LiftMetrix (discontinued) vs. Cyfe, by Traject

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LiftMetrix (discontinued)
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Social media analytics suite LiftMetrix was acquired by Hootsuite in February 2017 and became Hootsuite Impact, a social media analytics tool emphasizing the needs of larger entities and enterprise. The product has since been discontinued.N/A
Cyfe
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Cyfe is all-in-one dashboard software for analyzing data from online services like Google Analytics, Salesforce, AdSense, MailChimp, Amazon, Facebook, etc, from Traject.
$29
per month
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Starter
$29
per month
Standard
$39
per month
Pro
$65
per month
Premier
$119
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LiftMetrix (discontinued)Cyfe
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
LiftMetrix (discontinued)Cyfe, by Traject
Considered Both Products
LiftMetrix (discontinued)
Chose LiftMetrix (discontinued)
This was the first program that I used so do not have anything to compare it to. It does work better than scheduling within Facebook now Meta. I am not looking into other options because I would like to be able to post to more social accounts at a lower cost.
Chose LiftMetrix (discontinued)
I have been using Hootsuite Impact for about a year for basic social media posting and suggested top post dates and times. The ability to merge the past posts with current data with little effort, plus the easy to use navigation with Hootsuite Impact was the tipping point. I …
Chose LiftMetrix (discontinued)
Because Hootsuite has a strong publishing/listening tool that connects to analytics, it was the best for us. Tracx has incredible analytics, but their publishing tools were not as strong. Sprout social was good as well, but their single inbox/stream was not ideal for managing …
Chose LiftMetrix (discontinued)
Hootsuite Impact is far easy to use, both in setup and in pulling reports, than Adobe Social was for us. The visualizations make data far easier to read, and being able to quickly filter through mentions has helped us to be more nimble when pulling reports.
Cyfe
Chose Cyfe
Klipfolio probably had a lot of cool features, but it was SO user-UNfriendly that we never got to use them. We had high enough turnover in our company that people always needed Klipfolio training, and it was rarely completed to the satisfaction of trainees or trainers. It was …
Chose Cyfe
These other reporting tools are much better for an agency that is under the scrutiny of cleaner reports with more in-depth analytics and specific KPI's. However, you can use both and provide a Cyfe board as a live additional to the weekly static reporting that many agencies …
Chose Cyfe
Sprout has better reporting for social analytics but doesn't cover as many activities across a company and the reports are only for social...not even web analytics. It's also way more expensive. We're actually evaluating whether or not Cyfe will continue to be our tool of …
Chose Cyfe
My company already subscribed to Cyfe when I began, so for me there wasn't any shopping around. While Cyfe does pull straight from the "back end" side of many social media platforms, or from Google Analytics for websites, the benefit is that you can see all the stats in one …
Chose Cyfe
Cyfe is cheaper than Geckoboard; and I believe (??) has more integrations you can pull data from. I liked Geckoboard a tad better visually.
Chose Cyfe
We used RavenTools in the past as our monthly reporting tool. At the time there wasn't a one-page dashboard available in RavenTools, every single element we incorporate in our reports was included on a separate page. It became very unwieldy for our clients and led to a lot of …
Chose Cyfe
Compared to other tools like Jasper Reports, Cyfe has ZERO impact on the server since it is a totally hosted solution, plus it has several connectors that allow for interacting with no coding at all. It gives the user total freedom on which language to use to provide custom …
Chose Cyfe
We were using different tools to do pieces of what Cyfe does. I was never keen on the idea of spending $150, $200, or even $500+ for an analytics tool so we were pulling analytics directly from each source and creating our own reports. It was a beast of a project to manage and …
Chose Cyfe
Cyfe more than holds its own vs the competition. The capabilities are strong - especially for the price.
Chose Cyfe
Hootsuite is good for tracking online activity. Cyfe has the same capabilities and more.
Chose Cyfe
Remember that Cyfe is not a true Business Intelligence tool it is a data visualization tool. It is great because it let's you change the time series. It will not let you drill down on the data. You cannot map different data sets together. It is a great tool to pull basic data …
Chose Cyfe
Cyfe really shines by pulling in only the relevant data you want to see while being logged in to multiple accounts.
Chose Cyfe
The price was a big selling point but more importantly the third-party integrations that are offered were the deciding factor. Offering support for services that we use regularly like Google Analytics, Apple's iTunes Connect, Facebook, etc., allow us to get real time access to …
Chose Cyfe
I investigated a number of options for a digital dashboard, to be honest Cyfe was so much cheaper than the alternatives I was a bit sceptical, but it was so much better once I had mastered adding data sources.
Chose Cyfe
The Salesforce dashboard is comparably flexible and intuitive, but designed more to its internal CRM focus. SumAll shares the social media dashboard capabilities, but lacks all others. Its interesting feature is side-by-side graph analysis for cross-channel performance. Cyfe …
Chose Cyfe
Cyfe's pricing model makes it affordable for a small company like mine.
Chose Cyfe
Yet to find a comparative product that can offer the same pricing, service and capabilities
Chose Cyfe
Have not tried other products.
Chose Cyfe
Domo was vastly overpriced compared Cyfe and it was far less friendly to use and get used to. I was able to jump right in with Cyfe and get the data I wanted setup right away. When I had a question I was able to get an immediate response directly from Deven without hesitation. …
Features
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BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
LiftMetrix (discontinued)
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Ratings
Cyfe, by Traject
6.9
Ratings
17% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
LiftMetrix (discontinued)
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Ratings
Cyfe, by Traject
8.5
Ratings
5% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
LiftMetrix (discontinued)
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Ratings
Cyfe, by Traject
9.2
Ratings
10% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
LiftMetrix (discontinued)
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Ratings
Cyfe, by Traject
8.9
Ratings
11% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
LiftMetrix (discontinued)
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Ratings
Cyfe, by Traject
8.6
Ratings
1% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
LiftMetrix (discontinued)
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Ratings
Cyfe, by Traject
9.3
Ratings
17% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
LiftMetrix (discontinued)
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Ratings
Cyfe, by Traject
8.4
Ratings
7% above category average
REST API00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings5.80 Ratings
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LiftMetrix (discontinued)Cyfe, by Traject
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User Ratings
LiftMetrix (discontinued)Cyfe, by Traject
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
LiftMetrix (discontinued)Cyfe, by Traject
Likelihood to Recommend
I like that I can really dig in to the advanced filers to generate the custom reports that apply to my industry and the accounts I have linked to Hootsuite. I have more experience with some networks and not as much experience with others, so the suggestions I am able to review and implement have been enormously helpful. I have a marketing staff of 4, so having Impact do the legwork helps us focus on the creative aspect of our marketing plan.
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Cyfe might be for you if you are looking for a cost-effective way to display all of your marketing metrics in one place. If you are looking for a detailed, fine-tuned, niche, or extremely specific metrics, this might not be the best solution. Cyfe is good for a general health check-up of marketing, but not a finely tuned examination.
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Pros
  • It is easy to quickly set up and get results from specific search terms.
  • It tracks these terms across many different platforms, all in one place.
  • It allows us to quickly analyze the data from these mentions.
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  • Cyfe makes it easy to create a professional looking dashboards in a short amount of time. With so many built-in data sources and the intuitive nature of the interface, you can have beautiful looking charts and graphs in no time!
  • One of the best features of Cyfe is the many data sources built-in and that each dashboard is not constrained to one source. One of the drawbacks I've seen in other tools is the limited ability to pull from multiple Google Analytics profiles, multiple AdWords accounts or from both AdWords and Bing in one dashboard. Cyfe has no such limitation.
  • Google Spreadsheets - if the data you need to show is not available via an API, being able to pull from Google spreadsheets is a great solution. Once set up, you can add data whenever you need to the spreadsheet and your widgets in the Cyfe dashboard are automatically updated. Huge time saver!
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Cons
  • Free version used to offer a lot more performance.
  • Insights now only available for paid versions.
  • Would be nice to see shares.
  • Hashtag suggestions or insight would be helpful.
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  • Sometimes the percentages in Cyfe seem off. We'll review the numbers month over month in Google Analytics and the same numbers are pulled into Cyfe, and yet Cyfe reports a different percentage
  • It would be nice if Cyfe had more styling and layout choices to brand it more to our company's style and look
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Likelihood to Renew
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It has become a part of our internal tools so unless a competitor comes out with similar functionality as a similar price point it is unlikely that we would not renew. One area that would cause us not to renew would be if a competing service came out with more third-party integrations that match our needs. Price at this point is no longer an issue as it would allow us to automate a somewhat manual process that we have now connecting Cyfe widgets to Google Sheets.
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Usability
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I gave it a rating of 7 because it does a good job at what it does, but there are missing that are missing which I would have benefited from. For instance, if I was able to drill down more on the specific metrics I was able to see, that would have been helpful.
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Support Rating
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Because I had a very minor question and I was able to speak directly to the founder through LinkedIn and through email. I know that as they grow this may not always be an option but the fact that he made himself available to answer my questions said a lot about his passion for the product.
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Implementation Rating
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Cyfe is a 15 minutes implementation, then some time to get your data sources created. This is an easy one person job that will not result in down time or unnecessary wasted man hours.
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Alternatives Considered
This was the first program that I used so do not have anything to compare it to. It does work better than scheduling within Facebook now Meta. I am not looking into other options because I would like to be able to post to more social accounts at a lower cost.
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My company already subscribed to Cyfe when I began, so for me there wasn't any shopping around. While Cyfe does pull straight from the "back end" side of many social media platforms, or from Google Analytics for websites, the benefit is that you can see all the stats in one place rather than having to log in to so many other platforms to grab those metrics.
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Return on Investment
  • Positive - being able to centralize our social media management has helped save time and resources
  • Positive - we can better measure our efforts and course correct more quickly if something is/isn't working.
  • Positive - we can better track conversions on social posts aimed to sell products with actual purchases on our website.
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  • Cyfe allows us to provide real time data to our clients
  • Cyfe allows us to provide detailed analytics to our clients showing actual results
  • Cyfe reduced our need to provide monthly "reports" to our marketing clients
  • Cyfe allows us to have better situational awareness and know what is going on throughout our multiple organizations
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