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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ClientSuccess

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AClientSuccess, from the company of the same name in Lehi, is presented by the vendor as a simple yet sophisticated solution for CSMs, and the Executive team. For the CSMs, ClientSuccess brings together the tools, best practices, insights and analytics needed to proactively manage customers. For the Executives, they deliver analytics, metrics and reports to provide a comprehensive view of the health of a SaaS business.N/A

    Strikedeck (discontinued)

    Score4.3 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Strikedeck was a SaaS platform for Customer Success used to enable more efficiency in planning renewals, identifying upsell/cross-sell opportunities, and monitoring customer health, with out of the box playbooks and workflows for common events in the customer lifecycle. The platform was acquired by Medallia, and discontinued. Strikedeck is no longer available.N/A

    Totango

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ATotango is an enterprise customer success platform designed for B2B software and recurring-revenue organizations to manage customer retention, track account health, and automate lifecycle workflows. The platform consolidates product telemetry, financial data, support interactions, and CRM records into a central hub to give cross-functional teams visibility into customer adoption and expansion opportunities.N/A
    Pricing
    ClientSuccessStrikedeck (discontinued)Totango
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalOptional
    Additional Details——Each 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
    ClientSuccessStrikedeck (discontinued)Totango
    Considered Multiple Products
    ClientSuccess
    Chose ClientSuccess
    Vs. Gainsight - I believe this solution is over-engineered and time to value is just too long for me.
    Incentivized
    Chose ClientSuccess
    Our team had previously been using HubSpot CRM as a way to manage client contracts in combination with Trello for simple client progress mapping, and Client Success has eliminated the need to use either of them for client management. HubSpot is designed more for sales processes …
    Incentivized
    Chose ClientSuccess
    Taking notes/logging calls is much easier.
    Incentivized
    Chose ClientSuccess
    Before we evaluated ClientSuccess, we took a look at Gainsight. It is a power customer success tool and it definitely covered all the features a Customer Success team could need, but ultimately we selected ClientSuccess as a better fit for our company where we were at the …
    Incentivized
    Chose ClientSuccess
    Personally, I think I have a fondness for Woopra that isn't shared by my team. ClientSuccess is clean, efficient and easy to use, but I have love for Woopra that I can't shake. That being said, we are comparing diamonds to diamonds, and I think you should go with the one that …
    Incentivized
    Chose ClientSuccess
    Honestly just saw product demos, didn't evaluate hands-on. For our use case, the price point was MUCH more accommodating.
    Incentivized
    Discontinued Products
    Chose Strikedeck (discontinued)
    The lower price was why we went with Strikedeck over Gainsight or Totango.
    Incentivized
    Totango
    Chose Totango
    Strikedeck was better equipped. COOs use of Totango in the previous firm influenced our decision to buy this product
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    I was not part of the evaluation of ClientSuccess in detail, but the main thing we liked as an advantage of ClientSuccess was the customer lifecycle stages. For the Gainsight comparison, our data could be ingested better with Totango which is why the decision was made to move …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Good reseller partnership, easy UI, good time to value.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Totango was selected before I joined the business as it was cheaper and more flexible. The fact that it is working independently from SalesForce is a major benefit as our SalesForce instance is not 100% reliable.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Initially [we were] with Gainsight, but their modifications to the UI and inability to work at Contract level in Salesforce really killed it for us. We used Gainsight 3 years prior to switching to Totango. Both were limited rollout to the Elite CSM team followed by broader …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Two main gaps made us choosing Totango instead of Gainsight:
    1. Pricing - We do believe Gainsight has a great product and service, but our company can't afford it before scaling.
    2. Flexibility of onboarding - For us, the fast implementation and the lean mindset is really …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    We had web demos and multiple phone calls with several other companies that advertised customer success software. We also spoke with friends at other organizations that are in customer success to discuss their tools, processes, and experience with various venders. Overall, we …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    I wasn't part of that decision; however, my understanding is their support and their ability to find a workaround that works for you are superb.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    I started at the organization after Totango was selected, but I hear the decision was based on how intuitive the solution was, and how it could integrate with the other solutions in-house. At prior companies, the reporting suite had been the primary focus. One company in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    We use totango because prosperworks doesn't have the data side.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Gainsight was looked at as well, and Totango came out on top for 2 reasons. Cost and usability. Totango truly is in a class by itself as compared to Gainsight.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    We selected Totango over other products because of the balance between sophisticated functionality (like customized health categorization based on usage) and a reasonable price point.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Created a comparison spreadsheet and filled it with ranks for each vendor.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    We evaluated five other customer success platforms. We selected Totango because of its technical fit, usability, and competitive pricing.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    I was not involved in the initial evaluation of customer success tools. We are now evaluating Gainsight as part of our renewal process. We are looking to make sure they can integrate with outside data sources including Salesforce and want to be able to get more granular insight …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    We spoke with all vendors and tested Preact and found Totango to be the best fit for us.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    It depends on the problem you are trying to solve. The overall industry and role of customer success is still growing and many organizations are still trying to get their head around it. However, as a SaaS organization you very likely recognize the need to improve your …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    I wasn't in the evaluation process.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Our team looked at what Totango had to offer and felt that it had all the functionality we might need as we move our customer success program forward.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    The price was a big factor for similar features. Although the other system had more features and a cleaner/more complete integration with Salesforce (as a Salesforce extension), we didn't need all the bells and whistles a this point.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    We used Salesforce extensively for several years and Totango integrates directly into Salesforce, pulling data into their product as well as pushing data back to Salesforce. As they add new functionality it quickly and easily integrates into Salesforce through the API.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    I only use the product, I was not part of the product selection.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    We used another software before and felt Totango was a much more advanced system.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    60%
    Would buy again
    3 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    183 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    124 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    184 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    96 Answers
    Features
    ClientSuccessStrikedeck (discontinued)Totango
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of ClientSuccess and Strikedeck (discontinued) and Totango
    Feature
    ClientSuccess
    8.2
    15 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Strikedeck (discontinued)
    8.5
    4 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Totango
    8.5
    182 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Role-based user permissions8.215 Ratings8.54 Ratings8.5182 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of ClientSuccess and Strikedeck (discontinued) and Totango
    Feature
    ClientSuccess
    8.4
    13 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Strikedeck (discontinued)
    8.4
    5 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Totango
    8.5
    216 Ratings
    2% below category average
    API10.010 Ratings7.33 Ratings6.9149 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com9.012 Ratings9.64 Ratings9.5173 Ratings
    Integration with Marketo7.32 Ratings00 Ratings9.035 Ratings
    Integration with Eloqua7.32 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Data Extraction / Integration
    Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of ClientSuccess and Strikedeck (discontinued) and Totango
    Feature
    ClientSuccess
    8.9
    16 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Strikedeck (discontinued)
    8.7
    5 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Totango
    8.1
    247 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Product usage8.414 Ratings9.45 Ratings8.1243 Ratings
    Help desk / support tickets9.412 Ratings8.04 Ratings8.2160 Ratings
    Customer Success Management
    Comparison of Customer Success Management features of ClientSuccess and Strikedeck (discontinued) and Totango
    Feature
    ClientSuccess
    8.6
    17 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Strikedeck (discontinued)
    8.7
    5 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Totango
    8.1
    260 Ratings
    6% below category average
    NPS surveys7.09 Ratings8.84 Ratings9.4124 Ratings
    Sponsor tracking9.411 Ratings9.01 Ratings6.16 Ratings
    Customer profiles9.017 Ratings8.65 Ratings7.9251 Ratings
    Automated workflow8.917 Ratings8.05 Ratings9.1240 Ratings
    Internal collaboration7.716 Ratings8.04 Ratings7.7226 Ratings
    Customer health scoring9.017 Ratings9.45 Ratings7.5253 Ratings
    Customer segmentation9.016 Ratings9.05 Ratings8.7243 Ratings
    CSM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of ClientSuccess and Strikedeck (discontinued) and Totango
    Feature
    ClientSuccess
    8.4
    17 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Strikedeck (discontinued)
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Totango
    8.3
    254 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Customer health trends9.015 Ratings8.85 Ratings8.4243 Ratings
    Engagement analytics8.113 Ratings8.05 Ratings8.8229 Ratings
    Revenue forecasting7.614 Ratings6.22 Ratings7.7175 Ratings
    Dashboards9.017 Ratings8.24 Ratings8.4237 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
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    Small Businesses
    ChurnZero
    Score7.9 out of 10
    ClientSuccess
    Score6 out of 10
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    Score6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    ChurnZero
    Score7.9 out of 10
    ChurnZero
    Score7.9 out of 10
    ChurnZero
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Gainsight CS
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Gainsight CS
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Gainsight CS
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ClientSuccessStrikedeck (discontinued)Totango
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (18 ratings)
    7.6
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (261 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    5.6
    (5 ratings)
    8.6
    (95 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    -
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    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    7.7
    (93 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    -
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    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    -
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    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    -
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    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    -
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    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ClientSuccessStrikedeck (discontinued)Totango
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ClientSuccess
    Client Success is well suited to both growing and established companies who know what they want and need to track for their clients. With the broad ability to support numerous accounts, have multiple users, and its custom success cycles to map a clients progress, it would be a great solution for any Client Success team. I think that teams that are unaware of what they need to track wouldn't find Client Success as useful, and organizations that require a large number of custom client descriptions and variables would find certain limitations a barrier to successfully using this tool.
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    Discontinued Products
    The system is good for Customer Success teams to get started and if all the users are updating it responsibly. There are not many checks and balances in the system so your team will have to be disciplined. The reason why I have not been generous with my rating is only because of the slow nature of support and upgrades to the product.
    Incentivized
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    Totango
    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
    ClientSuccess
    • ClientSuccess makes it easy for our customer success managers to manage their workflows and provides excellent visibility into our company's customer activity and engagement. We're able to log into CS and regularly check segments of our customers that need to be engaged with on a daily basis, log customer health, and be aware of approaching subscription renewals in order to pay appropriate attention to the right customers.
    • The user interface is easy to use, friendly in design, and quick to learn. They make it look attractive with bright color schemes without overdoing it too much.
    • As a customer success manager myself, I am appreciative of how this tool has kickstarted our fairly-new Customer Success department and made us much more organized and knowledgeable as a customer-facing entity.
    • Their customer success/support teams are excellent as well - which is to be expected. We've felt very well taken care of since we became customers of ClientSuccess.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Automating tasks within Playbooks
    • Combine multiple sources of customer data
    • Makes it easy to track and review customer status
    • The Customer Support is outstanding - knowledgeable, helpful, responsive
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    Totango
    • Enables us to easily send and collect NPS & CSAT scores regularly.
    • Syncs with HubSpot to bring in updated client data and deals automatically.
    • Allows us to manage clients based on health score which is multi-dimensional.
    • I can log touch points directly in Totango from Gmail so easily..
    • As we improve and develop our non SaaS business client experience, Totango continues to develop more functionality that we can benefit from.
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    Cons
    ClientSuccess
    • The support view takes a few steps to get to the meat and potatoes.
    • The success score model can be improved to include smaller one-off campaigns. Success score is good for a campaign that has existed for a while but not for the one-off projects.
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    • The knowledge base with content and videos is still work in progress.
    • The support team was very responsive, but not consultative. I had to create from scratch most of the time.
    • It was confusing to use.
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    Totango
    • Integrations -- in my experience, they constantly break and disconnect.
    • Implementation -- I feel it was a HUGE challenge to set-up our environment. It took over 200 hours and it didn't work.
    • Communication -- during implementation/onboarding, in my opinion, we were mislead on how to create some of our custom data objects and it ended up being a big waste of time since the approach we were instructed to use ended up being incorrect.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ClientSuccess
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    Discontinued Products
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    Totango
    I personally believe Totango is the right Customer Success Tool for me, my team, and my organization. I couldn't find limitations until now, it's capabilities are on point and it's very scalable. of course, transitioning to another tool would mean a lot of hours and training, and would expose risks
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    Usability
    ClientSuccess
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    Discontinued Products
    I think the only thing holding me back from a 10 is the fact that I don't have that next step field and integration seems to break at times.
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    Totango
    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
    ClientSuccess
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    Discontinued Products
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    Totango
    I have yet to experience any downtime with Totango (knock on wood) so reliability has been really top tier since we were onboarded. Given that the support team has been really helpful so far, I can imagine should downtime every be the case, they'll be able to communicate proactively/effectively on the current state of the platform
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    Performance
    ClientSuccess
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    Discontinued Products
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    Totango
    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
    ClientSuccess
    They are SUPER responsive...even for late night inquiries.
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    Discontinued Products
    When we get issues with Strikedeck, we raise it internally with the Strikedeck admin team. They then contact Strikedeck and raise a support ticket. The turnaround time is quick quick. But from my personal use of Strikedeck, I have only come across few situations where a support ticket is raised with Strikedeck.
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    Totango
    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
    ClientSuccess
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    Discontinued Products
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    Totango
    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
    ClientSuccess
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    Discontinued Products
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    Totango
    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
    ClientSuccess
    HubSpot is excellent as it was an easy expansion from the sales and marketing work we were using it for. It meets our needs but isn't entirely as geared towards customer success like ClientSuccess. ClientSuccess has more bells and whistles that are out of the box vs. HubSpot, where the capabilities may exist but require a little more leg work.
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    Discontinued Products
    The lower price was why we went with Strikedeck over Gainsight or Totango.
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    Totango
    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 Customer Success teams
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    Scalability
    ClientSuccess
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    Discontinued Products
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    Totango
    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
    ClientSuccess
    • Within the first week, leadership was able to have more visibility into the lifestage and health score of each client
    • We needed to become more proactive as an organization and this platform has allowed us to do so with real-time metrics and reporting.
    • We needed to find a way to scale our approach, especially as our Client Success organization continues to grow, and this is already helping.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Helps in better forecasting of revenue & customer retention.
    • Provides Customer Success specific MIS.
    • NPS survey help gauge customer pulse.
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    Totango
    • Since using Totango we have seen our engagement numbers go up as we are better able to identify the groups that are struggling.
    • We have also seen an increase in retention as we are more consistent in messaging and not missing any data.
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    ScreenShots

    Strikedeck (discontinued) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Customer 360 with CustomizationScreenshot of Cohort Analysis and SegmentationScreenshot of Workflow Automation & PlaybooksScreenshot of TasksScreenshot of CalendarScreenshot of Engagement & Usage

    Totango Screenshots

    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