Challenge
The PEO People is a professional employment organization broker. A PEO is an HR and buying group that aggregates the purchasing of payroll benefits, workers compensation, and other HR benefits. As CEO, Eric Raymond needs data that his team is putting into Salesforce, such as about competitors and prospects. However, his staff was putting the information in various places and often not in the correct fields. Raymond wanted a search that could look through every field on every object to find information needed for sales and customer service.
Solution
The first step of anything beyond Global Search is the ability to look through everything Salesforce.
- All object fields of all types, including Picklists, Long Text Areas, and Formula fields
- Attachments, files, documents, and articles
- Content manager, Chatter, and Communities
- Notes, activities, and other child objects as part of their parent object
- SharePoint, BOX, databases, websites, file directories, and other external data sources
- Body and metadata for over 100 document formats, such as HTML, PDF, and Microsoft Office®
- Image text (e.g., faxes) through optical character recognition (OCR).
The deal was closed within a week of Raymond seeing the demo.
Impact
“I couldn’t find the [competitor] information without KonaSearch,” he said. “KonaSearch found it. What else could you possibly want? It enabled me to find what I was looking for and needed. You can never expect people, especially salespeople, to enter data properly no matter how easy you make it.”