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Forsta Overview

What is Forsta?

Forsta, a Press Ganey company, powers the HX (Human Experience) Platform – a comprehensive Experience and Research Technology platform that breaks down the silos between CX (Customer Experience), Employee Experience (EX), Market Research – so that companies can get a deeper, more complete understanding of the experiences of their audiences. The HX Platform gathers and analyzes data, and translates the findings into shareable actions to inform decision-making and drive growth. Forsta’s technology, combined with its team of expert consultants, serves organizations across a variety of industries including financial services, healthcare, hospitality, market research, professional services, retail and technology. Forsta is recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Voice of the Customer. For more information, visit www.forsta.com.

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Forsta is the new frontier of Customer Experience and Market Research Technology. Formed in 2021 via the merger of industry leaders Confirmit, FocusVision and Dapresy, our global company powers the richest and most comprehensive set of research and insights solutions, spanning CX, enterprise feedback management, VoC (Voice of the Customer), VoE (Voice of the Employee), Qual, Quant, Data Visualization and more.


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Forsta
Year Founded
1990
HQ Location
London, United Kingdom
Twitter
@Forstaglobal
857 Twitter followers
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789 employees on LinkedIn®

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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
2.5 out of 5
"Competitive pricing, good service, awful platform"
Ease of schedule, good sales rep & customer service
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Masumi O.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Researcher"
It has separate rooms for respondents and clients and the sim trans line. We can chat in the room. Respondents cannot see us.
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
1.5 out of 5
"Good Platform. Needs Link to Behavioural Intelligence"
Presented a crystallised and easy to consume view of insights.
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Forsta Media

Forsta Demo - Forsta Survey Designer
Create surveys that are flexible, scalable and effortless to complete. Setup a process so slick that you’re not just running surveys anymore – you’re having a conversation.
Forsta Demo - Forsta SmartHub
Manage your data in one centralized platform - create reports, import survey data, manage surveys, create contact databases
Forsta Demo - Forsta Studio
Easily configured dashboards to meet all your reporting needs
Forsta Demo - Forsta Go
Mobile surveys so that you can get instant access to all the insights and actions on-the-go
Forsta Demo - Forsta Frontline Innovation
Create custom challenge sites and engage your frontline to gather the best ideas and act on them
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What do you like best about Forsta?

Ease of schedule, good sales rep & customer service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

the Forsta Live (aka Focus Video) platform is awful; creating video clips is not intutitive and the quality is subpar; video freezes; clips take a long time to create; also why must a tech be responsible for video taping? isn't there more intelligent video recording technology? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forsta solving and how is that benefiting you?

recording of live focus groups Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul P.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Forsta?

Quota Management, Ease of programming and knowledge base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

There should be regular updates on user email for anything new feature or updation rollout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Forsta:

Please please please, make things easier to do, like in Decipher i think a year of experienced person can work on max diff and conjoint. Please do note of small things like pre text, post text to an open box. Have a built-in feature for Trigger implementation. As many of the user might not have a great programming skill set, think for those vendors as well. Rest I love confirm it and want to see him again in TOP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forsta solving and how is that benefiting you?

Frosta is helping us to solve problem in more efficient way and it consumes less time for complex part as well, which significantly increases productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Law Practice
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What do you like best about Forsta?

Whilst the product is excellent, I think the part of Forsta that sticks out for me is the support. From onboarding teams, account managers and their support desk. Any question or request gets answered super quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

It's really difficult to think of a negative and I don't think I can. At a push I would most likely say that the cost of the reporting licenses does mean I can't provide dashboards to everyone I would like to within the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forsta solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before using Forsta our main problem was that it would take a long time to update our surveys or build new ones, relying on a third party to set everything up. With Forsta we are in control and it has allowed us to move at a good speed, especially when it comes to ad hoc surveys to gather feedback on pilots we are conducting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris M.
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Salesforce Manager
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What do you like best about Forsta?

Forsta have a well rounded range of products which help support your CX. We use Forsta for surveys and dashboards. The studio reports are great for showing and analysing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

The support and training portal can be hard to use at times. It has been improved but I still find it hard to get to the help articles I need to check how things work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forsta solving and how is that benefiting you?

Giving us a platform to manage our customer experience. Capturing the customers entiment and insight from surveys. We use the Salesforce CRM connector to easily push surveys to Forsta to invite customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
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What do you like best about Forsta?

Presented a crystallised and easy to consume view of insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

Links to behavioural intelligence rather than claimed data solely could enhance the output Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forsta solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solves the problem of visualising research Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Guillermo R.
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What do you like best about Forsta?

My experience is with Forsta VIsualizations, which is easily the best visualization tool for Market Research.

It is integrated with databases such as SPSS, and the options for variable handling and graphic design are in line with the needs of a Market Research company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

The servers are often busy, which leads to an unpleasant user experience for us (but not for our clients) But their response to this problems of often within a few hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forsta solving and how is that benefiting you?

The work stream has been reduced, and we can offer better timings to our clients. It requires less data processing than other tools, and we can go straight from questionnaire to reports within hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Market Research
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What do you like best about Forsta?

The biggest plus for Decipher are the dynamic questions skins. There's a lot of them and they are all mobile optimized. Overall the entire layout is mobile optimized. Basic users can create a custom user experience with no advanced scripting needs.

Secondly I really enjoyed the XML interface. It allows for fast change of question types via search replace.

Being able to edit XML also allows for offline work which can be faster at times than working in browser.

Thirdly I was very pleased with their support team. Both the support department as well as their customer satisfaction managers were very quick to give solutions to all of my requests.

As a side note the regular contract allows for an unlimited number of logged in users. Which is a big advantage considering that this allows you to provide your clients with day to day access to the integrated testing and reporting solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

Not really a fan of the python code. Having to create optimal scripting doesn't come easy. I've dabbled in it and found that complex code could be simplified by using integrated function which are not straight forward to learn even though the Knowledge base is pretty extensive. Trial and error really was the way to go, as well as consulting with their support team.

The debugging process is not really straight forward as XML errors get mixed with python errors and JavaScript errors in the same compiler and it takes time to sort out where the actual issue is. Also switching from one editor to the other might reveal errors that you weren't aware of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Forsta:

Decipher is perfect for easy and mid to high complexity scripting with a very competitive speed of execution.

Complex stuff will require extensive experience and support which might eat at the speed of execution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forsta solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have looked into Decipher as an alternative to an older version of Confirmit we currently use. There was a huge difference in speed and overall tool capabilities. We then compared to current version of Confirmit and they're pretty much up to par with each having their own specific advantages. For Decipher it would be: the ability to use XML editing offline, integrated testing solution and integrate reporting solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Forsta?

The Priority support and product have zero failures. Lover the functionalities availability and the upgrades received regularly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

May be maintain the Orange and white combination like earlier used by the ConfirmIT maintained still. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forsta solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mobile surveys and app-based surveys are the ones in demand, and Forsta kind of been ahead in solving these on a timely fashion and keeping the latest tech available, enabling us to be at the top in delivering the surveys in all the modes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prem K.
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Manager
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What do you like best about Forsta?

Easy to build dashboards

Lot of calculations available

Nice look and feel of the visualizations

Lot of crosstab options, calculations, formatting options etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

Doesn't allow user to create user defined variables in bulk

Column or row variables cannot be used as Filter variables

Doesn't allow batch charting - same type of charts

Crosstab module allows only 50000 cells

RIM weighting cannot be done on the tool

Appending the open ended coded data to the survey connected via api

For the uploaded dataset, the MRV delimiter cannot be used for other variables. A lot of preprocessing needed to be done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forsta solving and how is that benefiting you?

Dashboard and crosstab requests.

Allowing a lot of calculations

Allows lot of customization in the charts/Crosstabs and dashboards

Ranking and Benchmark calculations are readily available.

Conditional formatting of the metrics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matthew S.
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Customer Experience Manager
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What do you like best about Forsta?

Introducing Forsta to our business has been an absolute game changer. Their CX software solution delivers incredible value and provides us with the insights and data that form the foundation of our business strategy. Their software is well-integrated with our applications; it's efficient, easy to use, and provides a great user experience. Their CX consultants offer expert advice and recommendations, and their account managers and technical support team provide excellent and efficient support. I cannot recommend their products and team enough! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

We're yet to experience any concerns or issues with Forsta. Their applications are well-run, and their team is highly efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forsta solving and how is that benefiting you?

Customer Experience is high on our business' priority list. We needed to know more from our customers and report on the data clearly and efficiently. Forsta allowed us to expand on our current CX program, and we have plenty more opportunities ahead of us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.