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Analytics Bridge

Closing the gap between insight and action across all Freshworks products

MRR Impact

~$6M

Product Adoption

75%

Resolution Time

−20%

The Challenge

Freshworks enterprise users experienced significant friction when transitioning between viewing analytics data and taking action. Support agents would identify a problem in the analytics platform, then manually navigate to the core CRM or ITSM product to act on it — a context switch that caused delays in ticket responses and resolutions, eroded CSAT, and reduced the operational value of the analytics platform. This friction was systemic across all Freshworks products.

My Role

Led design and implementation of the Analytics Bridge as a platform-level product.

  • Defined the integration architecture connecting Freshworks' core SaaS applications (CX, ITSM) with the analytics platform
  • Mapped the user-journey gaps causing the context-switching problem
  • Built the business case projecting ~$6M MRR impact and 75% adoption across all Freshworks products

The Solution

A scalable integration layer that embeds actionable analytics context directly into Freshworks' core products, so a user moves from insight to action without leaving their workflow:

  • Surfaces relevant analytics data contextually within the operational product (CX, ITSM)
  • Enables action-taking directly from within the analytics view
  • Eliminates the round-trip context switch entirely

The Outcome

  • ~$6M projected MRR impact, with 75% adoption across all Freshworks products
  • 20% reduction in ticket resolution time, 15% improvement in response time
  • Directly improved CSAT for enterprise accounts, including strategic accounts like Allianz Partners

Connects insight to outcome, raising the operational ROI of the analytics platform itself.

Key Learnings

  • The most valuable product moves are often not new features but better connections between existing ones — the Analytics Bridge created outsized impact by eliminating friction rather than adding capability.
  • Mapping the full user journey across product boundaries reveals problems that single-product roadmaps miss; the context-switching problem was invisible until we tracked the end-to-end flow.
  • Platform-level products require cross-product stakeholder alignment that is harder than the engineering; the design phase is really a negotiation phase.

Technologies & Methods

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • tRPC
  • REST APIs
  • Freshworks Platform SDK