Glossary
A repository of acronyms, jargon, and useful words for product and customer teams
Change management
A structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations from the current state of how they engage, work, and operate to a desired future state.
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Customer churn
A measure of how many customers do not renew at the end of their subscription.
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Customer experience (CX)
How customers experience a product, what kind of impression it leaves on them, and as a result, the lasting feeling they have about the brand.
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Customer feedback
Information provided by customers about their experience with a product or service.
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Customer health score
A metric used largely by customer success teams to determine whether customers are healthy or at-risk.
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Customer onboarding
Customer onboarding is the process of guiding customers through the initial stages of understanding how to use your product
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Customer retention
A measure of how many customers renew their contract at the end of their subscription term.
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Data ecosystems
Data ecosystems are a network of interconnected components that collect, store, analyze, and share data to support data-driven decision-making. These components include data sources, tools, infrastructure, and people.
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Data products
A data product is a reusable data asset bundling data with everything its target consumers will need to make it readily usable.
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Data sync
Data synchronization is the automated or periodic process of transferring and aligning data between two or more sources to ensure consistency and minimize errors.
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Digital adoption
The state in which users are able to leverage digital tools (software products, apps, websites, etc.) to the fullest extent.
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Digital adoption platform
A software that is layered on top of another software product to help facilitate proficiency by guiding users through key tasks.
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Digital transformation
The process of integrating digital technologies into any or all aspects of a business or organization, fundamentally changing how it operates and delivers value to its customers.
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Employee experience
The full array of a person’s activities, interactions (both physical and digital), and general impressions at work.
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Feature adoption
A measure of user activation for a specific feature within a web or mobile application.
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Heat maps
A visual representation of user interaction data where color intensity reflects the concentration of specific user actions on your website or app.
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Homegrown applications
Apps that businesses build in-house through their own development and product teams, rather than purchase from an external or third-party vendor.
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In-app messaging
in app messaging provides a technical capability that allows a company to communicate with users directly through their product.
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Mobile analytics
A type of business intelligence software that captures and exposes user behaviors and patterns within mobile applications through page and feature tagging.
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Net Promoter Score (NPS)
A metric measuring customers’ propensity to advocate for a brand, which, in turn, serves as a proxy for customer happiness and, eventually, business growth.
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Product adoption
A measure of user activation for a specific web or mobile application.
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Product analytics
A category of business intelligence software that captures and exposes usage patterns from digital products via event tracking, event properties, and event and property grouping.
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Product discovery
Product discovery is the iterative process of truly understanding your target users' needs to deliver software applications they love.
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Product Engagement Score (PES)
A metric that provides a singular view into how users are interacting with a product.
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Product experience (PX)
A subset of user experience that focuses on the customer journey within an application.
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Product Operations
An operational function that supports the R&D team and their go-to-market counterparts to improve alignment, communications, and processes around the product.
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Product performance benchmarks
Reference points used for comparing how your product is performing for specific KPIs, relative to products of similar size and vertical.
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Product roadmap
A visual summary of a product’s direction to facilitate communication with customers, prospects, partners, and internal stakeholders.
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Product validation
The process of testing and evaluating a product idea before investing developer resources.
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Product-led growth
A business strategy that places a company’s software at the center of the buying journey, and often at the center of the broader customer experience.
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Quantitative, qualitative, and visual data
Quantitative, qualitative, and visual data allow product teams to triangulate their findings and solve problems more efficiently.
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Rage clicks
Rage clicks are repetitive clicks or taps on a specific element in a software application caused by the user’s frustration with the app’s response.
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Revenue churn
The percentage of subscription dollars up for renewal that a company loses over a given period, or the ability to keep the contract value of existing customers.
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Session replay
The process of capturing a user’s interactions with a product or application.
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Software Experience Management
Software Experience Management (SXM) is the practice of understanding, optimizing, and improving how users interact with software.
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The Value Gap
When the perceived value and experienced value for a software product don’t overlap, creating a “gap” between the user’s expectations and reality.
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Tooltips
A form of in-app messaging that typically appear when users navigate to a specific area or perform a certain action in the product.
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User adoption
User adoption is the journey users take to become proficient and engaged with your product as an integral part of their lives.
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User analytics
A category of business intelligence software that combines customer behavior data with profile and persona attributes to create a holistic view of the user and the user experience.
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User experience (UX)
The practice of creating products that address the needs of users, and which users can navigate easily and intuitively so that they can get value quickly.
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User feedback
Qualitative and quantitative data from customers on their likes, dislikes, impressions, and requests about a product.
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User interface (UI)
The “surface” of any application or website; the entire visual makeup of the software and how all the assorted and collective parts of the software are conveyed to a user.
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User interface, User experience, Product experience
Delineating the difference between UI, UX, and product experience.
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User onboarding
How new users become proficient in an application, encompassing the initial experience in the application, online or offline training, goal-setting, and the organization’s customer success process.
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User segmentation
The process of separating users into distinct groups, or segments, based on shared characteristics.
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Voice of the Customer
A process or program used by businesses to collect and take action on customer feedback.
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What is Pendo?
Pendo is a software experience management platform built to elevate the world’s experience with software.
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