We used Salesforce Sales Cloud to build a solution in the healthcare industry, where customers can log in and see patient's health data and a couple of related inferences. They can also see the previous encounters we had with their provider.
Back End Developer at Agnos Inc.
Easy to develop and provides good reliability and security
Pros and Cons
- "Salesforce Sales Cloud is very reliable and provides good stability and security."
- "The solution's customer support is not so good."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
It is very easy to develop things and scale up the solution, saving time and resources. The solution is easy to debug, and everything is in a single interface. Salesforce Sales Cloud is very reliable and provides good stability and security.
What needs improvement?
Sometimes, we are confused about which Salesforce solutions to use for which purpose. The solution's customer support is not so good. It takes a lot of time to reach the support team, get some clarifications, or discuss with the Salesforce team, which is a horrible experience.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Salesforce Sales Cloud for four years.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Salesforce Sales Cloud is a stable and reliable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Many teams in our organization are using Salesforce Sales Cloud. Around 10 to 20 people in our team are using the solution. Around 5,000 to 10,000 people are using the solution in our entire organization.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of the solution is intermediate, which is neither difficult nor easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Salesforce Sales Cloud is an expensive solution.
What other advice do I have?
Salesforce Sales Cloud is deployed on the Salesforce cloud. Our company decided to use Salesforce Sales Cloud because they wanted to upgrade their tech stack, and Salesforce was the safer choice. Salesforce Sales Cloud is easy to maintain.
New users should go through the courses Salesforce provides to understand what they can build and cannot do using the solution. Users should be clear about what they want before using the solution. The mobile accessibility of Salesforce Sales Cloud is easy and has improved over the years.
Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. customer/partner
Product Owner at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Along with a reasonable amount of stability, the tool is quite flexible, and users can modify its features easily
Pros and Cons
- "It is a very stable solution."
- "The areas revolving around archiving and backup in Salesforce Sales Cloud are not as advanced as some of the other solutions in the market."
What is our primary use case?
I use the tool for a company with which our company used to work in the past. I used the backup and archiving capabilities of the solution.
My company generally uses the tool for all kinds of use cases. For a particular case of our company's customer who needed us to deal with the areas of archiving and backup, we used Salesforce Sales Cloud.
What is most valuable?
In general, the data model and everything is really helpful for the development phase. The tool is quite flexible, and you can modify its features easily. The whole development process is quite advanced in that you have all the support you need to take care of the development phase as easily as possible. The development phase is as easy as possible for all areas, including the UI, data model, custom logic, and processes, along with areas like reports, dashboards, and everything.
What needs improvement?
The areas revolving around archiving and backup in Salesforce Sales Cloud are not as advanced as some of the other solutions in the market. The aforementioned areas can be considered for improvement in the product. Maybe the tool covers bare backup requirements, but it is usually insufficient.
For the additional features needed in the product, I can say there is a very nice comparison on LinkedIn that I saw about the tool explaining compliance, granular restoration, and other related areas.
The price of the product needs to be lowered.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Salesforce Sales Cloud for two or three years. At the moment, my company is not even a customer of Salesforce since, presently, we do custom development, meaning we do development in Salesforce for other companies who need to use the tool's services.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
My company is a medium-sized company with around 400 people.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have experience with CRM solutions that were either used in-house or made available from other vendors. I think Salesforce is currently the solution that is accepted by all the markets. I see another tool similar to Salesforce in advertisements called monday.com, which I have never used. I think monday.com has quite an aggressive marketing campaign.
How was the initial setup?
I think it is not that difficult to install the product. I don't have that much experience with the product's installation phase. I am not a developer or administrator, but from my experience with the tool, I can say it is quite easy to use and do everything a user wants. I wouldn't say that the product's installation phase is complex. At an organizational level, things are usually more complex, especially when you agree on things inside your organization over what you need and how you are going to try out new processes. Once the aforementioned are cleared out at an organizational level, then I would say that things are not that complex.
What was our ROI?
I don't have any data to prove the return on investment I have seen from the use of the solution in my company. There is definitely some benefit from the use of the solution in the company, but I cannot speak about it specifically.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Price-wise, the product does not fall under the category of cheaply priced products.
What other advice do I have?
The ease or difficulty with the maintenance part of the product users' experience depends on what they need from the product. The archiving and backup features of the product are not that flexible and convenient for certain use cases. You can use just a basic backup with the tool, which is not enough in most cases. If a user wants more backup features, then the user May need some additional tools while dealing with Salesforce Sales Cloud's installation phase.
I think Salesforce Sales Cloud is the right solution to use, as it is a good solution that is widely adopted and has proven itself in practice. I think it is a good decision to use Salesforce Sales Cloud. There are many aspects an organization needs to consider before adopting Salesforce, which are matters that can be greater than just the technical part.
I rate the overall tool an eight to nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Account Executive at Alertus Technologies
Straightforward setup, useful activity monitoring , and highly stable
Pros and Cons
- "The tracking and monitoring of daily activities within each account is the most valuable aspect of Salesforce Sales Cloud. It allows for staying informed about ongoing activities, ensuring comprehensive visibility into the progress made within each account on a regular basis. Additionally, the plugins that are available, such as ZoolInfo are useful."
- "The scalability could improve by a small amount."
What is our primary use case?
We leveraged Salesforce Sales Cloud to perform a range of activities, starting from initial prospect calls, follow-ups, and demo scheduling, to generating quotes, managing accounts, and tracking all the way through to final sales. This comprehensive solution also facilitated any necessary follow-up tasks associated with the sales process.
How has it helped my organization?
Utilizing tasks is truly the most effective approach. Thus far, my priority has been diligently following up on tasks, ensuring timely callbacks after conversations with individuals, and meticulously documenting detailed notes about the progress of each account. These notes serve as a comprehensive file that captures all relevant information regarding ongoing interactions and developments.
What is most valuable?
The tracking and monitoring of daily activities within each account is the most valuable aspect of Salesforce Sales Cloud. It allows for staying informed about ongoing activities, ensuring comprehensive visibility into the progress made within each account on a regular basis. Additionally, the plugins that are available, such as ZoolInfo are useful.
What needs improvement?
The scalability could improve.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Salesforce Sales Cloud for approximately one and a half months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the stability of Salesforce Sales Cloud a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I plan to use the solution more in the future.
I rate the scalability of Salesforce Sales Cloud a nine out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of Salesforce Sales Cloud was straightforward.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment.
What other advice do I have?
The scalability could improve by a small amount.
I rate Salesforce Sales Cloud a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Sr Salesforce Developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Empowered sales pipeline management with a comprehensive solution and helpful support
Pros and Cons
- "Their support team is good."
- "It's a very broad tool."
What is our primary use case?
I use Sales Cloud to manage my sales pipeline.
How has it helped my organization?
Salesforce is very good and offers a comprehensive sales process.
What is most valuable?
Salesforce has a vast sales process. It's a very broad tool, and it is difficult to pinpoint any specific feature.
What needs improvement?
There is no room for improvement in Sales Cloud. I would not want any new features included in the next release.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Sales Cloud for almost ten years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have not had any issues with the stability while using it.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of the product is good, actually.
How are customer service and support?
Their support team is good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I do not know anything about the pricing.
What other advice do I have?
Everyone has room for improvement.
I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Tech Architect at Provar
Learning to use the product can be an easy task for beginners
Pros and Cons
- "The tool is very good in terms of stability, support, and features."
- "The product lacks to offer some AI capabilities."
What is our primary use case?
The solution is for companies to manage the sales part. With the tool, companies can create context, needs, opportunities, and whatever they are gathering. Companies can collect whatever information they want and they can manage their space, keep proper tracking reports, and everything in Salesforce Sales Cloud.
What is most valuable?
In terms of the best features offered by the product and depending on what our company's customers feel about the solution, I can say that the tool is very easy to use and user-friendly. The tool has wide community support. Salesforce has its own courses and everything to make one learn about their products.
What needs improvement?
There is nothing that comes to my mind when I think about what needs improvement in the product since it does everything perfectly.
The product lacks to offer some AI capabilities. With a lot of AI capabilities that are available nowadays, I would want some of them to be added to the product since it can make the lives of its users easy by allowing them to use the features they want.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have experience with Salesforce Sales Cloud. My company has a partnership with Salesforce.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a very stable solution. Salesforce has its own team to test its products. The tool is very good in terms of stability, support, and features. I have never had any complaints about the product.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a very scalable solution.
My company deals with Salesforce's automation products, and everyone uses Salesforce Sales Cloud.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I use Provar, which is Salesforce's test automation solution. My job profile involves more testing, and what our company's customers do is that they test Salesforce implementation for their internal implementations or for what they have implemented in Salesforce. In my company, we have a very diverse portfolio in terms of customers, as some use Salesforce Experience Cloud, while others use Salesforce Marketing Cloud or Salesforce Sales Cloud. I have experience with almost every tool from Salesforce since I have dealt with multiple solutions depending on customer's requirements. If you ask me what feature I am using in the tool specifically, I would say that I have touched almost every other feature offered by different tools offered by Salesforce.
How was the initial setup?
As Salesforce offers its tools on the cloud, the product's initial setup phase is very easy because you have to kind of create a user account and get a license according to the features you want to use, which is easy. There is nothing complex with the tool's installation, as everything is on the cloud and is very easy to use.
What other advice do I have?
Learning to use the product is an easy task, especially since Salesforce has a lot of its own learning processes in place, which can make one capable enough to start working on Salesforce.
I don't have experience with the mobile accessibility of Salesforce Sales Cloud since I don't use it.
I rate the tool a ten out of ten.
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Presale Coordinator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
A versatile platform that can track commercial opportunities
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable features of Salesforce Sales Cloud are the ability to track portfolio opportunities and reporting capabilities. The notification process inside the platform is also very valuable, and extracting reports is extremely useful. However, we are currently using only a small part of its functionality."
- "As a presale team leader, I see a need to better understand the platform because our current knowledge is limited. This makes it difficult to explore possible extensions of its use. We also want more detailed information on commercial opportunities included in the tool. It needs to include better documentation on the functions it offers."
What is our primary use case?
I last used it to trace a commercial opportunity. I use it since I am notified about commercial opportunities. Our main use case is tracking.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of Salesforce Sales Cloud are the ability to track portfolio opportunities and reporting capabilities. The notification process inside the platform is also very valuable, and extracting reports is extremely useful. However, we are currently using only a small part of its functionality.
What needs improvement?
At the moment, Salesforce Sales Cloud is mainly used by key account managers and the commercial team. We are also looking to extend its use and functionality to the presale team.
As a presale team leader, I see a need to better understand the platform because our current knowledge is limited. This makes it difficult to explore possible extensions of its use. We also want more detailed information on commercial opportunities included in the tool. It needs to include better documentation on the functions it offers.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The tool's stability is very good, and I rate it a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the tool's scalability a nine out of ten. We use it two to three times a month. My company has around 100 users, and my team has 12 members.
How are customer service and support?
I haven't contacted the technical support team for the solution yet.
What was our ROI?
Currently, there is no impact on the duration of our sales cycle. We are asking more in-depth questions about the platform because, so far, there is no clear benefit. We are still looking internally to understand how to use it more profitably. I'm not involved in the investment itself. I'm just the final user, so it's something that other sales teams in the company evaluate.
What other advice do I have?
We update all our software to the latest versions as an internal policy. Salesforce Sales Cloud is the standard tool in our company. It is integrated with other application platforms developed in the company, which are proprietary software. The integration was difficult, but I don't have direct experience with that process.
My advice to people looking to implement the tool is that they should understand the organization in which the solution will be applied, including the business processes. A certain degree of customization is needed when applying the platform to the real context. Good advice would be to analyse the needs deeply before implementation.
I rate the overall product a nine out of ten. I think it's a good platform. It's versatile and can be applied in many different contexts so that it can be recommended.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Excellent for managing campaigns effectively
Pros and Cons
- "The features of Sales Cloud most useful for testing and running email campaigns are highly valuable."
- "Sales Cloud could improve in areas such as AI integration, particularly for templates."
What is our primary use case?
Sales Cloud helps me manage and track my sales pipeline effectively. It is a CRM system that integrates with other systems for comprehensive sales management.
How has it helped my organization?
Sales Cloud has positively impacted lead generation and conversion rates. It enhances lead generation efficiency and tracks lead from various sources and campaigns effectively, ensuring a high level of reliability in lead acquisition and conversion.
What is most valuable?
The features of Sales Cloud most useful for testing and running email campaigns are highly valuable. The CRM system is excellent for managing campaigns effectively. I also find Salesforce security authentication very good.
What needs improvement?
Sales Cloud could improve in areas such as AI integration, particularly for templates.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability of Sales Cloud as a six out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability of Sales Cloud as a five out of ten. My clients who use it are mostly enterprise businesses.
How was the initial setup?
I would rate the easiness of the initial setup as a ten out of ten. It is very easy. The implementation of Sales Cloud took approximately four months.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Salesforce is good value for money, but compared to the market, it is relatively high-priced.
What other advice do I have?
The AI functionality built into Salesforce is good. It was not available when I first started using Salesforce.
Using the Sales mobile app has many benefits. I have used it, and it is great for accessing Salesforce on the go.
Integrating Sales Cloud with other Salesforce products or third-party applications has been good.
I would recommend Salesforce to others, especially for its effectiveness as a CRM system. It stands out compared to other software, particularly in India.
Overall, I would rate Salesforce Sales Cloud as an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Solution Professional at Red Hat
A CRM solution that can be used for opportunity management, but its configuration should be improved
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable features of Salesforce Sales Cloud are opportunity management and metric integration."
- "The solution's configuration could be improved because getting a purchase order and administrating the right fields can be a real headache for us, especially when the Sales Cloud system enters an error stage."
What is our primary use case?
Since Salesforce Sales Cloud is a CRM solution, we use it for keeping contact information, opportunity management, sales planning, and accounts planning. We also use the solution's AI functions.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of Salesforce Sales Cloud are opportunity management and metric integration.
What needs improvement?
The solution's configuration could be improved because getting a purchase order and administrating the right fields can be a real headache for us, especially when the Sales Cloud system enters an error stage. We get explanatory errors, and there's no indication of how to solve those errors. For me, that's just incomprehensible.
The solution's mobile experience and opportunity management should be easier for auto-selecting things.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Salesforce Sales Cloud for nine months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
As far as I know, the solution experiences downtime only during planned maintenance. I've never experienced an unplanned outage, which is pretty good.
I rate Salesforce Sales Cloud a nine out of ten for stability.
What other advice do I have?
The systematic integration in the opportunity section helps us streamline opportunity management. We used the solution in the first year for account planning and territory management, which was helpful.
I would recommend Salesforce Sales Cloud to other users. Users should be very careful about pulling everything, and they should keep it as simple as possible. If you're going to create something that will produce errors, then make sure that they explain how to fix it.
The solution's mobile experience for our sales team is not good. I rate the solution's mobile experience a two or three out of ten.
With Salesforce Sales Cloud, we have everything in one spot, and the solution's AI function really improves our experience.
Overall, I rate Salesforce Sales Cloud a seven out of ten.
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