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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 20, 2019
Good Customer success organization? This is needed for you!
We have used Gainsight within our Customer Success Team to expand our knowledge of customer relationships, to understand account health better, and make informed decisions on what plays to run. To a certain extent, it is used outside of CS but mainly by leadership who also want insight into existing relationships.
- Gainsight is a thought leader in customer success and, therefore, has built the functionality of the tool to reflect best practices.
- Allows leadership/management to roll up the health of their accounts/portfolios and sort by various health factors.
- More configuration for alerts when CTA's get triggered would be helpful. It could be more in-depth for specific CTA Types/Reason codes etc.
- The email automation has to be connected to particular playbooks, which limits how much we can use it.
October 23, 2019
A great tool for scaling your Success organization.
We use it for our global customer success team. We also have view-only licenses for our AEs. CSMs use it to organize their day and track activities within accounts.
- Gainsight is a thought leader in customer success and therefore has built the functionality of the tool to reflect best practices.
- For leadership, Gainsight is a great tool to be able to scale a success organization. For example, we are able to create standardized processes or activities for CSMs, and then we can execute on those things via Gainsight as the system of record.
- For CSMs, Gainsight helps them manager their day. Things do not slip through the cracks, and the tool proactively helps them manager their account load.
- Speed of the tool - several CSMs complain it takes too long to move around in the platform. We have an open ticket and are optimistic there is a fix vs. it being an inherent issue in the tool.
We use Gainsight to manage our enterprise accounts. As a manager, I use it daily to understand the health of my portfolio of accounts and the status / progress of each customer's Success Plan. In addition, it serves as a critical 'single source of truth' if a CSM is on vacation / sabbatical or if we're transitioning the account to another CSM.
- Offers a single place for CSMs to enter all notes and success plans so that everyone across the organization can access that information - key for knowledge capture and transfer
- Allows leadership / management to roll up the health of their accounts / portfolios and sort by various health factors
- Timeline becomes a mass chaos especially for high engagement / touch accounts - it lacks the ability to reference various objectives / initiatives. A CSM will regularly talk to a customer on one status call about 4 objectives / initiatives, but we can't ask them to click between 4 objectives / initiatives while in one call.
- There's a lack of sufficient hierarchy in success plans for what we need to do in the high touch enterprise space.
- The user experience for Success Criteria is poor - the current functionality limits us from building a "value log" of the benefits a customer is receiving from our software and services.
- Cockpit is a nightmare - it's a massive list and not intuitive to search / filter / query.
January 14, 2020
Just honest.
Gainsight is mostly used in the Sales and Marketing department. It helps to track the costumer's journey and experience with us.
- Helps scale and operationalize success
- Improve costumer attention
- Shorter loading time
- Change theme functions would be a nice add on
September 06, 2019
A premier option among CS tools
We have used Gainsight within our Customer Success Team to expand our knowledge of customer relationships, to better understand account health, and make informed decisions on what plays to run. To a certain extent, it is used outside of CS but mainly by leadership who also want insight into existing relationships.
- The layout is intuitive and easy to customize what data you want to display.
- Easy to assign different plays as needed.
- Insights can be gained at a glance by outside users within the organization.
- Very customizable but it takes a long time to configure things to a useable level for us.
- The email automation has to be connected to particular playbooks which limits how much we can use it.
- Movement within the app is a little slower than I would like.
August 24, 2019
A Must Have for any Customer Success Organization (and more)
Gainsight is not only used in our Customer Success organization, but also cross-functionally as well. We use Gainsight to provide historical data on all our merchants (High Touch, Low Touch, and No Touch). We use it for many different functions, some of them being sending out mass email campaigns, sending out all types of surveys (NPS, various CSAT). Some other teams that utilize Gainsight are Product, Implementations, Account Management, and Customer Marketing. We have developed Gainsight to be our tracking platform for a lot of our campaigns, as well as a platform where anyone on other teams (who have a license) can view responses or view historical data on a merchant, such as updates that have been inputted by the CSM's in the past, or emails that have been logged, etc. Gainsight is a great tool-- if not for it, we would essentially be using a notebook, or a very cluttered excel spreadsheet for each client. Being able to log all kinds of updates (email, call, meetings) and assigning action items directly to users who are involved is a very seamless process, and Gainsight has helped us with that. It has also helped us with providing daily alerts based on usage data to help CSM's be notified whenever there are spikes or negative trends with our customers.
- Ease of note-taking/activity updates for customers; being able to assign action items directly within the platform.
- Surveys with in-box NPS features. Surveys are very easy to create and choose contact lists from, and very straight-forward to configure.
- Configurability by an administrator to make Gainsight beneficial not just to a CS organization, but for cross-functional players as well.
- Connectors between Gainsight and s3 can be a little iffy sometimes and cause false ingest failures.
- More configuration for alerts when CTA's get triggered. It could be more in-depth for specific CTA Types/Reason codes etc.
August 16, 2019
Use your Brainsight, get Gainsight
Gainsight is used by the Client Success Department and management/executive team for the client services organization. The goal was to address a number of business goals:
- Accurate health scoring across our client base to manage escalations, track advocates, and give management better visibility
- Manage the tasks and workload of the CSMs day-to-day through the use of a mix of automated and manual triggers for Calls to Action
- Provide a central hub for client information, usage stats and CSM contact history (Timeline)
- Reduce the number of tools the CSMs were having to log-in to and use each day
- Gainsight is massively flexible and can be configured to do almost anything with the Rules Engine and being built on the Salesforce platform.
- The team at Gainsight is amazing, super helpful and will always make time to help improve and achieve the goals of the implementation.
- The community, documentation and support are all quite mature and provide a lot of resources to understand a complex system with many features.
- Along with the flexibility, the complexity of implementing and thus the learning curve is quite high.
- Some Admin functions could be made more user-friendly with some simple UI tweaks, for example changing 'Subtract N+7 days' to 'In the last week'.
- Could also use more consistency across the UI, for example sometimes you hit 'Save', other times you just close the window etc.
We've leveraged all those tools and found them all very valuable. An active user community and robust set of training resources is indispensable with such a complex product. We also attended the Pulse conference recently and it was a great mix of fun and learning, with a number of great speakers and of course VANILLA ICE!
August 14, 2019
A powerful tool to build a CS division
Gainsight is used as our Customer Success Management tool.
- CS Management dashboards.
- Customer lifecycle.
- Customer health.
- Slow load times.
- It takes a large number of clicks to get into the main work screens.
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.
January 08, 2020
Gainsight - The Best Way to Organize Customer Success Teams
Gainsight was being used by all of the customer success to log activities with customers on a daily basis. We also had very specific alerts related to usage and communication built in to make sure we were monitoring how our customers were doing with our product and how often we were speaking with them.
- Customized alerts directly to your email
- Incredible reporting/graphs to show customers usage breakdowns
- Load time of reporting can be slow based on how large of a data set you are pulling
January 08, 2020
Gaining true Insights into your Business.
We use Gainsight in the Customer Support and Success teams. It helps us bring together information from multiple software applications. Salesforce, Zendesk, Domo, and Pendo, these are are the primary software applications we use. For the two teams this is what they use to connect and record contacts with our clients. It can be customized, and we are doing better now.
- Allows us to bring information such as, client Health Scores to our cockpit view.
- Allows us to use our Salesforce information, but in a more efficient way for our teams.
- It was a difficult transition, with issues that needed to be ironed out.
- Customizable, but we had to collaborate, rather than having each individual team have their own options.
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.
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.
October 28, 2019
Gainsight an Asset for Scaling CSM Team
Gainsight is leveraged by our team of Customer Success Managers and CS Management in order to track and manage customer health, predict and triage at-risk and/or unhealthy accounts based on key data ported related to how customers leverage our software, log important engagements with customers, track CSM activity/productivity to ensure we're at a healthy utilization rate as a team, and aid in proactive engagements with customers as our CSM team scales.
- Gainsight is easy to integrate with other systems and allow flow of important data to and from the system. This allows us to report key metrics to business stakeholders as well as proactively gives our CSM team important information related to their customers that allows them to make strategic business decisions.
- Customization of Gainsight makes it easy to tailor the information that different people need to see in various forms (Reporting/dashboards etc.). The interface is clean and easy to navigate.
- It can still be tricky to get certain data into Gainsight that the team needs in order to do their jobs properly in the appropriate format. Requires manual intervention from our Customer Success Ops Manager.
- While it allows for task managment and information storage on the account level, it would be great if we could have a team-level view where certain activities/metrics could be leveraged from an internal team standpoint.
October 22, 2019
Finally a product built by company that understands CSMs
We use Gainsight to standardize our approach to client situations. Gainsight is our single data source regrouping all our customer data; this allows us to have a consolidated picture in a single environment and leverage that to build a success plan around that situation. It is also used to run automated NPS campaigns.
- C360 - Account dashboard providing the complete health of a customer
- CTAs - Call to action triggers on customers relevant to a particular situation during the lifecycle or a risk arising in the client journey.
- Success Plans - Build a consolidated program based on tasks to make a clients journey successful
- Configuration of the tool can be tricky and not so obvious.
October 22, 2019
Good CS Platform
We use Gainsight as the platform for our CSMs to work with their customer base. It provides meaningful insights and automated actions to make it easier to see which accounts need additional support, where opportunity for upsell/cross-sell exist, and general risk management.
Additionally, Gainsight offers robust reporting that helps the Customer Success Department communicate effectively with other departments and executives in order to address high level issues.
Additionally, Gainsight offers robust reporting that helps the Customer Success Department communicate effectively with other departments and executives in order to address high level issues.
- Reporting
- Automation
- Customer Insights
- Reporting across multiple objects in SFDC
- Ease of automated processes
August 24, 2019
Not sure how we managed accounts without Gainsight
We were an early adopter of Gainsight and really didn't use it within our Enterprise business until the past year. In our last renewal with Gainsight, we engaged a Gainsight consultant to determine if their solution made sense for our Enterprise accounts. No surprise coming out of that engagement the consultant recommended we continue using Gainsight with our Enterprise clients and also worked with us on best practices to roll out to our teams. We currently use Gainsight throughout our Customer Success and Sales team. We have other departments that don't work within the tool day to day but upload their client deliverables in Gainsight so we have a proper system of record. Currently, our mid-market and scale team take full advantage of the platform and we're using the platform to about half its strengths in Enterprise. But to be fair, a large part of the delay in using Gainsight to it's fullest extent isn't on Gainsight but on our data cleanliness in Salesforce.
- Timeline - love that you can see all of the activities that happen on an account in sequence. This has been extremely helpful as we onboard new folks into new portfolios.
- CTAs - when dealing with clients there are so many things you need to track or deliver upon. When we were able to get our teams to fully utilize CTAs and Cockpit. It has changed how they manage their accounts for the better.
- Success Plans - in full transparency we're not using these currently but we're about to start. We plan to use these internally as account plans and then also externally with our clients (joint strategic plans).
- Onboarding - since we were an early adopter we weren't properly on-boarded because they hadn't built out a process. This is no longer a con because I've heard from other colleagues who have implemented Gainsight somewhere else and they were properly on-boarded.
- They're growing so fast that people are moving all over the place. We feel like we've had to help train their team on our implementation and our overall needs.
- More frequent engagement with our account team.
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 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.
August 16, 2019
Best product for CS, with room to improve.
Gainsight is used as a way for current Customer Success Managers and Account Managers to understand the health of the accounts they serve, and as a task management tool.
- Quickly deliver mid-level client insights.
- Generate tasks for users based on client events.
- More customization on a user-by-user level.
- Easier tools for building reports.
- More reliable rules engines means reports are less likely to fail.
August 14, 2019
Gainsight is Gold
Gainsight is used solely by our Customer Success team. However, insights are logged and key reports are shared with various teams and ELT across the organization. Gainsight allows our CS team to own customer relationships, from activity logging in the Timeline, to executing Success Plans within their book of business. Also, the Reports within Dashboards allow for risky behavior to be easily surfaced, creating a simple way to prioritize actions.
- Admins can create reports easier in Gainsight than they can in SFDC -- the ability to spin up ad-hoc reports is critical, and the ability to do this easily is wonderful.
- My Customer Outcomes Manager at Gainsight is incredibly reliable, and responds promptly.
- The features that Gainsight focuses on releasing/creating bring value, and resonate well with CS teams.
- Though it can do a lot, sometimes the execution of something is extremely technical and requires a lot of steps-- thank goodness for my COM!
- More help articles would not hurt.
August 14, 2019
Gainsight & Salesforce go hand and hand!
Gainsight is being used primarily by our Customer Success Management and Implementation Services teams.
Our primary drivers for adopting & using Gainsight are:
Our primary drivers for adopting & using Gainsight are:
- Customer source of truth with a record of customer history
- Consistent customer experience across CSMs & Implementation Specialists
- Risk identification & management
- Customer marketing
- Lifecycle management
- Reduced time to onboard new staff
- Reduced time to first value
- Customer source of truth: the C360 view of the customer is unparalleled. It gives our CSMs a true view of everything going on with the account in one place. Getting ready for client meetings is much easier when there's only one place you need to look!
- Salesforce Integration: if you're using SFDC as your CRM, Gainsight is a no brainer! Our sales organization has a quick view of what's going on with the customer in the widget and on the other end, our CSMs have a view of what's going on in terms of expansions via opportunity records surfaced in the C360.
- Information Surfacing: Gainsight is great at surfacing the information you need in a JIT fashion via CTAs & linked objects.
- Zendesk Integration: Zendesk integration is extremely rigid and hard to customize. We have struggled to properly surface our customer support tickets in Gainsight.
- Release communications: I've been caught off guard by pages totally redone with no warning and no explanation of the new workflows of those pages (particularly in Administration).
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.
We currently leverage Gainsight across our Global Customer Success Organization. Our CS Organization leverages Gainsight to enhance our customer intimacy strategy and to manage our customer portfolios more efficiently. Our CS Organization includes around 35 FTEs globally.
Gainsight is also used by our Customer Support Organization for trasactional NPS.
Gainsight is also used by our Customer Support Organization for trasactional NPS.
- Gainsight has an intuitive UI
- Gainsight pairs beautifully with Salesforce
- The Task Activity on timeline allows for efficient task management and leadership visibility on customer engagement
- Missing a key integration to Outlook Calendars for Meetings displayed in Cockpit (or calendar function in GS)
- Data integrations can be pricey
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About Gainsight
Gainsight says they enable business transformation through their passionate community, proven expertise, and cutting edge technology. In addition to the largest customer success community, the vendor says they also have a diverse, 333+ customer base spanning across Fortune 1000 companies such as HP, Cisco and Adobe and growth businesses like Box and Shopify.
Via their community and customers, Gainsight says they have developed deep expertise around customer success best practices which are embedded into the product. Additionally, the vendor says 50% of their company headcount is dedicated to R&D, and that their platform can serve business needs across various customer segments. The vendor’s value proposition is that their product innovations are consistently first to market and built to scale from day one.
Gainsight says their customers see an average of 4% higher retention and 20% faster growth than their peers.
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Gainsight Integrations
NetSuite, Segment, Marketo, Mixpanel, Zendesk, Pendo.io, Google Analytics, Clarizen, RingCentral, RO Reference Enablement, Skype, Azuqua, Salesforce, Eloqua
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Pricing
- Does not have featureFree Trial Available?No
- Does not have featureFree or Freemium Version Available?No
- Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
- Entry-level set up fee?Required
Gainsight Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% | |
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 10% | |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 60% | |
| Enterprises (> 500 employees) | 30% |
Gainsight Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems: | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application: | Apple iOS, Android |