Listening platforms: finding the value in social media data

Summary:

Listening platforms — or social media monitoring, analysis, and engagement tools — are bringing massive amounts of new information to businesses’ marketing departments. These tools are also leading the way in the growth of social media information and access throughout organizations so that customers’ wants and needs can be better understood and, presumably, satisfied. This report analyzes how the adoption of listening platforms is transforming marketing departments, their relationships with central IT, and the core systems that run the enterprise.

  1. Table of contents                                                                                                            
  2. Executive summary                                                                                                    
  3. The vastness and value of today’s data                                                         
  4. Rising complications                                                                                                
  5. Key capabilities of listening platforms                                                         
  6. Elements of listening platforms                                                                      
  7. Neighboring products                                                                                           
  8. The shape of the market                                                                                       
  9. The larger vendors                                                                                                
  10. Further implications and considerations                                                  
  11. About Laura Stuart                                                                                            
  12. About GigaOM Pro                                                                                                    
  13. Further reading                                                                                                        

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