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What is Gainsight CS?
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, and Box use Gainsight at www.gainsight.com.
Gainsight CS Features
Customer Data Extraction / Integration Features
- Supported: Product usage
- Supported: Help desk / support tickets
- Supported: Online customer community
- Supported: Billing
- Supported: Marketing emails
Customer Success Management Features
- Supported: NPS surveys
- Supported: Sponsor tracking
- Supported: Customer profiles
- Supported: Automated workflow
- Supported: Internal collaboration
- Supported: Customer health scoring
- Supported: Customer segmentation
CSM Reporting & Analytics Features
- Supported: Customer health trends
- Supported: Engagement analytics
- Supported: Revenue forecasting
- Supported: Dashboards
- Supported: Customer lifetime value
- Supported: Churn rate
Security Features
- Supported: Role-based user permissions
Platform & Infrastructure Features
- Supported: API
- Supported: Integration with Salesforce.com
- Supported: Integration with Marketo
- Supported: Integration with Eloqua
Additional Features
- Supported: 360 Customer View
- Supported: Cockpit
- Supported: Timeline
- Supported: Success Plan
- Supported: In-product best practices library of resources
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Gainsight CS Integrations
- HubSpot Marketing Hub
- Oracle CRM duplicate
- SAP CRM discontinued
- NetSuite ERP
- Zoho CRM
- Pipedrive
- Slack
- SurveyMonkey
- Twilio Segment
- Mixpanel
- Google Analytics
- Zendesk Suite
- G2 for Buyers
- Planview AdaptiveWork
- Influitive
- Learndot
- Boomi
- MindTouch
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- CaliberMind
- Salesforce
- Infor
- Sugar CRM
- Tableau
- Outlook
- Gmail
- Azugua
- Point of Reference
- RO Innovation
- Salesforce Pardot
- HelpDocs
- Electron
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Gainsight CS Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Security |
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Reviewers rate Product usage highest, with a score of 8.5.
The most common users of Gainsight CS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
Gainsight CS Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 10% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 60% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 30% |
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December 05, 2023
Social and Spot Risk before it overtakes you!
We currently use Gainsight as a method to track customer engagement and identify risks as well as account health scoring. Using Gainsight allows us to integrate insights we have with the customer into our SFDC environment and notify a wider audience of potential account risks and categories. Overall, the tool provides a comprehensive method to tracking account engagement and risks.
- Ability to search through all engagement notes
- Ability to ensure that all accounts have reportable stakeholders at each customer
- Ability to market and mass email customers about important information
- Would love to see a Gainsight OPs/Admin checklist that guides CS Ops team through specific pieces of information needed to execute specific playbooks (best practices)
- When creating reports, sometimes it's difficult to find the correct variable that you are looking for as it's nested under various categories
- Would love ability to "heatmap" specific individual customer engagement based on CSM inputted customer contacts at meetings
- Would love to see more analysis on engagements - how often, how frequent - built into the product
September 18, 2023
The gold standard of CS platforms.
Gainsight is used to track customer engagements, create success plans, and measure the health of our customers. Initially our implementation was focused on "inputs" into the system to ensure compliance with our recommended engagement cadence. In recent years, we've shifted focus more towards outputs and leveraging Gainsight to inform our CS team on the actions they need to be taking with their customers. This is where the real value shines. If you're just using Gainsight as a management reporting tool, you're doing it wrong - CSMs and their leaders should be using this to manage their day-to-day activities.
- Easy to use UI.
- Doesn't require lots of training; lots of new hires come in with experience.
- The support we get from their account team is top-notch.
- There seem to be a lot of limitations around fields (adding/removing/renaming) that can't be worked around.
- It can feel like "extra work" for CSMs - more focus on baking its use into existing workflows.
- Integration with renewal/expansion forecasting tools.
September 01, 2023
Gainsight is the future of customer success
Gainsight is being used at our organization as a customer success tool to trigger knowledge-based actions in order to ensure customer retention and product adoption.
- Triggering actions based on knowledge and information gathered from the account.
- Showcasing a 360-degree view of the customer account.
- Giving you the capability of aligning multiple sub-customers under the same customer by the relationship View.
- Since Gainsight works on top of Salesforce lightning can be a bit latent in Speed and Performance.
- There is no way to get alerts for individual accounts you only can set up a feed which gives you alerts for all the accounts.
- Frequent timeout errors.
September 29, 2021
Helpful for understanding customers and gauge their health
We use Gainsight Customer Cloud in our Customer Success department. This helps us keep an eye on the health of our customers and the metrics that are important to their business. Gainsight Customer Cloud provides great visuals to quickly see at a glance what's going well and where improvement can be made. Ultimately, this helps drive the success of our customers and can help with growth and expansion as well.
- A wide variety of data is available in one place
- The data can be used to gain additional insight into our customer base
- The metrics are accurate
- The interface could be a bit more intuitive
February 18, 2020
A good way to help your organization see more with your customers
Gainsight is currently being used within our customer success department only. Our intended use is to help us become a more proactive organization and a way to better organize our day through the usage of the call to actions.
- Call to actions.
- Timeline events.
- Actual customer success execution.
- Rules engine is a bit clunky.
January 07, 2020
Team Gainsight!!
We use Gainsight throughout our entire Customer Success Team. Is helps us stay organized by prioritizing our CTA's with a due date and it even allows you to check off smaller tasks within a CTA before closing it out. Gainsight allows you to customize your view as a user and admins have control over the information it shows. It is so nice to have this platform that integrates with Salesforce and shows us a timeline of the team activity! While there is a lot of information, it is well-organized and easy to locate. Highly recommend!!
- Seamless integration - I have never had any issues with information showing up after input.
- Transparency - Clearly shows your progress and where you are at as an individual and team.
- Sometimes I am not able to fit all of the items into the window I have open but this is just due to having to shrink the page to fit multiple pages.
- You need to refresh before grabbing CTAs so that you do not take one that has already been claimed. It does not update in real time so if you are viewing something 60 seconds after someone else picked it up, it will still allow you to take it and that causes issues.
December 03, 2019
Gainsight -- We really like you
Gainsight is used by a variety of departments at my org including Sales, Client Success and Client Implementation. Gainsight addresses support and monitoring of client life cycle, success plans, progress and client risk.
- Love, love, love the Timeline feature for my Client Success team -- meetings notes, collaboration etc...awesome feature
- Very detailed support site and online community
- CTAs have been a lifesaver for our Implementation Specialists that work with large numbers of clients.
- Success Plans have been instrumental in supporting our higher-tiered clients without creating duplicate work for our Success Managers.
- Ability to print Success plans is severely lacking.
- Printing survey results is bulky and not user-friendly.
- Clearly understanding the Gainsight nomenclature (CTAs, Objectives, Playbooks, etc.) and how they relate to the system's internal structure was difficult for someone not super involved with the back-end of the system.
September 25, 2019
End user review of Gainsight
Gainsight is used by the Customer Success organization to capture and display customer adoption data as it relates to various products. Its use addresses the problem of understanding customer engagement in products with the goal of improving product marketing efforts as well as optimizing future product design and features.
- Charting/graphing/reporting - lots of options to create visualizations.
- Report Builder function - again, many options to choose from, relatively easy to use and quick to see output.
- Logical and pleasing UI - easy to follow and find what you're looking for.
- Playbook creation from template was a bit complicated and not easy to understand - more robust capability and better documentation of the feature would be useful.
August 23, 2019
Gainsight made my job so much easier.
Gainsight is exclusively used by the global customer success team (about 15 people). We started using it this year to help us streamline our customer info, notes, and reminders into one platform. We also wanted the automation of reminders for outreach. It has helped us track our efforts and have more visibility into our accounts.
- Allowing for customized 'calls to action'
- Providing a lot of information about clients in one shared online platform
- Sitting on top of Salesforce so that all of the data can be seamlessly transfered
- More differentiation between 'calls to action' and timeline entries
- More options for fields in the subscription info
- Doesn't provide visibility to Salesforce users so there is a disconnect with the sales team
August 19, 2019
Gain efficiency with Gainsight
Gainsight enables our customer success team to manage their accounts through health scores, meeting notes, surveys, email campaigns, and CTAs. Our executive, sales and CS leadership teams use the tool to gain information on their accounts and to review dashboards. We use Gainsight as the main tool to store all customer data. It allows us to monitor trends and risks at a high level.
- C360 page: all the information about a customer is one place that is easy to read and customize as needed. Allows CSMs to prep for calls within minutes as well bring other team members up to speed quickly.
- Timeline: quick and easy way to create, search and edit notes about the customer. These are easy to share with other teams and create different categories for quick searching and reporting.
- Sally bot: a quick and easy way to get customer information without navigating Gainsight. Great to use on the go, especially through the Slack bot and new Gainsight app.
- Reporting is good, but remains confusing and requires an admin to really navigate instead of end users being able to use
- Sharing: getting other teams access to the C360 page has been difficult without a full license.
- Journey Orchestrator can handle most emails, but the HTML functionality could be easier to navigate.
August 16, 2019
Timeline Lifeline
We use Gainsight within Customer Success, Sales, and Renewal teams to help provide a better workflow experience in managing our customers. Salesforce can get very overloaded with information and it's refreshing to have a platform that was designed around the customer success mindset but still sync back to Salesforce as needed.
- Effective communication logging through the Timeline feature has drastically changed our visibility into engagement activities and cross-collaboration among teams.
- Success Plans have helped us have laser focus action plans and tracking for implementation of onboarding needs.
- Pro-active data-driven CTAs for Customer Success Managers enable the team to get in front of potential risk and help turn things around before it's too late.
- Reports and dashboards could be made more robust, I often feel stuck with the current layout and design options.
- Formatting of text in emails or input fields is a bit clunky and often times gets out of whack requiring additional time to correct.
April 26, 2019
Take on the challenge, it is worth it.
Gainsight is mostly used by the Customer Success org. As a whole, it is not completely adopted by all teams, but the efforts of our Operations teams have made sure to display dashboards and important data regarding upcoming renewals and any risky activity. Where Gainsight is heavily used is within a CS team that focuses on scaling the Customer Success manager role and responsibilities. We've been able to automate many engagements along the Customer Journey via Journey Orchestrator, engagements that would've been time-consuming for human resources. Automation frees up CSMs' time to focus on more strategic initiatives. Internally, it has been an amazing tool to help the scale CSM team prioritize which accounts to engage with first. We have triggered alerts that will keep CSMs aware of all the accounts in their book and select the higher risk clients to address.
- Gainsight Community is so useful for more live support, and networking with other clients is definitely possible.
- Gainsight support is rapid responding and will not leave you wondering.
- Help Center and documentation is kept up to date which is very difficult for fast-changing technology.
- Webinar topics are on point.
- Account managers/CSMs can introduce and demo new features at the time of rollout. Be proactive to schedule time with your power users.
February 13, 2019
Gainsight helps us know when our customers need help before our customers know they need help
We use Gainsight to help onboard new CS reps, which in turn helps them onboard new customers. We also have connected GS with Mixpanel to bring in customer metrics from our product, and help understand our customers understanding of the product, and where they need additional help. With the health score we can also indicate, and be proactive about, preventing churn.
- Customer health score, which basically models how well your customers understand, and drive value, from your product.
- CTAs, which you can trigger to your CS team in order to help them proactively reach out.
- MDA, which flattens your objects across Salesforce, Marketo, Mixpanel....etc and let's you create rules (or flows) to trigger different events and field updates.
- The user interface needs some work, for example, when you're creating a rule, sometimes you hit "next", but sometimes you have to click on the next number in order to progress. It's a bit wonky.
- Maybe create out of the box reports that can help admins show the value of GS with the exec team.
January 11, 2019
Gainsight is a thought leader and has the best software in the customer success space!
My organization relies heavily on Gainsight across many customer-facing departments and with our executive team. It provides visibility into our customer base and helps us to assess our risks. We also use it to increase adoption across our customer base and ensure that we have a plan in place for each individual customer.
- Tracking customer health and adoption and assessing customer risk
- Communicating effectively to your customer base at a large scale
- Creating success plans for each individual customer
- The relationships module is not fully developed and has not worked well for our organization
- Reporting is powerful but can be a little clunky at times
- Mass email communication had issues early on, but most have been fixed at this point
January 11, 2019
Gainsight saves the Customer Success puzzle
Score 9 out of 10
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We rolled out Gainsight across our entire Customer Success organization of 100+ Success Managers and leaders. We use it as the central source of truth for all customer health and activity, and reporting on both to executives across multiple departments. In short, if it doesn't happen in Gainsight, it doesn't happen. Day-to-day Success Managers use the Gainsight Cockpit to track their customer activity. We use a combination of automated and manual entries to surface activity and needs per customer. We've also begun integrating our Gainsight to pull insights from other solutions to track customer health and create tasks for our Success Managers.
- Roll up reports across the entire organization to glean insights that can be sent to other departments.
- Track and triage big moments in a customer lifecycle.
- Create tasks for Success Managers to mitigate a customer heading down the path of churn.
- The Reporting module is only intuitive if you have extensive training on it, not even for someone who works in the SaaS space or is a heavy user.
- Creating manual tasks within CTAs can be very time consuming. It is best if everything rolls of a Playbook.
- The email notifications come in - at best - a daily digest.
We purchased Gainsight so we could have a central repository for our client accounts. It gives us good metrics to report and allows us to manage accounts, upsells, renewals referrals and more. It is used day to day operationally and for senior management reporting and action.
- Ability to create strategic dashboards
- Centralisation for accounts and a link with Salesforce
- Reporting ability
- Sometimes it appears a bit clunky - not sure if it is the volume of information or it's our system at fault
November 27, 2018
Gainsight Takes the Guessing out of Customer Success
Gainsight is being used today primarily by the customer success team. We also have users that sit in leadership and some key stakeholders within the sales organization. For CS, we use Gainsight to give us proactive insights and suggested tasks to serve our account base. We also rely on it heavily to provide each customer with a health score using data from our application, Pendo, Nudge and our BI. We have weighed out the data coming into Gainsight from these applications to provide us with a holistic view of active relationships within the account (to avoid being single threaded), adoption and value realization. These data points inform our overall health score, which I can confirm give us an accurate view into which accounts are at risk and also helps us identify opportunities. The CS360 is invaluable to our team. This is where we will go to prep for a customer call, capture meeting notes/risk/opportunities in the Timeline. Our usage of Gainsight has helped make us a very high functioning team.
- Health Score 2.0 - being able to bring in data points from different technologies to gauge health of a customer and of our customer base
- CS360 - A consolidated view into all important areas of an account - from contract details to health to usage stats
- Timeline - Finally one place to capture notes pertaining to an account/customer.
- Maintaining integrations, it can be tricky to pinpoint where an issue may lay (within the data coming in, within Gainsight, etc)
- It would be great to have warnings - like say if a SFDC admin changes a field that we bring into Gainsight that could potentially break something - it would be nice to have a warning email notification
November 27, 2018
(Almost) One Year as the Gainsight Administrator
Gainsight is being integrated across our organization as the hub for all client facing actions and communications. Our goal with Gainsight is to increase client retention.
- Customization of tools. It's an extremely powerful tool to implement your client success operations strategy and increase retention.
- Client support is very fast to respond to inquires.
- The Gainsight Vault and Community are both instrumental in learning the platform and enhancing your strategy.
- Gainsight has a very steep learning curve.
- The unique terminology of Gainsight can be a bit opaque as to what a particular piece of data represents.
September 04, 2018
A great tool with amazing people
We currently leverage Gainsight within our customer success management teams. We are working with other internal teams and have leveraged specific functionality to help streamline their current processes, so indirectly they are benefiting from the tool as well. Gainsight has helped the CSM teams consistently track customer engagements and helps them prioritize their accounts.
- Timeline - This is the BEST feature of Gainsight! There are multiple ways to allow your reps to track their engagements, all in a searchable fashion. This has been the ticket to increasing CSM adoption of the tool.
- The people - Everyone I've engaged with at Gainsight has been outstanding! Everyone from sales to implementation to product to customer success has all been amazing!
- Scorecard - Having a clear and consistent way to manage our customers' health has been beneficial throughout all levels of the organization.
- Call to Actions - Setting up thresholds for when customers are at risk, and knowing why, has helped drive meaningful conversation with our customers.
- The load times for many of the screens can be frustrating to end users. It's pulling real time reports so that is why the load times can be long, however CSMs get impatient quickly.
- The survey tool is a bit clunky, although it's improved drastically over time.
April 10, 2018
Gainsight is the only way to go!
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Gainsight has been a great help to our organization. Implementation of each new customer has been so smooth. I really like how easy it is to be very clear about each task that needs to be performed for the customer lifecycle. There's tons of add-on's that also add so much value to it. I highly recommend it!
- Implementation
- CTA Tasks
- LinkedIn
- I don't see any features that need improvement.
August 11, 2017
Our gains from Gainsight.
We only use Gainsight within our Customer Success team to automate our processes. We send automated emails through out the customer lifecycle and notify CSM of accounts that need attention. We are also developing account health scores and tracking usage data within the application.
- The bionic rules in Gainsight allow us to overcome the separation between Salesforce objects. I don't have to worry about not being able to access both billing and contact data for our customers at the same time anymore.
- The automated email feature, known as Copilot, has saved us hundreds if not thousands of hours of work. All of our clients receive specific emails, and we can easily set up which email goes to which client then essentially forget about it.
- The C360 page lets us access almost any data we need about a client. We can customize what is shown and how the data is organized so our CSM's can quickly see the most important information about our specific clients.
- The Usage object within Gainsight could use a bit of TLC. We love the data it shows and the potential it has to become a major resource in knowing our customers, but the UI can be a bit clunky at times. The graphs aren't always the most readable or intuitive.
- The automated emails can only be triggered once a day. We can't send an email within a certain amount of time of an event happening within an account. We also can't easily schedule the same email to trigger multiple times in one day.
- Health scores are at a good starting point, but we could use a couple more improvements. The first would be to have more options of splitting score categories up into smaller scores (e.g. overall score - usage score - indiv. feature score). We also can't set a weight to diminish over time (e.g. the sales score will always affect the overall score the same amount even after two years)
August 01, 2017
Feel the Pulse of your Clients
We are currently really focused on using Gainsight within our Client Success division, they are our power users. However, since we are getting a lot of data ingested into data we push a lot of it back to the Account level of Saleforce (SFDC) as well for other users who have a SFDC license but not a Gainsight one can see daily usage data. This give a lot more visibility into the overall health of a client by the usage of the tool rather then pulse checking between the CSM and client.
- Great way to really see if your clients are using the service you provide them.
- Easily able to formalize an action plan to follow up with at risk clients before its too late to save them.
- Just as easy to set up a thank campaign for clients who are using your service as intended and showing them value.
- Access to their Vault to pull in already created templates to customize to our company liking.
- It took a bit of time to figure out how to get our data out of our tool and then into Gainsight. But once we did it was very repeatable to get all the data we wanted. We just struggled with prioritizing developer hours to get this data push into Gainsight.
July 25, 2017
Love GainSight!
We have multiple reporting systems and it is difficult to consume all metrics for a customer from all these different sources. GainSight brings all that together and helps account managers manage their accounts more efficiently. GainSight is currently being used by account managers here, but we see opportunities where other teams can be benefitted too.
- Ease of integration with different sources of information.
- The C360 page is a charm! You can add multiple sections with dashboards on it. The Usage section is really powerful and helps combine metrics from different domains into one section, where it becomes very easy to track the trend of usage metrics. The 'normalize' option is an added advantage to track the percentage changes over time.
- The report builder is very easy to use.
- There are limitations on email outreaches like no support for tabular reports, limitation of 5 reports on an email template etc. Also, there is a lack of functionality to not trigger an email outreach if none of the reports on the email have data. There are times when the recipients get email that has nothing to track.
- Report builder is pretty simple to use but lacks the functionality to handle a bit complex computations.
- The reports don't allow end users to build aggregates on the fly. For example, a generic daily report needs to be seen rolled-up to monthly, quarterly or yearly views, based on a user's preference. The way it works today is that it requires the developers to design different aggregated views of the same report, so you end up cluttering the dashboard with just different views of the same data.
- The global dashboard doesn't allow adding reports that are built on data sources from different domains - meaning, you can add a MDA report and a SFDC report on the same dashboard.
March 30, 2017
Gainsight - Customer Success Efficiency Tool
Gainsight is used in a few different groups in my organization from account management, to client success, and strategic account management. The tool is used to increase visibility on interaction with accounts, encourage collaboration, and increase time individual time efficiency. We had to do quite a bit of customization to take the existing functionality and make it our own, but it's been well worth it.
- Gainsight provides an aesthetically pleasing view of relevant information for all of my accounts. 360 pulls in data from salesforce that I can review quickly, and access easily.
- Timeline in particular has been very useful for my team. The ability to search, pull in contacts, and organize each client interaction has been very helpful. We are looking forward to the enhancement which includes task lists on timeline.
- Success Plans have been...HUGE. It's a way for account management & strategic accounts to work together on a client's success - and create a specific plan to get there.
- Gainsight in itself is glitchy. It has a general slowness which is frustrating, and a lot of times we have to use different browsers to access certain parts of it because they simply won't open or throws errors.
- While we love the success plans- we wish that the feature would be designed to be ever living (one success plan), and for the objectives in itself to be completed... the fact that success plans ideally should be completed doesn't really correlate with how strategic accounts manage their clients.
- I wish there was a way to limit certain playbooks by role. For example if I want to pull in a particular playbook for strategic accounts, I don't need to see playbooks that belong to account management... it just clutters up my view. I'd like to see playbooks that are approved for use in my particular role.
March 24, 2017
You Get What You Give
Gainsight is used primarily by our Customer Success & Services organization. However, we also have members of Marketing, Sales, Product, Business Operations, and even Engineering using Gainsight. And our executive team. We use it to asses health/risk, create automatic CTAs based on various events or changes, track CTAs, track Sponsors, and automate some communication.
- Provide a single place to visualize customer health/risk on an individual and macro basis.
- Provide a single place for CSMs to track work.
- Provide an effective executive dashboard for head of Success.
- Adoption has been rough at times due to over-complicated CTAs. The onboarding provided little guidance in that area.
- Sponsor Tracking is very buggy.
- Success Plans do not allow for effective measurement of progress.
- Admin interface is pretty clunky.