Salesforce Marketing Cloud Reviews

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

As a user, I believe it meets our requirements.

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.

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.

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

We have 200 users in our company.

We intend to increase our usage, but not massively.

I have not contacted technical support.

I have not used a different CRM solution.

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.

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

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

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.

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. In order to solve scaling issues, Salesforce needs to improve the database. The database does not meet the requirements for big customers in particular.

This is a stable solution. 

We have experienced some issues in scaling this solution. 

The technical support for this solution could be improved. 

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

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten. 

For me, having a developer mindset, I found the script functionality and the cloud pages to be very useful.

I automated the creation of almost everything in the platform using scripts and cloud pages to make life easier for the deployment team.

There are a few bugs here and there, but nothing bad. The platform is pretty robust. One thing to improve would be the error messages which aren't very helpful.

We have been using this solution for more than two years now.

Deployments are fine, unless there is a human error.

The platform is quite stable, but the platform updates have made some issues in the past.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform is able to handle billions of subscribers and huge Data Extensions, so there nothing bad to report here in terms of scalability.

It seems that they try to sneak in a fee wherever they can. For instance, making you pay for Trigger emails to be instant instead of with a few minute delay.

That's where it gets bad, in my opinion. I have had to deal with the support several times. Almost every time, I told them the solution to the problem because I figured it out faster than they did. I guess the issue is the Level-1 support, because it's hard to make them understand what the issue is.

I used the Experian email platform and it was very slow and hard to use. Mailchimp is great for small businesses, but I wouldn't recommend it for a big corporation. I also had a look at Alterian and once again, it might be right for smaller businesses, not for a big corporation.

It takes a solutions architect like me to set it up because it's like setting up a database. You have to know what you're doing. There are a few things to setup at first, like defining if the SFMC is going to be the master data for the audience, or if it will sit in an external database.

I am part of the "vendor team". In my previous position, it was deployed through an external company which did a great job, and from there, I took the in-house work.

Not everything sold is vital, but there are advantages to having items like Journey Builder. The platform is worth the money for big corporations who want to take channel services to a higher level.

I arrived after the platform was selected, so I can't say much about that.

I sincerely recommend the SFMC platform and advise you to hire a Solutions Architect to set it up. It is quite a complex piece of technology, full of nuggets that can only shine through proper care.

I have used Salesforce Marketing Cloud in many places, such as the navy, banks, and business centers. We can create the opportunity through the solution.

The most valuable feature of Salesforce Marketing Cloud is the ability to sell the products we have made to customers. Overall the solution is very useful for business.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud should be linked to an email ID, so the features after 15 days can update on the opportunity. You should not have to update them manually to the next step.

I have been using Salesforce Marketing Cloud for approximately 15 years.

The stability of Salesforce Marketing Cloud is good because it is managing all of our data.

We have approximately 300 people using this solution in my organization.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud is scalable.

I have not contacted support from Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

The initial setup of Salesforce Marketing Cloud is straightforward.

I rate Salesforce Marketing Cloud an eight out of ten.

Inside our company, our primary use case is on the commercial field. But as an integrator, we've gotten a lot of use cases related to the use of the Salesforce ecosystem.

The way the solution improves the organization is to personalize the experience on the website. If you know the customer that is visiting your site, and you can personalize their experience, it can be very interesting and could increase the user experience and also the results. 

The most valuable feature is that it's a CRM. You can build your data model and you can use this model to personalize the experience of your customers using, for example, the marketing cloud-connected with the CRM.

I think all areas of the solution always have room for improvement because the needs always are increasing. The CDP solutions could be one of the cloud solutions that need to be deployed as soon as possible. Another one that we are seeing as an integrator, for example, is loyalty. Salesforce has a loyalty cloud that is just at the beginning of its development. This is imperative to be developed better than it's currently now.

An additional feature needed for the next release of Marketing Cloud would be better capacity for personalization. They have many third-party tools such as interaction studio or CDP, and you want to see more connectivity. When you go from another vendor, it is necessary to implement changes and to integrate with your ecosystem. We are waiting for more integration.

I have been using the solution since 2018.

The stability of the solution looks really great.

The scalability is incredible. Almost three upgrades per year with very, very nice functionalities. This solution is covered by Salesforce.

The technical support for Salesforce is good, but sometimes it's hard to contact them. When you open a ticket, you always get an answer, but there is room for improvement in that area.

I have used solutions by Oracle and Microsoft, but they are far from this solution. Very far. Oracle and Microsoft are not at the same level. Microsoft is just for the SMB market, not big companies, and the scalability and performance are better than in Salesforce.

The Salesforce solutions are quite complex to deploy. If you have to do many integrations with other data sources, it's quite complicated, but they have a very good web service and if you know whatever you're doing, it's easy to do. But for a person that is trying to deploy himself, it's quite complicated. It's not normally plug-and-play.

The length of deployment depends on the cloud that you're implementing, but normally for a large company, deployment would normally be more or less three months. It depends on the integration with your own system, for example, if you have any ERP such as SAP. Also the data model, then integration with marketing cloud. I'm talking about complex, complete deployment for the data model, such as marketing cloud solutions. Normally just three months to deploy this kind of infrastructure.

We manage the deployments ourselves.

There is an ROI, but I cannot share any information related to KPIs. But there is a return on investment, and in many cases that we are implementing, the ROI is why.

The licensing cost for the solution is on a yearly basis. If you are storing documents and you need more storage, it means more pricing or you have to move the storage to other clouds. To clouds such as Microsoft or Amazon.

My advice is if you want a scalable solution, this is the solution, but it's necessary to have the support of a good partner to help deploy. You will need someone inside of the organization that has the knowledge to support the internal team.

I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. This is a very powerful and scalable solution. We can grow with the solution and they have many solutions around. For example, around CRM you have solutions related to integration, orchestration, personalization, support, analytics, and artificial intelligence. There's basically a solution for anything you need.

A powerful platform with robust features — for a seamless one-tool solution.

• Eliminated multi-platform departmental dependency
• Helped in the controlled sales cycle.

Options with API and cross-platform connectivity.

Data protection and region specfic customization.

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

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

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

I've been using this solution for two years. 

The solution is stable. 

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

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

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. 

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

I rate the solution eight out of 10. 

We primarily use the solution for email marketing.

The solution has made it easier and faster in marketing, specifically around automation.

In the deployment of lists, we can get a lead and share it with marketing right away. Everything is integrated within Salesforce. The sales team can connect to the potential client in regards to the product or project. Everyone can work together. 

The automation is great. It saves us a lot of time and it makes us move faster. 

The solution has been stable overall.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. 

The solution can scale.

Technical support has been helpful when we have raised tickets. 

I really don't have any problem with the solution. 

That said, I've noticed on one-to-one leads, the customer objection option is not available. Whenever I need to map the two same email letters with multiple forms, submissions, et cetera, we need to save time. There are just a few ways in which the solution doesn't allow us to customize so well. We'd like to see more features available to us.

We have found the solution to be stable. It doesn't have bugs or glitches. it doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

The solution seems to be scalable. 

We have about ten people on it right now.

We've already increased usage.

Technical support is fine. If we raise a ticket, we get the help we need. 

We did use a different solution, however, we switched based on the pricing.

The initial setup isn't too bad. It's not overly difficult.

For us, the deployment took about three months.

We have four or five people that are able to handle maintenance requirements. 

We handled the implementation in-house. Our marketing team handled it in part.

We have seen an ROI since using this product.

We do have to pay for a license. We don't have to pay for any extras.

My company is a Salesforce customer. We do not have a specific business relationship with the organization. 

I'm not sure which version number we're using. 

I'd recommend this solution to other companies with marketing teams. It's not ideal for individuals. 

I would rate the solution at a nine out of ten.