Product review of FirstRain
Jinfo Report
4th January 2017
Abstract
FirstRain is an easy-to-use business development and research tool. Its high degree of personalisation enables business professionals to view relevant news, social media intelligence and internal content on companies and markets.
This review:
- Introduces FirstRain and explains why this real-time intelligence tool is particularly aimed at North American-headquartered companies that have a global user base
- Explains the key advantages, and how customers obtain value through FirstRain's uniquely-developed web crawling method and a sophisticated personalised approach
- Covers what has changed since it was last reviewed by Jinfo in 2013
- Provides FirstRain contact information
- Digs into the detail of its content and coverage including English-language sources, international coverage, and its provision of subscription-based services
- Assesses whether FirstRain has developed special techniques for acquiring data and if its Twitter coverage is superior to those provided by many media monitoring and PR tools
- Looks at how the company's claims for its technology stand up, testing its analytics
- Analyses set up and how its "channels" help personalise what FirstRain will track for you
- Tests out searching by company or theme, and tries out the mobile app functionality
- Describes why its help features are particularly useful
- Explains how competitors shape up, including OneSource from Avention and British-based company Artesian
- Describes pricing
- Outlines development plans for the near future.
Reviewed by Andrew Grave
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- Report title: Product review of FirstRain
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