Engagement home page
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Summary of Engagement Home Page
The Engagement Home Page in ServiceNow provides comprehensive details about customer engagements, including information on stakeholders, upcoming touchpoints, initiatives, and blueprints. It is accessible to users with thesnacctlc.customersuccessagentrole through the CSM/FSM Configurable Workspace or directly via Customer Success > All Engagements. The page supports navigation from the Success portfolio overview as well.
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Key actions available include starting sidebar discussions, refreshing engagement health scores, and creating plays, risk signals, success cases, and touchpoints. The page is organized into several tabs to facilitate detailed engagement management.
Engagement Record Page Tabs
- Overview: Displays high-level engagement data such as health score trends, contract value, engagement stage, key contacts, squads, account teams, upcoming touchpoints, risk signals, issues, and associated work items. Work items can be filtered and sorted by category and status to prioritize tasks effectively.
- Health: Shows the current and 12-week health score trends with detailed indicators explaining the metrics, targets, weights, and gap percentages used to calculate the score. Users can refresh the health score to get updated insights.
- Success Blueprint: Lists success objectives with details like due dates, key contacts, assigned personnel, and products involved. Users can create or modify success blueprints and filter objectives by state to track progress and status.
- Product Adoption: Provides product adoption scores based on calculated metrics for sold products. Visual charts show adoption trends and current distribution across categories (Low, Medium, High, None). Users can filter and sort products by various criteria and manage product adoption roadmaps.
- Renewal and Expansion: Lists active contracts related to the engagement with high-level contract details and direct access to contract records for management.
- Engagement Hierarchy: Offers a conditional view of all related engagements, including parent-child relationships, total engagements, contract values, risk signals, and squad work status, helping customers understand the broader engagement context.
Customer Timeline
The customer timeline tracks all activities related to the engagement, supporting up to 23 out-of-the-box activity types. This feature allows agents to monitor engagement history effectively and configure activity types as needed.
Contextual Side Panel Component
The contextual side panel enhances agent productivity by providing tools and quick access to relevant resources directly within the Engagement record page:
- Recommended Actions: Uses AI search to suggest relevant knowledge articles and resolutions based on case descriptions. Agents can filter, sort, view, and attach articles to cases. This feature requires the Recommended Actions application included with CSM Configurable Workspace.
- Activity Stream: Displays real-time activities on the case record.
- Related Items: Provides expandable lists of case-related records in card format for easy access.
- Attachments: Allows viewing and downloading of case-related files.
- Email Templates: Offers pre-configured email templates with default recipients, sender, subject, and body text to streamline communication.
- Templates: Enables application of form templates to auto-populate fields when creating new records like incidents or changes.
- Record Information: Shows a summary of the engagement record.
- Customer Timeline: Visualizes all engagement activities in a timeline format.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
This Engagement Home Page enables customer success agents to efficiently manage and monitor engagements by consolidating critical data, health metrics, and customer interactions in one place. It aids in proactive risk identification, progress tracking via success blueprints and product adoption insights, and streamlines communication through integrated templates and AI-powered recommendations. The hierarchical view supports managing complex accounts with multiple engagements, helping deliver a holistic customer experience.
This page provides detailed information of an engagement including internal and external stakeholders, upcoming touchpoints, initiatives, and blueprints.
- Login as a user with the
sn_acct_lc.customer_success_agentrole. - Navigate to and select the List icon.
- Navigate to and select Number column to open the engagement record. You can also navigate to this page from the Success portfolio overview.
- Discuss: Select Discuss to start a sidebar discussion about this engagement. In the pop-up window, select the participants who must participate in the discussion, enter a brief message, and select Start discussion. A window appears with a link to the record for this engagement. Select Open record and start the discussion. When the discussion has been completed, you can see the details in the Activity stream.
- Refresh Health: Select this option to update the health score for this engagement.
- Customer play: See Create a customer play.
- Internal play: See Create an internal play.
- Risk signal: See Create a risk signal.
- Success case: See Create a customer play.
- Touchpoint: See Create a touchpoint.
- Overview
- Health
- Success blueprint
- Product adoption
- Renewal and expansion
- Engagement hierarchy
Overview (engagement)
- Header: The header section shows the health score of the engagement over the last six weeks and the last active touchpoint.
- Engagement details: Shows the contract value, engagement stage, go-live date, account with which it’s associated, and the renewal date. Select the Edit icon to modify the engagement details and select Save.
- Customer team: Shows the key customer contact that you have specified for this engagement. This information is also displayed in the Related Items section under Applicable Customer Teams.
- Squad: Shows the squad members associated with the engagement.
- Account team: The team members handling the account. This information is also displayed in the Related Items section under Applicable Account Teams.
- Upcoming touchpoints: Shows any upcoming touchpoints for this engagement. Select the link to drill down to the Touchpoint record page.
- Risk signals and issues: Shows any new, overdue, high priority, or unaddressed risks or issues.
- Work items: This section shows the activities and tasks associated with this engagement. You can sort the list by Priority or Due Date. You can view all the work items or view items belonging to a specific category by
selecting one of the following filters from the View drop-down list:
- Internal plays
- Internal play tasks
- Customer play
- Success initiative
- Success task
To filter this list further, select one of the work items filters like New, Blocked to view specific items in the list.
Health
In this tab, you can see the current health score and the health of the engagement over the last 12 weeks. This helps identify gaps and issues that need attention. Select Refresh Health to view the updated health score.
In the Indicators section, you see the metrics used to calculate the health score for this engagement. See Calculate the engagement health score. For each metric, you’ll the target score, weight, and gap percentage. Select the Sort by option to sort the metrics listed by score, weight, and gap.
Success blueprint
- Sort by: You can sort the list by Due date of the objectives.
- View by State: Select one of the states from the drop-down list. This can be:
- All
- In Progress
- Paused
- Closed
- New
- Canceled
- Select the
icon to drill down to the Success objective record page.
- View initiative roadmap: Select this link to view the success initiative roadmap, which the engagement details including the current health, stage, and the next renewal date for the engagement.
Product adoption
In this tab, you can view the product adoption score for all applicable sold products associated with this engagement. The adoption score is determined using the calculated metrics that have been configured for the sold products. See Define a calculated metric data source for more details.
- The chart displays product adoption scores across the past 12 weeks, broken down by week. By hovering over data points, you can view the quantity of products sold within each adoption category (Low, Medium, High, and None) for any given week.
- The pie chart shows a snapshot of current adoption score distribution as of today's date. Select Total products to drill down to view the Product Usage list. You can drill down to a specific product usage record.
- Sold products: The list of sold products associated with this engagement is displayed. Select
to drill down to the Product usage record page.
- View by: You can filter the list displayed by:
- All
- Activated
- Planned
- No plan
- Deactivated
- Sort by: You can sort the list by:
- Customer priority
- Adoption score
- Business criticality
- Activation status
- View by: You can filter the list displayed by:
- Product adoption roadmaps: The list of product adoption roadmaps that have been created for this engagement. You can do the following:
- Select the
icon to drill down to the Product adoption roadmap page. See View a product adoption roadmap for details.
- Select New product adoption roadmap to create roadmap. See Create a product adoption roadmap for details.
- Select the
Renewal and expansion
In this tab, you can view a list of all active contracts associated with this engagement. You can view the high-level details of each contract and select the link to drill down to the Contract page.
Engagement hierarchy
- Total engagements: Shows the total number of engagements and total contract value related to the account.
- Risk signals by probability: Shows the risks associated with this account.
- Squad work by status: Shows the work status of the team involved with this account.
- Engagement hierarchy: Shows the active engagements for this account. In the engagements, shows the parent and child relationship.
Any hierarchy that forms a cycle isn’t a valid hierarchy.
Customer timeline
The customer timeline tracks and shows all the related activities of the engagement record. To support the application 23 activities are shipped out of box in the engagement record.
To configure the activities in the engagement record, see Configure activity types for the Customer History view.
Contextual side panel component
The contextual side panel component includes different tools that agents can use to research and resolve customer issues. The contextual side panel in the Engagement record page includes the following tabs.
| Tab | Description |
|---|---|
| Recommended Actions | The Recommended Actions tab includes AI search functionality. Agents can use AI search to find relevant resources or resolutions for customer issues. The search feature displays an initial set of search results based on the text in the case short description. This initial set of results includes knowledge articles. Agents can also enter different search keywords and repeat the search. From the list of search results,
agents can do the following:
For more information, see Use AI search in Recommended Actions to resolve cases. Note: Using Recommended Actions in the contextual side panel requires the Recommended Actions application (sn_cs_nb_action) which is included with the CSM
Configurable Workspace application. |
| Activity Stream | The activity stream component displays a list of the activities occurring on a case record. |
| Related Items | The Related Items tab provides access the case-related lists. The Engagement record page incorporates related list functionality into the contextual side panel. These lists appear in an accordion format that agents can expand and collapse as needed. An indicator displays the number of records available in a related list. When expanded, the records in a related list are displayed in card format. |
| Attachment | The Attachments tab provides access to case-related attachments. From this tab, agents can view and download attachments. |
| Email Templates | The Email Templates tab provides access to available email templates. These templates contain default values for fields that agents can add to email messages. Default values can include recipients (email addresses in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields), sender, subject, and message body text. |
| Template | The Templates tab provides access to available form templates that enable agents to automatically populate fields on new records. Agents can manually apply a template when creating a record such as an incident or change. |
| Record Information | The Record Information tab shows overview of the engagement record. |
| Customer timeline | The Customer timeline tab shows visual display of the Engagement records activities. |