Person Section in C360

Rajesh,

I would be really interested in this functionality. A couple of qustions:
1) Would this add / edit the contacts back in Salesforce?
2) For relationships, will the contacts be related to the relationship? Today we are doing something similar in which we define an attribute that ties the contact to the relationship object in Salesforce.

Looking forward to how this functionality develops...

Marcelo

Rajesh,

My team has been using sponsor tracking heavily.  These are the features that would be most valuable to us:

• See and edit person’s information such as Name, Email, Title, Location, Phone #, Social media links. Edit some of the information inline.  We would also like to make sure that we are able to pull data from the Salesforce contact and configure that within the Gainsight person profile.  It would be great to customize the field name in Gainsight to something that is different from what is in Salesforce.

• Ability to create a new person.  It would be great if that would create the contact back in SF as Marcelo recommends.
• For my team, the org chart view is more important than a tabular view.
• The activity from timeline/NPS would be valuable, but not as important as the items above.
• The ability to take actions like send an email is less important.  As long as the email appears on the Gainsight contact profile, we can quickly send emails to that person.  If you are envisioning a scenario where we capture each email that is sent to a contact and store that information in Gainsight, that is not as important to my team.
• Health scoring at the person level is not as important to me.  I think the NPS scoring at the person level is probably enough insights.

Like Marcelo and Myles, I would use Person only if it had a tight integration with SFDC Contacts. Without that, Person records become an additional source of truth that Contacts has primarily solved for.

Perhaps one question to consider: What would Person functionality accomplish that SFDC Contacts does not?

Thanks Marcelo. Following is the response to your questions:

1) Yes. This would add / edit the contacts back in Salesforce. Would it be ok if there is a slight delay (couple of hours) for this to happen?
2) Persons can be associated with Relationships. We would allow the association based on any of the attributes of the person.

Myles, Thanks for the detailed feedback. The field names in Gainsight can be different from what they are in Salesforce contacts.

Bi-directional sync between Salesforce and Gainsight would be possible. Are you ok if there is a slight delay (couple of hours) for this to happen?

Hi Matthew,
Often data comes
from outside sources and it is difficult to manage the data with Contacts alone
and as a result, it is hard to get a clear picture of all of the data that
connects about a single person. Here are some scenarios where Contacts don't always work
include:

• People may play roles that cut across multiple contacts. e.g. if someone is a contractor and works for several of your customers or if they move between jobs, the Person model is designed to let you connect the data (including contacts) together.
• You may not want to have every single person you ever interact with (e.g. every user of your product) in Salesforce Contacts
• You need an extensible way to track fact data about a person that comes from an outside source. e.g. login info and external IDs across other systems, alternate contact info, etc.

Person model works at 2 levels. Person in the context of a customer (Similar to SFDC contacts) and an independent view of a Person.

This is great! I'm adding a link to a post I made recently that I think fits into this thread: https://community.gainsight.com/gainsight/topics/edit-field-360-report

Hi Rajesh,

I spoke with my team and we all agree that this functionality would be really useful.  In response to your points:
How useful will this
feature / section be for you? 

• VERY useful - as long as it did not create an additional record for CSMs to manage (sync between SFDC quickly)

What do you think is the most useful
functionality among the ones listed.

Being able to add/edit user records (and have it sync back with SFDC immediately or almost immediately) Take actions for each person (sending an email)

Any other specific
functionality that we should think about while building this section?

Designate contacts as specific types of users (for example, we have some users who are named administrators for their accounts, which gives them access to open cases) Email Opt Out control Can Gainsight specific fields live side by side with SFDC fields (without having to be added to the SFDC object)?  For example, we might want to include on the Person section "Conversation Details" but we wouldn't want to add this field in SFDC.
• We can see the use for this at the Account level - is that possible?

Which of the above-mentioned
functionality would make sense for you at a Person level (Person360) vs. Person
in the context of a given customer. 

• I don't think we have a strong use case for having a separate Person 360 at this time.

Thanks! 
Kate

Interesting direction.
- Can you provide more examples of the differences between a Contact (in SFDC) and a Person?
Also, the example about sub-contractors that work with many customers is relevant to us, but I'm not sure how this functionality will help with it.
- Is there 1:1 relationship between a Person and a Contact?
- Can users see a list of both - i.e., 1 section in c360 that shows Persons and Contacts.
- In general, we have a stronger need for an org.chart / power map functionality. As mentioned in this post - https://community.gainsight.com/gainsight/topics/which-apps-are-gainsight-customers-using-to-visuali...

Thanks,
Einat

Hi Einat,

Thanks for the comment. Here is the response to your queries:

Can you provide more examples of the differences between a Contact (in SFDC) and a Person?

The modelling of Gainsight’s Person model is being done on the lines of a Person in real life. A Person can usually be associated with multiple companies (Company-Person) / relationships (Relationship-Person). Contact in SFDC is equivalent to Company-Person in Gainsight. Multiple Company-Persons can map to a single Person. 

Also, the example about sub-contractors that work with many customers is relevant to us, but I’m not sure how this functionality will help with it.

You will be able to get the overall view of the sub-contractor in the form of Person and at the same time get a view of sub-contractor at company level in the form of company-person.
  
Is there 1:1 relationship between a Person and a Contact?

Barring few exceptions, there will be a 1:1 relationship between SFDC contact and Company-Person. Association between Person and SFDC contacts can be 1:M

Can users see a list of both - i.e., 1 section in c360 that shows Persons and Contacts.

Company-Person (and there by Person if doesn’t already exist) can be created by importing SFDC contacts. You will only be able to see the list of Company-Person in C360 that can include Company-Person records created from SFDC contacts.