Gainsight Customer Success Pricing Overview

Gainsight CS is helping align the different departments in Forcepoint's CX/CS organization workflows and process, allowing us to proactively ensure customers are receiving value along every phase of their customer journey. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Gainsight CS has some best-in-class features, with many different ways to help make a CSM or CSM Managfer's day to day tasks easier, the major downside is some of these features don't always work as advertised. While Gainsight is great pushing out the intial overview of the new features within CS, initial implementation is usually clunky without a seasoned Gainsight Administrator implementing/enabling their rollout. I do believe with the additional new admin-side Horizon AI features being released soon, this should help with clunky internal feature rollouts in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gainsight has become the heart of our insight generation, serving the broader organization effectively. It is truly the backbone of our Customer Success (CS) organization and is increasingly integral to our business as a whole.

We particularly appreciate the data manipulation and transformation capabilities (data designer and rules engine), which make insight generation highly accessible, provided one has a good grasp of data architecture and manipulation. The ability to feed these insights to various teams and systems through the connector ecosystem is decent, though it could be improved. While in theory, nothing seems impossible, the practical application often tells a different story.

We also value the journey orchestration capabilities, especially with CSM impersonation. The introduction of Dynamic Journey Orchestrator (JO) has made it much more flexible to use, thanks to the new branching capabilities. This allows us to build smarter, all-in-one programs instead of nesting programs as we had to do in the past. This has been integral to scaling our customer success organization and maximizing coverage.

Additionally, the very active community (both official and unofficial) is a significant advantage compared to other tools. It makes it easy for all admins to find practical help on issues that aren't necessarily within the scope of Product Support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a growing lack of feature parity and consistency across platform features such as cockpit and timeline sync, calculated fields, filters, behavior, and API. This inconsistency, coupled with what seems to be a growing disregard from the organization towards addressing fundamental issues, is concerning. Often, translating a business process into a Gainsight solution feels like it exclusively involves workarounds, and that isn't sustainable.

Additionally, arbitrary and undocumented changes frequently disrupt workflows and processes, with little to no apologies. The repeated suggestion to "clone and remap" as a solution to many issues is frustrating.

There is an excessive focus on AI at the expense of addressing basic features, parity issues, and stability problems that, if resolved, would significantly improve the platform. The admin community has been requesting these basic improvements for years, yet we are repeatedly told that "AI will solve this." While AI might eventually address these issues, when is it? It is also questionable whether it can do so effectively if the foundational elements are unstable. We're yet to see AI for admins.

Is it normal to have to work around the system to make it function? The emphasis on AI feels like ignoring the real elephant in the room: the limitations and inconsistencies of this platform, which in turn could raise concerns about the platform's long-term viability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.