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May 13, 2026

Sogolytics Named Among Notable Vendors in Forrester’s Q1 2026 Customer Feedback Landscape

by Haris Azmi

Sogolytics has been named among the notable vendors in Forrester’s Customer Feedback Management and Analytics Solutions Landscape, Q1 2026. The recognition lands at a moment of real change in our category. Collecting customer feedback from every channel used to be the headline feature. Now it’s a baseline assumption. Buyers have absorbed that promise, and they’re asking a harder question: what happens after you listen? That’s the question we’ve been building around. And it’s the question we think will separate the next generation of CX platforms from the last one. Where we’re Focused, and Why? When Forrester invited us to identify the top three areas of focus for our product and roadmap, we named three: closing the loop with customers, customer journey understanding, and measuring ROI of CX. That wasn’t a marketing exercise. It reflects where we’ve been investing and what our customers have been telling us matters most. Closing the loop is about making follow-through visible and systematic, not just responding to one frustrated customer. Journey understanding is about spotting where consistency breaks down across touchpoints before it compounds into churn. And ROI measurement is the piece that keeps CX investment funded, because without it, every budget cycle becomes a fight for survival. One Great Interaction is Easy. Sustaining it is Where Most Teams Stall Our own research backs this up. The Sogolytics Experience Index: Customer Edition 2026, a national survey of 1,011 U.S. adults, found that 40% of consumers were very satisfied with their most recent customer interaction. But when we asked about the quality of experiences they typically receive, only 24% said the same. That 16-point gap tells you […]

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