Gainsight CS vs. UserIQ

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Gainsight CS
Score 8.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Gainsight’s customer-centric technology aims to drive the future of customer success. The company’s Customer Cloud offers a set of solutions focused on customer success, product experience, revenue optimization, customer experience, and customer data, that together are designed to enable businesses to put the customer at the center of everything they do. The vendor states that companies that use Gainsight grow net retention by up to 33 percent. Learn how leading companies like Okta, SAP Concur,…
$2,500
Per Company Per Month
UserIQ
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
UserIQ is a walkthrough tool that aims to empower SaaS companies to deliver what each user needs to be successful in every moment, starting with adoption. According to the vendor, key benefits include: effectively scale onboarding increase feature usage accelerate time-to-value ultimately drive more revenue throughout the customer journeyN/A
Pricing
Gainsight CSUserIQ
Editions & Modules
Subscription
$2,500
Per Company Per Month
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Gainsight CSUserIQ
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Gainsight CSUserIQ
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Gainsight CS
7.1
164 Ratings
21% below category average
UserIQ
10.0
3 Ratings
13% above category average
Role-based user permissions7.1164 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Gainsight CS
7.7
205 Ratings
11% below category average
UserIQ
9.3
5 Ratings
8% above category average
API6.8122 Ratings7.14 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com7.9204 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Integration with Marketo7.749 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Integration with Eloqua8.219 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Product A and Product B
Gainsight CS
6.8
205 Ratings
24% below category average
UserIQ
7.8
4 Ratings
11% below category average
Product usage8.5194 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets5.1165 Ratings7.54 Ratings
Customer Success Management
Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Product A and Product B
Gainsight CS
6.3
217 Ratings
28% below category average
UserIQ
8.0
4 Ratings
4% below category average
NPS surveys7.9170 Ratings7.14 Ratings
Sponsor tracking4.7160 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Customer profiles6.2194 Ratings8.53 Ratings
Automated workflow7.8208 Ratings6.14 Ratings
Internal collaboration5.1195 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Customer health scoring6.9210 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Customer segmentation5.1177 Ratings7.54 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Gainsight CS
7.1
215 Ratings
15% below category average
UserIQ
9.5
3 Ratings
14% above category average
Customer health trends6.9197 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Engagement analytics7.1174 Ratings8.53 Ratings
Revenue forecasting7.9107 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Dashboards6.7212 Ratings9.53 Ratings
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User Ratings
Gainsight CSUserIQ
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(222 ratings)
7.5
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.8
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(24 ratings)
8.1
(2 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(134 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
Online Training
5.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.3
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Gainsight CSUserIQ
Likelihood to Recommend
Gainsight
Well suited for: consolidated and organized note taking tracking stakeholders contact information if properly configured - identifying and categorizing risk categories less appropriate setting up customer journey takes quite a bit of work to implement and make use of - want best practices baked into the product - "customer journey wizard" reporting is robust but clunky to set up reports and get meaningful data
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UserIQ
In UserIQ campaigns, you can probably create whatever content you have in mind for your campaigns using IFrames. You can probably implement whatever content you have in mind for your campaigns using IFrames in UserIQ campaigns.
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Pros
Gainsight
  • Gainsight's Data Designer is a powerful tool that allows you to create new tables/data sets from different sources (Create a new table by merging Snowflake, SFDC and Gainsight data that you can use for reporting or be the engine of calls to actions)
  • The health score is great! with good data and the right workflows in place, you can easily create automated health scores by your desired segmentation
  • Journey Orchestrator is the best 1:M outreach tool I have seen from any CSP. Very flexible and comprehensive. Can also support surveys! JO can be used for all segments, not just your digital segments!
  • Gmail/Outlook integration - Our CSMs love that you can send an email and attach it to the gainsight account. You can also create a meeting note in Gainsight and email it to your customers!
  • Calls to Action/Playbooks are very customizable, interoperable with SFDC and a great way for CSMs to keep on top of their work and also a great tool for reporting outcomes and CSMs work throughout the year
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UserIQ
  • Have a really easy way to tag features and know what you're tracking.
  • Great, simple user walkthroughs that you can plug into your app to improve onboarding or increase feature adoption.
  • Some interesting dashboard views and you can slice users/accounts many different ways.
  • Pretty user-friendly interface.
  • Easy to collect qualitative data (nps, survey, etc.).
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Cons
Gainsight
  • Sometimes tying Salesforce Data into Gainsight objects can be challenging. (I don't believe this is a true Gainsight limitation)
  • I would love to see the ability to create a dashboard directly from JO Analytics, to help save time recreating measure the program analytics already provide. (Since the JO program analytics aren't extensible to everyone, a dashboard needs to be created )
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UserIQ
  • Getting the hang of the walkthroughs took me awhile and was hard for me to understand, but now I understand and love them!
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Likelihood to Renew
Gainsight
Gainsight offers a level of support that I've not experience before. They will work with you to come up with a solution to a problem - or help match you with another client that has a similar setup as you to get their feedback. Also the functionality that we have built within the software works for us. It's 'easy' to use (once you get the hang of it) and our users rather enjoy working in the software.
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UserIQ
No answers on this topic
Usability
Gainsight
I give it this score based on the implementation at my current employer. I don't know if it could be higher based on if the implementation went better, or if there is something on the vendor side that could help. If this were asked at my previous employer, I would have given it a score of 9 or 10.
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UserIQ
This rating is given as to a certain degree it is useful - as in the customer health dashboard and providing a very fast service which is easy to use for our users. However, as mentioned prior, the exportation of this data into presentable information (presentation style) is not really possible without doing yourself via screenshots and interpreting the data.
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Performance
Gainsight
There are some times when it can take almost a minute to load some of our reports or the rules engine. Within a rule it can also take time to load the actions as they each load one at a time when scrolling. The ability to scroll without waiting would be ideal
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UserIQ
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Gainsight
The CSMs are very hands-on and helpful, both Elaine and Lane have provided a lot of guidance and value over the years. Support is responsive and will jump on things as needed. The thought leadership and community is probably the most valuable part of our support from Gainsight.
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UserIQ
Customer service and support is one of the biggest strengths for UserIQ, whenever there has been any issues or confusion, the help service is very effective and friendly to support us and get to a conclusion within no time, hence why the ranking given is extremely high for this factor. I would not say any improvement is needed in terms of this aspect of the company.
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Online Training
Gainsight
The online videos are very good for basic tasks in the platform, but it isn't very descriptive or helpful trying to make your own specific variables fit the simple example that is typically used. Typically, I'll watch a video, try on my own and still have to get help from support or Customer Success team
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UserIQ
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Gainsight
I was not part of the implantation (I took over later). However, based on what was passed to me, the tool was not well implemented at our org. I think this had to do with complexity, wrong person assigned in our org, and org buy-in. I think it would have been very successful if we had a better assignment process internally.
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UserIQ
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Alternatives Considered
Gainsight
Our Salesforce admin is constantly pushing us to adopt more of the features of Salesforce. However, we find that Gainsight is a stronger tool for customization and enhanced interdepartmental communications. Timeline makes it easy to understand where we stand in a customer lifecycle, which is far superior to reviewing an activity history related list in Salesforce.
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UserIQ
When comparing with the other product of the market we realize UserIQ brings the best outcome beneath the price so we choose UserIQ apart from other products.
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Return on Investment
Gainsight
  • We increase account coverage by more than 20% through the tools within Gainsight CS to generate actions for our CSMs to prioritize accounts.
  • Now that we are using Success Plans, we are seeing 65-75% of customer outcomes realized within a 12-month period. This was something we weren't able to track before.
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UserIQ
  • UserIQ has let us communicate more effectively with our customers. We have seen a reduction in calls to customer service on how to utilize and update items on our SaaS UI.
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ScreenShots

Gainsight CS Screenshots

Screenshot of Get notified when your sponsor moves with our social media tracker - Sponsor TrackingScreenshot of Get more face time with your customers with 60 second videos - GsnapScreenshot of Automate Calls-to-Action on customer risks, opportunities and lifecycle events, better prioritize tasks with AI-driven priority scoring and follow a step-by-step playbook to deliver a consistent, best-in-class customer experience.Screenshot of Our collection of best practice-based solutions can be deployed within your Gainsight instance to help you move quickly and realize value fasterScreenshot of Design dynamic, multi-step customer journeys that blend human and digital touchpoints to deliver personalized engagement at scale. Analyze data at every step and adjust to each customer's behavior to more effectively deliver the outcomes your customers desire.Screenshot of Organize your team’s activities around your customer's key objectives. Collaborate directly with customer stakeholders to realize their desired outcomes and demonstrate how your efforts translate to results.