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    Simplify360

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ASimplify360 is a Social Business Intelligence company headquartered in Carrollton, Texas with global clients & operations. Simplify360 is an integrated enterprise solutions provider; offering Social Marketing Suite for agencies, Social Contact Center for BPOs and Social Command Center for Enterprises. Simplify360 operates directly or through partners in the US, Malaysia, Korea, Brazil and the Netherlands to name a few. The company’s products and services are sold in over 100 countries.N/A

    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

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    Simplify360Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Editions & Modules
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    Sysomos
    $1,000.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Simplify360Sysomos, 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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    User Ratings
    Simplify360Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    7.0
    (46 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    6.8
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    2.0
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Simplify360Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Nextiva
    To talk directly to the Simplify 360 management and take a call post that. One of the key aspects of investing in any enterprise software is how easy the implementation is and how much support that a company can get in the early implementation process. We have had a quick ramp up learning the tool and had constant interactions with the team at Simplify to better understand and manage issues or get questions answered
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    Discontinued Products
    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
    Nextiva
    • BeFirst publishes to multiple social channels for clients. The publishing module makes publishing very easy and effective.
    • Workflow allows our team to handle customer service requests and brand management issues very quickly to maintain a company's reputation.
    • The ease of set up in the listening module, makes brand reputation very effective.
    • The platform does offer platform provide sentiment analysis, and it works great. The team has found that is very easy to keep up conversations and answer customer for clients or forward the infomation to said client.
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    • 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
    Nextiva
    • I will like to see some improvement in the intuitiveness of the system. There are some great features hidden behind the curtains.
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    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Nextiva
    We have a great relationship with the Simplify team and anyone in our team is able to reach out to them and get answers to questions is a wonderful benefit of working with them. Also we have collaborated with the team to enhance the product, which again is a very welcome gesture from a company that sells a product that helps enterprises listen in to people and support them.
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    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
    Nextiva
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Nextiva
    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
    Nextiva
    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
    Nextiva
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Nextiva
    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
    Nextiva
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Implementation was so easy I dont even remember it!
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Nextiva
    In side by side analysis, Simplify 360 was much easier to set up teams, work flow and the brand monitoring was quite a bit more accurate
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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
    Nextiva
    • Reduction of weekly and monthly report building time by over 70%
    • Lead generation increased by over 30%.
    • Online brand negativity neutralized by over 80%.
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    • 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.