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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

    Verint Community

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AVerint Community (Telligent) is a community and collaboration software platform developed by Telligent Systems and was first released in 2004. Telligent's focus was on offering a platform that can be integrated and extended, but this requires technical expertise. Verint acquired Telligent in 2015.N/A
    Pricing
    Sysomos, now part of MeltwaterVerint Community
    Editions & Modules
    Sysomos
    $1,000.00
    per month
    Verint Community SaaS
    -
    per year per pageviews/API calls
    Verint Community AnyCloud
    -
    per domain and server
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Sysomos, now part of MeltwaterVerint Community
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Sysomos, now part of MeltwaterVerint Community
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Verint
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    80%
    Would buy again
    24 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    76%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
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    User Ratings
    Sysomos, now part of MeltwaterVerint Community
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (46 ratings)
    10.0
    (31 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.8
    (28 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.5
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.0
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Sysomos, now part of MeltwaterVerint Community
    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
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    Verint
    If you need a community platform that's very versatile and has a relatively low entry-cost to get started, Verint is a good pick. If you need a solution that is guaranteed to work seamlessly and have no hiccups or issues overall, it is not well suited. Although it is a SAAS solution, some of the aspects of the platform do not make it seem so.
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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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    Verint
    • Forums - organizing forum questions and identifying answered
    • Various layouts of blogs, divided by groups to enable different or similar layouts throughout the site. Ability to enable all to view the same or have particular groups of blogs to stand out and have it's own look and feel
    • ability to customize widgets to the needs of your use case
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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.
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    Verint
    • I would like to see engagement in the Elevate platform increase in discussions. We get so busy in our day, it is hard at times to get enough activity in a topic I know many struggle with in the contact center. The more sharing the better.
    • It would be nice if it were easier to connect as friends. That piece in Elevate seems difficult to build a network group and communicate with them all at one time on a topic or encourage them to join a discussion board when you know they have contributions that would benefit.
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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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    Verint
    I am not part of this decision making process, but I did provide positive feedback to the decision making board.
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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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    Verint
    If you are an experienced online community professional, Verint offers the flexibility you need. You do need to have a lot of expertise if you want to build a solid user experience because there isn't a template out-of-the-box that is just ready to go for various use cases. It will take awhile to fully understand the capabilities of Verint Community.
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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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    Verint
    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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    Verint
    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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    Verint
    While the support portal (cases) is helpful, I've been even more impressed by their own support community. I always get quick, thoughtful, and interesting answers to my questions from support personnel, in-house developers, other users, and even the VP/GM himself! They have a really wonderful thing going there.
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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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    Verint
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Implementation was so easy I dont even remember it!
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    Verint
    all customizations should be under warranty so that you get the right level of support from the 3rd party
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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
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    Verint
    I believe Verint Community stacks up very against previous solutions I have worked with. For an externally facing community, I think Jive-X was the best in class for many years, and Verint matches up very well from a features and configuration perspective. The other key point for me, is that Verint Community is also similar to Jive in that it has an extremely strong customer community of experienced community professionals. Verint does a great job of engaging with us about future plans, roadmaps, events, etc. I think this is a very under-rated benefit of a community platform, and Verint's is exceptional.
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Verint
    Highly scalable system with the ability to expand to an increasing number of users and communities
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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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    Verint
    • Verint Community has helped to gain more than one lakh users which shows that the platform is extremely stable and engaging. This helped for more brand awareness and e-commerce conversion rates
    • We have had huge problems with non English countries where this platform's limitations has caused huge number of loss and less user count. Hopefully this is fixed soon.
    • Our major plan was to expand our segments and verticals such as gaming, education and business which was done very well by using this platform and our team was able to customize it based on our brand's identity. We looking to expand to much more countries and hopefully target all our worldwide businesses.
    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.

    Verint Community Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Sophos Community, built on Verint Community, that offers forums, blogs, events, and membership perks for its usersScreenshot of VisionAires, a community powered by Verint, that features working groups, event, and a content hubScreenshot of an Avnet community with courses, competitions, and networking opportunitiesScreenshot of the ADI Engineer Zone, which is a community hub with built-in learning modules, webcasts, blogs, and supportScreenshot of MicroFocus' community to ask questions, join conversations, or share ideasScreenshot of the England Football Community, a place to connect with people and join the conversation about all things football.