Annual Maintenance Tasks

  • 24 January 2024
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Hello Admins!  A recent question from the Global Gainsight Admin Slack channel is the root of this post.

“Does anyone have a list of yearly tasks they have to manage to maintain Gainsight?”.

 

In my past roles supporting financial solutions there was always the dreaded year-end where the ghosts of annual maintenance would come knocking.  I recall how maintaining a living document of the list of tasks and reference to how to achieve them was key to survival.

I wanted to capture some annual Gainsight maintenance tasks here to help provide reminders and support for those key times when things get a little hectic.  So, drop your suggestions in the chat to help build a more comprehensive list of tasks that might be needed on an annual or infrequent basis.

Here’s a few from the OP:

  • Report Maintenance - reviewing dates or headers that need to be rolled forward
  • Surveys - review end dates or deprecate as needed
  • Data Design or Rules Maintenance for dates
  • Updating or Creating annual Campaigns in SFDC
  • Annual maintenance of licenses or certification for website and other job related tools
  • Renew your Gainsight Admin Certification 😎

What else is on your list?  Let me know by dropping a chat below.  

Take care and here’s to 2024! 🥂

 

Credit to admins @stacey george, @alizee , and @keith_mattes


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I manage JO for Gainsight, and as a part of actively managing my queue, I do a manual active program audit twice a year. Although this is an older limit (it’s in a doc somewhere), I try and keep my active program count under 200. Since JO doesn’t currently have the ability to set a program Stop Date or a mechanism to pause/stop programs not sending in X days, this audit process is entirely manual. I literally have to look at the performance of EVERY active program. I have heard that we might be seeing a program Stop-Date feature at some point.. that will be a HUGE help. Even though this is currently a time-consuming process, the GonG JO queue is lean and mean. 

Other things I do yearly:

  • Evaluate Rel. Person JO segment audience models (75-80% of what I send uses Segments.. all I do is edit filters. I love em!)
  • Update Email/JO Admin Email Research Dashboards and evaluate Custom JO Admin GS Home View
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Another one to consider is the removal of tech debt; from Analyzer > Configuration Home have an email sent to you of all the assets in your instance. From here, it’s possible to use the various tabs to review Rules, JO programs, DDs, reports etc and ask the question: do we still need this, or can it be removed.

 

Although time consuming, this pays dividends when it comes to reviewing field/object dependencies for any changes you wish to deploy later.

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