Be Informed vs. Totango

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Be Informed
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Totango
Score 7.8 out of 10
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Totango customer success software, now with Catalyst, helps enterprise businesses and cross-functional teams accelerate customer outcomes in productivity, retention, and expansion. Totango and Catalyst will become a unified product, following the merger in February 2024.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsEach package gives teams a 360° customer account profile, customer health scoring, customer journey program templates (SuccessBLOCS), automated workflows (SuccessPlays), email campaigns, self-paced onboarding, and customer support.
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Community Pulse
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Totango
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Our organization has successfully unlocked more value from Totango than I've seen with the two other CS platforms I've used at prior organizations
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I've implemented dozens of systems over the last 15 years and, I feel, Totango was by far the most challenging. I have a background in several areas, but the most applicable to Totango is my background in data management, systems administration, programming, web design, web …
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Pipedrive is a great CRM for Sales purposes but it doesnt give much tools for CX management. Totango is all the opposite, it is an excellent product for Customer Management . We currently use both platforms integrated with each other and it gives great results to both Sales and …
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Totango's UI is clean, very easy to find whatever you need on the account. Its ability to search using the company domain of a customer definitely saves time and effort instead of switching to other databases. It also allows me to view my task on a weekly basis instead of …
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All systems have positives and negatives but Totango fit immediate needs best
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I have not assessed others myself, but I had colleagues that did prior to committing to Totango.
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Totango was the best platform for our needs, particularly the ability to segment and the ease of use versus other products for the day to day work of our CSMs
Chose Totango
I think Totango has features and implementation very similar to top-of-the-line CRMs but is easier to implement. Its incredibly visibly pleasing and out-of-the-box dashboards make it easy to get immediate visibility into your customer landscape. They also have a great customer …
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I don't make the purchasing decisions, and I don't know which other companies were in the running, but as far as the expectation of what we had anticipated TT doing for us, and what we see in our day-to-day, I think it answers the biggest questions we had which were - "how do …
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Totango was a good fit and middle ground between Gainsight which was overwhelming for our needs and ChurnZero which at the time was not as mature as it is today. Simple to use straightforward interface which is also flexible and customizable. The Totango product team has been …
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Totango seemed the best way to have quick wins, long term wins, and work through optimizations and iterations along the way. We could launch piecemeal and adapt to our business needs as we saw value in Totango, instead of having to create a masterpiece that would be complex to …
Chose Totango
Totango had a much cleaner UI and was much more affordable for a small company. Totango also looked like it would be more straightforward and easier to use for my customer success team. Other companies didn't handle the multi-level customer hierarchies as cleanly as Totango and …
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Not relevant. Do not have experience working with other customer success platforms.
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Totango is easy to use and has great demos.
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Planhat feels like Pandora's box. It was very cool, shiny, complete but felt like an empty canvas. We felt so overwhelmed by the amount of possibilities that we didn't know where to begin. Because we sought out a tool which could help us out with the best 'time-to-value' due to …
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We had previously used Salesforce for years for our CSMs and other functions but found that it never quite met what we needed it to do for our CSMs. It was cumbersome with reporting and showing workflow. It was also more manual with detailing engagements or reaching our clients …
Chose Totango
Totango felt like a great option that was beyond entry-level, but not a sledgehammer for a nail for what, at the time, was a brand new Customer Experience team being formed.
Features
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Security
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Ratings
Totango
8.5
Ratings
3% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
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Ratings
Totango
8.5
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2% below category average
API00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Integration with Marketo00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Totango
8.1
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8% below category average
Product usage00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Customer Success Management
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Ratings
Totango
8.1
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6% below category average
NPS surveys00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Sponsor tracking00 Ratings6.10 Ratings
Customer profiles00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Automated workflow00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Internal collaboration00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Customer health scoring00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Customer segmentation00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Totango
8.3
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1% below category average
Customer health trends00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Engagement analytics00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Revenue forecasting00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Dashboards00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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9.1
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Likelihood to Renew
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7.3
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Usability
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8.6
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Availability
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9.9
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Performance
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8.8
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Support Rating
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7.7
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Online Training
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7.0
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Implementation Rating
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10.0
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Configurability
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8.2
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Ease of integration
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8.0
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Product Scalability
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9.8
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Vendor post-sale
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8.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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for a CSM it´s marvelous, you have in one window everything,the agenda for your day by day work, the workload you have in a day,all the customers database and call history added by tasks and toutch points, the to do thing in each customer you know what to do next, with renewal you hace an digital engadgement with customers inform they need to renew in order to keep using the app.
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Pros
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  • Totango easily integrates with other tools to pull information in one place.
  • Totango is extremely easy to configure how you want, including adding new attributes that are important to you, creating segments relevant to your business, and automating processes through SuccessPlays and Campaigns.
  • Totango Support is amazing! Very knowledgeable and prompt!
  • Totango provides so many resources for users, including tutorials, a knowledge base, and the new creator campus. It's awesome.
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Cons
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  • Editing templates can be slow and confusing.
  • Building items across teams can be a challenge.
  • Reports and segments seem to be the same thing and it's a challenge telling people to build a segment when they are looking to build a report.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We like the tool enough to keep it in the long run. It does what we need it exactly to do, and I think there's still a lot for us to uncover in terms of its capabilities. There are a lot of functions we want to take the time to learn, but we've been strapped on resources so are just staying afloat.
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Usability
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It is easy to use and understand, and simple to follow day to day. Logging notes and tasks is one of the key areas this is utilised along with tracking reports and accessing key data points for conversations with customers which is helpful. Mobile app helps too to access information on the go.
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Reliability and Availability
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Totango is available all the time . the only problem is that some times it takes time to load specially the records of the customers. The data loading inside the customer account is fast. It may be because of internet service but still it can i,prove a lot. i have seen other competitors software which is faster
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Performance
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At times the integration sync can be really slow when it comes to touchpoints. I can't say the same for customer health syncing, but I do tend to notice the lag from email syncing, and in those cases, I will need to refresh the Totango page a couple of times or wait a couple of extra seconds/minutes for it to show up.
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Support Rating
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I give Totango a support rating of 10 because I can always get support whenever needed. If its a technical issue, I know I can email their support team for help. If it's a more in depth question with respect to our instance of Totango, I can reach out to our CSM and always get help in a very reasonable amount of time. I always look to Totango as the standard when I think of how to best communicate and support our own customers.
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Online Training
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Our CSM did a great job of conducting the training so we understand, at the very least, the functionality that is directly relevant to us. This also allowed us to train our own new team mates when onboarding based on the training flow that was first presented to us. This was also conducted as a interactive sessions, as training are notoriously known to be dry
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Implementation Rating
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Totango has been easy for our team to integrate most of our new features into, which is great considering we have to factor in the customers' usage of the new features into all of the health and usage metrics we have. It has taken a while to integrate our second product however, which is why I would rank this a 7.
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Alternatives Considered
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I've implemented dozens of systems over the last 15 years and, I feel, Totango was by far the most challenging. I have a background in several areas, but the most applicable to Totango is my background in data management, systems administration, programming, web design, web dev. Totango was very challenging to set-up. Other systems have more intuitive UIs and onboarding. For anyone wanting to use Totango, don't. For those that are still not convinced, I would make sure you are game for a very long implementation and the ongoing maintenance of syncing/resyncing. If you are in charge of implementation, in my experience, this is a not a 'set it and forget it' type of platform. It does require someone who is highly technical to partner with your customer success team to make sure it is functioning properly.
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Scalability
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Information keeps missing and changing in totango . Because of that there is are lot of problems with it. We need to manually keep the backup in an another file. More over if in case we take the backup its so hard to track since its all in numbers. Totango can be much better if the cloud storage is working fine. My company is planning to discontinue due to this factor
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Return on Investment
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  • Definitely enables to improve overall client retention, our target is 97%, we're at 96%.
  • A significant contribution to our increasing client conversion from starter package to the subscribed client within the first 90 days or less.
  • ROI continues to increase with every new release from Totango, and it will ultimately become our primary source of truth for all customer data.
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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of collaboration tools to manage a customer portfolioScreenshot of a 360° view of customer healthScreenshot of the dashboard to monitor customer metricsScreenshot of engaging in-app experiences and email campaigns to improve customer retentionScreenshot of integrated data in the Customer Data Hub