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FirstLight Enterprise Edition 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

FirstLight Enterprise Edition
FirstLight Enterprise Edition
5.0
(5)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About FirstLight Enterprise Edition

For those analysts committed to a full Intelligence Operating System, FirstLight Enterprise Edition offers a complete bespoke intelligence backbone capable of serving any size organization.

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FirstLight Enterprise Edition Features

  • Popular features found in Business Intelligence
    Ad hoc Reporting
    Benchmarking
    Collaboration Tools
    Data Connectors
    Data Visualization
    Key Performance Indicators
    Multiple Data Sources
    Performance Metrics
    Predictive Analytics
    Profitability Analysis
    Strategic Planning
    Trend/Problem Indicators
  • More features of FirstLight Enterprise Edition
    Access Controls/Permissions
    Activity Dashboard
    Ad hoc Query
    Alerts/Notifications
    API
    Campaign Analytics
    Campaign Management
    Competitive Analysis
    Customer Profiles
    Customer Segmentation
    Customizable Branding
    Customizable Reports
    Customizable Templates
    Dashboard
    Dashboard Creation
    Data Extraction
    Data Import/Export
    Data Mapping
    Data Synchronization
    Data Transformation
    Drag & Drop
    Engagement Tracking
    Forecasting
    Keyword Tracking
    Metadata Management
    Mobile Alerts
    Monitoring
    Publishing/Sharing
    Real-Time Analytics
    Real Time Comparisons
    Real-Time Data
    Real-Time Monitoring
    Real-Time Reporting
    Reporting/Analytics
    Scorecards
    Search/Filter
    Self Service Data Preparation
    Sentiment Analysis
    SEO Management
    Social Media Integration
    Social Media Monitoring
    Tagging
    Third-Party Integrations
    Trend Analysis
    Visual Analytics
    Website Monitoring
    Web Tracking
    Web Traffic Reporting

FirstLight Enterprise Edition User Reviews

Overall Rating

5.0

Ratings Breakdown

5

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4

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Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.6

Value for money

5.0

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

4.8

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VR

Verified
Reviewer

Publishing

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed March 2023

The Best Competitive and Market Intelligence in the Marketplace

5

It was an excellent experience with FirstLight. The testing and setup were a dream, very easy. From an internal perspective, you do need to have your competitive and market intel sources and names well documented, so it forces you to get all of that organized. The meetings with the vendor's staff really helped me visualize the best approach to organizing my dashboards for my users' needs. AND my internal company users are SO EXCITED about what I have there. That is like proof of success. And they have already asked me to ADD new dashboards and content, so that is like the cherry on top. And the AI and the automatic tagging is fantastic.

Ratings Breakdown

5
Ease of use
5
Value for money
5
Customer support
5
Functionality
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Pros:
Everything!! The FirstLight Enterprise product, the flexibility, the SSO, customized domain name, the custom email, the metrics, the dashboards, the menus, ability to build your own taxonomy, the knowledge base it uses. MOST IMPORTANTLY it is the executive product vision and especially the customer support is extraordinary. And they make improvements when you ask. This vendor COLLABORATES with you to make it the best product not only for you but for others. The vendor STAFF are superlative, amazing to work with. And did I mention the great business model and pricing. You are NOT charged for each topic, or each competitor, or each user. It is one flat rate. OMG, for LARGE enterprise companies, it is the BEST business model ever. It is easy to learn the product and easy to set up too.
Cons:
There is nothing I disliked about the software or the vendor. No negatives whatsoever.

Reasons for choosing FirstLight Enterprise Edition

Yes! No other product had the technology AND the business model and the sources. a Trifecta. Some products have lots of sources, but none that worked for scholarly communications, or clinical-- that I needed, much less the content sources for the other disciplines in the rest of the enterprise for banking, finance, legal, accounting, compliance, risk, tax etc.

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Reviewer

Restaurants

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed January 2023

A Force Multiplier

5

FirstLight is truly a competitive advantage for our team. It is an integral tool we use every day whether it's to keep informed or to assist in analysis and help disseminate insight to key decisionmakers.

Ratings Breakdown

5
Ease of use
5
Value for money
5
Customer support
5
Functionality
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Pros:
First Light tracked data and materials from a myriad of sources and condensed it into an intuitive and highly functional library that saved thousands of man hours in terms of collection. It also facilitated rapid dissemination of insights and briefs to key decisionmakers in a consistent view that became a trusted source. The customization features and most importantly the technical support and expertise are truly unrivaled with regards to the tools our team has used. I have worked with multiple platforms and can confidently say this is the one we stuck with after multiple reviews because it consistently delivered on every metric we needed as a team.
Cons:
There is a degree of ramp up time in terms of learning the platform and syncing it into the team's processes. This was especially difficult given our team's broader transitions but FirstLight really do revolutionize and simplify the tasks and free our team up to do more true intelligence work and much less librarian, collection, and information seeker tasks.

Reasons for choosing FirstLight Enterprise Edition

A combination of support, customization availability, implementation and deployment support, and functionality/capability.

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VR

Verified
Reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Aurora WDC and their FirstLight Platform Exceeded Our Expectations!

5

We needed our users to have a better user experience with the platform than we had previously been getting with our original vendor and FirstLight was such a step up for us in many ways. From the platform system itself and what it offers in terms of technology, it far exceeded what we had been using. The technology behind FirstLight allows us to proactively keep our users updated on new content each day and is built in such an intuitive, easy to use format. We saw our NPS increase from 47 to 60 in the last 2 years. The FirstLight team has also worked closely with us to customize a project tracking system that allows our team to track all our projects and includes a survey process to track satisfaction among our stakeholders. They also have worked closely with us to build out extensive metrics/auditing within our platform to help us better understand usage and where we can continue to make changes and improvements. Our site is so heavily customized there is a lot I could say here, but in general we have found the FirstLight platform to work seamlessly for us in every way possible - and we have asked for a lot!

Ratings Breakdown

5
Ease of use
5
Value for money
5
Customer support
5
Functionality
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Pros:
We had several key needs when we evaluated FirstLight as a vendor, but the need to be able to highly customize the site to meet our needs was at the top of our list. They have more than met this requirement and have exceeded our expectations in that regard. So many other vendors simply had an out of the box offering that would not have worked for us. The FirstLight software also provides automated features that saves our team and our users time, which conservatively, we have calculated saves our employees over almost 2 million dollars a year in time savings.
Cons:
I have personally not found anything not to like about the software. Pretty much everything we have asked the FirstLight Team to do they have been able to accommodate for us.

Reasons for choosing FirstLight Enterprise Edition

We had ten key metrics we were evaluating vendors on and Aurora met all ten of our needs. The other four vendors didn't even come close to what we were looking for.

Reasons for switching to FirstLight Enterprise Edition

We switched from another vendor who was not able to continue with the level of customization we needed the software to do for us. They also did not have AI/ML/NLP built into their platform. We were looking to build bigger and better which FirstLight was able to do unlike our previous vendor. We were also looking for better customer service than we were getting and the FirstLight team has exceeded our expectations all the way around. We evaluated four additional vendors, in addition to FirstLight, and none of the other vendors even came close to what we needed and FirstLight was the run-away winner in all of our categories.

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VR

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Reviewer

Retail

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed December 2022

A foundational product for any intelligence capability with best-in-class customer service

5

I have witnessed the evolution of the FirstLight intelligence platform over the past three years and the [SENSITIVE CONTENT] team has consistently demonstrated a commitment to customer service and continuous product improvements. The [SENSITIVE CONTENT] team has responded to our requests and information needs by adding the ability to collect from new sources, adjusting permission settings to ensure responsible information sharing of more sensitive information, and new analytics capabilities to facilitate our competitive analysis. I highly recommend FirstLight and the [SENSITIVE CONTENT] team.

Ratings Breakdown

4
Ease of use
5
Value for money
5
Customer support
4
Functionality
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Pros:
The FirstLight collection and monitoring tools, search and filter capabilities, and analytics capabilities are foundational and critical to our team's intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination routines.
Cons:
As you will find with most software platforms, standing up the capabilities can be a manual process with a high learning curve, so we've found a best practice to designate one "subject matter expert" or admin per team to own standing up capabilities and ensure that we can scale more quickly. Once capabilities are standing, the rest of the team can operate smoothly.

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VR

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Reviewer

Financial Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed December 2022

Winning with Insights

5

Problem/Challenge: Across our global company, we struggled with data overload and information stored in disparate locations (email, SharePoint, SF.com, etc.), and we lacked the ability to pull it together in a useful, actionable format. Plus, we often had to log-in to multiple systems, taking up precious time searching for usernames and passwords. Impact of implementation: - Productivity estimated to have increased by 20% through automation.- Cost savings: access to some paid databases; no redundancies in reports; and save hugely in time and effort savings- Dozens of opportunities, innovations, leads and gaps uncovered that would not be found with manual methods

Ratings Breakdown

4
Ease of use
5
Value for money
5
Customer support
5
Functionality
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Pros:
•Centralized repository of curated information•Data collection automation•Easy tagging and processing•Single sign-on•Customized dashboards•Can be scaled to roll out and expand across company
Cons:
The initial buildout takes some forethought and time: Layout dashboards, selecting taxonomy, mapping work flow, etc. However, the dedicated vendor staff was always available and responded timely.

Reasons for choosing FirstLight Enterprise Edition

The product offered the best features/functionality, in addition to an extensive news database.

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