S&P Capital IQ vs. Captora (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
S&P Capital IQ
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Capital IQ is a market intelligence software solution offered by S&P Global Market Intelligence, which is the result of McGraw Hill Financial's acquisition of SNL Financial.N/A
Captora (discontinued)
Score 7.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Captora in Mountain View, California, offers their eponymous lead acceleration and inbound marketing tool to optimize organic and paid search.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Financial Research
Comparison of Financial Research features of Product A and Product B
S&P Capital IQ
6.4
Ratings
10% below category average
Captora (discontinued)
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Ratings
Private Company Data6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry-Specific Information7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Independent Research Access8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
M&A Analysis5.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Supply Chain Data5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
ESG Data5.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Credit Ratings Reports7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Macroeconomic News6.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Search Tools6.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Lead411
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies

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Lead411
Lead411
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
Factiva
Factiva
Score 5.1 out of 10
D&B Hoovers
D&B Hoovers
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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8.0
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Usability
7.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Best in class tool to source financial data from public companies. Great integration with Excel. Must-have tool for anyone performing financial analysis on a regular basis. Easy to use interface with excellent product support to answer questions about functionality and capabilities. Tool has continued to grow in features over the years and expect to continue in the future.
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If you want to quickly create large numbers of pages across a lot of keyword groups, I have no idea how you would do it unless you used a tool like Captora.
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Pros
  • S&P Capital IQ's blackline tool allows for the effortless comparison of changes in company filings over time.
  • The screening tool when searching for comparable companies and/or transactions is very comprehensive and customizable.
  • It allows users to customize their dashboards and tearsheets in any number of ways.
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  • Great Customer Support. The team is very responsive to our needs and always follows up with action items from our meetings and calls. I think this comes down to the people they hire and their willingness to create customer relationships. Ask for Steve as your CSM.
  • Competitive insights are great as Captora consolidates all of your competitor data into a single view. You can then tag different ideas for your content team or just view on periodic basis to see what the competition is up to.
  • Getting campaigns at scale. Captora does a great job in helping your team scale campaigns fast. Part of this is due to the ease of use (once you get trained) and the other part is due to the content team and algorithms behind the product. You can scale to hundreds of campaigns within weeks if you desire.
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Cons
  • Sources. In Bloomberg, when you click on a figure anywhere it leads you to the source. That is a great feature, as in finance everything has to be backed with the original source.
  • Cannot always find the needed information, the menu is too complex.
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  • Would be great to get integrated reports to show how our pages are performing, end-to-end, across all funnel areas.
  • Some of our pages are not pretty, which is mostly on us. Would be great if Captora has some kind of page effectiveness score to help us improve our high traffic pages.
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Likelihood to Renew
[It's the] best ever.
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The ROI has been proven out with Salesforce reporting.
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Usability
S&P CIQ Pro has great data, however, the new pro version is currently difficult to use given how slow the data is to process
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Alternatives Considered
While Bloomberg has a much more comprehensive view of the markets and typically has more up-to-date information in terms of overall news, Cap IQ is easier to integrate into existing financial models, and the formula builder included with the Excel plugin makes it easy to pull relevant financial data as well as update it based on a specific time frame.
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We have not seen anything that compares to Captora from an apples to apples perspective
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Return on Investment
  • The breadth and depth of the company's financial data set are what sets it apart as the finest in the industry.
  • Having the ability to pay the monthly fee online is a major benefit. Neither is it very high, but I wouldn't characterize it as low, either. It's quite economical.
  • Data quality and accuracy are what set it apart from competitors.
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  • The biggest area that Captora has brought to us is over all reach. With Captora we are getting in front of more prospects, faster. Captora is helping us drive more traffic to our website and more inbound leads. On the paid side, we are able to understand what content converts and make smarter decisions in the long run.
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