Meltwater

Radarly - AI-powered Consumer Insight Platform

Radarly is a real-time AI-powered Consumer Insights Platform, meeting the qualitative needs of research professionals at mature, customer-centric organizations, while equally addressing the more common social listening use-cases required by marketing and communications teams. Bringing these teams together in a unified view for access to a single source of truth.

Features

  • Full historical data over past 24 months when project begins
  • Dedicated Account Manager, support and Online help center
  • Customizable analytics & workspaces
  • Strong AI features such as Content Classification, Computer Vision, NLP
  • Audience segmentation
  • Influencer identification
  • Live exports, including via APIs
  • Desktop application

Benefits

  • Truly global data set with local, direct relationships with platforms.
  • Research topics, including people, events, organizations, brands etc.
  • Strong Data Structuring capabilities and industry expertise
  • Measure the sentiment, benchmark against similar entities
  • Understand how topics evolve over time
  • Manage your reputation, competitors benchmark and campaigns measurement
  • Understand and report the owned and earned performances
  • Crisis-detection by surfacing critical events in real time
  • AI reporting to prioritize insights and reduce in tool time
  • Understand what is being said, where it takes place

Pricing

£34,450 a licence a year

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

4 4 6 5 2 3 9 3 3 2 0 4 8 4 2

Contact

Meltwater Thomas Lloyd
Telephone: +44 (0) 203 514 4909
Email: tenders.emea@meltwater.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
What software services is the service an extension to
Our data can be accessed via API including connections to BI tools such as Domo, Tickr, Google Studio, Microsoft Dynamics and Tableau, MailChimp, Google Docs, Slack and Salesforce or a Zapier account. API calls can be returned in JSON.
Cloud deployment model
Private cloud
Service constraints
No
System requirements
  • Web browser
  • https access

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
24/7 response times
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Onsite support
Support levels
We provide Account setup, Implementation, Training & education, account management incl. technical support and engineering advice/recommendations and ongoing support through ticketing systems and online documentation through the platform.

All support fees are included in the subscription.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
From the start of our cooperation, you will receive a Customer Success Manager that is responsible for the Initial setup of your project; keywords, queries for all content channels and markets.

All based on your requirements. Initial setup of workspaces and analytics

Once initial setup is complete onsite/online training for all teams on how to use the platform.

On-going named account manager for all levels of support and to align with business goals and requirements to ensure partnership success

Provide ongoing support to help refine the project

Share best practices around the use of the tool/use case methodology.

On top of the human support layer, you will also have access to a help centre which contains all supporting material on how to use the system as well as email support for ongoing queries.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
Export possibilities are available via API, RSS, Excel, CSV and PDF.
End-of-contract process
Up until the end of the contract the service shall be completely accessible and operational. The client is welcome to export any of their raw data or analytical data should they wish to do so.

Once the contract ends, the service shall deactivate and the client shall no longer have access to the service or any historical data.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
No mobile application but access is available through a mobile phone
Service interface
Yes
User support accessibility
None or don’t know
Description of service interface
The interface allows you to stay on top of billions of conversations across web editorial, media, online reviews and social media channels. The interface will efficiently and effectively help you sift through news stories, social media postings, and many other media types so that you can monitor everything relevant to your brand, competitors, and industry.

AI-driven media monitoring technology, in conjunction with our database, provides our clients access to content on a local, national, and global level.

Clients can customize the service to their needs to better understand their return on investment and results and focus on the relevant metrics.
Accessibility standards
None or don’t know
Description of accessibility
The service can be accessed via a secure webpage, email, newsletter, and mobile devices.

All pages are Titled and Consistent Navigation is used as well as Consistent Identification.

Users can zoom (200%), enlarge text and visualize data in graphs. All functionality of the content is operable through a keyboard interface. Pre-recorded Audio is available for educational purposes.

Colour can be selected for stronger visualization with a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1. Timing Adjustable: 20 Hour Exception. Language of Page can be adjusted and Error Identification and Labels are provided when content requires user input.
Accessibility testing
N/A
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
We have both Export and Analytics API.

This provides a dump of data for your searches in the Social Media Intelligence platform for a specified date range. Like a recurring CSV/Excel export that pulls large amounts of data on a predetermined timing.

Both set up and changes to the service can be made via the dedicated developer portal.

Changes and limitations can be shared upon request and receipt of our developer portal.
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
  • Other
API sandbox or test environment
Yes
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Users and uses-rights, workspace, analytical functions, Search queries, Issue alerts, news tickers, date range, languages, colors, Insight Pages.

Users customization is handled by the users. The users have high flexibility to alter the interface to reflect his/her needs.

Scaling

Independence of resources
Meltwater's systems are setup to autoscale (both up and down), monitored and alerted. 24/7 support (Technical Support and Operations Engineering team across 4 global time- zones). 3-tier escalation policy.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Benchmarking vs competitors metrics /
Metrics allowing customers to identify their brand position /
Identification of influencers and how to engage with them /
Analysis of Voice-of-Customer and consumer experience /
Crisis identification metrics /
Brand damage and brand recovery metrics /
Cross-channel campaign performance in real time /
Track impact of campaigns against brand equity & strategic goals /
Identification of emerging trends
Reporting types
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
None

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
European Economic Area (EEA)
User control over data storage and processing locations
No
Datacentre security standards
Managed by a third party
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
In-house
Protecting data at rest
Encryption of all physical media
Data sanitisation process
No
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Raw data Export data via API, RSS, Excel, CSV, PDF, JPG, XML, JSON,

The data can be digested via automated/manual alerts, emails, push notifications, mobile applications,

Analytical insights can be downloaded in PDF or PTT as well as presented in online password protected presentations.
Data export formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data export formats
  • API
  • RSS
  • Excel
  • CSV
  • PDF
  • JPG
  • XML
  • JSON
Data import formats
Other
Other data import formats
RSS

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Data protection within supplier network
TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
Platform Availability SLA is 99.9% Q1 2020 Meltwater achieved 100% 2019 Meltwater achieved 99,93% 2018 Meltwater achieved 99.92% This is calculated as Maximum Available Minutes in the calendar month less Downtime divided by Maximum Available Minutes in the calendar month.

“Downtime” is the total accumulated Deployment Minutes during which the platform is unavailable. A minute is considered unavailable when there is no connectivity throughout the minute.

SLA Exclusions: 1. Maintenance Events scheduled in advance are not included in downtime calculations. 2. SLA’s do not apply where unavailability or inaccessibility to the platform is caused by factors outside of our reasonable control, including any force majeure event or Internet access failure
Approach to resilience
This information is available upon request and can be provided by our Security team.
Outage reporting
A public dashboard: This is managed via a platform Status Page that is accessible from within the application but also externally Email alerts:

Clients can subscribe to email alerts for individual events or to the Status Page to receive email notifications for all events

Status page found here - https://status.meltwater.com/

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
No
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Application Usernames, Passwords, Admin Rights SSO Support: SAML Integration
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
Between 1 month and 6 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
No audit information available
How long system logs are stored for
Between 1 month and 6 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
UKAS Management Systems ISO/IEC 27001:2013
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
08/03/2013
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
This certification was not directly for meltwater but for our Data Centre services provider. Our cloud services provider, AWS, is SOC III compliant.
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
No

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Other
Other security governance standards
Our Data Centre vendor is ISO-27001 certified Our Cloud Services provider, AWS, is SOC III compliant
Information security policies and processes
"Meltwater VP of Engineering and Executive Director team is ultimately responsible for security.

Our security policies cover both internal systems and research & development (application and platform development), and spot checks are performed where automation cannot enforce policy requirements.

Meltwater employs a Security Team of 10 people managed by VP of Engineering. "

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Configuration and change management approach
Meltwater has a robust software development life cycle (SDLC), including peer review for code changes, manual and automated code scanning, both automated QA testing and dedicated QA employees, and a staging environment with anonymized customer information. Once software is approved for deployment, a rollback plan is created, approval is granted, and the deployment is actively monitored and tested by employees before being declared complete. Policies and procedures are established for management authorization for changes, development or acquisition of existing or new applications, systems, databases, infrastructure, services, operations and facilities
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
Formal risk assessments are aligned with the enterprise-wide framework and performed at least annually determining the likelihood and impact of all identified risks, using qualitative and quantitative methods.

Impact associated with inherent and residual risk is determined independently, considering all risk categories including audit results, threat and vulnerability analysis, and regulatory compliance and so on.
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
Security threat detection systems using signatures, lists, or behavioral patterns are updated across all infrastructure components within industry accepted time frames. Network-layer, Application-layer, local operating system layer vulnerability scans executed regularly based on industry best practices Application-layer vulnerability scans executed regularly based on industry best practices Capability to rapidly patch vulnerabilities across all of computing devices, applications, and systems
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Meltwater maintains a pre-defined process for managing incidents by impact and severity. This process includes situation, technical and communications management. Users can report issues via In-app via chat, in-app ticket or ticketing system via email. Incidents reports are sent via in-app or through ticketing system via email. For issues that have a broader impact, Meltwater maintain and application Status page that all users can access in-app or directly. Users can also subscribe to email notifications from the Status Page.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Fighting climate change

Fighting climate change

Careful consideration for the environment and our planet is in our very DNA. The first server farms of Meltwater were made from recycled computers destined for the landfill, and when Meltwater was founded in 2001, we were disrupting an industry that had been paper-based for over a century by providing an electronic, online solution.

Meltwater is committed to evaluating and improving our environmental performance, providing our customers with paperless business intelligence solutions, preventing pollution by striving to use teleconferencing facilities instead of promoting travel, and complying with all environmental legislation, regulations and codes of practice relevant to the industry sector in which we operate.

We include environmental factors in our decision making process for vendors, partners, and suppliers. We are proud to partner with AWS as our cloud-vendor today, a company that has committed to powering their operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025.

These actions are just the start. Meltwater has created a Global Green Council for employees with a background and passion in environmental sustainability to develop policies that will lessen the impact we have on the environment as a company. The council leads the conversation and education around sustainability, creating a shared model of responsibility where Meltwater leaders and global teams are considering climate change impact when making business decisions and are involved in ongoing conversation and education about environmental issues.

We include environmental factors in our decision making process for vendors, partners, and suppliers. We are proud to partner with AWS as our cloud-vendor today, a company that has committed to powering their operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025. We select IT vendors for example in specific geographies in an attempt to reduce the shipping journey and thus environmental impact.
Covid-19 recovery

Covid-19 recovery

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic Meltwater observed the government guidance to work from home and implemented processes for the whole organization to safely and effectively work from home. Necessary support was provided to employees that needed to expense any equipment / office supplies in order to efficiently work from home and all meetings moved to web conferencing.

Even though working from home policies are no longer in place by the government, Meltwater has enforced a hybrid model where employees who wish to work from home can and those who wish to come into the office will be supported.

Meltwater’s office conditions observe social distancing measures including the use of Enterprise Sapce Management Software ZYNQ to ensure all employees book their respective desks so we can manage numbers within the office so overcrowding does not occur.

Within the Meltwater office, one way systems are observed, hand sanitizer provided in multiple locations and divider screens to stop the spread of COVID19.

Meltwater regularly partners with nonprofits in the markets in which we work to volunteer and address the needs of the local communities that we operate in. Employees partner with local non-profits through volunteer days, and the company makes corporate donations to nonprofits with missions that are important to our teams around the world. This is in addition to the $2.5million USD that is given as annual funding to the Meltwater Foundation supporting MEST.

These are some of the ways that Meltwater shows a commitment to our people and those in our communities, but we are also committed to continuous improvement and expanding these programs in order to have a greater impact. Meltwater conducts an annual Employee Engagement survey to benchmark employee sentiment around key issues and track where we are doing well and where we can still improve.
Tackling economic inequality

Tackling economic inequality

In 2008, Meltwater’s founder Jorn Lyseggen founded MEST based on the principle that “talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not.”
Leveraging our core strengths as an innovation leader, Lyseggen chose to invest in innovation on the African continent, an area of the world that historically has been underserved and underfunded, and launched a technology training program to fuel the next generation of African entrepreneurs.
MEST, Meltwater’s non-profit arm, is an Africa-wide technology training program, internal seed fund, and network of hubs offering incubation for technology startups in Africa. Founded in Ghana in 2008, MEST provides critical skills training, funding, and support in software development, business, and communications to aspiring tech entrepreneurs. Beyond tech and entrepreneurial skills training, MEST Africa provides a real-world advantage to entrepreneurs through funding, business incubation, and access to a global tech network. MEST has launched numerous successful startups that have gone on to receive follow-on funding and admission to the world’s top tech accelerators, has hosted guest lecturers from Fortune 100 companies, and counts Mastercard Foundation, Microsoft, and 500 Startups among its partners.
MEST is a fundamental piece of Meltwater’s history and culture. Each year Meltwater employees visit MEST and participate in onsite and virtual mentorship programs where they lend their professional expertise in tech, sales and marketing to the entrepreneurs and portfolio companies.
Learn more about MEST at meltwater.org.
Equal opportunity

Equal opportunity

Creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization is a key focus for Meltwater. Our DEI efforts are organized around key objectives including training & education, recruiting, inclusive culture and leadership diversity and accountability.

Meltwater supports a number of employee-led Affinity Groups who drive inclusion and education across the organization.

mPowered, is Meltwater’s multi-cultural affinity group with chapters in the Americas and Australia. mPowered promotes inclusion through discussion, education and advocacy. The group provides a forum for employees to discuss issues that affect underrepresented groups and strives to create a culture where employees feel their voice is heard, their opinions are valued, and that they can be a part of positive change. The group has held numerous DEI workshops, trainings, and speaker sessions since its inception in 2020.

The EMEA DEI Council is an employee-led task force that works on market-specific initiatives across the region to foster education, discussion, and advocacy on DEI issues. The council has rolled out trainings and leadership sessions across the region on topics such as cultural sensitivity, diversity-based business coaching, and more.
The Women in Tech Initiative is a global community spanning all regions at Meltwater which invites in industry-leading speakers and creates an environment to share ideas, discuss topics that genuinely matter and build a mutual learning exchange.

The initiative has seen speakers from Coca-Cola, Nike, and Google, and is led by a team of ambassadors spanning the globe.
Wellbeing

Wellbeing

In order to support mental and physical health of the workforce Meltwater has invested in a global partnership with the software company Calm. Calm provides access to mental health support and meditation products for all employees.

Additionally, a global partnership has been formed with AARMY, a global fitness brand, who curated a 5-part bespoke digital employee fitness program for everyone to complete.

In the UK, Meltwater employees have health insurance with Vitality as well as a cash benefits programme with SimplyHealth. This combination of services provide everything from reimbursed physiotherapy and dental care as well as discounted gym memberships and healthy food option subscriptions.

Since moving to a hybrid working model and based on the recent employee survey Meltwater has made the decision to invest in the office space where there were high “return to office” response rates. This investment will come in the form of new, environmentally friendly office space with the best interior equipment including ergonomic furniture and standing desks.

Pricing

Price
£34,450 a licence a year
Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
No

Service documents

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