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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)
    7.9
    79%
  • Customer health scoring (210)
    7.0
    70%
  • 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 8.6

Platform & Infrastructure

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

7.7
Avg 8.5

Customer Data Extraction / Integration

Customer data extraction / integration

6.8
Avg 8.6

Customer Success Management

Customer Success Management

6.3
Avg 8.2

CSM Reporting & Analytics

Reporting & Analytics specific to customer success management

7.2
Avg 8.1
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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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Gainsight to help streamline the operations and visibility of our Customer Success and People Science organizations. Our CSMs as well as our renewals and consulting teams leverage Gainsight for the most up to date customer information including what products and services have been purchased, overall health related to adoption, renewal and engagement and for NPS and CSAT survey feedback. Overall health results are shared with the Executive team on a weekly basis in a push report from Gainsight. It is the primary platform leveraged by my Customer Success organization.
Colin Burns | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We implemented Gainsight in April of 2017 as we had no real CRM for our client services team. Since then, it is now our single source of truth for all things customer success related. We are able to track a client's lifecycle and understand their entire journey including opportunities for risk or improvement. We are still in the beginning stages of rolling out the entire system, but we definitely are seeing much more visibility on a client services department level and as a company as a whole.
Jason Chan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gainsight is used extensively by the Customer Success team in my company. It is useful to track health scores of clients and to identify potential churns due to various triggers. The cockpit function was really useful in getting us to reach out to clients in a timely manner for business updates.
Christian Falkenberg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Gainsight in the Customer Success Management Team to manage all our customers and to consolidate the data from all different systems we have to get the full picture of our customers. We are using Salesforce as CRM system, so Gainsight was our final choice because of ease of connecting both.
Shawn Hilditch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Customer Success and Account Management teams use Gainsight to have a single view of the customer. We have data feeding into Gainsight from Zendesk and Jira, Zuora (financials), project management/implementation systems and our customer platform (usage). Rules are built to create period over period metrics of all of this data and alerts are created via CTAs where needed and many reports to monitor this data. We also utilize surveys and programs to keep in regular contact with our customers.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for client development and some expansion work. We have an administration team that channels configuration. While this is happening we monitor the lifecycle of a customer as they progress throughout the various buyer stages. Using what we find out about the lifecycle internally, we try to effectively transform that to actionable items. This can be in the form of CTAs, dashboards, whatever.
Garin Landry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used across the entire organization from Sales, Success, Renewals, and Project Management. It addresses ability to create a playbook for different life-cycle, risk, or expansion events based on quantitative data.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gainsight is leveraged across our professional services group, our customer success management group, and our sales group - primarily inside sales. The tool is our primary means of aligning those three customer-facing organizations to coherent motion to first and foremost retain customers, then, as a secondary goal, expand in those accounts. Gainsight also serves as a targeting mechanism for our customer marketing group.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using Gainsight for all levels of our customer journey. Gainsight and the outreaches/advanced outreaches have allowed us to scale via automation. It also allows us to deliver that "just in time" approach to provide resources. We are also using Gainsight for renewal automation as well.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gainsight is being used by the customer success managers in the organization to provide them with a 360 view of their customers and to help them streamline the CS processes (i.e. customer onboarding) and document key customer interactions, success plans, risks and opportunities for account growth.
John Applebaugh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using Gainsight within Customer Success. We use it to automate some account processes such as renewals and contact management. We use the Rules Engine to generate Calls to Action for CSMs as well as make modifications to account records. We also use Gainsight to send mass communications and our NPS survey.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Gainsight globally within our Customer Success Management and Account Management functions. It is designed to address all classic CSM requirements, fundamentally to operationalize and standardise our methodology to support growth.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gainsight is the primary tool of our customer success organisation. We sync it with various systems to pull important data points into one place. Our leadership team has a snapshot of what's going on with a given customer at any moment, through having access to features such as the health score and timeline.
November 30, 2018

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gainsight is being used by the CSM team within the customer success department. It allows us to track health, expirations, metrics, and activities against a client, segment, country or region.
Jo-Anne Mann | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
November 30, 2018

Gainsight Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gainsight is used as our internal CRM for keeping up with customers, tracking their escalations, making sure that the status of their 'temp' is readily apparent to other users of Gainsight like our salespeople and other customer success managers.
Ben Michael | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Gainsight primarily in Customer Success, although this has begun to branch into opportunities in Tech Support, Field Services, and Education Services. Our primary business problems Gainsight addresses are as follows:
  • Process automation
  • Email automation
  • Mass communications to current customers
  • Deliverable organization & reporting
Carlos Gonzalez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

Gainsight operationalizes the customer experience consistently across the Ceridian North American customer base. Customer success resources proactively engage customers based on calls to action from Gainsight. It also captures the “pulse” of the customer to objectively reflect a customer status assessment based on a large variety of factors. This information allows Ceridian to take the right action to deeply engage customers and correct situations that need special attention. Unlike reactionary support solutions, Gainsight is used proactively to keep customers successful before they go “off track”.

Gainsight is a critical component to the company technology stack that drives the activities of the award-winning Ceridian XOXO Customer Success program activities. It draws from Salesforce and many other systems to distill critical information for the users and management about the Ceridian Customer base. It also feeds other solutions with the real-time customer sentiment so they can be engaged accordingly.

Without the scalable operationalization of the CX NPS will suffer. Gainsight allows team members to deliver a consistent great CX!



Eve Belanger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We primarily use Gainsight in our Customer Experience department, but we are working on expanding our usage across the organization. We use Gainsight to monitor our customer health and product usage, to work through projects with customers such as implementation, and to keep a record of all interactions we have with customers.
Jeff Saunders | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gainsight is used by our organization to help measure customer engagement, proactively mitigate risk within our subscriber base, track renewals, and much more. It's leveraged by our customer success organization for the most part, and our customer 360 data is shared with our sales team.

The data that Gainsight provides us with is bubbled up to our VP of Customer Experience and the data is also shared with our executive team. We take customer success very seriously here and most of the data displayed within Gainsight is shared at all levels of our organization.
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