Contify vs. Factiva

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Contify
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Contify provides AI-powered Market and Competitive Intelligence solutions that offer a 360-degree view of market, industry, and competition. Contify empowers businesses with relevant, timely, and role-specific insights to drive enterprise-wide decision-making agility and sustained growth. Contify helps businesses drive informed decision-making by enabling them to keep track of what’s important in a world brimming with ‘digital noise’. Enterprises can access the Contify platform for noise…N/A
Factiva
Score 5.1 out of 10
N/A
Factiva 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
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Free/Freemium Version
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Considered Both Products
Contify
Chose Contify
Contify allows customization and helps me develop my own watchlist where I can just add a bunch of companies to different lists and it'll start tracking them for me, it will also allow me to structure the dashboard as per my business hierarchy whereas, Crayon is focused more …
Chose Contify
Contify has provided my organization with powerful features increasing market intelligence by offering email alerts, user management, taxonomy generator, and custom feeds that help us make informed decisions. It increases the capacity for in-depth investigation starting from …
Chose Contify
Prior to Contify, we didn't have the insight that we do. With a lack of time, we were unable to collect the competitor data and updates as doing it in-house is a nightmare. If you were to manually track all information, updates, social media, etc., so much of your time would be …
Chose Contify
Contify has the most helpful feature. It enables me to search for competitors on various websites and social media. Almost all of the information we need is readily available to us. We get actionable intelligence
Factiva
Chose Factiva
Each of the tools I have described share the same kind of premise: the main thing they do is source and collect media content. Then to varying degrees they run filters against this content and produce a range of data visualisations and ways of slicing the data and content. …
Chose Factiva
I have used Lexis Nexus and Thomson One. I find Factiva to be the most user friendly of these services. I much prefer Factiva's layout on their website when I search for articles and I also prefer its search builder over Lexis Nexus and Thomson One.
Chose Factiva
I often used Twitter as an alternative to Factiva. Additionally, I used a number of link-gathering resources such as Google alerts.
Chose Factiva
At the time, Factiva was already being used by the company I worked for - they had developed procedures specifically for using Factiva, so there wasn't really an option. I've used Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg exclusively for legal research, so there wasn't really an overlap …
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
In terms of features, Contify is the best. It is used to
locate competitors across a variety of web properties and social media
platforms. It uses AI to track information on customers, competitors, and other
industry segments. Another benefit I've found is their analyst team's
willingness and ability to develop specific taxonomies for my industry. It
enables us to collect and share data across the company. I believe that
automatic tagging is still a viable option for learning and can be made even
more effective.
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Factiva is particularly useful when I work on securities litigations involving shareholder lawsuits -- i.e. shareholders who bought and sold shares during a specified class period when the company was misrepresenting, for example, its financials. Specifically Factiva is quite useful in helping me understand what company events were known by the market and when they were known. Factiva has also been useful in helping me on various research studies. It is less relevant for other types of litigation that I work on (i.e. Patent litigation, etc).
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Pros
  • Tracking of competitors updates.
  • Great support team.
  • Complete customization.
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  • Putting broad swaths of news in one place
  • Organizing information
  • Constant updates
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Cons
  • Contify is the competitive intelligence system that we trust because it is a fully customizable platform that meets the requirements of my company, it is a solution that provides a quality service with numerous resources and a unique user experience, in addition to offering a robust interface and simple use its characteristics take all the credit.
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  • Lengthy setup for searches
  • Repeated articles appear frequently
  • Unannounced interface changes were unpleasant surprises
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Alternatives Considered
Contify has provided my organization with powerful features increasing market intelligence by offering email alerts, user management, taxonomy generator, and custom feeds that help us make informed decisions. It increases the capacity for in-depth investigation starting from intelligence, it is a wonderful tool that offers success because it is Unequivocal, simple and deliberate.
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Each of the tools I have described share the same kind of premise: the main thing they do is source and collect media content. Then to varying degrees they run filters against this content and produce a range of data visualisations and ways of slicing the data and content. Factiva's strength lies more in the sourcing of content than in the manipulation of the results (much like the others do with more sophisticated dashboards and visual interpretations). We chose it because of the integrity of its sourcing breadth. It doesn't matter so much about the display of results because the source material you're working with isn't as dynamic as say social media.
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Return on Investment
  • Has allowed me to increase the efficiency of my research team
  • Spend much less time in collating information
  • No mobile app delays the process
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