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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.

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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
Sysomos was used by the prior agency I used to work at for social listening ad-hoc client requests, or tracking of mentions or conversations on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. It helped provide insights on the volume of a certain conversation topic, about a brand, hashtags, crises, and more.
  • Social listening tracking and monitoring.
  • Sharing of voice analysis.
  • Brand voice analysis.
  • The user interface could be updated.
  • Ease of use - Overall, it's very hard to understand how to create new queries.
  • More webinars on uses for the tool.
I would say that this is a fine tool for standard social listening tracking or monitoring. I would not say that it's top of class by any means, but it is sufficient and it gets the job done. I would like to see the interface get updated and new functions included.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have used Expion to streamline our content management across various verticals. Working in food, asset, and content management is a beast. We have a new menu and a new batch of assets every week, so asset discipline and organization is key. We're evaluating Expion as a tool to help us with that.
  • Asset organization
  • Content management
  • Content discovery
  • Better bulk upload
  • Content category analysis and tagging
Expion is well suited for mid to large organizations which manage complicated content calendars across verticals, using lots of assets.
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sysomos MAP is typically used by the social team to provide initial listening into volume, trends, sentiment and authority around a conversation among social audiences. This includes research for new business efforts, competitive auditing, always-on social channel maintenance and internal comms. Different users access different functions within MAP and collectively, our team takes full advantage of the software's offerings.
  • Influencer bio search - detailed assessment of Twitter profiles
  • Authority scoring - filters out search results to identify influencers talking about a trend or brand
  • Facebook page analysis - fan insights, sentiment and top followers
  • Sentiment scoring could be more qualitative - typically the majority of sentiment is categorized as neutral
  • Logo search - searching social content by brand icons helps filter out irrelevant content
  • Context around negative sentiment - some words are categorized as negative when they are actually positive
Sysomos Map is well suited for higher level social listening and gaining a sense of a competitive landscape, opportunities for brands to optimize their social messaging and identifying influencers discussing a particular product or trend.

Sysomos Map does not provide much value when looking into paid media activity, user emotion or channel activity beyond Twitter and Facebook.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We enable distributed use by users around our global business, though primary use is centered on key brand and PR users. Our priority is monitoring the impact of our brand in the marketplace, including through share of voice on strategic area of focus.
  • 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.
  • Limited API access to some networks. Though this is hardly unique to Sysomos, the limited APIs provided by closed-networks like LinkedIn and Facebook, and others like Instagram, often disappoint our users, who may have unrealistic expectations as to what we can report on. In reality, Sysomos MAP is highly focused on Twitter, which is often not our core channel. Though Sysomos is bound by the limitations of the APIs provided, perhaps some creative innovation would enable limited but interesting observations. Identifying LinkedIn statuses that were simultaneously pushed to Twitter, for example, gives a window into that otherwise private world. Scraping of LinkedIn's trending topics might be revealing.
  • Sentiment analysis is automated and therefore only moderately accurate. Some advanced customization might enable us to get better results, perhaps by uploading custom dictionaries of positive, negative or neutral terms. For example to a loss-adjuster or insurer, many terms like flood, bankruptcy, damage, fraud risk etc may in fact be used positively as part of a marketing proposition or work undertaken ("X company insurance saved us from awful disaster"). Automated systems will always struggle with these. I wish I could make mass-edits to such inbound comments that would learn and persist.
Highly effective to measure a Twitter campaign post-event or campaign, where there is a defined period of time and a pre-defined hashtag (or hashtags) to be measured. Limited at measuring closed networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn.
Alexander Liss | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sysomos is a very simple, easy to use product that returns social listening results within one year.

Its advantages are its ease of use, speed to return data, and unlimited number of queries.

Its disadvantages are its extremely simplistic analysis features. Pales in comparison to Crimson Hexagon for things like sentiment analysis, quality of visualizations, topic waves, topic clusters, etc etc etc. :) Number of users accounts is also limited so depending on your plan and how many people are using the tool you can get kicked out when other people log-in with the same credentials.

It has once NICE feature which is "Communities". This is a cluster analysis based on linguistic patterns. Frankly a GREAT feature, but the other features of the platform are so limited I can't recommend it.
  • Simple queries within 1 year
  • Quick to return data
  • Good at basic volume and sentiment
  • Low quality of visualizations
  • Poor filtering options for exploring drivers of positive / negative sentiment over time
  • Poor filtering options by platform / content source
  • Limited to 1 year of data
  • Limited number of concurrent users
If you need a very simple, quick, efficient, and ease to use tool it will suffice. For more complex historical social listening you are better off with BrandWatch, Crimson Hexagon, or NetBase.
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.
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.
Stefania Accardo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At my company, the Insights team uses Sysomos MAP on a daily basis for many different clients; from CPG to financial brands and many more. The tool is reliable and we mostly use it for real-time monitoring, tracking what people are saying on different digital channels (social media, forums and blogs) about a specific brand or campaign.
  • Identify most retweeted and most authoritative tweets. This helps us understand why and how conversations go viral and who is influencing the overall sentiment.
  • Show volume trend and popularity. A snapshot overview on how conversations are evolving throughout a specific date range. This helps us analyze relevant spikes and predict future analysis.
  • Build queries and analyze everything and anything. Within Sysomos, we can build infinite queries and also analyze competitive share of voice.
  • Sentiment. The sentiment analysis in Sysomos is not as accurate as it is in other third party tools where you can apply/modify sentiment manually.
  • Any link of content analyzed within Sysomos should open on a different tab.
Sysomos is well suited for real-time monitoring, social campaign awareness tracking (especially the ones using hashtags), media news influence, competitive analysis and corporate communications narratives.

If you are looking for a monthly reporting tool, you don't need Sysomos. This is a tool you want to use everyday to understand what people online are saying on a daily basis.
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!
Casey Munck | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Sysomos for reputation management and to gauge our share of digital voice, competition analysis, sentiment rating and authority ranking. Sysomos is used by our team's communications and social media editor, e-marketing specialist, myself the manager and interns and the information is shared throughout our organization and globally to audit and analyze our social base and the competition.
  • Ease of use
  • Dashboard views are nice
  • Easy reporting of main points
  • Detailed info on authority ranking needs work
  • Insight into your social base is lacking
  • Seems almost to regurgitate already existing info in social platforms, nothing new
  • Account management is poor -- no contact or consult with our account team.
Ask to see the specific dashboards of what you're looking for demoed. Lack of useful knowledge, very baseline info. However, reports come out nice of general information with nice graphics.
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.
Joseph Chiang | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • This platform was particularly useful in organizing Twitter data. It accurately pinpointed the tweets' impressions (positive, neutral, negative), saving me time I would have spent sorting.
  • The buzzgraph feature has a lot of potential in providing insight leads. I found that the 2nd, 3rd, etc. searches using combinations of buzzgraph words often led to the heart of a question or conflict I was researching.
  • The sentiment graphs were very useful as timelines of when an issue was hot. More importantly, it allowed the user to tell how long that issue remained popular as measured by the # of social media posts and news reports.
  • Searching through forum posts was a painful experience because the platform had trouble sorting through spam. I would find myself reading through duplicate spam posts rather than original content/posts.
  • I wish there had been an option to search through Instagram.
  • I wish there had been auto-detection when it came to boolean logic errors. It was frustrating locating where I had missed quotations or a parentheses when I made very specific searches.
Sysomos MAP is easy to use, but the depth of what it has to offer is not immediately apparent. I would avoid jumping right in and instead shadow a more experienced user as he or she goes through the process of completing a search. You will likely find quite a few tricks to use in sorting through irrelevant data. Plus, certain features lend themselves better to specific social media platforms.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Twitter aggregation into one place.
  • In-site previews of content.
  • Comparison analysis of Twitter handles.
  • Purchase intent.
  • Passion intensity assessment.
  • Multi-word assessment. Understanding two word phrasing rather than only keywords.
  • Sorting keywords by positive and negative connotations.
I would recommend the product, but I don't think it is the best product out there if you are managing brands. I would review multiple products and see which one is the best for the specific tasks at hand. Sysomos is great for some things, but not for others. On our team, we have people who use it for finding blogger influencers, people who help guide social strategy, and people who post and community manage. What is right for one person might not be right for another.
Nick Pogar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The tool provides quality information on demographic and geographic breakdowns.
  • The tool's capabilities of quickly altering boolean queries and the versatility in search and filtration is especially nice to have.
  • For whatever reason, conversation numbers do not match similar tools using the same search queries.
  • Exported data could be organized in a fashion that would make information easier to analyze.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Aggregate social media channels, even doing it's best to pull Facebook analytics.
  • Graphically explain the social media opinion of a word (in my case a product, brand or person).
  • Pull complete records and create reports from those records.
  • Easy navigation and understanding of the product.
  • With the privacy settings of Facebook it is hard to pull information here.
  • When looking historically it frequently counts Retweets as unique tweets, which was often not helpful.
There are some obvious restrictions in any social media tool, but Heartbeat was one of the best that is out there.
Kristy Penzone | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • We heavily relied on this product during times of crisis with our clients. Being able to easily identify negative comments and sentiment and make smart decisions based on that information was priceless. It allowed us to contain potential bad press and get ahead of the problems.
  • I have not used the product in the past year and am unable to pinpoint areas of improvement.
Patrice Kong | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The product is very user-friendly, it filters most 'noise' from various social media platforms, users are able to create quick/simple queries, the software also does significant amount of analysis, hence increasing productivity among the team.
  • Create queries for topic profiles or key word analysis, easily builds conversation clouds and sentiment analysis.
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
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Using Boolean syntax, we are able to tap into what conversations are happening around the search set. Searches are keywords-based, but the Boolean capabilities allow us to filter the data set to drill down to precisely what we want.
  • Although Boolean logic is a powerful way to filter large data sets, the syntax can be tricky to learn.
  • For full-on sentiment analysis capability, Sysomos Heartbeat might be a better choice. In Hearbeat you can see what people are saying specifically. You can also alter sentiment (e.g. from negative to neutral). In MAP you cannot manipulate the data in this way.
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The user interface was very intuitive. This was important for us as we let others use the product without much training.
  • Comprehensiveness of data was also excellent. The system caught a large number of blog posts, etc. This was augmented by the full Twitter fire hose.
  • Sysomos also generated decent visuals. We did not have to export the data to Excel to get acceptable looking charts and graphs. The system generated graphs that we could re-use.directly with clients.
  • Influencer identification. Influencer functionality is designed to tell us ho are the most influential people on a given topic. Sysomos was not great at this. It looked at someone's social graph and could tell us who a specific Twitter user is connected with, and how often they interact with these people. But it was not stellar it identifying who were the true influencers rather than those, for example, who just re-tweeted content from someone influential.
  • This is an immature area. These tools are typically good at counting re-tweets, but not at identifying who the re-tweeters are. Influencer ID was a nice to have for us, rather than a strong requirement so we could live with this weakness.
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