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reviewer1105335 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a consumer goods company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Great email solutions and automation with useful control over customer data
Pros and Cons
  • "The Journey and CloudPages and automation are all great."
  • "The pricing is a bit high."

What is our primary use case?

We are using Salesforce Marketing Cloud in our beverage company. This company is in Costa Rica. We're using it to get all the information we need from potential prospects. It is not being used for B2B business. It's more being used for B2C, where we collect a lot of information with CloudPages about all the brands we have. 

We have an average of 50 brands here in the company. We used to work with partners on the marketing side, however, we never got all the data we wanted and we didn't have the centralized data from our end-users. 

The aim of this project, from the beginning, was to get all the information and have it as our own, to be collected on our systems and our databases. We're using it for marketing in that way. We're still working with partners, however, now the partners needs to use our solution, instead of using any solution they have.

What is most valuable?

The solution has a lot of great aspects. We have the Social Studio. We have, DMP and Audience Studio. We're using the email solution as well. The Journey and CloudPages and automation are all great. We use all of them for the most part.

What needs improvement?

The pricing is a bit high. In our country our company is one of the biggest, however, the price is really high even for us sometimes. 

We are looking for CDP solutions. Salesforce was offering that to be ready and this year, however, it seems it's not ready yet. It could be in January. On the other hand, SAP has the solution already implemented, which makes them a more appealing solution for us right now. The business is pushing us to move to another solution due to the fact that they need the CDP solution ASAP. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for three years at this point. 

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Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We were comparing also this solution with the SAP Marketing Cloud.

What other advice do I have?

We are customers and end-users. We don't have a business relationship with Salesforce. 

We have the complete suite for marketing on Salesforce here. It is an enterprise-level product.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Steven Hall - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Consulting at Acurus
Real User
Highly scalable, basic features easy to use, but priced high
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud are the ease of use of the basic features."
  • "If you want to use advanced features in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, they are extremely difficult to use."

What is our primary use case?

We use Salesforce Marketing Cloud for the opportunity, lead, and contact management.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features of Salesforce Marketing Cloud are the ease of use of the basic features.

What needs improvement?

If you want to use advanced features in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, they are extremely difficult to use.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Salesforce Marketing Cloud for approximately two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability of Salesforce Marketing Cloud is very good. We have five users that are using this solution.

How are customer service and support?

I have not contacted the support from Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have not used another solution previously. 

What was our ROI?

We haven't seen a return on investment using Salesforce Marketing Cloud. We're investing more into it to advance our marketing capability at the moment but we've not seen that return on investment to date.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a highly expensive solution, it needs to be less expensive. We are on an annual license to use the solution.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend Salesforce Marketing Cloud to others, it fits a certain hole in the organization's CRM capability. It depends on the size of the organization and how much money they have to spend because it could be very expensive.

I rate Salesforce Marketing Cloud a six out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Senior Channel Sales Executive at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Good real-time reporting, performs well, and is user-friendly
Pros and Cons
  • "It has excellent lead and opportunity tracking."
  • "The dashboards should be more intuitive, as there are far too many items on them. You're not always sure what you're looking for."

What is our primary use case?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud can also be linked to your website directly via API. Whatever happens on the website or if there are any automatic forms for customers to fill out, it automatically creates leads in the system, in Salesforce.

What is most valuable?

It has excellent lead and opportunity tracking.

What needs improvement?

The dashboards should be more intuitive, as there are far too many items on them. You're not always sure what you're looking for.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with Salesforce Marketing Cloud for three years.

As a cloud-based solution, you are always using the most recent version.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud is scalable.

The clients for whom I work, have a few hundred users.

How are customer service and support?

Personally, I have not had any issues, and have not contacted technical support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Previously, I worked with SugarCRM. Approximately eight years ago. In my opinion, it was much less scalable. But it was also fine, and perhaps more intuitive. There weren't a lot of things. In my opinion, Salesforce is on a different level. However, because it has been eight years, SugarCRM may have moved on.

How was the initial setup?

I'm not familiar with the installation procedure. I am an end-user. I log myself in and that's it.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis.

What other advice do I have?

Salesforce is an excellent choice. I connect to my clients' Salesforce, I have access as well, with limited access because you can scale. I'm not sure if a small business requires it, or how difficult would it be to install in a really small, company, but, I would recommend it to others who are interested and any other company.

I would rate Salesforce Marketing Cloud a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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reviewer1850535 - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Gets quotes out quickly but forecasting needs improvement
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is the ability to get quotes out in a timely manner."
  • "Marketing Cloud's forecasting could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

I mostly use Marketing Cloud to create sales opportunities, keep track of my pipeline, and create quotes.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is the ability to get quotes out in a timely manner.

What needs improvement?

Marketing Cloud's forecasting could be improved. I also think it's overrated when it comes to its CRM - I've seen other platforms do it just as well, if not better.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for nine months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Salesforce is stable, especially in comparison to Oracle Sales Cloud, which tends to crap out and require refreshing, especially when creating quotes.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I find that Marketing Cloud is scalable.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I've also used Oracle Sales Cloud, which I find is better for creating opportunities and keeping track of your pipeline. With Salesforce, you need to create specific custom reports to see all your opportunities in one spot, whereas it's a little more intuitive with Fusion to click a few buttons and see everything. Salesforce has almost too many options. However, creating a quote is much easier with Salesforce than with Oracle Sales Cloud.

How was the initial setup?

There's a learning curve to Marketing Cloud - it requires a ramp-up time of about a month playing around with the CRMs in order to be fairly proficient.

What other advice do I have?

I would give Marketing Cloud a score of seven out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud
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ALEJANDRO NOVO - PeerSpot reviewer
Director South EMEA at Veracode
Real User
Scalable CRM used for reporting, pipeline generation and forecasting
Pros and Cons
  • "We use this solution for reporting, pipeline generation, and forecasting."
  • "This solution could be more user-friendly."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution for reporting, pipeline generation, and forecasting.

What needs improvement?

This solution could be more user-friendly.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used this solution for five years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This is a stable solution. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This is a scalable solution. 

How are customer service and support?

The response from the customer service team could be faster and the agents could be more knowledgeable. 

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward but using the solution as a user for the first time is complicated.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend this solution for large companies compared to smaller ones.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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reviewer1307439 - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Sales Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Intuitive, real-time reporting, and it meets with all of our data requirements
Pros and Cons
  • "It's a software-as-a-service solution. Everything is managed centrally from the cloud. As far as I can tell, installation is relatively simple."
  • "The performance is sometimes sluggish, but I think that's to be expected with a heavy CRM tool because they're running reports in real-time on the data that you have entered."

What is our primary use case?

CRM stands for customer relationship management. The CRM contains all of the customer data requirements, contacts, projects, and support issues.

What is most valuable?

As a user, I believe it meets our requirements.

What needs improvement?

The performance is sometimes sluggish, but I think that's to be expected with a heavy CRM tool because they're running reports in real-time on the data that you have entered. Since it's a global tool, I am sure all businesses use it in some capacity.

It's a heavily loaded tool. Whenever you're retrieving any data that's being retrieved on live data, keep that in mind. It's only as good as your data. If you have a lot of fields on your page that you want to load, it will take a minute or 30 seconds to load. But it's just that now that we live in the 2.0 world, everything is sort of there for you right away. So it feels a little slow in that regard, but I suppose there's not much else they can do at this point.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with Salesforce Marketing Cloud for three years since I joined the company.

As it's a cloud-based solution, it is always the latest version that we are using.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I don't have any issues with the stability of Salesforce Marketing Cloud

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have 200 users in our company.

We intend to increase our usage, but not massively.

How are customer service and support?

I have not contacted technical support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have not used a different CRM solution.

How was the initial setup?

It's a software-as-a-service solution. Everything is managed centrally from the cloud. As far as I can tell, installation is relatively simple.

Based on my previous technical experience, I would say that you can install it yourself. You would need a Salesforce administrator, or a dedicated person to do it, but it's a fairly intuitive tool.

What about the implementation team?

The Salesforce team creates a tenant for us that is separate from their other customers. And we are benefiting from their SaaS solution.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

It is a license per user. There could be a minimum limit, but I'm pretty sure it's a per-user license.

What other advice do I have?

I'm a user, not an administrator, so I wouldn't know much about the features, but the ones we use work fine.

I would definitely recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.

I would rate Salesforce Marketing Cloud a ten out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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reviewer1249152 - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager and co-founder at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees
Real User
Very good when it comes to integration of different data sources
Pros and Cons
  • "Salesforce allows for the integration of different data sources."
  • "Managing large volumes of data takes too long."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case of this solution is for email marketing campaigns.

What is most valuable?

I like that Salesforce allows for the integration of different data sources.

What needs improvement?

The product takes too long to manage a large volume of data, it lacks that capacity. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for two years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We currently have just two users but the solution is scalable. 

How are customer service and support?

Customer support needs to improve, they're not very helpful. 

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was a little complex. In total it took us about six months with the assistance of a consultant. The deployment was not continuous which is why it took so long. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Our customers purchase the solution so we are not involved with the licensing. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate the solution eight out of 10. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Luís Silva - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technical Lead at Human Code
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Powerful solution used by our organization to execute on marketing campaigns and engage our customers
Pros and Cons
  • "We use Marketing Cloud for marketing campaigns and engaging customers. It is a business-focused application for a specific area of business, which is acquiring customers."
  • "There could be easier tools to configure the product and to create landing pages to better handle large data sets."

What is our primary use case?

We use Marketing Cloud for marketing campaigns and engaging customers. It is a business-focused application for a specific area of business, which is acquiring customers.

What needs improvement?

There could be easier tools to configure the product and to create landing pages to better handle large data sets. In order to solve scaling issues, Salesforce needs to improve the database. The database does not meet the requirements for big customers in particular.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This is a stable solution. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have experienced some issues in scaling this solution. 

How are customer service and support?

The technical support for this solution could be improved. 

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is complex and requires consulting fees in order to get it properly set up.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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