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Sysomos, now part of Meltwater

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What is Sysomos, now part of Meltwater?

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…

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What is Sysomos, now part of Meltwater?

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.

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.

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Sysomos, now part of Meltwater Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Chinese, Japanese

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Percolate, now part of Seismic, Sprinklr Social, and Khoros Marketing are common alternatives for Sysomos, now part of Meltwater.

Reviewers rate Implementation Rating highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Sysomos, now part of Meltwater are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Ravindra Sahu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I currently use Meltwater Social for consumer behavior analysis for my company. We do Social listening not only for the brand but also for competitors in the industry. It helps to mitigate crises and understand our customers. The tool is used by the research and marketing team. The marketing team generates leads using the tool. The tool generates consumer insights reports and gets the relevant leads.
  • Deep dive reports
  • Accounts service team
  • Preview listening
  • User interface
  • High loading time
It can help with crisis reporting and understanding consumer sentiments. The tool also helps to create a marketing strategy which would increase the potential reach of the digital marketer. The tool is great for media monitoring where brands need to reply to complaints and other concerns. Meltwater Social provides automatic social listing reports which are useful for reporting.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I work on a small team at a mid-size advertising agency, where we manage and lead our clients' influencer marketing strategies and programs. We use Klear on a pretty regular basis (at least 2-3 times per week) to help identify influencers, execute programs and measure results. Before we started using Klear our team was doing all of our influencer identification manually (searching on Instagram, reading articles about the best "lifestyle" bloggers, etc.) so we really wanted a platform to help us streamline that process. We also liked Klear over other similar products because it was a self-service platform and it isn't an opt-in network, making the pool of influencers to vet as large or small as we need it to be. This was important because some of our clients run hyper-local campaigns, so we needed to be able to filter down and see results in a small city.
  • It's a very intuitive and user-friendly platform.
  • It provides the ability to gather actual, verified data (including IG Stories).
  • It rounds numbers to the nearest hundred (for instance, will report "1.4K Story views" rather than the true number).
  • I am based in the US and my representative is based in Israel, so there is a delay in response at times.
Klear is great for doing some preliminary research when building out an influencer list. We've used it a lot for this and overall had pretty good success. We sometimes supplement with manual searching, but overall Klear has helped save a lot of time and labor on our end. I do prefer to manage influencer programs myself though, so I don't take advantage of the program's chat functionality, payroll capabilities, etc.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sysomos is an exceptional social media management tool! It has exceptional page analytics, copy and social media post management, and so much more! Additionally, they put on really impressive summits including the New York City one that is coming up https://sysomos.com/summit-newyork/

I would strongly recommend the sysomos and expion tools to anyone!
  • Strong Customer Service
  • Strong Social Media Management
  • Strong Social Media Analytics
  • Analytics are strong but more is always better
  • Would like to see Instagram usage increase
  • Competetive needs work
I came to my current job and immediately went to work in implementing a new social media management tool. Sysomos was a great fit.
Joshua P. Kennedy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sysomos Expion was the first social media moderation & marketing tool that we used after creating the Community and Social Media teams. The social media team used the program to plan/schedule marketing posts, but my team and I used it for social moderation and monitoring. Expion is meant to address companies' needs for more streamlined planning/scheduling of social posts and for much greater ease with moderation than compared to trying to use native sites, particularly if your company or organization has multiple accounts on each platform.
  • Expion was pretty customizable, though the tool we transitioned to has since made me realize how much more customizable other options can be. That said, Expion served us well and offered more customization than other tools we looked at.
  • Expion's best asset, really, is its support staff. Our account rep and the support agents were always responsive and reacted with appropriate levels of urgency. Though a lot of the problems we experienced were due to API limitations, the things they COULD address were resolved with relative speed.
  • I enjoyed the ability to approach our workload from either an inbox-style view or a more visual view with the workspaces and stacks. People with a more right-brained slant worked better in stacks than left-brained folks who seemed to appreciate the more linear, text-based style of the Single Stream moderation option.
  • Reporting is Expion's weakest component. Please bear in mind that I'm not referring to marketing stats or page analytics. I'm talking more about productivity metrics for moderators and quality reports (viewing outbound messages for quality purposes). Expion WILL work with you to get you what you need, but building new reports takes a lot of time, and what you get back isn't always exactly what you're looking for. The tool we moved to has dynamic reporting options that *I* can modify on the spot, so whereas this downside was a tad annoying before, I've come to weight it a bit more heavily because now I see just what can be achieved when you don't have to wait for someone else to build dashboards and widgets for you.
  • Locating additional posts from the same customer is a challenge. Although you can perform profile searches, viewing a complete history is frustrating. You can only see outbound messages in relation to each inbound message. The new tool we use allows for you to view the entire message thread all in one view, which is impossible in Expion.
  • Expion does not update live. If you have multiple moderators working simultaneously, then it is WAAAAAAAAAAAY too easy to step on each other's toes unless you have people divvying up work and filtering by message type or platform or date ranges. For example, if we're both looking at the same list of messages on different computers and I respond to a message or mark it as read, then that does NOT change on your work list until/unless the workspace, stack, or stream refreshes. (The tool we use now is almost immediately updated with changes you've made.)
  • This tool does not allow you to designate any kind of message properties for tracking purposes. This may not matter to companies with only one product line, but our company sells a massive catalog of products that extend across a wide variety of user markets. Being able to tag messages accordingly is a huge benefit, but it's one that Expion does not offer.
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.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
With Sysomos, you get instant and unlimited access to all social media conversations. The ability to see what's happening, why it's happening, and who's driving the conversations. And the power to uncover meaning in the data—not only from the tone of conversations, but from advanced sentiment analysis by gender, age and location. We used Sysomos across the Remington eCommerce Team for social media listening and evaluating how our hotels were doing in the social atmosphere (primarily Facebook & Twitter). It helped supplement the social media management software we had which didn't give as detailed reports as Sysomos Expion did.
  • Sysomos Heartbeat: the proactive social media monitoring software. The dashboard was efficient and minimalist, and provided detailed reporting on where the social conversation was held for each individual hotel. The rich data and the simplicity of the dashboard made this tool particularly useful and easy to implement -- it was also easier to train new employees with the software.
  • Sysomos Heartbeat: We also used it to keep track of any crisis that arose. The tool made it easy to catch any spikes in conversation that would spread rapidly either across one channel or multiple channels.
  • Customer Service: Our hotels receive lots of inquiries, requests, payments, and reviews through various social channels. Sysomos helped keep track of them.
  • Slow/clunky: the dashboard wasn't always as fast and load times were slow. When scheduling content for 90 hotels, this can be particularly burdensome.
  • Scheduled posts would often not post or go through.
  • The dashboard did have some responsiveness issues, and wasn't as user friendly as expected or marketed.
It's a great tool, but you should always evaluate your own company goals and see whether this tool is suited for your business or not. There are a lot of social media management and listening tools out there -- Sysomos did work well with us though -- but we chose to transition over to Sprout Social instead.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Expion is being used by the social media team at my organization. My business has over 400 business locations and every location has it's own social media page. Expion helps publish content across all of the pages. I use it for scheduling content and reviewing analytics.
  • Scheduling content across Facebook and Twitter
  • Publishing the same content to multiple pages
  • Viewing a scheduling calendar
  • Great account management team/friendly service
  • Not as user-friendly as I'd like
  • Slow loading time/often freezes
  • Scheduled posts often fail
Expion is great for publishing content across multiple social media pages. It's very robust and the scheduling/posting process is easy. It's definitely better suited for larger companies. For a smaller company, you can find most of the capabilities with a less expensive tool. Expion's analytics are pretty useful.
February 05, 2016

Expeditious Expion

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company uses Sysomos Expion to schedule multiple social posts at one time. It is being used primarily in one department. It is a great way to save time and plan your social media posts in advance. I think it is a great program and I have really enjoyed using it.
  • Social media planning - you can plan your entire day, week or month of posts out in advance.
  • Time management - you can schedule multiple posts at once which saves you time.
  • The ability to post on multiple platforms at once.
  • I have had scheduled posts fail, but that might have been an issue with the social media site I was posting to.
I would highly recommend Sysomos Expion to a coworker. I think it a great program that saves you time and helps you plan your social media usage. I think it is very appropriate for many companies. Especially companies that are very active on social media. I do not think there is a situation where it is less appropriate.
Michelle LeBlanc | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sysomos MAP is a fantastic intelligence gathering tool. At my previous employer, I frequently used this product for two reasons:
- Tracking success of a social media or PR campaign by looking at the growing number of mentions of a company name, hashtag or topic over time
- Doing new business research by discovering strengths and weaknesses of an organization based on social media chatter around their products or services or discovering trends in their industry
In both occasions, I found Sysomos MAP to be incredibly helpful. Being able to save searches and return to them over time was great, though I did wish for the ability to get a regular update mailed to me with new hits/data. The interface isn't the most user-friendly/visual in this space, but the quality of the data and speed of the product made that worthwhile for me. Their customer service is also top-notch: very helpful, friendly and quick to respond.
  • Huge amounts of data available across multiple channels (blogs, social. web, etc)
  • Price was not too expensive for my agency's needs
  • Speed of being able to quickly run searches and produce answers
  • Email alerts of recurring reports would be helpful
  • Speed in adding new social networks is sometimes slow
  • Visuals were lacking (downloadable reports weren't easy to read or print, graphics needed to be re-created by our designers to be client-friendly)
If you are an agency that is interested in gathering social media data about your clients then Sysomos MAP is a great product. If you're looking for more of a social management tool then this isn't for you, though Sysomos does offer a different product for that.
Ryan Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use it for 3 functions. Monitoring, measurement, and insight development.
  • Quickly allows us to pull basic data.
  • Very easy to use if you know how to construct Boolean queries.
  • Flexibility to quickly update keywords / queries.
  • Customer service.
  • Needs more and faster growth for shared / owned channel analysis.
  • It is twitter heavy. Pulling from more social sources would be ideal.
Overall the ease of use, flexibility, and speed of the product makes it VERY useful for us.
Sara Robertson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is primarily used by the firm marketing team for brand research. We also use it on a limited basis for client research. On the client side, we use it most frequently for share of voice research. That means when we are doing a RFP or something, we'll show a client how they stand in their competitive environment. Most clients at this phase aren't doing any social efforts (or poor ones), so the results can be quite startling.
  • It's good for major brands and research (especially consumer facing)
  • It's good for establishing share of voice
  • It's good for identifying trends over time - focusing in on what caused conversations spikes.
  • Their influencer/klout score algorithm is worthless - it caps out at 10 so the New York Times and Jo Schmo gamer dude and Justin Bieber all have the same score.
  • The Boolean builder can be frustrating, it will tell you there is an error, but gives you no indication of where. In a complex string it can take forever to figure out what you messed up.
  • Twitter listening only goes back one year. If you ever need to compare something year over year, without anticipating the need in advance and downloading reports, you're screwed.
Sysomos is not very helpful for brands that don't have a high number of mentions and aren't consumer facing. We're a B2B firm, so our traction on social is pretty minor. If you are in a bigger arena with a lot of major mentions and campaigns to analyze, this tool would be a lot more useful.
Kelly Cates | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Expion is being used across eight of the Hanesbrands brands.
Expion is our go-to vendor for Social Media Platform. Each of our brands has multiple agencies and the Expion Platform allows one central area for all agencies to manage their posts, and gives management oversight into what each brand/agency is posting, performance, schedule and benchmark the data.
Several of our agencies use the library to share social assets. Each brand/agency can only see the brand for which they are responsible and mgmt can see everything.
Expion helps ensure best practices are being implemented across brands.
  • The calendar view of posts is a plus for managing multiple social pages.
  • The ability to monitor competitive brands in the advanced analytics section has been very informative.
  • The Library is a great place to share assets amongst teams or cross-functional agencies.
  • The ability to post in different languages and utilize globally.
  • We use the App builder regularly, and I'd like to see more flexibility in some aspects of the current templates.
  • For example: Some times we do not want email selection to be mandatory and in some templates there is no option to change.
Even for our small brands I cannot walk away from the robust reporting and easy to use posting process.
Princee Jain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am using it at a client where it's being used across the organisation.
  • Manual possibility to enter Boolean syntax unlike Radian6.
  • Most retweeted tweets feature.
  • Nice influencer graphs using Gephi.
  • Sentiment Analysis has a definite scope for improvement.
  • Word cloud should have the ability to deep dive into conversations rather than mentioning account names in big sizes.
  • Would be great if language translator could work on Word Cloud.
Sysomos Heartbeat is well suited for organisations with a huge Twitter structure. It is not well suited for finding meaning in the conversations or deep diving to unearth essence of consumer thinking.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Identifies conversation around a product or service
  • Tests brand perceptions around the 5 W's & how (ex: who is talking about my product? where are they talking? how are they describing it?)
  • Influencer search on Twitter should be better. MAP weighs too much on the volume of a retweet, so it sees spam bots as influential
  • Like all text analytics tools, the software does not understand sarcasm in speech
Would recommend examining other tools before committing to Sysomos (Map or Heartbeat)
Andrea Dobek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Expion is a tool our company (Schnucks Markets) uses to make monitoring local store Facebook pages easier. Each Facebook Administrator has a login to access the Publishing Calendar for their location, and they can consult data collected by the dashboard, such as fan interaction with their page and/or specific posts; they can view posts from other stores to learn what their fans like or dislike; they can also reply to public comments or private messages sent by Facebook users.
  • Scheduling posts is incredibly easy, especially with the week-at-a-glance calendar. Simply click on a time on the calendar to create a post for the future; from there you can attach any media you wish, add the message text, etc. A live preview on the right side of the page shows you exactly how your post will appear on Facebook.
  • The Quick Post option works much the same way, and is especially useful if you’re using their mobile app. You have all the same options available to you as with the publishing calendar.
  • If you want to see how your fans are reacting to your page, you can do so with a click on the “Fan Conversations” tab on the Dashboard. From there, you can see a timeline of all fan comments, beginning with the newest first. This is conveniently separate from posts made to your page by you or ones that were made company-wide.
  • Unfortunately, one of the biggest complaints I have is in connection with the management of media. (Note: I have not had trouble with photos when using Quick Post or the calendar.) If I wish to change the cover photo for my page, I must email the photo to a colleague of mine at corporate, and they change it for me at headquarters. When I first began using Expion around 9 months ago, the uploading of photos to the media albums (for later use, or company-wide sharing) was completely non-functional. This HAS been improved, however.
  • Another complaint I have, that I would love to see addressed, is the overwhelming depth of information regarding analysis of page statistics. This is a double-edged sword, as the wealth of information provided by Expion is astounding. But one thing the dashboard lacks is graphs. I would love to see a graph showing the growth of my likes, rather than crunch a bunch of numbers to compare. It is also somewhat difficult to know the difference between sets of numbers, just by looking at them. This is one area where I feel creating/managing a page strictly through Facebook would be preferable, as Facebook’s dashboard is more intuitive and has graphs in addition to the numbers.
  • Something I noticed while scrolling through fan comments to my page was private messages are not separated clearly enough. The envelope icon, signifying a private message to me as the administrator, is easily missed amid the others; I was nearly two weeks late in replying to a customer request about a product.
  • Replying to fan comments and/or private messages isn’t as smooth as it could be. Clicking the Expion logo on the right side of the page (when looking at a table of comments/messages) brings up several options: Assign Task, Reply, Like (for fan comments) and [Mark as] Read. Unfortunately, these don’t always work properly, as there are several messages I know I have read, but their status still reads “Unread”.
I love Expion for its Publishing Calendar. I can log in, upload a photo and schedule a post very quickly. However, I cannot give the software a complete 10 out of 10 because of its issues with analytics. The incorporation of graphs and tools to compare numbers would increase its utility greatly. Until then, I must say Facebook’s own tools for managing a page are superior in that area. If you are looking to use such software, be sure you or whomever will be its primary user are comfortable with lots of numbers!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • We are an international company. Expion allows us to see what other properties in our company have done through Expion, and allows us to see how successful these things were.
  • Expion customer service is extremely helpful. I have emailed with many tutorials and they are very available to help and provide pre-made tutorials.
  • Expion has allowed me to connect our Twitter, Google+, Facebook, Four Square, and Instagram. It's great to have all of those sites in one place, where many systems like this do not allow that many.
  • There were many kinks at the beginning that needed to be worked out.
  • Set up process was lengthy.
I would ask about the set-up process. It is important to have everything arranged and training prepared before handing it to the employee who is to use the product. This can be frustrating and time consuming, so work directly with your contact at Expion from start to finish.
Matthew Garcia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Makes publishing to many pages and platforms easy
  • Expion's Analysis tool is very helpful for reporting
  • Representatives have been helpful when it comes to resolving issues quickly
  • Post failures can be frustrating, but many times they are caused by the Facebook API, which is beyond their control
  • Expion sometimes freezes and has random errors which can be frustrating
  • A lot of clicks go into creating posts, could be a little easier
I would ask what exactly you will need the tool for. It's helpful for managing many Facebook pages like my particular client, but manual posting for one page may be easier if your brand is smaller. Overall, I'm very likely to recommend Expion to a colleague.
November 06, 2013

Expion Ups and Downs

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • I mainly use this for Twitter and Facebook. It is very helpful for scheduling posts.
  • Capability to track down what people say on your posts are a big help to gain feedback.
  • New dashboard feature helps with quick reporting.
  • The UI could be improved.
  • It has glitches from time to time.
  • It can be a bit slow loading pages, but it is a 3rd party software grabbing data from facebook or twitter.
Play around with it first. Find out capabilities and ask how the tool is better than competing products.
Kristen O'Neill | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Utilizes Boolean queries which enables user to build very specific, complex searches.
  • Returns search results in near real-time (vs. several hours or days like competitor products).
  • Easy-to-understand, intuitive platform. Easy to navigate through listening results.
  • Fairly expensive.
  • Customer service response time can be inconsistent.
For those new to listening products and/or Boolean queries, it would be smart to ask what kind of service level they could expect. And also to get a certain number of hours or predetermined number of training sessions in writing as part of the contract. With all listening tools, there is a learning curve. If your business or agency doesn't have knowledgeable people in house, you'll want some training beyond what's available in the FAQs section.
Matthew Wurst | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Spectacular customer service: We conducted a through, investigative RFP and found that no solution could service a global agency such as ours, though Expion was the closest. They worked patiently to ensure that our wish list became a priority on their internal roadmap.
  • Versatility: No matter the size or scope of a client's social community needs - from publishing, workflow, moderation or analytics, Expion does it all and does it better than its competition. Other competitors nickel and dime us for every feature, every community or user added. None of that drama here.
  • Hunger: Their team has a drive to be the best, and it shows in their work. They don't rest, they don't settle and they strive to be the leaders in the space.
  • Integration with paid media tools, that's honestly it.
Push them to customize the tool for your needs. They'll do it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Identifies key social conversations around a brand across social media, blogs and traditional news sites
  • Helps to calculate estimated impressions for Twitter campaigns
  • Shows buzz around keywords for up to 2 years (only 1 year for Twitter)
  • Less information is available for Facebook (only up to 6 weeks) though this is due in part to Facebook's restrictions
  • Would like historical data for longer periods of time
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