Problems with current scenario
- How do we identify as Fed. Gov. or Academic?
- Government
- Flags identify as government account (PGOV, SGOV, FGOV, LGOV)
- Need to identify end users, not just EIS (Dept. of Energy, etc.)
- SETINIT name = end user
- EIS licenses with agency
- This situation also applies in AP where we have resellers
- no indication in GIDB of this
- Ops tries to identify through company name, but no automatic way to do so
- Academic
- Offering code in GIDB identifies as academic account
- Price point would indicate campus-wide or dept. wide
- Customer type = U; University (US Only)
- Some licenses held by state agencies, not necessarily individual institutions or campuses
- Root problem: no consistent hierarchy in GIDB
Current Process
- EIS order comes in
- Biz Ops receives PO from EIS with end user (agency) name – could be Lockheed purchasing on behalf of Army, for example
- ORION account = EIS Customer Name
- Biz Ops creates ORION opportunity, assigns TSR
- Opportunity value = What customer pays EIS
- Discount = oppvalue – EIS discount
- Net = amount with discount == sales credit
- The above 3 need to go into ORION from SFDC – JOI consideration
Considerations and requirements
- Data (GIDB, etc.)
- Synching – if government through EIS, look at SETINIT name instead of Company name into site data
- How are non-US resellers resolved? (SALSA in Canada)
- Process in Salesforce. Ops does not prepare paperwork for EIS customers
- If we can pass amounts via JOI from Salesforce, BO would need PO at time of paperwork as attachment
- Upgrades are the same scenario
- When non-EIS customer; standard or non-standard paperwork, could follow normal commercial customer
- Commercial reps can sell to gov. through EIS, so they will need to be able to choose that licensing type
- Need all of the appropriate type of licensing document globally available for sales to choose
- Legacy academic deals where they have traditional licenses
Requirements
- Account loading
- Clear way to see what product customer has; campus-wide or dept.-wide
- How to derive this from information synched from GIDB?
- Processing
- What type of product are they licensing?
- Ops would like reps to talk to customers about which products they want before order submitted.
- Current process is a form. University typically selects all
- Otherwise, contracts has to create separate site for each product.
- Messy for customer and contracts