Drivers of Customer Satisfaction + Category Leadership

We examine the drivers of NPS and category leadership for 4,222 software companies, using 135,000 G2 data points, and over 50 regressions.

Drivers of Customer Satisfaction + Category Leadership February 2024 Report

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Research Approach

Data Used Throughout: - 4,222 Companies - 69 Categories - 32 Factors (like Product Direction, Ease of Use, Market Presence, and ROI)

CATEGORY MIX

RANK MIX

GRID OVERVIEW

0 200

HR + HCM

579

Leader

545

Sales

Marketing

489 512

Data + Analytics

Collaboration + Productivity Development + IT Mgmt

364 355 355

High Performer

Service

289

ERP + Finance

Contender

Communications Industry Specifc

163 162 167

E-Commerce

Niche

Security

157

Supply Chain + Logistics 85

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Net Promoter Score Regressions FACTOR R-SQUARES VS NPS

0.00

0.20

0.40

0.60

Quality of Support

0.61

Meets Requirements

0.59

Ease of Doing Business

0.57

0.56

Ease of Use

Ease of Set Up

0.46

0.45

Product Direction

ROI

0.16

0.13

Year Founded

0.13

Months To Go Live

Adoption 0.01

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User Experience + NPS

FACTOR VS GRID RANK

Grid Rank:

Leaders High Performers Contenders Niche

High Performers Leaders

Meets Requirements

Niche Contenders

High Performers Leaders

Ease of Use

Niche Contenders

High Performers Leaders

Ease of Set Up

Niche Contenders

High Performers Leaders

Ease of Admin

Niche Contenders

Modest differences in user experience factors...

High Performers Leaders

Ease of Doing Business

Niche Contenders

High Performers Leaders

add up to a large NPS gap

Quality of Support

Niche Contenders

High Performers Leaders

Product Direction

Niche Contenders

High Performers Leaders

NPS

Niche Contenders

-30%

-20%

-10%

0%

10%

20%

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High Performers Contenders Niche

Vendor Demographics

5.0000

Leaders High Performers Contenders Niche

Leaders High Performers Contenders Niche

GRID RANK VS FACTOR

Leaders High Performers Contenders Niche

70

3000

4

4.0000

25

60

2500

20

3

3.0000

50

2000

40

15

1500

2.0000 2

30

10

1000

20

1

1.0000

5

500

10

0.0000 0

0

0

0

Glassdoor Score

Years Old

G2 Market Presence

Employees

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Leaders High Performers Contenders Niche

Market Share Efficiency

5.0000

Leaders High Performers Contenders Niche

GRID RANK VS FACTOR

Leaders High Performers Contenders Niche

Efficiency mirrors G2 Grid rankings

70

25

4.0000

60

20

50

3.0000

40

15

2.0000

30

10

20

1.0000

5

10

0.0000

0

0

Effciency

G2 Market Presence

Years Old

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Brinker + Riemersma: Age + Revenue vs G2 Score

Source: “Martech in 2024”

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Appendix: Drivers of Customer Satisfaction + Category Leadership

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200% Customer Mix

FACTOR VS GRID RANK

150%

100%

50%

0%

Enterprise

SMB

Mid Market

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200% Implementation + Deployment

FACTOR VS GRID RANK

150%

100%

50%

0%

In-House

Time To Live

Seller Services 3P Consultant

Cloud

On Premises

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