Voice of the customer
We have implemented a Net Promoter Score (NPS) across our company and products to truly understand what our software does well and in what areas we can drive improvement.
TechnologyOne’s Voice of Customer strategy is made up of three components:
Company NPS
Designed to gain a high-level understanding of customer advocacy and understand customer likes and areas we can improve, our Company NPS survey helps us deliver an excellent customer experience across our entire organisation.
Product NPS
You may have seen our Product NPS surveys pop up in the software. Designed to inform our R&D investment and product roadmaps, this survey aims to understand what users like and areas we can improve within our products.
Service NPS
This survey is designed to guide our immediate customer engagement opportunities and longer-term service improvement decisions, as well as enable us to continue to deliver a compelling customer experience.
How a Net Promoter Score is calculated
The Net Promoter survey is designed to gain a high-level understanding of customer advocacy, with an aim to understand customer likes, along with areas of improvement to help deliver excellent customer experiences.
Scoring is determined by three key classifications:
Promoters (scores of 9 or 10)
- Typically loyal and enthusiastic customers
- Most likely to recommend a company's products or services to others
Passives (scores 7 or 8)
- Customers who are satisfied with a company's products or services
- Not happy or engaged enough to be considered promoters
Detractors (scores of 0 - 6)
- Likely to have had a negative experience with a company
- Are unhappy with the product or service the company provides
Find out how we've responded to your NPS feedback
These initiatives were shaped directly by your feedback, as part of our ongoing commitment to listening, learning, and acting on what matters most to you.
Want to dive deeper? Visit the Customer Community for how-to guides, roadmap access, and service updates, or reach out to your Customer Account Manager for tailored support.
In the 2024 Company NPS survey, you provided honest and constructive feedback, and we took note. Your insights have informed essential enhancements to our products, services, and customer experience. Last year, you emphasised three main priorities:
- Service Delivery: You want seamless implementations and dependable support.
- Partnership: You’re looking for a clear, strategic roadmap that aligns with your goals.
- Product Functionality: You want to unlock more value from your existing solutions.
AMS Self-Service Portal: To provide you with greater control and clarity over your AMS program, we’re launching a new self-service portal within the Customer Community. This portal provides real-time visibility of your contracted hours, committed work, remaining balance, and month-end usage, eliminating the need for emailed reports. Currently in the final stages of pilot testing, the portal will be available to all AMS customers from August 2024, making it easier to manage your program proactively.
AMS Service Catalogue: You requested greater transparency into the services available under your AMS program, and we’re delivering it. Later this year, we’ll launch a new AMS Service Catalogue that allows all customers, including non-subscribers, to search, explore, and request AMS services in a simple, self-serve format. The catalogue will include offerings such as health checks for Enterprise Asset Management and Financials, Field App training, and process automation services like creditor management, helping you get more value from your investment on your terms.
Consultant Training Program: To meet growing demand and improve the consistency of service delivery, we’ve expanded our consulting team by hiring more than 200 new consultants. We also launched a specialist training program focused on deepening product knowledge, domain expertise, and implementation capability. This initiative ensures you have access to highly skilled consultants who can lead smoother, more strategic projects, and we’re continuing to grow our bench of senior consultants to support increasingly complex engagements.
Strategic Product Roadmaps: You asked for greater visibility into where we’re heading and how that aligns with your goals. In response, we’ve developed industry-aligned product roadmaps for Local Government and Education, updated every six months to support your strategic planning. The next release (26A) is on the way, and we’re also developing an interactive online version of the roadmap, allowing you to dynamically filter, explore, and engage with upcoming innovations in a more transparent and accessible format.
CiA UX Strategy: We’re excited to share progress on our evolving UX Strategy, which is focused on delivering a more consistent, intuitive, and seamless user experience across our products. Our dedicated CiA User Experience team has expanded to accelerate improvements and address design-related feedback raised through community engagement, SaaS support tickets, NPS surveys, and in-product insights. Our immediate focus is on delivering foundational changes, such as updating design tokens and undertaking a visual upgrade, to create a design system that enables faster and more scalable enhancements from 26A onward. Within the last six months, we’ve laid the technical groundwork for broader usability improvements, reinforcing our commitment to enhancing your day-to-day experience with TechnologyOne.
Product Committee Group (UK Local Government only): To strengthen collaboration and improve alignment with customer priorities, we’ve introduced a new Product Committee Group for our UK Local Government customers. This group provides a direct forum for customers to influence product direction, validate roadmap priorities, and build shared accountability for the solutions we deliver.
Student Management Taskforce (Education ANZ Only): To help Education customers maximise the benefits of their Student Management solution, we’ve launched a dedicated taskforce focused on assessing usage, identifying opportunities for optimisation, and providing feedback to inform product development. This complimentary service strengthens customer relationships while directly contributing to the improvement of both the Student Management product and the broader OneEducation solution.
Here’s what we introduced thanks to your valuable input in 2023:
Solution Industry Leads:We recognised that our consultants work across various industries and modules and introduced Solution Industry Leads. These Leads have deep knowledge of your industry-specific needs and software architecture, effectively bridging gaps.
Project Portfolio Managers:We introduced Project Portfolio Managers to drive quality outcomes within our Consulting Service. Project Portfolio Managers promote a consistent customer experience by ensuring adherence to PSRs, stage gates, and overall satisfaction.
Support Incident Managers:These managers oversee and coordinate the resolution of critical incidents and potential privacy and security issues. They ensure swift and effective responses to high-priority customer concerns, acting as the central contact between you, your stakeholders, and our internal teams.
Support Service 'Follow-the-Sun' Approach:This approach within our Support team enables us to work on your cases around the clock, with teams simultaneously addressing new and old cases to ensure continuous support.
Product Performance & Quality:We continued to increase our overall investment in performance and quality, which are key focus areas for the 24a and 24B releases. Internally, we have a dedicated team focused on ongoing uplift in our platform performance, proactively working on known areas to improve, and where issues are detected, working with clients and our platform to resolve them. All changes benefit all clients as they are made to the platform. We also increased our investment in automated testing to resolve issues before release. The result for you? More reliable updates with fewer disruptions to your operations.
Frequently asked questions
NPS is a standard metric for all leading SaaS companies with CRMs deploying similar in-product and/or email surveys to collect customer feedback. Our NPS survey is critical to our development cycle, enabling us to continue innovating to deliver products and services.
A closed loop approach has been implemented so that we can analyse customer responses from NPS, disseminate information to key stakeholders, build governance and action plans around feedback, execute actions plans, and ensure our customers are informed of improvements we are making.
Results are reported across the business and used to establish and/or pivot on numerous strategies to ensure we’re servicing our customers best. Your feedback is critical to our development cycle and ensures the customer is the centre of everything we do at TechnologyOne.
- Company NPS: Once a year in August.
- In- Product NPS: Twice a year in April and September.
- Services NPS: Throughout the year at different touch points e.g. support case closure, AMS etc.
The NPS survey triggers are pre-built into our software. To configure and activate the NPS survey, we deploy a central configuration file that is read and cached locally in each customer instance. The NPS configuration file is small (less than 100KB), and reading the file takes around 15-30 millisecond.
Yes, the survey data is captured and stored anonymously and securely within our IRAP-certified software.
The data, which is captured anonymously, is analysed and reported on. This is then fed back to our development teams to ensure that customer sentiment is incorporated into our product/services development. Feedback will also be validated and communicated through feedback sessions, our Customer Community and product focus groups. This feedback will then be used to guide our R&D investments and contribute to our product roadmap direction.
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