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== What is a CRM ==
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= What is a CRM =


Customer Relations Management (CRM) tools are used by business entities to track their relation with the customers, share information within the company regarding clients and to create new business opportunities. CRM tools ease the process of identifying, contacting, following-up and evaluating customer needs and satisfaction. Such tools improve communication among the different actors and increase productivity and efficiency.
Customer Relations Management (CRM) tools are used by business entities to track their relation with the customers, share information within the company regarding clients and to create new business opportunities. CRM tools ease the process of identifying, contacting, following-up and evaluating customer needs and satisfaction. Such tools improve communication among the different actors and increase productivity and efficiency.
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The EGI CRM is based on the Open-Source tool [http://www.vtiger.com/crm-on-demand/help/ VTiger ]. The main concepts around EGI CRM are:
The EGI CRM is based on the Open-Source tool [http://www.vtiger.com/crm-on-demand/help/ VTiger ]. The main concepts around EGI CRM are:
* ''Account'': A record for a “client” endpoint (project, institution, university, …).
* ''Organization'': A record for a “client” endpoint. Examples are ESFRI projects, National projects, International Projects, Research Institutes, Universities...
* ''Contact'': A record for a person associated under an account, used to record conversations.
* ''Contact'': A record for a person associated under an Organization, used to record conversations.
* ''Project'': Long term work (tasks, milestones) related to a Contact or to an Account.
* ''Project'': Long term work (tasks, milestones) related to a Contact or to an Organization. Project Link Attributes link contacts and Research institutions to Projects. A contact can be linked to several projects.
* ''Activity'': Short term work (calls, ToDos, events) related to a Contact or to an Account.
* ''Activity'': Short term work (calls, ToDos, events) related to a Contact or to an Organization.


[[File:EGI_CRM_data_structures.jpg|center|640px| Centred view of entities in the CRM entities model]]
[[File:EGI_CRM_data_structures.jpg|center|640px| Centred view of entities in the CRM entities model]]
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== Why EGI needs a CRM ==
= Why EGI needs a CRM =


EGI-InSpire needs an optimised management of relationships between EGI.eu, NGIs and their potential user leads because:
EGI-InSPIRE needs an optimised management of relationships between EGI.eu, NGIs and their potential user leads because:
* EGI partners and their “clients” are distributed
* EGI partners and their “clients” are distributed
* Conversations with “clients” happen at different places, context and time, and EGI partners should be able to share that information
* Conversations with “clients” happen at different places, context and time, and EGI partners should be able to share that information
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Ibergrid is setting up a [http://crm.egi.eu CRM] tool based on vTiger technology to support the "Community Outreach" activity of the NGIs and EGI.eu in a number of areas:  
Ibergrid is setting up a [http://crm.egi.eu CRM] tool based on vTiger technology to support the "Community Outreach" activity of the NGIs and EGI.eu in a number of areas:  
* Recording identified contacts & leads to user communities; associate information with these leads based on interviews, discussions
* Recording identified contacts & leads to user communities; associate information with these leads based on interviews, discussions
* Gathering intelligence about scientific communities, institutes and projects and about topics of collaboration with them
* Gathering intelligence about scientific communities, institutes and projects and about topics of collaboration with them
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The CRM system has been deployed according to the needs identified by the "Intelligence Collection & Analysis Process" and "ESFRI Contact List" [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Virtual_Team_Projects Virtual Team projects] in the last two months. The features and configuration of the CRM system were presented to the NILs in a  [https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=818 webminar celebrated in February the 13th]. Based on the feedback collected at this event, and after the NIL testing phase, the CRM was fine tuned and will be opened for the NGIs and EGI.eu. This document constitutes a short guide to use the system for different use cases.
Therefore, the CRM has been setup to help us coordinate and monitor at the European level the ’outreach to new user communities’ activity. In the CRM system EGI members record key findings about the e infrastructure needs of potential clients of EGI services. These clients are scattered around Europe,  but from the information that is recorded in the CRM by the NGIs and EGI.eu we can see the big picture of the needs of our potential clients. The CRM stores ‘e-infrastructure needs’ of the following types of clients:
 
* Projects (e.g ESFRI and ESFRI cluster projects) and scientific collaborations who are potential users of EGI services.
* Research institutes, universities, companies and other types of organisations who potential users of EGI services. These organisations are often members of the above mentioned projects and collaborations.
* Researchers, principal investigators, project spokespersons, representatives of Research Infrastructures, and other types of personal contacts who are potential clients of EGI services. These persons are often involved in the above mentioned projects and collaborations, and/or work for the above mentioned organisations.
 
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The CRM can generate and provide reports about the stored information, as well as about the intensity with which recordings are made in the system. The primary users of the system are those in EGI who are responsible for the outreach activities: the NGI International Liaisons and the Marketing and User Community Support Teams of EGI.eu.
The CRM system has been deployed according to the needs identified by the "Intelligence Collection & Analysis Process" and "ESFRI Contact List" [[Virtual_Team_Projects|Virtual Team projects]] in the last two months. The features and configuration of the CRM system were presented to the NILs in a  [https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=818 webminar celebrated in February the 13th]. Based on the feedback collected at this event, and after the NIL testing phase, the CRM was fine tuned and will be opened for the NGIs and EGI.eu. This document constitutes a short guide to use the system for different use cases.


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== Who is the CRM for ==
= Who the CRM is for =


The CRM system is for EGI.eu and NGI members. All research communities should be considered as potencial users of EGI infrastrucuture, but since their activities are normally organized under the umbrella of big projects, both EGI.eu and NGI members should capture and gather information about those initiatives, their associated research institutes and contacts. The CRM system allows EGI.eu and NILs to record and correlate information in an organized and hierarchical form, so that it can be shared by all partners. EGI.eu and NGI staff (NILs) will be the main users of the system.
The CRM system is for EGI.eu, the NGIs and their collaborators. All research communities should be considered as potencial users of EGI infrastrucuture, but since their activities are normally organized under the umbrella of big projects, both EGI.eu and NGI members should capture and gather information about those initiatives, their associated Research Institutes and contacts. The CRM system allows EGI.eu, NILs and other persons from the NGIs to record and correlate information in an organized and hierarchical form, so that it can be shared by all partners. EGI.eu and NGI staff will be the main users of the system.


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== What should be recorded in the CRM ==
= How to get an account for the CRM? =
 
The CRM system is for EGI.eu and NGI members. The system works with EGI Single Sign On (SSO) system, but [http://www.egi.eu/sso EGI SSO] accounts. If you are a NIL then your SSO account is already active in CRM and you can access the system. If you are not a NIL then send your SSO account name in an email to the CRM helpdesk (egicrm.helpdesk@lip.pt), CC-ing the email to the NIL of your country. ([https://www.egi.eu/about/ngis/NILs.html List of NILs])
 
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= What should be recorded in the CRM =


Big user communities are organized under the umbrella of high level initiatives (ESFRI projects, National projects, Other international projects) working as frontends for the community. EGI.eu and NGI members should:
Big user communities are organized under the umbrella of high level initiatives (ESFRI projects, National projects, Other international projects) working as frontends for the community. EGI.eu and NGI members should:
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# [[CRM Use Case Record Project Data|Record Projects Data]].  
# [[CRM Use Case Record Project Data|Record Projects Data]].  
# [[CRM Use Case Record Research Institution Data|Record Research Institutions Data]].  
# [[CRM Use Case Record Research Institution Data|Record Research Institutions Data]].  
# [[CRM Use Case Record Contact|Record a Contact and associated it to a given Research Institutions]].  
# [[CRM Use Case Record Company Data|Record Company Data]].
# [[CRM Use Case Record Non-Profit Organization Data|Record Non-Profit Organization Data]].
# [[CRM Use Case Record Contact|Record Contact Data]].
# [[CRM Use Case Record Document|Record Discussions in Documents]].  


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== How to use the CRM ==
= How to use the CRM =


This section includes links to how to perform different basic actions using the EGI CRM.
This section includes links to how to perform different basic actions using the EGI CRM.


* [[CRM_NIL_HOWTO#Login_in_the_EGI_CRM | Accessing the EGI CRM tool.]]
* [[CRM_HOWTO#Access_and_Login| Access and Login]]
* [[CRM_NIL_HOWTO#Adding_a_new_contact | Adding and browsing contacts.]]
* [[CRM_HOWTO#Browsing_Organizations| Browsing Organizations]]
* [[CRM_NIL_HOWTO#CRM_Calendar | Calendar.]]
* [[CRM_HOWTO#Filtering_and_Searching_Organizations| Filtering and Searching Organizations]]
* [[CRM_NIL_HOWTO#Creating_custom_reports | Creating Reports.]]
* [[CRM_HOWTO#Adding_an_Organization| Adding Organizations]]
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* [[CRM_Analytics | Analyzing the data.]]
* [[CRM_HOWTO#Filtering_and_Searching_Contacts| Filtering and Searching Contacts]]
* [[CRM_Activity_Management | Activity Management.]]
* [[CRM_HOWTO#Creating_a_Standalone_Contact| Adding a Standalone Contact]]
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* [[CRM_HOWTO#Creating_a_Contact_and_associate_it_to_an_Organization| Adding a Contact and associate it to a given Organization]]
* [[CRM_NIL_HOWTO#CRM_Support_Tools | Support & Tools.]]
* [[CRM_HOWTO#Browsing_Documents| Browsing Documents]]
* [[CRM_HOWTO#Filtering_and_Searching_Documents| Filtering and Searching Documents]]
* [[CRM_HOWTO#Create_a_document_to_record_discussions_with_Contacts_and_Organizations| Capturing conversation with Contacts and Organizations]]
* [[CRM_HOWTO#Creating_custom_reports|Creating Custom Reports]]
* [[CRM_HOWTO#Support| Support]]
 
More complete information can be found in the [[CRM_HOWTO | CRM How to guide]] and the [[CRM_FAQ | FAQ]].


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More information can be found in the [[CRM_NIL_HOWTO | CRM NILS How to guide]] and the [[CRM_FAQ | FAQ]].
= Videos =
* [https://lnnet10.lip.pt/CRMAccountCreation.avi EGI CRM Organization Creation]
* [https://lnnet10.lip.pt/CRMContactCreation.avi EGI CRM Contact Creation]

Latest revision as of 08:49, 3 September 2015

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THIS IS A HISTORICAL PAGE WITH OUTDATED CONTENT. KEPT AS ARCHIVE.


What is a CRM

Customer Relations Management (CRM) tools are used by business entities to track their relation with the customers, share information within the company regarding clients and to create new business opportunities. CRM tools ease the process of identifying, contacting, following-up and evaluating customer needs and satisfaction. Such tools improve communication among the different actors and increase productivity and efficiency.


The CRM processes can be broken down into the following three categories:

  • Operational: Automation of certain business processes. Actions such as periodical contacts, extension of contacts to other countries, notifications, etc. can be automatised increasing efficiency and success ratio.
  • Collaborative: Emphasis on client / institutes interactions.
  • Analytical: Process that may lead to strategies or methods changes. Through the use of the CRM it will be possible to identify bottlenecks and new opportunities.


The EGI CRM is based on the Open-Source tool VTiger . The main concepts around EGI CRM are:

  • Organization: A record for a “client” endpoint. Examples are ESFRI projects, National projects, International Projects, Research Institutes, Universities...
  • Contact: A record for a person associated under an Organization, used to record conversations.
  • Project: Long term work (tasks, milestones) related to a Contact or to an Organization. Project Link Attributes link contacts and Research institutions to Projects. A contact can be linked to several projects.
  • Activity: Short term work (calls, ToDos, events) related to a Contact or to an Organization.
Centred view of entities in the CRM entities model


Why EGI needs a CRM

EGI-InSPIRE needs an optimised management of relationships between EGI.eu, NGIs and their potential user leads because:

  • EGI partners and their “clients” are distributed
  • Conversations with “clients” happen at different places, context and time, and EGI partners should be able to share that information
  • EGI needs to construct a portfolio of prospective clients and explore the opportunities


Ibergrid is setting up a CRM tool based on vTiger technology to support the "Community Outreach" activity of the NGIs and EGI.eu in a number of areas:

  • Recording identified contacts & leads to user communities; associate information with these leads based on interviews, discussions
  • Gathering intelligence about scientific communities, institutes and projects and about topics of collaboration with them
  • Monitoring activities and progress in community outreach topics
  • Helping NILs and EGI.eu staff locate expertise inside NGIs


Therefore, the CRM has been setup to help us coordinate and monitor at the European level the ’outreach to new user communities’ activity. In the CRM system EGI members record key findings about the e infrastructure needs of potential clients of EGI services. These clients are scattered around Europe, but from the information that is recorded in the CRM by the NGIs and EGI.eu we can see the big picture of the needs of our potential clients. The CRM stores ‘e-infrastructure needs’ of the following types of clients:

  • Projects (e.g ESFRI and ESFRI cluster projects) and scientific collaborations who are potential users of EGI services.
  • Research institutes, universities, companies and other types of organisations who potential users of EGI services. These organisations are often members of the above mentioned projects and collaborations.
  • Researchers, principal investigators, project spokespersons, representatives of Research Infrastructures, and other types of personal contacts who are potential clients of EGI services. These persons are often involved in the above mentioned projects and collaborations, and/or work for the above mentioned organisations.


The CRM can generate and provide reports about the stored information, as well as about the intensity with which recordings are made in the system. The primary users of the system are those in EGI who are responsible for the outreach activities: the NGI International Liaisons and the Marketing and User Community Support Teams of EGI.eu. The CRM system has been deployed according to the needs identified by the "Intelligence Collection & Analysis Process" and "ESFRI Contact List" Virtual Team projects in the last two months. The features and configuration of the CRM system were presented to the NILs in a webminar celebrated in February the 13th. Based on the feedback collected at this event, and after the NIL testing phase, the CRM was fine tuned and will be opened for the NGIs and EGI.eu. This document constitutes a short guide to use the system for different use cases.


Who the CRM is for

The CRM system is for EGI.eu, the NGIs and their collaborators. All research communities should be considered as potencial users of EGI infrastrucuture, but since their activities are normally organized under the umbrella of big projects, both EGI.eu and NGI members should capture and gather information about those initiatives, their associated Research Institutes and contacts. The CRM system allows EGI.eu, NILs and other persons from the NGIs to record and correlate information in an organized and hierarchical form, so that it can be shared by all partners. EGI.eu and NGI staff will be the main users of the system.


How to get an account for the CRM?

The CRM system is for EGI.eu and NGI members. The system works with EGI Single Sign On (SSO) system, but EGI SSO accounts. If you are a NIL then your SSO account is already active in CRM and you can access the system. If you are not a NIL then send your SSO account name in an email to the CRM helpdesk (egicrm.helpdesk@lip.pt), CC-ing the email to the NIL of your country. (List of NILs)


What should be recorded in the CRM

Big user communities are organized under the umbrella of high level initiatives (ESFRI projects, National projects, Other international projects) working as frontends for the community. EGI.eu and NGI members should:

  • Capture and record information about which projects are active in the region
  • Capture and record information about which persons should be contacted while approaching those projects
  • Capture and record information about which research institutions that are working in those projects
  • Capture and record information about which persons should be contacted while approaching those research institutes


Those process are exemplified in the following use case examples:

  1. Record Projects Data.
  2. Record Research Institutions Data.
  3. Record Company Data.
  4. Record Non-Profit Organization Data.
  5. Record Contact Data.
  6. Record Discussions in Documents.



How to use the CRM

This section includes links to how to perform different basic actions using the EGI CRM.

More complete information can be found in the CRM How to guide and the FAQ.


Videos