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  • Kana Software Buys Social Media Monitoring Platform Overtone

    Leena Rao

    Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

    Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

    Kana Software has acquired Overtone, which develops a social media monitoring and customer listening platforms for large, brand name companies. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

    Overtone, which has raised $20.5 million in funding, develops a SaaS applications that allows companies to monitor social media platforms and analyze customer sentiment, emerging issues, and topic trends.

    Overtone’s platform will be added to Kana’s customer service management platform to give service agents the ability to listen to conversations about a brand or company on social media channels. Service agents will be able to track customer conversations across social networks, email, web feedback forms, chat, surveys, and online communities.

    Social media monitoring platforms are being scooped up left and right. Last week Salesforce spent $326 million on Radian6.

    Company: Overtone
    Website: overtone.com
    Launch Date: 1995
    Funding: $20.5M

    Overtone helps companies understand the meaning of the world’s online conversations. Overtone’s Open Mic™ listening system continuously delivers consumer insights, brand performance metrics and market intelligence to brand name companies. Learn how you too can harness the power of social media analytics and customer listening at http://www.overtone.com

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