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    AlphaSense

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AAlphaSense is a market intelligence platform used by companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, their AI-based technology has helped professionals make business decisions by delivering insights from public and private content—including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, and equity research. The platform boasts users among 4,000 enterprise customers. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,000 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, and…N/A

    Factiva

    Score5.1 out of 10
    N/AFactiva from Dow Jones is a data service that helps companies identify opportunities, accelerate decisions and manage a business's reputation, that includes global news and data accessible via the Dow Jones' research platform, on mobile devices or integrated via advanced feeds and APIs.N/A
    Pricing
    AlphaSenseFactiva
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    AlphaSenseFactiva
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AlphaSenseFactiva
    Considered Both Products
    AlphaSense
    Chose AlphaSense
    AlphaSense has a superior search engine, which allows it to get very targeted research and news - thereby helping to cut down on noise, and improve efficiency and insights - which Factiva lags. On the other hand, it has more features compared to Sentieo or Amenity Analytics.
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    Factiva compliments as provides the noise while AlphaSense focuses on the signal due to the consolidated broker coverage it supports; without comparison with Thomson Reuters.
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    AlphaSense has the most sources and best usability of any tool I've used.
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    AlphaSense has hands down greater coverage of analyst reports. AlphaSense's search and filter capabilities also look superior and more easy to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    Not much compares to AlphaSense, it's my go to for research on public companies CapIQ is a comparator for analyst reports but they are easy to pull on AlphaSense
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    AlphaSense's smart search functionality is a huge differentiator versus these peers, particularly its ability to easily search through broker research (versus just filings/transcripts). In addition, AlphaSense makes it much easier to review multiple documents at once, and the …
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    It has the best search functionality, surfaces information most easily, and contains broker research.
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    Alphanses has pioneered the Sentiment analysis, earning summary, risk highlights and score and give access to broker research reports from well known borking house which were lacking in other platforms.
    Incentivized
    Chose AlphaSense
    These databases are rather great at what they do. For example - MergerWare is great at M&A deals, BamSEC is great for company docs, etc. However, as an analyst, you have to craft information across these data sources which is what AlphaSense helps us with.
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    Dow Jones
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    AlphaSenseFactiva
    Financial Research
    Comparison of Financial Research features of AlphaSense and Factiva
    Feature
    AlphaSense
    6.9
    171 Ratings
    Factiva
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    Ratings
    Private Company Data5.2141 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry-Specific Information7.4166 Ratings00 Ratings
    Independent Research Access8.4160 Ratings00 Ratings
    M&A Analysis5.7132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Supply Chain Data6.691 Ratings00 Ratings
    ESG Data6.088 Ratings00 Ratings
    Credit Ratings Reports6.677 Ratings00 Ratings
    Macroeconomic News7.7119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search Tools8.3158 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    AlphaSenseFactiva
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (239 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    8.1
    (235 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    9.0
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.3
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (16 ratings)
    -
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    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    6.4
    (8 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    5.9
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
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    2.0
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
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    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    6.6
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
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