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    ARchitect

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AARInsights’ SaaS platform is used by B2B tech and services companies for managing their analyst relations (AR) and influencer relations programs. The flagship solution, ARchitect, along with multiple complementary products, help improve AR professionals’ efficiency and productivity.N/A

    Bazaarvoice

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AThe Bazaarvoice platform provides businesses with the ability to collect and publish authentic feedback from their customers, who can review products and services, ask questions, and post photos and videos of their experiences with products. The vendor says that leveraging user-generated content can increase sales and build brand loyalty. Within the platform, the vendor provides seven core modules: Ratings & Reviews Questions & Answers Sampling…N/A
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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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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    SmileBack
    Score10 out of 10
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    PowerReviews
    Score7.8 out of 10
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    Score7.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ARchitectBazaarvoice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.6
    (30 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
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    Availability
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    9.0
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    Support Rating
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
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    Implementation Rating
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    User Testimonials
    ARchitectBazaarvoice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ARInsights
    If you have an AR program across the globe and want to track all interactions you have with them, this tool is right for you. As you can imagine the tool is only as good as the data you put in, so you do have to make it part of your work day to input the data. Say a team member leaves and you have to jump in to cover for them, you are able to see all the interactions they have had with analysts
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    Bazaarvoice
    Bazaarvoice is overall a quite strong ratings and reviews platform. If you have a national brand and want to integrate ratings and reviews into your website, Bazaarvoice should be in your consideration set. If you have a small business or a tighter budget, you may find Bazaarvoice too robust or expensive of a platform. If your brand gets a lot of organic product reviews, Bazaarvoice will be a helpful tool to increase brand credibility and search engine rankings. If you need help getting consumers to review your products, Bazaarvoice offers sampling programs. These programs can get very pricy depending on how many SKUs you are looking for reviews on. Bazaarvoice also has a proprietary platform where they collect consumer reviews for many brands, and once you have the Bazaarvoice ratings and reviews platform, you may be able to purchase reviews of your products and have them sync to your website without having to run a sampling program.
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    Pros
    ARInsights
    • The Event Manager function is a great way plan, invite and send agendas to your analyst attendees.
    • Projects - although needing more work - is a great way to track progress during an evaluation.
    • Premium content is perfect for tracking mentions, sharing reports that are relevant to your constituents and reporting.
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    Bazaarvoice
    • Bazaarvoice Curations makes it incredibly easy to pull in content from multiple social media platforms for us to review.
    • Once the content is pulled into the Curations dashboard, our marketing team can very easily scroll through all the images and decide which ones we would like to feature on our site.
    • Curations also makes it very easy to tag any of our products in the images. We are able to do this manually, but Bazaarvoice also offers the option of letting their team tag the products they see in our images.
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    Cons
    ARInsights
    • We would like to see some project management functions to track RFI, log follow-up actions and assign tasks inside the team.
    • I'd be good to see email open state in the analyst interactions tab.
    • An easier way to report insights from interactions would be hugely useful.
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    Bazaarvoice
    • Their login to their portal is awful. They are working on creating a single sign on experience but right now there are different usernames and passwords depending on what dashboard you are attempting to access.
    • They could probably spend more time optimizing the cost of their initialization script. The size of the JavaScript concerns me.
    • They could work on their deployment and preview tools. The time for our staged changes to show on the live site doesn't seem to be as quick as it should be and the preview tools don't take into account the site's CSS files for display.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ARInsights
    As a freelancer I am unlikely to have the budget to use ARchitect on a regular basis I would however look at it seriously if asked by a client or if I was working in an agency with a significant AR practice I would look at it seriously.
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    Bazaarvoice
    We are happy with the product and really just need to optimise our deployment of it on an ongoing basis. There is a lot of functionality prebuilt within Bazaarvoice which we want to have on our site, and to recreate this in our platform would take significant effort which is not practical for us.
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    Usability
    ARInsights
    It's super easy to use, and anything that I cannot figure out, their team usually helps me within hours of my asking!
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    Bazaarvoice
    I'm sure all processes and program can improve, however Bazaarvoice has reached a very easy usability level and hope this continues as the product improves over time.
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    Support Rating
    ARInsights
    In the instances I have had issues its been a little tricky to figure things out, some of the videos are helpful but getting email responses are not great compared to online chat and I have found that the response rates have been more than a day in some instances which is not as responsive as I would like compared to other platforms.I have seen ARInsights have made a number of new hires in the area of account management so I am sure that will have improved the support provided
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    Bazaarvoice
    The Bazaarvoice team is always available via call, email, or any other platform to provide help, guidance, or to push or ask for the task we set earlier. They are talkative and easy to share information and discuss issues if there are any. Thay may have more out of box solutions for easy implementation, but as a whole, and regarding support I am satisfied.
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    Implementation Rating
    ARInsights
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    Bazaarvoice
    Save time and energy by utilizing their implementation team!
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    Alternatives Considered
    ARInsights
    Prior to using ARchitect, we were using Salesforce. While we did have some customization added, it did not nearly have the robustness that ARchitect provides -- especially since it is designed for AR professionals. We've been using ARchitect for about 8 years and have never looked back. Some examples of vast improvements: 1. Analyst firms/bios. With Salesforce, we needed to maintain all analyst bios -- something that ARchitect does. 2. Analyst coverage. We used to track all analyst coverage by visiting multiple analyst websites and manually pasting into spreadsheets. We now not only get a feed of coverage that can be exported into Excel, but we can also customize reports by topic. 3. Reporting. Salesforce did not provide the same reporting capabilities that ARchitect provides.
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    Bazaarvoice
    Even though both PowerReviews and Bazaar Voice are capable of fulfilling the aforementioned needs, PowerReviews also provides free trials. PowerReview's style options aren't always user-friendly, but the app is worth checking out if aesthetic concerns aren't top of mind. Bazaar Voice, on the other hand, sounds really professional and is remarkably simple to use.
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    Return on Investment
    ARInsights
    • The Event Module has taken days if not weeks out of the prep process for big events.
    • ARchitect is a great way to allow communication with peers, without the need for extra emails, ect, because everyone on the team can see what each other is doing and who they are talking to about which topics.
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    Bazaarvoice
    • This has had a positive impact on the way the company identifies user issues and complaints more easily/readily.
    • The negative impact is that departments seem to put a lot more expectations on our customers than this tool can provide (e.g., replies and follow-up), meaning that we aren't as able to provide additional information when requested.
    • It's uncertain whether responding to reviews adds a lot of value when all is said and done. Reviewers rarely adjust their ratings, even if/when we sufficiently address their concerns or resolve issues.
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    ScreenShots

    ARchitect Screenshots

    Screenshot of The database of 10,000+ contacts, where users can search for, discover, and gather information on industry analysts and other prominent B2B influencers.Screenshot of Interactions (inquiries, briefings, meetings, etc.) with analysts and B2B influencers, tracked and managed in a calendar view.Screenshot of A Content Summary that can be used to compare brand’s mentions with competitors’, with tools to identify, track, and analyze research reports, blogs, tweets, and media quotes by industry analysts and b2b influencers.Screenshot of ARchitect’s Emailer solution, with an email designer used segment target lists, schedule and execute campaigns, and report on results.Screenshot of Projects in ARchitect allow users to plan, organize and manage projects (such as vendor evaluations, product launches and analyst days), view progress and stay on track.Screenshot of Briefing books that include analyst bios, analyst research and media coverage, and prior interactions recorded in ARchitect, to prepare executives for their next analyst meeting.