Gainsight Customer Success (CS) is presented as a growth engine for modern post-sale teams. Built for CROs, CS leaders, and operations pros, it provides visibility into customer health, expansion potential, and revenue risk. With automation, AI, and health scoring, Gainsight helps scale outcomes without scaling headcount. With its playbooks and success plans to CSQL tracking and journey orchestration, Gainsight CS helps teams to take the right action at the right time, every time. Access to…
$2,500
Per Company Per Month
Strikedeck (discontinued)
Score4.3 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Strikedeck was a SaaS platform for Customer Success used to enable more efficiency in planning renewals, identifying upsell/cross-sell opportunities, and monitoring customer health, with out of the box playbooks and workflows for common events in the customer lifecycle. The platform was acquired by Medallia, and discontinued. Strikedeck is no longer available.
Manager of Customer Operations at Demandforce (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)
Chose Gainsight CS
We've evaluated Strikedeck and one of the main features we really like about Gainsight is that it is native within Salesforce. Strikedeck is an external program that reads into SFDC but it requires the user to jump from window to window.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Verified User
Chose Gainsight CS
More robust partnership at each level than the alternatives were able to offer. Prescriptive approach was critical to success. The community was a meaningful value add. Overall - Gainsight's clearly the market leader, with attractive pricing, partnership, and lots of resources.
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Verified User
Chose Gainsight CS
Faster, more user-friendly, better UI, and good onboarding process.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Director of Customer Success in Customer Service at Serenova (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)
Chose Gainsight CS
We liked Gainsight's interface more, and the integration into salesforce was more user friendly for our teams. Ultimately this is why we selected Gainsight.
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Director, Customer Success in Professional Services at PROS (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Gainsight CS
Our evaluation process was very short so we only had one demo with each company. There were a few features with Totango which we liked but the references we received pushed us to Gainsight. We are extremely happy with our choice.
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Verified User
Chose Gainsight CS
The aforementioned tools are great but very segmented. Gainsight allows you to leverage info from Salesforce while creating account based tasks for yourself and keeping all of your information relevant to the account in one place.
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Verified User
Chose Gainsight CS
We are currently evaluating Intercom in addition to Gainsight for customer marketing for non-managed accounts. Intercom provides much more robust customer communication tools (in-product messaging and chat, email branching logic and segmentation, app support), but we would …
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Verified User
Chose Gainsight CS
We found Totango too narrow, in general. Not getting close to GS solution
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Verified User
Chose Gainsight CS
I'm not sure what alternatives are out there (we weren't using anything similar prior to GS)
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Verified User
Chose Gainsight CS
Gainsight was more powerful than Totango in our view
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Vice President Customer Success Operations at Ceridian (Human Resources, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Gainsight CS
After reviewing manual processes and other industry solutions along with our needs for integration and a Salesforce friendly solution, Gainsight was selected based on the breadth of product capabilities and the team of resources we would be partnering with. While there are …
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Sr. Manager, Customer Success in Customer Service at Jamf (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
Chose Gainsight CS
I honestly haven't done much research on other options, but I ave talked with reps from Bullhorn. I believe they are newer to Customer Success, but they had a unique offering that searched Outlook for all customers emails to your company's email server. This level of …
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Verified User
Chose Gainsight CS
We had briefly looked at Pendo awhile back before we had decided to purchase Gainsight. Gainsight provided us more of what we needed with everything in one place. It had a more developed product for what we needed.
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Director of Customer Success in Customer Service at LogicMonitor (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Chose Gainsight CS
Gainsight is far and away the leader of the pack for Customer Success. It is the only tool that really seems to be a fit for Enterprise installation and use. Their feature set is more complete, their support is better and their professional services / onboarding is amazing.
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Verified User
Chose Gainsight CS
I have not used or evaluated any other products like Gainsight. In the past, I was using Wrike to store my client notes and use keep tabs on their onboarding process. I also synced my email to Salesforce so that the account managers could see my activity with customers. I know …
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Verified User
Chose Gainsight CS
I haven't had experience using or evaluating other products at this point in my career.
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Customer Success Manager in Customer Service at SPS Commerce (Logistics and Supply Chain, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Gainsight CS
While Gainsight works with Salesforce, I know that at my past company we only used Salesforce to support our customers. It was not the best tool because the checks and balances that Gainsight provides are lacking in Salesforce. If you are serious about customers health and …
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Senior Customer Success Manager - APJ in Sales at HashiCorp (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Strikedeck (discontinued)
Most of the functionalities are the same. But Gainsight has an upper hand in defining product level relationships where product specific details can be captured. If the CSM is dealing with multiple teams within an organisation then capturing product specific details is …
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
There are some times when it can take almost a minute to load some of our reports or the rules engine. Within a rule it can also take time to load the actions as they each load one at a time when scrolling. The ability to scroll without waiting would be ideal
When we get issues with Strikedeck, we raise it internally with the Strikedeck admin team. They then contact Strikedeck and raise a support ticket. The turnaround time is quick quick. But from my personal use of Strikedeck, I have only come across few situations where a support ticket is raised with Strikedeck.
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
The online videos are very good for basic tasks in the platform, but it isn't very descriptive or helpful trying to make your own specific variables fit the simple example that is typically used. Typically, I'll watch a video, try on my own and still have to get help from support or Customer Success team
I was not part of the implantation (I took over later). However, based on what was passed to me, the tool was not well implemented at our org. I think this had to do with complexity, wrong person assigned in our org, and org buy-in. I think it would have been very successful if we had a better assignment process internally.
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
No metrics yet, but we have improved our at-risk customers by identifying risks earlier via our automated health score and with our Gainsight approved mitigation workflow, CSMs and leaders have better discipline with mitigation efforts and sharing at-risk customers across the org so other teams can step in and assist
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
