TrustRadius Insights for Cronycle are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Effective content curation: Users have found the content curation feature of the product to be highly effective, allowing them to quickly assemble insights from multiple sources. Multiple reviewers mentioned that this feature is a valuable tool for gathering and organizing information.
Responsive customer support: The product's customer support has been praised for being highly responsive. Reviewers appreciate that their suggestions for improvements and feature requests are not only welcomed but also regularly followed through. This level of responsiveness has contributed to users' satisfaction with the continuous improvement and development of the product.
Valuable feed filtering: Many users value the feed filtering feature of the product as it allows them to manage their feeds of information effectively without cluttering their inbox. They find it easy to browse and filter feeds, ensuring they don't miss any important updates or articles.
We use Cronycle in our library of tools to perform business intelligence for our clients. We are business intelligence professionals, and Cronycle is a handy tool for us! The device is very good at tracking different topics and integrating various sources, such as specialized sources (RSS feeds, newsletters, etc...), communities of interest, blogs, etc...Cronycle allows collaborative monitoring with curation and sharing features through integrations with Teams, Slack, and Zapier. Cronycle is also a business intelligence sharing tool with a flexible newsletter module and Buffer, Hootsuite, and WordPress integrations.
Pros
Topic research and tracking
Curation
Sharing
Cons
Dashboards
C-Suite or presentation-ready tools
Likelihood to Recommend
To any private/public entity monitoring business trends.
We use Cronycle to keep track of updates on our key areas of market research.
Pros
Aggregate content feeds in one place
Shortlisting and commenting on topics of interest
Distributing content to internal stakeholders
Cons
Wider language support on expert content
Likelihood to Recommend
Cronycle is very good at tracking broad subjects of interest across multiple news sources. The features available to organise, annotate and share content of interest are well thought through.
Cronycle is used as a content research tool that drives the way we create articles on behalf of our brands. We're also exploring how it can be an employee advocacy tool.
Pros
Aggregates content
Provides relevant thought leaders in multiple industries
Provides relevant social analysis
Cons
The newsletter
The boards
Organizing annotations
Likelihood to Recommend
Cronycle has cut research down for my team and me from days to hours depending on the topic. That alone was worth the decision to use the tool. While it is not intended to be employee advocacy or sales enablement tool, there's a big opportunity for this. I hope the newsletter section will get stronger for this.
Any source, any website I can quickly and easily keep track of. All interesting pieces of content when researching the market for B2B vendors offering data-related solutions, I can pin to my boards, from either my mobile on the move or when working from my laptop. The pre-curated content by means of Cronycle topics is an amazing time saver to stay on top of new trends in the world of tech and data. The content presented is spot on, and can be easily filtered.
Pros
relevant, spot-on content to any of the 80.000 topics they curate.
Content curation, quickly assemble insights from a multitude of sources
collaborating, commenting, and creating insights around any of the topics you focus on with a team is a breeze, and in one central place.
Cons
Creating own topics, that are currently not in their curated topics
quickly weeding through the numerous content pieces you pin on a board
Likelihood to Recommend
great for group collaboration and individual use, to keep track of the online information average. It is great for researchers, exploring new domains or gathering topics from online resources, keeping it together with their own pieces of content.
There are two main problems one the company supports very different businesses and needs to stay up to date. For example the Automotive Industry across several areas, soft fruit farming, and the use of AI in chatbot space. The second is the company needs to be making regular and relevant LinkedIn posts. A secondary minor problem is the number of newsletters and email updates that come into the inbox. Cronycle helps manage the variety of different inputs and with the search, the algorithm brings forward relevant news inconvenient easily accessible, and navigatable groupings.
Pros
Managing the feeds of information - keeping it away from my inbox
The feed filtering in such a way nothing big is missed and easy to browse
The boards work well both as a historical record of key news for the sector and prep for publishing
Cons
It would be great if there was a way to schedule article publishing directly to LinkedIN
Convenient if the Cronycle email for Newsletters was easier to access, take several clicks today
Likelihood to Recommend
For those needing to stay up to date across or very active sectors, it is an attractive, convenient most importantly efficient way to receive and filter for relevance.
I use Cronycle to search for relevant news articles to update factual content in our database.
Pros
Filters news articles with keywords
Searches RSS feeds, Twitter Feeds, Google Alerts
Boards to pin news to
Tags to tag various news articles and filter them according to our needs
Cons
Better usage analytics - presently data is only available for the last 6 months.
Sometimes is slow
Likelihood to Recommend
Cronycle is a great tool for internet research in a large team that requires collaboration. You can collect news articles, add notes, summaries etc. These news articles can be added to various boards that all team members can view, use and give feedback on.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Product Management (1001-5000 employees)
I use Cronycle in my organization for content marketing and marketing intelligence. It contains an ample amount of content under one roof that makes the job of the people working under me much easier. It helps in specifically pouring out the contents in a very short span of time that requires hours of research switching from one website to the other.
Pros
Eliminate blindspots
Complete focus on the topic
Provides necessary information
Cons
More aesthetic filters can be implemented
Likelihood to Recommend
Cronycle is best suited into agencies that keep working tirelessly around various fields and different types of clients at one go. It becomes very efficient in managing the time into an organization that looks to switch game in matter of days. Well I'm not too sure if it is of same help into the big MNC's that tend to follow the same job type and designation for individuals.
Cronycle allows us to periodically check the market for signs of issues that may harm our products.
Pros
It allows filtering of information on key words.
Information is retrieved from multiple sources.
Because Cronycle gets input from different sources, true positives typically separate itself from others by being mentioned by multiple sources - it's buzzing.
Cons
For some reason logging on for a few months does not go as easy as usual, because nowadays I need a least two attempts to log in.
I think I do only use the core functionality of Cronycle: getting indication info by keywords via multiple sites.
Vice versa: if people come to me with a suspected issue, I double-check via Cronycle by entering that issue as search in found results. A low occurrence often indicates the suspected issue likely is not so severe.
Likelihood to Recommend
I already do promote it as the tool that allows us to respond more quickly to issues than when not using Cronycle. So typically before suppliers or users tell us there is an issue, we knew already about them. Because Cronycle filtered them from the internet at the moment they emerge.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Research & Development (10,001+ employees)
Cronycle has provided the research team (of around 30 members) that I oversee with the ability to
effectively collaborate as a collective and has enabled us to work much more
efficiently. The platform has given us the tools to improve our information
gathering and sharing and has empowered our team members with increased
awareness and insight into their colleagues’ sources of information and areas
of research interest. Researchers, based in India, can check their feeds each morning by pinning articles to boards (this
enables everyone to share and store information much more easily and more
quickly). Tagging and commenting on articles provide effective ways to convey
important details about pieces of news to any other member of the team without
the need to maintain separate systems, or to get bogged down using other
methods of communicating (such as email). This is particularly helpful as for
at least half of the working day our teams in the UK and India would not
overlap in-office hours. Being able to sort or filter both feeds and articles
pinned to Boards by a number of different criteria also helps our users to improve
the relevance of the content that they are looking at.
Pros
Fantastic options for filtering content stored on Boards.
The Clipper is one of the most useful tools I have ever come across and is vital to our workflow.
Extraction of content from Boards to multiple formats.
Cons
One small piece of missing functionality is being able to select specific boards to search across. Currently, it is one or all, but an option to select 5, or 10, or 150 would be ideal.
Likelihood to Recommend
Prior to adopting Cronycle, our research team had a variety of different ways in which they would discover, store
and share information. These methods were often inconsistent, with many smaller
teams or sub-groups of researchers operating independently of others. In many cases, content that was potentially useful to more than one
colleague was not being shared at all. We had thousands of different sources,
accessed through varying methods and stored in different locations/systems, and
very few colleagues would have had an idea of which sources other team members
were using. Furthermore, we became aware as a team that while between us we
were pulling in a lot of information, much of what was being discovered was not
necessarily being acted upon, or indeed being read by the colleague to whom it
was most relevant. We also needed to become more targeted, and indeed more
selective, in the information we were seeing, and Cronycle -specifically through the Sources Library, the Feeds, and the tagging and notification functionality - has enabled us to do
just this. There has been a genuinely transformative outcome to our information gathering ability, borne out by specific metrics, which Cronycle has also provided us with via the Enterprise account.
My goal is to help individuals and organizations THINK and BE more innovative in everything they do. For me, the key to landing new clients and keeping existing clients engaged and informed is to get and stay on top of the latest news, trends, changes, and key challenges in their industry. This is where Cronycle comes in. I have used it pretty much every single day since first discovering them back in 2014. Their topic discovery is phenomenal for research purposes and I use boards and tags to keep track of a huge volume of information [that] would otherwise have been completely overwhelming. My clients are always amazed at the insights I am able to share about the industry that they are in, particularly when it's not one I have had previous experience of!
Pros
Curating content found anywhere on the Internet is a breeze using the content clipper
Boards (think "Pinterest for Business" type of concept) is an absolute revelation compared to other products I looked into - adding annotations and the ability to collaborate with a team to comment on entries is fantastic
Customer support is highly responsive and suggestions for improvements/feature requests are not only welcomed but regularly followed through - the product just keeps on going from strength to strength!
Cons
I honestly can't think of a single thing right now - the product already exceeds all my expectations
Likelihood to Recommend
Before I pitch a new client, I research them and their industry eco-system in order to identify the primary issues they may be facing now or in the near future. Honing down on topics is quick and easy with Cronycle, which allows me to cut through the noise and come up with valuable insights to share when I first meet them. Over the long term, the body of information I curate in my Cronycle Boards becomes invaluable in identifying patterns, trends, and changes [that] feed into business strategy and form the basis of keynotes and board presentations.
