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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Cyfe

    Score4 out of 10
    N/ACyfe is all-in-one dashboard software for analyzing data from online services like Google Analytics, Salesforce, AdSense, MailChimp, Amazon, Facebook, etc, from Traject.

    $29

    per month

    Pricing
    Sysomos, now part of MeltwaterCyfe
    Editions & Modules
    Sysomos
    $1,000.00
    per month
    Starter
    $29
    per month
    Standard
    $39
    per month
    Pro
    $65
    per month
    Premier
    $119
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Sysomos, now part of MeltwaterCyfe
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Features
    Sysomos, now part of MeltwaterCyfe
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Sysomos, now part of Meltwater and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    6.6
    28 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings6.817 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings4.028 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.120 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Sysomos, now part of Meltwater and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    7.2
    26 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.715 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.120 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings2.026 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Sysomos, now part of Meltwater and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    5.0
    23 Ratings
    49% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings4.015 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings4.021 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings6.89 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings1.017 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Sysomos, now part of Meltwater and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    7.2
    19 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings3.018 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.614 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Sysomos, now part of Meltwater and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    7.1
    22 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings6.314 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.416 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.76 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Sysomos, now part of Meltwater and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    9.3
    19 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings9.418 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.713 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Sysomos, now part of Meltwater and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Sysomos, now part of Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    7.0
    7 Ratings
    10% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings2.05 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings5.94 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings5.83 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Sysomos, now part of MeltwaterCyfe
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (46 ratings)
    8.0
    (29 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.8
    (28 ratings)
    9.4
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.5
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.0
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (27 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (27 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Sysomos, now part of MeltwaterCyfe
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
    Incentivized
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    Traject
    Cyfe might be for you if you are looking for a cost-effective way to display all of your marketing metrics in one place. If you are looking for a detailed, fine-tuned, niche, or extremely specific metrics, this might not be the best solution. Cyfe is good for a general health check-up of marketing, but not a finely tuned examination.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    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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    Traject
    • Has preset metric groups that pull similar stats together in one "bucket" saving you the time of setting up each stat-line one by one
    • Allows you to easily adjust the timeframe for what stats you want to see, so you can find YOY stats or just last month's stats rather quickly
    • Colored visualizations of stats make it easy to notice when campaigns are taking off
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Traject
    • I'd love to see additional functionality to customize colors. The light/dark option is very nice, but a little more flexibility in the colors would go a long way, especially if it was possible at the dashboard level rather than just the account level. Along the same lines, being able to customize the charts a little more, for example being able to show an x-axis on single data type graphs, could make them easier to read in some cases.
    • Being able to choose to report on converted clicks or conversions in AdWords would be helpful.
    • Needs the ability to show the date range on the shared URL dashboards. Would be even better if the date range was adjustable on that view, too.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Traject
    It has become a part of our internal tools so unless a competitor comes out with similar functionality as a similar price point it is unlikely that we would not renew. One area that would cause us not to renew would be if a competing service came out with more third-party integrations that match our needs. Price at this point is no longer an issue as it would allow us to automate a somewhat manual process that we have now connecting Cyfe widgets to Google Sheets.
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    Usability
    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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    Traject
    I gave it a rating of 7 because it does a good job at what it does, but there are missing that are missing which I would have benefited from. For instance, if I was able to drill down more on the specific metrics I was able to see, that would have been helpful.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    Traject
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    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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    Traject
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    Traject
    Because I had a very minor question and I was able to speak directly to the founder through LinkedIn and through email. I know that as they grow this may not always be an option but the fact that he made himself available to answer my questions said a lot about his passion for the product.
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    Online Training
    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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    Traject
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Implementation was so easy I dont even remember it!
    Incentivized
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    Traject
    Cyfe is a 15 minutes implementation, then some time to get your data sources created. This is an easy one person job that will not result in down time or unnecessary wasted man hours.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Traject
    The Salesforce dashboard is comparably flexible and intuitive, but designed more to its internal CRM focus. SumAll shares the social media dashboard capabilities, but lacks all others. Its interesting feature is side-by-side graph analysis for cross-channel performance. Cyfe might borrow from SumAll's default weekly email summary of performance from the dashboard, but implementation could be too complex. Nuvi dashboard is exclusively for social media marketing, but lacks Cyfe's flexibility for third party integration and window customization settings.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Traject
    • Cyfe allows us to provide real time data to our clients
    • Cyfe allows us to provide detailed analytics to our clients showing actual results
    • Cyfe reduced our need to provide monthly "reports" to our marketing clients
    • Cyfe allows us to have better situational awareness and know what is going on throughout our multiple organizations
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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.