSysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Sysomos
    $1,000.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsSysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsSysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    73%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsSysomos, now part of Meltwater
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.8
    48 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
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    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports7.541 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.548 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.546 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.8
    49 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.548 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.548 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.537 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.546 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.1
    47 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web9.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.543 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.540 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.534 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.4
    45 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
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    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.540 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    9.0
    48 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.046 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.546 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.541 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    6.7
    45 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.543 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.539 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.2
    33 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
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    Ratings
    REST API8.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API8.529 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames8.525 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API8.528 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.528 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.527 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsSysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (51 ratings)
    7.0
    (46 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (6 ratings)
    2.0
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.1
    (41 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.7
    (41 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsSysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    For us it really comes down to that book management and next best contact for our advisors. When we're thinking about a book of business that may range, depending on the advisor, from 400 clients to a thousand clients, how do they really optimize their time? Who do they call next? Who do they work with to make sure not only they're keeping those clients engaged, they're not leaving the firm going to other advisors who they haven't talked to in a while who might need their attention. That's really where that CRM analytics is really proven pretty powerful for us.
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    Sysomos Expion is best suited, in my opinion, to offices where either you have only one moderator/manager OR where multiple users plan to manage a specific channel. Without live updates, it gets far too complicated for multiple users to manage the exact same workload
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Interactive Dashboards, it [consists] of wide variety of charts
    • Data from different sources can be easily integrated with it
    • Security, it provides easy way to secure and share the information with the users
    • Support actions like opening hyperlink etc
    • Almost everything can be done from configuration
    • Data can easily be managed from dataflow.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Ad-hoc research. During planning phase of a campaign it is a helpful tool to understand the marketplace, key influencers and topics that engage a target demographic.
    • Post-event hashtag analysis. Rapid generation of reporting on efficacy of a campaign, key voices, topics that resonated, viral reach and more.
    • User interface. Friendly and accessible enough to minimize training needs and enable decentralized access, though we have found some hand-holding is still required to get the most out of the platform.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • Implementation takes time and resources. It is a heavy lift to implement and at first, it can take a little bit of time to understand what you are looking at. But once it's implemented it's easy to get started.
    • Without any BI expertise or resources available to your organization, the implementation of this is difficult. If you aren't used to BI tools and don't have an expert in house, the terminology can be difficult to understand at first.
    • Their support is not on hand to help you if you encounter any issues, at least not on all the plans or the basic plans. Real-time support service is an add-on, so you'll need to be patient if you require help or pay extra money.
    • More functionality for the tool is needed to compete with other heavyweights in the arena like Tableau, Qlik, and Microstrategy. Still lacks the robustness, functionality, and flexibility other competing products possess.
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    Discontinued Products
    • It does not provide a visual for volume over time.
    • The visuals aren't excellent, and would require an export to create better looking graphics.
    • The interface isn't intuitive and sometimes requires clicking around to find things that seem like they should be under a different title.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    There are two differentiating features that Sysomos MAP has that the competitor tools I have experienced (Radian6, Meltwater Buzz) did not: user-friendly Boolean queries for searches and near-real-time results. The former is important because, of course, your results are only as good as your search/campaign. With Sysomos, once you master Boolean queries (which isn't terribly difficult) you're set for creating any kind of listening report. I strongly prefer this to the "campaign creator" forms that other services provide. Second, Sysomos MAP returns results almost immediately - like a Google search. So if you get your results and see that you need to tweak your query - no big deal. Or if you have a last-minute request for a client - not an issue. Meltwater can take up to 48 hours for a search to fully populate. This is a major issue if you get your full set of results back and see that you need to adjust the query; you're looking at another two days of wait time. A long wait on results can also prove problematic in agency settings where clients or prospective clients often need results with a quick turnaround.
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    For someone who don't have coding background, this could be a useful tool and fairly easy to learn and use given the good support. However, if you know other open source tools, it would be much easier to use the other tools and the knowledge is more transferable in the future.
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    The product is very easy to use. The platform is visual and data is easy to read. Boolean construction can sometimes be difficult, but the boolean constructor tool is helpful for boolean beginners. For more experienced boolean constructors, the boolean display at the top is very helpful in identifying where there may be holes in the construction
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    Reliability and Availability
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Not really an availability issue, but concurrency licensing rules mean that only one user can be logged in at a time.
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    Performance
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    This has not been an issue. It is actually beating TweetDeck when we are tagged within a post that TweetDeck is monitoring.
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    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    I was not able to be in interaction much with Salesforce support team since every feature works the way it should be working. So far I have not experienced any bug or major glitches that would delay the result of my work and performance. There is also a hotline in our company for Salesforce issue but so far I have not used it.
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    Discontinued Products
    Unfortunately, we have not had a great experience with customer support from Klear. In the sales process, they were very responsive and helpful, but when onboarded, it definitely changed. We are based in the US and our customer service rep is based in Israel, meaning our work hours barely overlap. Oftentimes we're waiting 24+ hours for a response, and when it's a time-sensitive issue (like the platform not pulling in Instagram Story data) we want it to be resolved as quickly as possible. Klear also has a chat feature for more immediate help, but we've experienced a similar situation there where it takes 12+ hours to get a response and it's usually from our customer service rep. Our rep is very nice, but also doesn't seem very knowledgeable about the platform, and usually can't provide an immediate answer to a question we ask and has to "check with her team."
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    Online Training
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    We had a kick-off training with the whole team where they walked us through the functionality. This was a pretty effective and comprehensive training.
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    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    An implementation partner would certainly result in greater output in a more efficient amount of time. However, I have found implementation partners to be extremely expensive for the output received (at least working for a non-profit company they are frequently unaffordable). Internal implementation does help with usable output though since internal knowledge would better know the data architecture and business processes
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    Discontinued Products
    Implementation was so easy I dont even remember it!
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    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    Tableau is the absolute top of the class when it comes to business intelligence, but it doesn't make sense for every business case. In our case, we needed a simple data visualization platform for our CRM platform and sales pipeline. Salesforce Analytics, while nowhere near as robust, did the job we needed it to do perfectly in a significantly more cost-effective manner.
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    Discontinued Products
    We've used Sprout Social & Hootsuite in the past -- and they all stack up pretty evenly. Sysomos has the same features as Sprout or Hootsuite, except their reports and analytics are a little more detailed. Hootsuite has a better social media management software and dashboard though
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • I would say it's been positive just because as a company, anyone that has access to it can go in there and pull any company information and we're very up to date then on all of our client base. So I would say it's been a very positive impact.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Lowered costs and overhead when Expion got introduced as we now use one centralized solution for all of our social media work
    • We can finally calculate ROI with ease and understand our campaign performance through proper tracking and analytics
    • Competition tracking was never easier
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater Screenshots

    Screenshot of TOP CONTENT: See the best performing content from all your social media channels in one view plus compare it against your competitors’ pages.Screenshot of FAN MODERATION: Sysomos Expion makes it easy to know who to speak to, when to engage in conversation and can even be integrated with customer care centers.Screenshot of PUBLISH: Easily plan, schedule and publish content from a simple drag-and-drop calendar with workflow that’s easy to track and review.Screenshot of OPTIMIZE PAID ADS: Optimize paid ads with smarter analytics and trending triggers so you can better understand how organic and paid content are working together.Screenshot of DYNAMIC DASHBOARDS: Powerful marketing analytics shows that it’s not just about creating a report or crunching some numbers - but about telling a story.  You’ll discover patterns, breakouts, and trends in real time to capitalize on opportunities.