Salesforce Sales Cloud vs Salesforce Service Cloud comparison

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The compared Salesforce Sales Cloud and Salesforce Service Cloud solutions aren't in the same category. Salesforce Sales Cloud is ranked #3 in CRM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 2.8% mindshare in the category. Salesforce Service Cloud is ranked #2 in CCEC , with an average rating of 7.4, and holds a 10.3% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Salesforce Sales Cloud users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Salesforce Service Cloud users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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96% willing to recommend

Salesforce Sales Cloud

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ROI

Sentiment score

6.5

Salesforce Sales Cloud enhances sales efficiency and data management, offering cost-effective solutions for non-profits with productivity benefits.

Sentiment score

6.6

Salesforce Service Cloud boosts speed, efficiency, and ROI by improving agent productivity, reducing costs, and enhancing customer support.

Salesforce Sales Cloud is a fantastic tool but requires disciplined data entry by sales personnel and operations teams to maintain data quality.

NavinJacob

Chief Digital Officer at Cipher7

We are not just implementing Salesforce Sales Cloud; we need to understand what the customer wants to achieve in 5 to 10 years.

Kamal Deep

Founder and Salesforce Consultant at SaaSnic

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The ROI depends on the context; if I am comparing one application to another, it might be around ten percent, but if it is from manual to a streamlined process, the ROI is much higher—sometimes reaching forty percent for parts return and the first-time fix rate.

Sukanya Sen

Preseales And Solution Head at Tata Consultancy

Salesforce Service Cloud requires significant maintenance effort to see ROI.

reviewer2688993

Lead Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.9

Salesforce Sales Cloud offers efficient support, with faster responses for premium users, while community resources enhance regular support experiences.

Sentiment score

5.7

Salesforce Service Cloud offers responsive support with premium options for quicker help, complemented by an active user community.

I wouldn't say you go to Salesforce Sales Cloud for their customer support unless you purchase one of their premier plans, which is additional money.

Jonny Katz

VP of Business Operations at PeerSpot

Support requires a subscription and when taken, the service is pretty nice.

NavinJacob

Chief Digital Officer at Cipher7

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Unless you have premium support, assistance is restricted.

reviewer2688993

Lead Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Salesforce directly does not give you the support, and it is through the partner that you have to go, leading to some time delays.

Kishor Namburu

Head Of Information Technology at SAISOFT

Customer service has improved significantly for developers, with strong support provided.

ManchikatlaShravani

Salesforce Consultant at BYTENET

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Salesforce Sales Cloud offers strong scalability, accommodating growth and varied business sizes, though some users face reporting and data challenges.

Sentiment score

8.1

Salesforce Service Cloud is highly scalable for medium to large enterprises, offering smooth growth despite occasional governor limits.

Salesforce is highly scalable and operates efficiently.

Sundus Ajmal

AWS Cloud Engineer at Accenture

Salesforce Sales Cloud is totally cloud native, requiring no additional effort for scalability.

NavinJacob

Chief Digital Officer at Cipher7

Salesforce Sales Cloud's scalability is impressive as it grows easily with my organization's needs.

Jonny Katz

VP of Business Operations at PeerSpot

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Salesforce Service Cloud is the most advanced in scalability, rating around nine to ten.

Kishor Namburu

Head Of Information Technology at SAISOFT

Nobody can compete with Salesforce Service Cloud's scalability.

reviewer2688993

Lead Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

I would rate scalability highly because it is scalable, and there are always parts or other improvements.

Sukanya Sen

Preseales And Solution Head at Tata Consultancy

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Salesforce Sales Cloud is praised for its reliability, minimal downtime, high performance, and effective issue resolution, ensuring stability.

Sentiment score

7.9

Salesforce Service Cloud is stable and reliable, with strong performance and minimal disruptions despite some integration issues.

Salesforce Sales Cloud is very stable.

NavinJacob

Chief Digital Officer at Cipher7

I have not experienced any degradation in Salesforce's performance.

Sundus Ajmal

AWS Cloud Engineer at Accenture

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We rarely encounter stability issues with Salesforce Service Cloud, although when they occur, they cause significant disruption.

reviewer2688993

Lead Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

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Room For Improvement

Salesforce Sales Cloud struggles with integration, high costs, and usability; users desire better mobile, reporting, and AI features.

Salesforce Service Cloud needs better integration, pricing, interface, and connectivity improvements to enhance usability and streamline operations.

If you're looking at other tools out there, for example SalesLoft or HubSpot, it's much easier to build those workflows and do automation.

Jonny Katz

VP of Business Operations at PeerSpot

Compared to AWS, it is slower, which could be a hindrance.

Sundus Ajmal

AWS Cloud Engineer at Accenture

With today's generative AI capabilities like ChatGPT, it should be possible to directly communicate with the software rather than navigating through the entire system manually.

NavinJacob

Chief Digital Officer at Cipher7

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Salesforce Service Cloud should focus on simplification.

reviewer2688993

Lead Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Configuring Flows in Salesforce Service Cloud is very difficult.

MARIA PILAR CANDA

Assosiate Partner at Autana Business Partners

It could be better in areas such as media; it does not handle media effectively, particularly with pictures and uploads.

John Murtagh

CTO at Glenavoo Digital

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Setup Cost

Salesforce Sales Cloud is costly, but negotiating can secure discounts; value justifies pricing, challenging affordability for smaller businesses.

Salesforce Service Cloud is costly but ideal for large enterprises, with flexible pricing and features suitable for extensive customization.

Without negotiation, costs can become expensive.

NavinJacob

Chief Digital Officer at Cipher7

This happened for the first time because of the new CEO, Arundhati, who revolutionized pricing strategies, allowing discounts of 60-70% for Salesforce Sales Cloud in India.

Kamal Deep

Founder and Salesforce Consultant at SaaSnic

Salesforce Sales Cloud is extremely expensive.

Jonny Katz

VP of Business Operations at PeerSpot

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The approximate licensing costs for Salesforce Service Cloud are around three hundred dollars a year per user.

reviewer2677440

Application Owner at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Salesforce Service Cloud is expensive.

reviewer2688993

Lead Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Regarding pricing, I would say Salesforce field service is affordable, but the cost is increasing a little bit.

Sukanya Sen

Preseales And Solution Head at Tata Consultancy

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Valuable Features

Salesforce Sales Cloud enhances productivity with customizability, automation, integration, data analytics, and efficient communication for optimal sales management.

Salesforce Service Cloud offers robust integration, automation, and real-time intelligence for efficient case management and enhanced team collaboration.

Its easy-to-navigate interface aids in delivering clear vision and organization, especially for sales and business management.

Sundus Ajmal

AWS Cloud Engineer at Accenture

Being able to pull reports in Salesforce Sales Cloud based on any of the fields that we have there and then building logic on those fields saves me time and also gives me visibility into what's going on with my teams across multiple departments, which is very helpful for us.

Jonny Katz

VP of Business Operations at PeerSpot

The Einstein Analytics and the inbuilt reporting are very useful for keeping track of pipeline movement.

NavinJacob

Chief Digital Officer at Cipher7

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I can easily connect with the customer, have agent AI to directly communicate with them, and customers can create a case without any intervention.

Sukanya Sen

Preseales And Solution Head at Tata Consultancy

Salesforce Service Cloud improved our organization with its mobile capabilities.

reviewer2677440

Application Owner at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Salesforce Service Cloud offers pre-built packages that are best in class.

reviewer2688993

Lead Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

118

Ranking in other categories

CRM (3rd), Opportunity Management (2nd), Sales Force Automation (3rd), Conversation Intelligence Software (4th)

Salesforce Service Cloud

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

CRM Customer Engagement Centers (2nd), Help Desk Software (11th), Knowledge Management Software (6th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (15th)

Mindshare comparison

Salesforce Sales Cloud and Salesforce Service Cloud aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Salesforce Sales Cloud is designed for CRM and holds a mindshare of 2.8%, down 2.8% compared to last year.
Salesforce Service Cloud, on the other hand, focuses on CRM Customer Engagement Centers, holds 10.3% mindshare, down 13.3% since last year.

CRM Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Salesforce Sales Cloud	2.8%
Microsoft Dynamics CRM	3.2%
Zoho CRM	2.3%
Other	91.7%

CRM

CRM Customer Engagement Centers Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Salesforce Service Cloud	10.3%
Microsoft Dynamics CRM	13.6%
Zendesk	8.9%
Other	67.2%

CRM Customer Engagement Centers

Q&A Highlights

Avigail Sugarman

Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

Jun 24, 2014

Salesforce.com is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2014 Gartner report. What are your experiences with it?

I would prefer to chose platform based on specific needs vs directly looking at Gartner report however I agree that quadrant placement of different products can be used gain perspective. I have used Siebel , Salesforce ,Saleslogix ,Rightnow & Vocalcom.Based on my experience ,each product has its Pros & cons.So product selection is direct function of "your business needs & requirements" I would rate Siebel to be functionally rich when it comes to complex workflow ,Rules while automating Sales , Marketing & after market service processes. Salesforce is user friendly & intuitive tool with a very strong Social CRM feature- Chatter.For Contact center & Customer experience management , Vocalcom & Salesforce would offer complementary feature sets. I have done one of the most complex migration project from Siebel to Salesforce & we ended up buying 4 different ancillary tools such as Marketo ,ServiceMax ,OBIEE etc to meet our different objective across CRM function (Marketing,Sales , After Market Service, CRM insight etc).Initially , we thought we could do all using Salesforce but had to settle down with many more tools & we could only meet 85% of our business requirement that we managing only through single Tool - Siebel. Thanks Pratyush

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Jonny Katz

VP of Business Operations at PeerSpot

Uses data-driven insights to improve workflows and highlights a need for simpler automation tools

Salesforce Sales Cloud can be improved in several areas. First, the UI is an area for enhancement. Even though they've launched Lightning, it's clunky at times with page load speeds. It also needs to be made extremely more user-friendly. For new people using Salesforce Sales Cloud, there is a steep learning curve. Additionally, giving non-admins the ability to make changes on the fly is something that I feel is necessary. Currently with Salesforce Sales Cloud, you need to have a consultant. It's hard to build the flows or workflows. Making it easier for that end-user who's not so technically minded to help themselves is essential. I choose seven out of ten because I think you need a consultant or a consulting company to help you build it out. Certain changes should be made much easier and more user-friendly where an admin can do it. The automation processes need to be much simpler. If you're looking at other tools out there, for example SalesLoft or HubSpot, it's much easier to build those workflows and do automation.

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ManchikatlaShravani

Salesforce Consultant at BYTENET

Omni-channel routing has transformed case handling and now supports complex field operations

From my experience, we might need queue-based alignment in Omni-Channel routing. Assignment rules should be defined at the flow level. The challenge with SLA creation is evident in escalation rules, which should include a field flagging feature that is lacking in the current setup. Einstein Bot, linked with Omni-Channel messaging, is complex to define, with a need for all related information in one place, making the process cumbersome. Understanding which bot is associated with specific messaging apps requires manual searching, and this can be improved.

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Answers from the Community

Avigail Sugarman

Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

Jun 24, 2014

Salesforce.com is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2014 Gartner report. What are your experiences with it?

2 out of 7 answers

it_user77631

Sales with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 18, 2014

I have been using Salesforce.com for the past 4 years and have had an extremely positive experience. It not only allows you to store and manage customer data, but also to collaborate with colleagues and share questions and ideas. In addition, I find the reporting tools to be invaluable. Regards, Zoe

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it_user88374

Program Manager at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Jun 18, 2014

Sorry. I do not have any experience with Salesforce.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	56
Midsize Enterprise	25
Large Enterprise	43

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	21
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	26

Questions from the Community

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When comparing Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce CRM in 2026, both are leading CRM platforms, but they serve slightly different strengths depending on business needs. Features: Salesforce is t...

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What needs improvement with Salesforce Sales Cloud?

Salesforce Sales Cloud can be improved in several areas. First, the UI is an area for enhancement. Even though they've launched Lightning, it's clunky at times with page load speeds. It als...

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What is your primary use case for Salesforce Sales Cloud?

Salesforce Sales Cloud serves as our primary tool for our sales team and reviews team to document and keep all our information in one place as a source of truth. We use it to manage our business pr...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Salesforce Service Cloud?

I do not have knowledge of the setup cost as I do not look into pricing. Once the customer and my team discuss everything, I configure the system, but I do not have an idea about the pricing.

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What needs improvement with Salesforce Service Cloud?

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What is your primary use case for Salesforce Service Cloud?

Currently, I work exclusively with Salesforce CRM and have not had the opportunity to work with HubSpot on any projects. I work with Sales and Service. I have more than five years of experience wit...

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Also Known As

Sales Cloud, SFDC, Salesforce

Service Cloud

Overview

Salesforce Sales Cloud is a comprehensive platform enhancing sales processes with robust features for managing customer relationships, data, and sales tracking. It provides flexibility and scalability, supporting various business needs through efficient integration and automation capabilities.

Salesforce Sales Cloud streamlines sales activities with tools for pipeline management, lead generation, and opportunity tracking. It offers customization for diverse business strategies, delivering strategic insights and improving communication with clients. Integration with ERP systems and AI-powered automation tools supports efficient sales cycle management. Despite challenges like pricing and storage limitations, its performance in enhancing productivity remains noteworthy. Enhancements in integration with external tools, user interface, and mobile experience could further optimize usability.

What are the key features of Salesforce Sales Cloud?

User-friendly interface: Simplifies navigation and enhances user experience.
Customized reporting: Tailors reports to specific business requirements.
Integration capabilities: Seamlessly connects with third-party systems and tools.
Pipeline management: Tracks sales pipelines effectively to boost productivity.
Automation: Streamlines processes to save time and increase accuracy.
Opportunity tracking: Provides detailed insight into potential sales opportunities.

What benefits do users gain from Salesforce Sales Cloud?

Improved sales productivity: Efficiently manages sales processes and activities.
Enhanced data management: Centralizes information for accessible and organized data.
Increased scalability: Adapts to changing business demands without compromising performance.
Strategic insights: Enables informed decision-making with data-driven analysis.

Companies implement Salesforce Sales Cloud for CRM, sales tracking, and optimizing communication across industries. It is actively used in sales pipeline management and forecasting. The integration with ERP systems and AI-driven automation are prevalent practices, aiding in the coordination of sales tasks and centralizing data access.

Salesforce

Salesforce Service Cloud is an advanced platform designed for customer relationship management, offering seamless integration, customization, and enhanced usability for improved productivity and decision-making.

Salesforce Service Cloud, a comprehensive tool for customer service, empowers organizations with automation and Omni-Channel support. It integrates with CRM data to boost efficiency, supporting interactions across channels while automating case management. This leads to better workflow and data access. While effective, there are challenges in integration speed with external systems and issues in areas like Knowledge Management and analytics. The interface and reporting could be simplified, and email integration along with case management needs refinement. AI functionalities and pricing require enhancement, and customization could be more user-friendly. Improvements in media handling and workforce management are suggested.

What are the key features of Salesforce Service Cloud?

Seamless Integration: Aligns smoothly with internal systems.
Customization: Tailors features to unique business processes.
Automation Capabilities: Streamlines repetitive tasks.
Omni-Channel Support: Facilitates interactions from multiple channels.
Case Management: Automates customer case resolution.

What benefits can users expect from Salesforce Service Cloud?

Enhanced Productivity: Automation of tasks increases efficiency.
Improved Decision Making: Accessible data enables informed choices.
Cost Reduction: Streamlined processes lower costs.
Increased Flexibility: Customization allows adaptation to business needs.

Salesforce Service Cloud is extensively implemented in industries like B2B sales, medical, banking, and insurance, aiding in customer service. It serves contact centers, field services, and post-sales activities. Companies utilize it for managing licenses, inquiries, and automating processes, enhancing efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

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Sample Customers

Coca-Cola Enterprises, Kuoni Global Travel Services, Financial Times, Just Eat, Jobsite, H.R. Owen, PlayerLayer, O2, DMGT, Philips, Xtreme.ie, Business Stream, Remote Asset Management, Dialogue Group

Stanley Black & Decker, Coca-Cola, Activision, Wells Fargo, Spotify, Aldo, Philips, The Red Cross, Blue Shield of California, Sprouts Farmers Market, Direct Energy Solar, Inspirato, Kiva

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