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Gainsight CS

Overview

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…

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Popular Features

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  • Integration with Salesforce.com (204)
    7.9
    79%
  • Automated workflow (208)
    7.8
    78%
  • Customer health scoring (210)
    6.9
    69%
  • Dashboards (212)
    6.7
    67%

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Pricing

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Subscription

$2,500

Cloud
Per Company Per Month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee required
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.gainsight.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

7.1
Avg 8.7

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

7.7
Avg 8.6

Customer Data Extraction / Integration

Customer data extraction / integration

6.8
Avg 8.7

Customer Success Management

Customer Success Management

6.3
Avg 8.3

CSM Reporting & Analytics

Reporting & Analytics specific to customer success management

7.1
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

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

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.Screenshot of Empower your team with a single source of truth for every customer. Consolidate data from multiple sources and design tailored 360 layouts for every stakeholder to see relevant data quickly and take action.Screenshot of A central location to automatically log correspondence, capture contextual information on person-to-person interactions, and easily understand a customer’s history.

Gainsight CS Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Security

Frequently Asked Questions

Totango, ChurnZero, and Strikedeck (discontinued) are common alternatives for Gainsight CS.

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

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)10%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)60%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)30%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Andrew Hall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We're still in the implementation process of Gainsight, so our use case is still a little more narrow than we'd like it to be. We're currently using Gainsight to send monthly NPS surveys to our customers, depending on their renewal date, a maximum of twice a year. We're also using the CTAs to manage our customers through their lifecycle, especially at the beginning of their relationship with us and through the renewal. The CTAs are also drawing attention to risk, especially around the passive cancelation of renewal. We're currently working on implementing our usage data and associated CTAs, and what I've seen so far has been very impressive.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gainsight is being used by the customer success high level accounts across two service offerings. Currently supporting 100+ users with <2000 accounts. Goal was for a one stop shop for CuSM to access usage data and scale to automate CTAs and analytics findings.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used by the customer success team for two primary resources: align best practices around processes across the customer lifecycle and to demonstrate value to customers through the use of health scores and usage tracking. We expect to start to utilize success plans as well, as our customers are high touch and require strategic alignment across marketing, sales, product and customer success to ensure we're meeting all of their needs.
Hazel Valdez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gainsight is currently being used by the customer success teams, addressing overall health, usage, and adoption. All CSMs use Gainsight in order to complete any calls to action, gap analysis, client trends and churn patterns and renewal probabilities. It has been helpful that our director has built out appropriate play books that coincide with either our many or high touch clients on a daily basis. Gainsight is our world daily!
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gainsight is being used by my company to take a look at our current customer base and optimize. You are able to use the features to record success plans to help move your customer along in its journey. We also use gainsight to run our red account meetings. In these meetings we are able to give quick and actionable updates to other teams. We did this before in a deck format, and it was much clunkier and not as engaging. The new features coming out are helping customer success grow as a profession and industry.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gainsight is primarily used by the customer success team. The executive team and sales team have access to the iFrame within Salesforce, and have the ability to look into the metrics of each account. It addresses visibility into the health of each customer, and allows the sales and executive team to fish for information about the account without having to reach out to the customer success team.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gainsight gives everyone visibility into customer health at any time. We're able to easily apply playbooks for recurring processes to always stay on track and be able to guide our customers throughout their lifecycle with clear next steps.
Stephen Wilson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At ON24, we are aligning our business, processes, and workflows to get a laser focus on customer success. We are using Gainsight to provide a holistic view into customer health, adoption, utilization of our service, and most importantly as a vehicle for demonstrating ROI both "Up" and "Out" for our clients. The ability to make sure our clients are getting the most out of our service and being able to very quickly turn around and provide that information allows them to fight for adoption and expand our footprints in their business. Our goal is to provide them with the data based "ammo" to show "Up" the chain of business decision makers our value, and "Out" to their org structure how well they are doing. Gainsight is invaluable in allowing insight into the metrics we need to accomplish this. In addition, we are able to more easily handle the volume of clients that come from rapid expansion of our success. Gainsight in entwined in how we do our business.

Gainsight has also REALLY eased the relationships with our sales team. When they see the spot-on, relevant data it provides to help in their efforts for renewal and expansion, they realize that not only are we a resource, but a partner in their success as well!
Nikhil Gour | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As of today, Gainsight is primarily used in the customer success organization. We plan to roll it out to our sales team and then eventually to our partner network. Customer Success is a vital role of our company and Gainsight helps us keep up with over 3000 customers on a quarterly basis.
Heather Hansen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, we are using Gainsight solely within our success organization. It's been great at providing us a holistic view of the customer as well as providing our CSMs alerts when a customer is in jeopardy. We love the customization options as well as the reporting and dashboards. The ability to track how we are interacting with our customers and then watch what happens afterwards has been instrumental in proving the value of the success team.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used by our Customer Success Account Managers and our Executive team. It helps us to understand our relationships with our customers, mitigate risk, and solve business problems and develop our relationships.
May 12, 2016

So far, so good!

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a little unique in our implementation of Gainsight as we use it predominately for customer marketing purposes, though we are considering expanding it to our CSM group in the future. In an effort to move beyond batch-and-blast email communications to encourage user adoption, we adopted Gainsight Copilot to help trigger behavioral onboarding campaigns based on product usage data.
Graham Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gainsight is being used by our account management team. We utilize the tool to better understand the overall health of our customers and also when to connect with customers - which isn't something we always know when to do. The insight we get from Gainsight gives us a good reason to reach out and not just to 'check in'. It also proactively notifies us of utilization increases and decreases, through its CTAs. All in all, Gainsight has been extremely valuable for our team and I'm excited to see how we can continue to maximize the tool.
Rick Devoe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gainsight is being used across the company but by a specific department. It's very useful to track customer health, and manage retention. We use it to keep momentum with our customer rapport as well. Overall it's a fantastic tool to maintain customer contacts and drive great customer relationships to fulfill ROI.
Seth Wylie | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Customer Success Team uses Gainsight to keep track of their to dos, essentially. The greatest value in that respect is that Gainsight is able to automatically generate to dos based on any data that's available in Salesforce, or that can be pulled into Gainsight in another way (for example, through their Google Analytics connector, or through a direct upload). Additionally, the customer health is not just visible to our Customer Success Managers based on these individual to dos that they have in their "Cockpit", but via a customer health scorecard that gives an overview to management. Additional functionality, like automated emails to customers and surveys, round out the feature set.
February 22, 2016

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are just completing the instrumentation of Gainsight to hold our customer journey map, step by step, so that a CSM would check off key activities as they get completed. This will be rolled out for all accounts in April. Prior to this, we were using it for capturing notes and what we call our Adoption 360 scores of each customer.
February 19, 2016

Love Gainsight

Diane Gordon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Customer Success is the primary user of Gainsight, using it to calculate and track our "Customer Adoption Scores". Other groups (Sales, Renewals) access Gainsight dashboards but don't actively use the software. Our Customer Success team also uses Gainsight to send out surveys.
December 26, 2015

Go get Gainsight now!

Zach Boisi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Gainsight is used by the Client Success, Sales, Marketing, Product and Executive teams to monitor the health of our global client base. It helps us to see all interactions and information about each client: logins, support tickets, product adoption, etc.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We purchased Gainsight to help us better monitor account health, to provide guidance to our enterprise account management team on when to reach out to customers, and to send automated emails based on usage and health to our base of more than 25,000 small business customers. These emails are targeted based on individual account usage, and are designed to help customers identify and adopt new features within the system. We're also using Gainsight to send and record NPS surveys.

The product is mainly used by our enterprise account management, and customer success teams.
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