Sprinklr Social vs. Sysomos, now part of Meltwater

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sprinklr Social
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Sprinklr Social’s platform empowers enterprise teams of all sizes to deliver a consistent brand experience across 35+ digital and social channels to drive engagement and revenue, with capabilities across publishing, engagement, listening, analytics, employee advocacy, influencer marketing and commerce. Content planning and scheduling using an editorial calendar, with a digital asset manager and the ability to publish across channels at AI…
$299
per month per seat
Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Sysomos 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
Sprinklr SocialSysomos, now part of Meltwater
Editions & Modules
Sprinklr Social Self-Serve Plan
$299
per month per seat
Sprinklr Social Enterprise Plan
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Sysomos
$1,000.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Sprinklr SocialSysomos, now part of Meltwater
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Sprinklr SocialSysomos, now part of Meltwater
Considered Both Products
Sprinklr Social
Chose Sprinklr Social
As mentioned earlier, Sprinklr is good and probably the best content publisher of all the tools above. It is missing other key parts of a community manager's job, like ease for moderation/management and customer service tracking.
Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
Chose Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
Sysomos Expion was a solid tool that really played well against their competition. Their main advantage is likely their pricing and their customer service. Their pricing was by far the best in terms of pricing for the most amount of product. Their customer service is also …
Chose Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
Sprinklr is definitely superior in function with one exception. Somehow, Expion allows us to moderate and manage third-party content, but Sprinklr doesn't. Aside from that, I'd say Sprinklr leads Expion in just about every other area, except support. Sprinklr's support has …
Chose Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
Sysomos is simpler, cheaper, and more basic than Crimson. If you don't need a robust tool, and you want to save money, go with Sysomos.
Chose Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
Expion is just bland compared to the other applications. It is functional but it doesn't look polished. It is like your second choice. It could be better, but it works in the now for what I am doing.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Sprinklr SocialSysomos, now part of Meltwater
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
7.7
51 Ratings
1% above category average
Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
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Ratings
Boolean keyword searches8.644 Ratings00 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam8.247 Ratings00 Ratings
Sentiment analysis6.148 Ratings00 Ratings
Broad channel coverage7.847 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
8.0
51 Ratings
1% above category average
Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
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Ratings
Content planning and scheduling8.148 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience targeting7.943 Ratings00 Ratings
Content optimization8.041 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management8.145 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
7.7
50 Ratings
5% below category average
Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
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Ratings
Automated routing and prioritization6.343 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories8.049 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk actions8.646 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
6.8
43 Ratings
12% below category average
Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
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Ratings
Lead generation6.330 Ratings00 Ratings
Content marketing5.636 Ratings00 Ratings
Paid media management7.331 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions8.237 Ratings00 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
8.5
54 Ratings
0% below category average
Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
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Ratings
Twitter9.152 Ratings00 Ratings
Facebook8.352 Ratings00 Ratings
LinkedIn8.339 Ratings00 Ratings
Google+8.126 Ratings00 Ratings
Instagram8.751 Ratings00 Ratings
Pinterest8.227 Ratings00 Ratings
YouTube9.137 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
7.5
53 Ratings
5% below category average
Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
-
Ratings
Campaign success analytics7.349 Ratings00 Ratings
Real-time tracking8.152 Ratings00 Ratings
Competitor analysis7.235 Ratings00 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Sprinklr Social
7.4
51 Ratings
9% below category average
Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
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Ratings
Role-based user permissions & privileges8.650 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access6.144 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Sprinklr SocialSysomos, now part of Meltwater
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(79 ratings)
7.0
(46 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(29 ratings)
6.8
(28 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(7 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(5 ratings)
8.2
(5 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(4 ratings)
8.5
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
9.9
(34 ratings)
2.0
(8 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.0
(2 ratings)
9.6
(2 ratings)
Online Training
8.4
(3 ratings)
8.0
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
10.0
(8 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Sprinklr SocialSysomos, now part of Meltwater
Likelihood to Recommend
Sprinklr
In my perspective, I would say Sprinklr Modern Sales &
Engagement is best suited for teams and organizations who are more involved in
automating social media activities, getting a great analytical report on
activity engagement, and generating lists and bolds that helps determine the
trends and events, etc. One of the best tools that one could use for clients
with every information they would need.
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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
Sprinklr
  • Customization - Through Sprinklr's rules and robust custom field creation, you really can create a lot of customization for every facet of your business.
  • Listening - Their Listening Engine and Explorer are fantastic ways to proactively find engagement-friendly conversations, in addition competitively research your brand.
  • Care - Using their case formatting, messages and customer contacts can be routed and assigned easily to available reps, and their bot builder can help to automate your contacts without sacrificing a personal touch.
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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
Sprinklr
  • Overall, Sprinklr rewards users to do a lot of digging on their own to get to the more in-depth functionalities. For instance, the asset manager feature leads you to a dashboard with all the content you ever published but doesn't tell you what to do next or how to organize it
  • Sprinklr offers basic social listening features, but it is much more limited than other pure social listening players like Crimson Hexagon or Brandwatch. It is perfectly usable for a quick search but I wouldn't recommend it as your sole social listening platform
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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
Sprinklr
I really do feel that Sprinklr is the most complete enterprise social media program. It covers everything you would need to do to run a strategic social media program. On top of that, the success managers are really the best. Our success manager goes above and beyond for us and has been so helpful to us with setting up some very specific repots and profiles. Paul (our CSM) has been great about keeping us up to date on the latest features and functionality as well as helping us set up innovative dashboards as need
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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
Sprinklr
It's simple to learn and easy to use. Compared to other social media monitoring tools like it, it has less of a learning curve than most. Between the filters, macros, tagging, and ability to like or reply to posts, it seems pretty comprehensive. At the very least, it accomplishes everything that my organization uses it for
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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
Sprinklr
Our account partners at Sprinklr are not only responsive to out needs, both domestically and internationally, but have consistently approached us with ideas on how to improve our communication and collaboration in a proactive manner.
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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
Sprinklr
Perfornace is not aan issue. The issues/bugs with this software are few and far between. And when one pops up the 24/7 support team is helpful, quick and informative.
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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
Sprinklr
Support is amazing. We have had to reach out [to] them only a few times in the past few years. Each time, they were back in touch with us within the hour or two, no matter the time. We've always had our issues addressed quickly and promptly corrected. They are a great team to work with.
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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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In-Person Training
Sprinklr
I don't recall our training in detail. I know we met in person a few times, and did some over-the-phone product walk-throughs. It may have been somewhat informal -- I don't recall having any takeaways to refer to.
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Sprinklr
Through multiple webinars, easily accessible training documents, and ad-hoc sessions with my account manager I am never left in the dark when I have a question.
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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
Sprinklr
The implementation personnel at Sprinklr are top-notch. They will work with you to make sure they setup Sprinklr in a way that best aligns with your structural needs
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Discontinued Products
Implementation was so easy I dont even remember it!
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Alternatives Considered
Sprinklr
As much as I get frustrated with Sprinklr, Sprinklr is a much cleaner platform than others I have used and I do obtain good data from the reports due to my custom filters, allowing me to pass along education onto product teams in regards to their specific lines.
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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
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Scalability
Sprinklr
Always start simple with Sprinklr, e.g. one client. You can easily grow over time adding products/units/regions, etc
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Sprinklr
  • Reports can be customized and exported easily in many different formats. I especially like the PowerPoint version of reports. It quickly and professionally creates a custom slideshow to show the metrics of the platforms and time periods you choose. This is a great way to keep your company's C-level executives informed on your team's progress and investing in your efforts. This is especially true for executives that do not personally use or understand the value of social media.
  • Brand reputation management is always a great investment. The dashboard alerts you in real-time when your brand or product is mentioned across any of the platforms and offers a quick and efficient way to respond. The Sprinklr customer experience cloud can be implemented across your entire organization, including CRM and email systems.
  • If you're not growing you're dying. That alone helps me with the ROI of using Sprinklr for my client's business objectives.
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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
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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.