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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    MindTouch

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AMindTouch is a customer experience management platform with content management and help authoring capabilities. Formerly known as MediaWiki, it is optimized for building knowledge bases for customer self-service and agent assistance purposes.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
    MindTouchTotango
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    MindTouchTotango
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    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
    MindTouchTotango
    Considered Both Products
    MindTouch
    Chose MindTouch
    MindTouch is by far better than Zendesk. Article management and editing are much better and richer (more than a basic font. MindTouch has a better interface and better design options out of the box. MindTouch has a dedicated customer success management [team] and support from …
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    Totango
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    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
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    184 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    96 Answers
    Features
    MindTouchTotango
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of MindTouch and Totango
    Feature
    MindTouch
    -
    Ratings
    Totango
    8.5
    182 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.5182 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of MindTouch and Totango
    Feature
    MindTouch
    -
    Ratings
    Totango
    8.5
    216 Ratings
    2% below category average
    API00 Ratings6.9149 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings9.5173 Ratings
    Integration with Marketo00 Ratings9.035 Ratings
    Customer Data Extraction / Integration
    Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of MindTouch and Totango
    Feature
    MindTouch
    -
    Ratings
    Totango
    8.1
    247 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Product usage00 Ratings8.1243 Ratings
    Help desk / support tickets00 Ratings8.2160 Ratings
    Customer Success Management
    Comparison of Customer Success Management features of MindTouch and Totango
    Feature
    MindTouch
    -
    Ratings
    Totango
    8.1
    260 Ratings
    6% below category average
    NPS surveys00 Ratings9.4124 Ratings
    Sponsor tracking00 Ratings6.16 Ratings
    Customer profiles00 Ratings7.9251 Ratings
    Automated workflow00 Ratings9.1240 Ratings
    Internal collaboration00 Ratings7.7226 Ratings
    Customer health scoring00 Ratings7.5253 Ratings
    Customer segmentation00 Ratings8.7243 Ratings
    CSM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of MindTouch and Totango
    Feature
    MindTouch
    -
    Ratings
    Totango
    8.3
    254 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Customer health trends00 Ratings8.4243 Ratings
    Engagement analytics00 Ratings8.8229 Ratings
    Revenue forecasting00 Ratings7.7175 Ratings
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.4237 Ratings
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    Score9 out of 10
    ChurnZero
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Medallia
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MindTouchTotango
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (110 ratings)
    9.1
    (261 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (18 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    7.5
    (29 ratings)
    8.6
    (95 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (31 ratings)
    7.7
    (93 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.7
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    1.4
    (3 ratings)
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MindTouchTotango
    Likelihood to Recommend
    MindTouch
    If a company doesn't want to make their knowledge base public-facing, you lose a lot of the value of using MindTouch in a closed environment. MindTouch is not ideal for extremely structured content management scenarios that are strong DITA advocates. Companies that require localization might not be good fits either.
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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
    MindTouch
    • MindTouch helps to easily organize our help articles to ensure that our end user is receiving the proper information.
    • The MindTouch platform is extremely easy to navigate which reduces the turnaround time for our team to publish new material.
    • The editor tools supplied through MindTouch make styling our documentation a breeze.
    • The contextual help tool allows our customers to consume documentation based on the page they are viewing in our platform.
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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
    MindTouch
    • When we do have a support issue, we frequently need to go through multiple people, contacts, ways of explaining things, etc,. before someone on their end actually understands our problem. It's rare that the first person we talk to understands the big picture or appreciates our use case.
    • The draft functionality is a promising start but lacks some key features that cause us regular frustration. For example, you can only create one draft of a page at a time. This is fine if changes come to you in perfect sequential order, but it makes it impossible for us to update a live page while a draft exists. More specifically, if we're working on updating content on a page for a new feature being released next month, but then we notice a typo today, we can't fix the typo in production without first deleting the draft or doing some hacky workaround of temporarily copying/pasting the source HTML of the draft page and saving it someplace else.
    • Existence of, or integration with, true source control would be a huge win, but it's something currently lacking in the product. MindTouch's content reuse feature is helpful in the right situations, but it's not robust enough to scale well for lots of content.
    • Version history of page changes is not 100% reliable. Sometimes items don't show up at all or there is a delay before the diff is visible. Also, creating a draft does not register at all in the page version history.
    • In-site search is poor, unless you know the *exact* title of what you're looking for. We tell our customers to use Google, not the MindTouch search. Google is excellent at searching our MindTouch site.
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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
    MindTouch
    We've put lots and lots of content into the MindTouch system, of course, so that makes it harder to opt out, but we're also very pleased with their rate of development and weekly pushing of improvements, as well as their response and solutions to our questions and input All in all, a winning combination.
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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
    MindTouch
    The site is responsive across multiple devices and screens. It has a clear path to contact support. The articles are searchable. Site users do have trouble navigating the site and finding what they need. That may be due to the architecture of the site, but it'd be nice if MindTouch offered more solutions are this. Our content is organized by product line. And many of those product lines have overlapping training content, so we have extensive duplicate content.
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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
    MindTouch
    No answers on this topic
    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
    MindTouch
    MindTouch is a hosted site, so as a heavy user there are times when I notice that pages are slow to load, or something happens like Amazon Web Services crashing the entire east coast for a few hours, that you do notice even if it isn't actually the fault of the MT tool itself. It's the risk of using a hosted tool, but the benefits are pretty amazing and outweigh these performance issues.
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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
    MindTouch
    It's good. Pretty solid. We got a lot of input to get up and running, but did a lot of the setup and customization work ourselves, because of our high standards. We've gotten good response and results on specific projects related to customization and our CSM is also pretty responsive. Overall, I think that the jobs of CSMs and support folks would be easier if the product weren't wonky in some ways. They seem to have to do more "workarounds" for basic functionality that should just work out of the box
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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
    MindTouch
    Written documentation and videos are very good and have helped on numerous occasions when I've had to look up how to accomplish a certain task. The reason I have not given a full score is mainly because there have been some inaccuracies in the documentation because updates to the MindTouch framework have slightly changed the way things work. But this is usually the same type of challenges I face when making documentation for the software solution we develop. So all in all I'm very satisfied with both the personal webinars and the online documentation MindTouch provides for their service.
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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
    MindTouch
    Just know that there is so much more involved than adding your content. There are so many pieces to launching your site -- especially if you are moving from another platform. If you are not a person who typically works in the "website" realm, do your homework, ask your web people, engineers, etc., because there's a lot to do that you won't know about until you are unexpectedly smacked in the face with it. Learn from my mistakes! We are very happy now, but it was a long road getting to launch day for us
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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
    MindTouch
    I will be brief. DealerTeam is built upon Salesforce and we try to support native apps. We used Desk.com first for basic Help Ticket management. The product did not satisfy how our customers were looking for information. We upgraded to Service Cloud with Knowledge Base and spent one year writing content and developing our support agency. Again, our customers were upset about submitting help tickets and waiting for answers. They wanted access to self-help while working with a customer. Today we continue to use Service Cloud with MindTouch integration and have found complete success. There is simply no other solution I know of that is a flexible and easy to use as MindTouch when it come to providing customer success and product support
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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
    MindTouch
    We tried to migrate to MindTouch for 5 months and failed, remained with Zendesk
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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
    MindTouch
    • Our operational efficiently has improved significantly. Prior to Mindtouch, we managing duplicate content in two separate authoring solutions. Delivering content predictably and consistently was difficult and stressful for writers. In Mindtouch, we were able to optimize our content (remove redundancies) giving us more time to test, review, and improve content quality.
    • Traffic to our knowledge center is increasing monthly.
    • Internally, SMEs and customer-facing teams are recognizing the value Mindtouch brings through self-service knowledge. These SMEs want to contribute more to content, either as contributing writers or collaborators with tech writers.
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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

    MindTouch Screenshots

    Screenshot of Content from MindTouch site visualized with Wave Analytics.Screenshot of Example MindTouch implementation from customer Whirlpool.Screenshot of Example MindTouch implementation from customer Conga.Screenshot of Example MindTouch implementation from customer Cisco Meraki.Screenshot of Example MindTouch implementation from customer Hitachi Data Systems.Screenshot of Example MindTouch implementation from customer Zuora.

    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