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lane_h
Helper ⭐️
April 20, 2016
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Adding Account Team Members through Gainsight

  • April 20, 2016
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We are working on bringing more of our teams into Gainsight. In doing so, we want to streamline their workflows to be using as few of tools as necessary. One thing we need managers and teams to be able to do is assign Technical Project Managers and Project Managers to accounts. Currently, these are setup as lookups in SFDC. Because of this, I believe, we aren't able to change them from fields in Gainsight.

We could write their name to a field in Gainsight, but we want to be able to trigger CTAs to them based on different factors on the accounts, and trigger emails to their customers. I'd like to do this without having to create 3+ custom fields for TPM and PMs in Gainsight (First Name, Last Name, Full Name, Email, User ID, etc.).

Is there a way to be able to assign TPMs and PMs in Gainsight where we could pull the same information we are able to for CSMs?

    18 replies

    darkknight
    Expert ⭐️
    April 21, 2016
    We have a similar use case, except taking it one step further.  We want to bring our Technical Account Managers into Gainsight, however since our TAMs are product line-specific, it is not uncommon to have multiple TAMs on the same account, in addition to a CSM.



    In addition, we have some accounts that due to their global nature may need to have multiple CSMs assigned to manage business in various regions.  

    I thought that Relationships would be the way we could address these use cases, but it seems you still need to be able to associate these team members to the account to pull them into Relationships (we still haven't quite gotten the Relationship feature figured out.)

    We badly need the ability to assign more than one team member of similar type.  This is a blocker to us being able to scale our implementation of Gainsight the way we want to.
    Jeff Kirkpatrick
    lane_h
    lane_hAuthor
    Helper ⭐️
    April 21, 2016
    Hey Jeff,

    Would you want to be able to assign these in Gainsight or would you want them to only be assigned in SFDC? 

    For us, we can create some of these fields in SFDC, but our big thing is we want to be able to have a manager assign them to the account from within Gainsight.
    Director of CX and Scale Programs
    darkknight
    Expert ⭐️
    April 21, 2016
    They are already added/assigned in Salesforce.  We need a way to associate them to the Customer in Gainsight.
    Jeff Kirkpatrick
    lane_h
    lane_hAuthor
    Helper ⭐️
    April 21, 2016
    If they live on the account object in SFDC, aren't they already associated with it in Gainsight? 
    Director of CX and Scale Programs
    darkknight
    Expert ⭐️
    April 21, 2016
    They are associated with the Account Object via an additional object called Account Members.  Something about we cannot do layered lookups between objects prevents us from associating them to the Customer in GS.
    Jeff Kirkpatrick
    darkknight
    Expert ⭐️
    April 21, 2016
    I will add that we also have other roles that we want to be able to attach to an account - sometimes not in a permanent capacity, i.e. consultants.
    Jeff Kirkpatrick
    darkknight
    Expert ⭐️
    May 26, 2016
    Doesn't look like we've heard from PM on this topic.  Just curious to know if/when this will get worked into roadmap. We're getting a lot of internal pressure on this front.
    Jeff Kirkpatrick
    amber_boaz
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
    December 22, 2016
    Any update on this? Jeff and I chatted about use cases and what he's outlined above is critical for our success.
    marcelo
    Helper ⭐️
    July 19, 2017
    We also have the same use case as Amber and Jeff. Would be interested in hearing if there are any plans in leveraging the Account Team object in SFDC into GainSight.
    christian_falkenberg
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️
    April 19, 2018
    Same for us 🙂