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juhi_bulchandani
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July 14, 2016
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Outlook Integration with Gainsight

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  • July 14, 2016
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Today there is no integration of outlook with Gainsight. Communication and documentation of communication all in one place is key for CSM's success. As email is widely used and office email is key part of their day to day operation it would be very useful to have emails attach to the CTA so there is a context to the communication

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    sara_hoeffler
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    July 14, 2016
    Agreed.  I often hear this feedback from our users.  Our event CTAs often correspond to client meetings.  Would be nice to enable some link between Outlook calendar events and CTAs such that when a meeting is rescheduled, the CTA's due date reflects this.  
    steve_brooks
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    July 14, 2016
    Please ensure it will work with office 365 (not just outlook on premise)

    tara
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    July 14, 2016
    Salesforce has an Outlook plugin...would be great to see this in Gainsight as well!

    gaurav_kotak
    Expert ⭐️
    August 5, 2016
    Thanks for the feedback. Better integration with outlook completely makes sense. I'd love you help in prioritization the following use cases with this

    1) A reply (and all subsequent replies in that conversation) to a copilot email (which can be setup today to go inbox of CSM) is copied back into Gainsight
    2) Same as #1, but for semi-automation emails (this is new functionality releasing in August, where email tasks can be created in cockpit via playbooks. CSMs can then just hit send)
    3) All emails sent a customer via Outlook (or whichever email clients) show up in C360 to some kind of sync with email.
    4) CSM or customers (or any one else) can email virual email address - say - email_listner@<customer-name>.gainsight.com and only in this case does the email get copied to Gainsight
    5) Ability to create manual emails from scratch within Gainsight
    6) Gainsight widget in email client
    7) Copilot emails can include a calendar invite (via an .ics file attachment)
    sara_hoeffler
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    August 5, 2016
    From my perspective 1, 7, and 2 (in that order) are most important for our org at the moment.  I am working on setting up copilot outreach (and follow up outreach) for our SMB portfolio and capturing replies would be enormously helpful in streamlining this process (both automation and business process) and reduce risk of accidentally firing follow up outreach where none is needed.

    Next would be 3, 6, and 5.  I'm not sure I understand 4.

    I would also be interested in exploring how we could tie certain types of CTAs to outlook invites such that moving the invite would automatically update due date on the CTA.  I spoke with Marie Froshaw about this a few weeks back.
    gaurav_kotak
    Expert ⭐️
    August 5, 2016
    Thanks for the response. Understood your last comment. For #7 is the use case for webinars or for more personal meetings? Thanks
    sara_hoeffler
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    August 5, 2016
    Personal meetings.
    gaurav_kotak
    Expert ⭐️
    August 5, 2016
    For this use case, How do you determine availability of the recipient?
    sara_hoeffler
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    August 5, 2016
    At present the team is reaching out manually to schedule a business review.  For SMB, they include a personalized link (ScheduleOnce) to determine availability.  Once the client has responded to indicate what times would work for them, they create the outlook invite.  
    nadav_shemtov
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    August 17, 2016
    I've gotten this request from a few additional customers, including EMC, Splunk, and Mindbody. Just wanted to make sure this is captured here as well.