Gainsight review from a new Administrator
September 24, 2015

Gainsight review from a new Administrator

Mandi Derbis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Gainsight

My organization is utilizing Gainsight within our Customer Success, Sales (Renewal), and Executive Teams. We leverage its functionality to prioritize opportunities and tasks, balance workload, track high-value conversations and success plans, and collaborate on at risk customers.
  • Provides one interface to leverage information from various systems, such as Salesforce, Zendesk, and our product usage data.
  • Automates the workflow for our Customer Success Team.
  • Allows us to create customized Calls To Action, reports, dashboards, etc. to meet the needs of all teams who are utilizing it.
  • While Gainsight is quite intuitive for the end user, it can be challenging from an administrator perspective.
  • We have had some challenges with our product usage data. Gainsight support has been wonderful to work with in trying to resolve the issue, but this has been an ongoing challenge.
  • We've benefited from increased employee efficiency due to the insight in one dashboard.
  • Tracking of high-value conversations in one central area has allowed our team to continue to deliver great customer service, regardless of the number of customer service managers an account has had over the customer lifecycle or the varying employees that interact with them.
I can't speak to how Gainsight measures up against competition. I was not part of the decision making process, nor have I seen demonstrations of the competitor tools.
I think it will suit any customer success organization well that is utilizing Salesforce.com. It would specifically suit an organization well who is looking to scale their customer service department and/or get additional insight into their customer base. If the integration of product usage is important, this would be one area of focus during the sales cycle to ensure the integration is tight.

Gainsight CS Feature Ratings

Product usage
5
Help desk / support tickets
Not Rated
NPS surveys
6
Sponsor tracking
8
Customer profiles
8
Automated workflow
8
Internal collaboration
6
Customer health scoring
9
Customer segmentation
9
Customer health trends
9
Engagement analytics
5
Revenue forecasting
Not Rated
Dashboards
10
Role-based user permissions
9
API
Not Rated
Integration with Salesforce.com
10
Integration with Marketo
Not Rated
Integration with Eloqua
Not Rated