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emily_mcdaniel_629a86
Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️
July 17, 2017

Known Issue | Sponsor Tracking - RESOLVED

  • July 17, 2017
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We wanted to make you aware that the Sponsor Tracking infrastructure in Gainsight is currently significantly degraded. In researching this issue with our service provider over the last week, we’ve found that the service has been degrading over the last few months and is now is no longer working for many of our customers.

IMPACT
Sponsor changes are not being passed from our service provider into Gainsight resulting in a lack of CTAs or updates.

NEXT STEPS
We are working with our service provider to research options for bringing the Sponsor Tracking infrastructure back to full functionality.

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UPDATE July 28, 2017 
You may begin to see some Sponsor Tracking notifications, as we continue to work with our vendor to fully restore the service.

UPDATE September 7, 2017 
Sponsor Tracking service has been fully restored. You should notice that the service is now working better than ever due to some product enhancements that were part of the Summer release on September 5th.  

We have implemented changes that will help filter out false positives and trivial profile changes (e.g. renaming Gainsight to Gainsight Inc.), and push only valid profile changes to you. 

Please be patient with us as we work through our backlog of tracking and validation requests over the next few weeks. During this period, there may be some minor delays in pushing profile updates. 

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      seth
      seth
      Expert ⭐️
      September 6, 2017
      VERY appreciative of the technical and manual changes that you were able to make with the summer release! Our CSMs and Execs became disillusioned with Sponsor Tracking and had me turn off our Sponsor CTAs and reporting entirely, but this gives me the ammo to get it back up and running.

      If anyone here has examples of a "crawl-walk-run" approach that worked for them to get Sponsor Tracking adopted in their team, I'd love to hear about it. Before, I struggled to get CSMs to actually set up the contacts as Sponsors, since the cost/benefit to them just wasn't strong enough, since the benefit isn't immediate or guaranteed.
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        elaine_cleary
        elaine_cleary
        Helper ⭐️⭐️
        September 9, 2017
        Emily, Can Gainsight customers still ask Gainsight Customer Support for a paid service engagement quote for bulk sponsor tracking assistance?  If so, what information should be submitted to get a quote?  Thank you!
        elaine_cleary
        elaine_cleary
        Helper ⭐️⭐️
        September 9, 2017
        Hi Seth,  Here's a suggestion for consideration:

        1) If possible have an intern take a first pass at tracking sponsors in Gainsight for the CSM team (from a contact report in SFDC for example) OR potentially pay to have Gainsight do the bulk load (see my clarifying question to Emily below)

        2) Turn on the Sponsor Tracking rule but for ~the first week have the CTAs fire to you for spot checking.

        3) Assuming good results, report your findings on the accuracy of Sponsor Tracking to the CSMs

        4) With some renewed confidence in the capability, update the Sponsor Tracking rule to go to the CSMs.  Also discuss and get agreement to update your new customer Playbook to ask the CSMs to add new contacts to Sponsor Tracking as they come on board so it's minimal ongoing effort.  This is a good time to set proper expectations - check out the known limitations listed here https://support.gainsight.com/Product_Documentation/Customers_and_Relationships/Admin_Configuration/...

        Bonus - If you have an opportunity to make it fun, ask the CSMs to submit any Sponsor Tracking success stories in the next 30 days and everyone who has one will be put in a drawing for a small prize.  :-)

        Hope that helps!
        Elaine
          seth
          seth
          Expert ⭐️
          September 12, 2017
          Thanks so much, Elaine!
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          kim_wagner
          kim_wagner
          Contributor ⭐️⭐️
          September 12, 2017
          Hi Emily - I just submitted a support ticket as well but our sponsor tracking is still really off.  Are there still known issues?
          rajesh_gande
          rajesh_gande
          Helper ⭐️
          September 13, 2017
          Hi Kim,

          Since the feature was down for a while. We have a backlog of profile updates to be verified before pushing to the customers. This might cause the updates to come little late. Are you seeing any specific issue with sponsor tracking?

          Thanks,
          kim_wagner
          kim_wagner
          Contributor ⭐️⭐️
          September 13, 2017
          Hi Rajesh - Yes, a lot of ours are not correct.  Is there something we should do to refresh the connections?  Or should I submit a list of a few to support?
          rajesh_gande
          rajesh_gande
          Helper ⭐️
          September 15, 2017
          Hi Kim,

          No specific action required from your end. We are already in the process correcting the profiles for all customers.
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