GPPs are Gartner’s peer-driven community, networking and reviews offerings where business leaders can come together to exchange ideas, discuss best practices and share their experiences. Gartner Peer Platforms are organized into communities of verified business leaders with access to carefully moderated networking, ratings and reviews functions for enterprise software and services vendors.
We Created these GPP Community Guidelines to ensure that everyone who participates in Gartner’s Peer Platforms adheres to Gartner’s principles of trust, inclusiveness and respect. By establishing a level playing field, the Guidelines also help us to avoid even the perception of commercial influence.
The GPP Community Guidelines govern the following Peer Platforms:
Gartner reserves the right to update these Guidelines at any time without notice. Your continued use of Gartner Peer Programs after any such change constitutes your agreement to these changes. Please check back regularly for updates.
To learn more about these Guidelines and Gartner Peer Programs, please reach out to the appropriate matching address:
While these Guidelines apply to all Gartner Peer Programs, this section is intended to focus on your Peer Community experience:
Adhere to the Community Principles - All Community members are expected to adhere to the Gartner Code of Conduct and the Peer Community Principles as further outlined below:
Honor - Peer Community is about fostering a platform where like-minded members can share quality content, exchange best practices, and engage in community-building activities. While there will be moderators on the site, we expect Members to conduct themselves with integrity. For example, when points are awarded to encourage participation, we reserve the right to issue them in our sole discretion and we expect members to use them in moderation.
Respect - Peer Community is about treating Community members and the Gartner staff that supports the Platforms with respect. Our general rule of thumb is to treat others in Peer Community the way you would treat them in a real-life business setting. We reserve the right at our discretion to remove from the Community anyone who fails to do so. We have a zero-tolerance policy for hateful conduct or content. Your account will immediately be suspended if you promote violence, or attack or threaten others on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, religion, age or disability.
Confidentiality –Peer Community is about respecting confidentiality. While everything communicated on the Peer Community platform should remain within the Community, as a part of the Peer Community user experience there are options that encourage the public use or re-sharing of the platform’s content. Approved content and hyperlinks that are shared publicly by users have the design of additional security and anonymity when viewed by a public audience. The online conversations in which you participate and the information you submit may be used by us, in the aggregate and in anonymized format, and we reserve the right to make use of this information in the ordinary course of our business.
Data Privacy - Peer Community is about honoring data privacy. Member profiles (including names and faces) are proprietary to each member. We prohibit scraping member information (manually or with scripts), sending unsolicited promotional materials to members and publishing or posting other members"" personal information without their express consent. To learn more, please review our Privacy Policy.
Legal Compliance - Peer Community is about complying with applicable laws. It is the obligation of all Community members to comply with applicable laws and regulations. For example, members must refrain from engaging in anticompetitive conduct as outlined in the Gartner Antitrust Policy Gartner Antitrust Policy..
Accountability - Peer Community is about accountability. All members are responsible for their own conduct and content. Opinions expressed by Community members are their own and do not represent the views of Gartner. If a Community member opts to connect with another member, they agree to take reasonable precautions, both in their online and offline contact. While Peer Community provides a platform for Community members to connect with one another, we are not responsible for what happens during those connections.
Internal and External Use - All Community members are expected to use the Community functions of the platform as intended, and as specified in the these Guidelines and the Peer Community "FAQs". Any external use of the content published on the Peer Community platform that is not your personal information or contribution (including survey/poll results and reports) may require approval from Gartner and is subject to the terms of the Gartner Content Compliance Policy Gartner Content Compliance Policy.
Verification and Removal from Community - Gartner preserves its legacy of independence and objectivity through robust verification and moderation processes. We reserve the right to verify the user again, anytime, to ensure high quality participation. Peer Community also reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to remove Community members who do not meet our verification requirements and/or fail to adhere to these Community Guidelines. The status of user verification and overall eligibility is a process that is shared across Gartner Peer Platforms (GPP), note that violations and/or removal on any platform could impact user status across all platforms.
The Points Program - The Points Program is one of the many functions intended to promote quality content and encourage Member engagement with the Community. Gartner administers this program and reserves the right at our discretion to determine eligibility, make changes and terminate the program as we see fit.
There are two types of Points Members can earn - Contribution Points and Gift Card Points, which may be redeemed as set forth below. The discussions, polls, and surveys that are powered by these Points help Members engage, inform and educate each other every day.
Earning Points: Upon registration, all verified Members are allocated 300 Contribution Points. Those Members may earn additional Contribution and/or Gift Card Points by participating in surveys, polls, and questions.
The amount of Contribution Points and/or Gift Card Points that may be earned for specific participation activities will be communicated in the description of each activity. Not all participation activities are eligible for Gift Card Points. Eligibility for Gift Card points will be determined by Gartner in our sole discretion.
Redeeming Points:
Contribution Points
Members may redeem their Contribution Points by engaging with the Peer Community. They can use their Points to ask a question and/or create a poll. Contribution Points never expire
Gift Card Points
One hundred Gift Card Points are equivalent to one USD of Gift Card Value. Verified Members may redeem their Gift Card Points to access other awards (such as Gift Cards) and exclusive events only via the Mobile App (for iPhone or Android) as further explained below. App (for iPhone or Android) as further explained below. Once you start earning Gift Card Points you have 90 days to redeem them for a gift card before the points expire. This window will reset after every gift card redemption.
Eligibility Criteria for Gift Card Points:
In our ongoing efforts to ensure a just and legally compliant program, Gartner will not provide gift card points to:
Gift Card Point Redemption
In order to ensure a level playing field for all Members, please adhere to the following limitations on Gift Card point redemption:
A maximum of $80 worth of Gift Card Points may be redeemed within any 30-day period.
Members who are not verified within 90 days of their sign-up will lose all their Gift Card Points but will maintain their Contribution Points.
Gift Card Points are subject to expiration please see “Redeeming Points” above for further information.
PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF ANY LIMITATIONS FROM OUR PROVIDER: There may be both minimum amount and preset redemption amount options that you will need to select to complete the process. The "Claim your Reward" link from our gift card provider may expire based on what you redeem it for. Once the time period communicated by our gift provider expires, you will not be able to claim the gift card.
For instructions on downloading or using the Mobile App, please see the Help Center.
For further assistance:
For assistance around Gift Card redemption, please contact peercommunity@gartner.com.We provide email support Monday-Friday and do our best to respond to each request within two business days.
Gartner Peer Insights (GPI) provides a ratings and reviews platform for technology end-users to share their experiences. In this document, the GPI platform may also be referred to as the "Reviews program", "Reviews" or "Ratings". While each individual review is subjective and reflects the experience and opinion of the author, Gartner preserves its legacy of independence and objectivity by posting and enforcing these clear and consistent community guidelines, which are intended to govern the GPI Reviews Program and ensure a robust review verification and moderation process.
These guidelines, which set forth the rules governing our Gartner Peer Insights Program for (i) the general users of the website, (ii) those users who submit reviews, and (iii) those vendors whose products are listed and/or reviewed on the website, are divided into three main sections:
Only for the purpose of this document, word market(s) refer to both
We have also developed detailed FAQs for Reviewers and Vendors, which are intended to provide answers to some of the most common questions regarding our GPI Reviews Program.
Reviews play an important part in educating potential software buyers by sharing the opinions of peers and others who have relevant software experiences. Reviews help buyers make more informed decisions and also provide Vendors with feedback and valuable insight into their software or service. We have created a website that maintains high-quality, relevant content written by verified users, which is free of direct conflicts of interest.
As a website operator, we display content generated by our community of users in the form of software and services reviews. The honest opinions expressed in the reviews are those of the reviewers and not of Gartner.Gartner endorses neither the opinions expressed by the reviewers nor the responses to those reviews by the vendors.
To access a review, simply search for a vendor/product name or browse through the markets to find a vendor’s products and services. If you are unable to locate reviews on a vendor’s products and services in a specific market, it is likely because no reviews for that vendor have been submitted and approved in that market. Users need not be a Gartner client to access these reviews and reviewers do not need to be a Gartner client to submit a Gartner Peer Insights review. A reviewer may set up an account to contribute to the platform, free of charge. We accept reviews from enterprise professionals, including technology decision-makers, enterprise-level users, executives and their teams; however, every user will be subject to Gartner""s validation and approval process and the Community Guidelines. See below for more guidance on how a review can be posted on Gartner Peer Insights.
Reviewers are asked to specify which product(s) and versions they wish to review in a given market. The product being reviewed is listed at the top of the published review. The version number, if provided, is in the Additional Context section of the published review. Additional Context section of the published review.
Gartner is committed to providing a platform for high-quality reviews and has developed and maintained a robust reviews Quality Assurance (QA) process in order to achieve that goal. Prior to publishing, all reviews go through a rigorous QA process in an effort to ensure published reviews are from verified sources, and provide helpful content. All reviews adhere to the Community Guidelines and are treated equally during the verification process, regardless of rating or Vendor.
Reviews are assessed to determine whether or not a review meets Gartner Peer Insights"" standards for context, quality, and relevance. As a neutral content platform, Gartner Peer Insights relies on reviewers to share their honest experiences across the spread of technologies they know best. While we do not attempt to determine a review’s truthfulness or endorse the opinions expressed, we may evaluate a review at any time and for any reason; at our discretion, we may remove a review that we reasonably believe violates these Community Guidelines. Peer Insights also reserves the right to decline or remove review/s provided by a verified reviewer and/or a group of reviewers, at our discretion, this may include reviews with indications of collaborative actions, such as coordinated sharing of review content, synchronized submission processes among reviewers, or patterns of problematic contributions within the group, or any other signs of potential breaches of guidelines carried out in a coordinated manner. We retain this authority even in cases where direct evidence regarding each individual reviewer might be lacking.
In certain markets and/or categories, the platform may also have a limit on the number of products/services a user can reasonably be expected to be able to review on a meaningful and detailed level as required by Peer Insights. Therefore, we reserve the right to impose a numerical cap on the number of reviews a user may contribute within a single market or category.
In order to post a review on Gartner Peer Insights, the reviewer must:
In addition to verifying reviewer identity, we assess review content to determine whether or not a review meets Gartner Peer Insights’ standards for context, quality, and relevance. This assessment is intended solely to ensure that reviews align with our Guidelines and is not meant in any way to change the original meaning and intent of the underlying review. GPI reserves the right to reject a review for non-compliance with these Guidelines, at our discretion. Please note: At this time, reviews must be written in English only. GPI leverages the following guidelines to determine if the content submitted in the review meets our standards for publishing:
Be specific and relevant
Be balanced
Be fair and respectful
Be original
DO NOT disclose personal, confidential, or sensitive information
Gartner""s verification process aims to ensure that all reviews are authentic and readable, and as such, it can take several business days for a review to be approved and published on the website.
Our reviews team evaluates each review submitted through our website. We train each team member on our investigative procedures and task them with verifying the identity of each Reviewer, identifying potential conflicts of interest, and making sure that submitted reviews meet our guidelines. With tens of thousands of reviews submitted each month, we continue to develop and hone our team’s expertise in this area.
Our team is trained to be neutral and unbiased when verifying a review. We treat a five-star review sharing a positive experience in exactly the same way we treat a one-star review sharing a negative experience. As a neutral online content platform, we cannot remove an opinion or a statement from a verified Reviewer unless we deem, in our discretion, that it violates these guidelines or other terms on our website.
To reinforce this position, our reviews team remains separate and independent from our sales and relationship teams and initiatives. The reviews team treats all Vendors (clients or non-clients) equally by ensuring that all posted reviews undergo the same Quality Assurance process. We take our legal and regulatory obligations seriously when it comes to our reviews program and continue to ensure that all of our policies and practices comply with the most current applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards.
A review expresses the opinion of a single person with experience using a certain software product. When evaluating a set of reviews for a software product, it is important to consider the following:
While the posted reviews are not intended to provide readers a specific course of action, they provide buyers with one important tool to help them make an informed decision. Use your own judgment when evaluating a review’s content and make your decisions based on all information review’s content and make your decisions based on all information available to you.
To learn more about how to get the most out of reviews, please read our blog on Using Gartner Peer Insights to Select Enterprise Software.
We strive to provide a forum for reviewers who adhere to our Community Guidelines:
Please report violations of the above guidelines or conduct that otherwise interferes with another’s ability to have the experience described above by contacting us so that we can initiate an investigation. Violators may us so that we can initiate an investigation. Violators may be subject to penalties at our discretion, including a comment on a vendor’s profile or denial of access to the website.
GPI obtains its reviews from a variety of sources. We collect reviews from individuals through direct outreach, both with and without the use of incentives. We may also seek reviews from individuals who visit Gartner Peer Insights. Many technology vendors also encourage their customers to review their solutions honestly on Gartner Peer Insights.
Offering “nominal incentives” as a means of encouraging the submission of reviews (regardless of whether they are positive or negative) is widely considered common industry practice. Simply put, incentives help motivate software users to leave reviews. Were we to only publish those reviews that did not receive an incentive: (i) our online community would have less guidance to help inform their purchasing decisions; and (ii) there would be a risk that the incentive practice would simply move “underground” and not be disclosed. This underground activity would be difficult to police.
Gartner Peer Insights will note when a posted review has been incentivized, in
accordance with applicable law.
In our ongoing efforts to provide the most comprehensive and balanced view of the software marketplace, we may from time to time offer incentives to encourage certain reviewers (identified by their profile information: company size, industry, job role, geographic location) to review products in specific markets. This protocol, which is intended to apply equally, as needed, across all countries in which we operate, does not preclude any reviewer from submitting a non-incentivized review directly on the site by clicking here.
Eligibility Criteria for incentives:
PLEASE NOTE: In our ongoing efforts to ensure a just and legally compliant Reviews Program,
Gartner will not provide an incentive to:
** Even if you fall under one of the categories listed above, you are welcome to submit a non-incentivized review directly on the site by welcome to submit a non-incentivized review directly on the site by clicking here.
Please see below for Gartner’s policies around the use of gift cards to incentivize review submission on Gartner Peer Insights:
2.3.1.1 Claiming Gift-Cards
If a review meets the gift card eligibility criteria and is published on our website, Reviewers can go to the “Your Reviews” section of their Gartner Peer Insights profile page and click on “Claim your Reward” for individual reviews. After doing so, they will receive an email from noreply@tangocard.com with easy-to-follow redemption instructions. To resend the gift card, Reviewers may go to their Gartner Peer Insights profile page and resend the gift cards for individual reviews.
PLEASE NOTE: “Claim your Reward” link for individual reviews will expire 30 days after review approval. After the time period expires, a reviewer will not be eligible to claim the gift card.
The Referral Program enables approved Gartner Peer Insights (GPI) reviewers ("Referrers") to invite their colleagues ("Referees") to join and contribute to the GPI community. Once the Referee’s review is approved both the Referee and the Referrer will receive a gift card. Each Referrer is eligible to receive a maximum of ten (10) referral gift cards per calendar year.
In order for your referee to receive credit for your referral, you must ensure that the Referees use the referral link provided in your invite email whenever they sign-up on Gartner Peer Insights.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE REFERRED REVIEWERS MUST MEET THE SAME ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AS REVIEWERS WHO DIRECTLY SUBMIT REVIEWS ON GARTNER PEER INSIGHTS [SEE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS IN SECTION 2.4]
In an effort to ensure a level playing field for both Users and Vendors and remain a neutral, trusted platform, we require Vendors to adhere to the following Guidelines regarding our Reviews Program. We apply these Guidelines equally to all Vendors, regardless of account status (clients or non-clients). Vendors who violate these Guidelines will be notified and may be subject to penalties such as an alert on a vendor’s profile, or suspension of services.
All Vendors who access our website and adhere to our Community Guidelines are entitled to the following:
Because Gartner""s validation process is intended to ensure that all reviews are authentic and readable, it may take several business days for a review to be approved and posted.
We apply these Guidelines equally to all vendors, regardless of their status as clients or non-clients.
When a review is flagged for investigation our support team will review it to ensure (i) it meets our Quality Assurance and Verification Process, and (ii) the content of the review does not violate our Content Guidelines. The team may contact the reviewer to obtain additional information and will use a standard internal protocol to determine if the review violates these Community Guidelines.
Please note the following:
Most investigations are concluded within a week but may be extended to allow for the research and outreach necessary to make an informed decision. During the investigation, the review at issue will remain published and visible on the vendor’s profile. In order to prevent false accusations from manipulating the overall review scores received, we do not remove reviews during an investigation.
Be assured that we take requests for investigation seriously and that we review each escalation on a case by case basis in accordance with these Guidelines. At the conclusion of our investigation, an email will be sent to the requestor to communicate the decision from the investigation.
In order to assist vendors with their sourcing efforts, Gartner has created guidelines to which vendors must adhere when offering incentives to their customers in exchange for submitting a publishable review. Vendors are encouraged to leverage Gartner-approved-incentive programs if they choose to offer incentives to their customers.
If a vendor opts to offer their customers incentives outside of a Gartner-approved incentive program, the vendor must adhere to the following Gartner guidelines:
Vendors found in violation of these guidelines are subject to penalties.
In order to assist vendors in their sourcing efforts, Gartner provides all recent GPI- onboarded organizations with 50 complimentary $25 gift cards for a period of 6 months following the onboarding call. Vendors have the option of having Gartner offer their customers either a $25 Visa international gift card or a $25 donation to charity in exchange for a review that is published on Gartner Peer Insights. Vendors must use the Review Sourcing Links available in the Technology Provider Tools (TPT) to opt in and monitor incentive Provider Tools (TPT) to opt in and monitor incentive allotments to their customers.
All vendors listed on Gartner Peer Insights may offer their customers Technology Provider Funded Incentives: Vendors are able to fund their own incentives directly in their Technology Provider Tools (TPT) portal, up to $10,000 USD per market, per year. See Technology Provider Funded Gift Cards FAQs to learn more.
In order to maintain reviewer anonymity, Gartner will distribute the gift cards to eligible reviewers . Vendors must use the Review Sourcing Links available in the TPT to opt in and monitor incentive allotments to their customers.
Reviews are submitted by users at their discretion. Vendors are free to reach out to their customers and encourage them to submit reviews. While Reviewers do not need to be Gartner clients to submit a Gartner Peer Insights review, all Reviewers will be subject to the validation and approval process described in these Guidelines. Below are some tips to help you solicit your customers’ involvement in a manner that is consistent with our guidelines and most likely to generate honest and thorough reviews:
Below is some additional guidance you may want to include when reaching out to your customers:
More guidance related to sourcing can be found on the TPT portal.
Gartner Peer Insights provides all eligible vendors with the opportunity to participate in certain optional programs, designed to enhance the vendor experience. Vendors who agree to participate in any program do so voluntarily. See the Technology Provider FAQs for additional program details.
Gartner Peer Insights reviews reflect the experience and opinion of their authors. Gartner neither endorses the content nor makes any promises about the accuracy of the reviews. If you feel a review contains factually incorrect information about your company’s product or service, you may inform us using the “report inappropriate content” button available on the review submission page.
You may also contact us at peerinsights@gartner.com, subject line “Contesting Review ID XYZ.” Within the body, please include the review you would like to contest; specific evidence that highlights details as to why the review is factually incorrect/the specific information that is factually untrue; and evidence on your website supporting your claim. The Gartner team will assess your request and get back to you within 48 hours.
We are very careful to shield the identity and ensure the anonymity of our Reviewers in order to encourage them to be as candid as possible and provide all relevant details about the products and services they review.
We hope that these Guidelines have provided some necessary direction and instruction. In the event you would like to learn more, we have also created detailed FAQs for Reviewers and Vendors regarding our Verification Process. (User FAQ,Vendor FAQ,) which are intended to help provide answers to some of the most common questions asked about our Reviews Program.