Great for new and growing CS teams!
June 07, 2017

Great for new and growing CS teams!

Michelle Janco | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Gainsight

We have Gainsight visible to all customer facing representatives at our organization but it is primarily used by our Customer Success and Technical Support teams. Gainsight helps to provide customer health, NPS, and sponsor tracking details for all of our accounts. It is also a one-to-many email platform for our CS to use without needing to work with Marketing on templates or campaigns.
  • Sponsor Tracking - This is my favorite feature and keeps me in tune with organizational changes with my customers.
  • NPS Surveys - This is vital for our support team.
  • Customer Health - This is configurable to meet what measures health to us.
  • Speed - Gainsight panels and data take a while to load.
  • CTA based emails - Would love to be able to link CTAs to CoPilot to trigger emails or auto generate email lists based upon cta criteria such as usage drops or select user actions.
  • Increased visibility of CSM activities across the organization
  • Improves CSM processes
  • Integration to NPS scoring
My favorite is Pulse. I always walk away with plenty of ideas, awesome networking, and topics for team meetings. We are an advanced CSM organization so some of the content is validation of what we already do as well as good reminders of the basics we need to revisit. Always a blast and I look forward to it every year.
Each has strengths and weaknesses. Gainsight provides a lot more champion engagement via sponsor tracking, cta's, and the customer 360. Totango's usage metrics are stronger.
Gainsight is great for organizations ready to arm their CS team with a targeted tool that provides relevant data for the role. It's especially suited for those new to Customer Success who may not know actions to take or how to drive positive results with their customers. It allows for scale and structure where there wasn't before.

Gainsight CS Feature Ratings

Product usage
Not Rated
Help desk / support tickets
Not Rated
NPS surveys
9
Sponsor tracking
10
Customer profiles
9
Automated workflow
6
Internal collaboration
7
Customer health scoring
9
Customer segmentation
Not Rated
Customer health trends
9
Engagement analytics
9
Revenue forecasting
7
Dashboards
Not Rated
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
Not Rated
API
Not Rated
Integration with Salesforce.com
4