The enterprise software industry is in the midst of a transformation that is redefining licensing models, time to value expectations, and the delivery of services. The shift to subscription based licensing and SaaS has transferred the risk of adoption, optimization, renewal and expansion to the vendor. This change has led to an entirely new discipline,
The EMEA Customer Success Movement: 6 Months of Observations
Dan Steinman is the Chief Customer Evangelist, EMEA at Gainsight. I have been in Europe now for six months preaching the gospel of Customer Success, networking with anyone who would let me buy them a cup of coffee, and listening, listening, listening. I’ve learned a lot, validated many assumptions about EMEA, and changed my mind
Aligning with Partners On Customer Success
This blog post was co-authored by Allison Pickens and Chris Doell. Allison Pickens is Chief Customer Officer at Gainsight. Chris Doell leads Customer Success for Cisco’s Cloud Security Division. Many thanks to Kelli Kirwin, now Director, Offer Monetization Office at Cisco, for her pioneering work in the area of Customer Success in the channel and
Value-Based Care Is Customer Success
I had to have an ACL replacement last year. I somehow managed to hike out of the Grand Canyon on a fully torn knee ligament! I don’t recommend it. But when I finally arrived in the operating room, there was no account executive to meet me offering a menu of ACLs, anaesthesia options, rehabilitation packages,
We need to talk about what I did in the server room
As most of you know, at Gainsight we strongly believe in radical transparency. That’s why we share everything—wins, losses, finances, board feedback, strategy, and more—with every Gainsight teammate at our all-hands huddle each week. I’ve also been doing Reddit-style AMAs both in person at our various offices as well as over video calls. All our
Five Tenets of Technical Account Management
This post originally appeared on RedHat.com Many service and subscription-based enterprises today have some version of a Technical Account Management program. For most organizations, Technical Account Management is a paid offering that can be purchased by customers. The consistency we see on this service across the industry affirms the need and importance for such a
How We Drive Success with High-Touch Customers Using Gainsight
By Shirley Amsterdam, Business Operations Manager, and Noha Khan, Business Operations Analyst at Gainsight At Gainsight, we’ve divided our customer base into four segments based on key attributes. You can read more about our approach to segmentation in this recent blog post by Allison Pickens, VP of Customer Success and Business Operations. One of our
Gainsight’s Winter Release Targets Key Customer Success Challenges with Advanced Capabilities
As the new year gets underway, I am excited to introduce new capabilities that address the most central challenges in Customer Management. Federated Customer Management: You no longer have to choose between deploying each of your business lines on their own customer management system or forcing them to operate within one restrictive, shared environment. Optimize
The Future of Customer Data is Bionic
If you haven’t had a chance to read about the advanced technology of our Winter release, I strongly urge you to go through this blog post by Karl, our VP of Products. But if you have, you are likely curious to learn more about the new ‘Bionic Rules’ feature. Regardless of the size of your
Why your team members are your clients, too
Allison Pickens is VP of Customer Success & Business Operations at Gainsight. Whenever I gather a few Chief Customer Officers together, our discussion quickly evolves into a group therapy session. Being CCO is a tough job. That’s because every great CCO knows that s/he has 2 sets of clients: external clients, and internal clients –