Salesforce Sales Cloud Reviews

I find the Salesforce Sales Cloud dashboard and analysis reports valuable and easier to use than those of the solution's competitors. 

I don't like the way parent-child relationships work in transactions between records in Salesforce Sales Cloud. NetSuite is a little bit more user-friendly in that sense. Salesforce Sales Cloud requires that you build everything from scratch. I don't like that. It leaves a lot of thinking and solutions to the consultants and the process is more prone to errors.

I think the mission control module is not great. There is room for improvements around that, in addition to the time sheets and project management.

I have been using Salesforce Sales Cloud since 2018. 

I think the solution's stability is good. On a scale of one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best, I would give it a seven or eight. I've never had any issues personally in a company with more than 50 people.

At the moment, we have five people working on the solution in the solution's operations team. 

I would rate Salesforce Sales Cloud's scalability as very good. We have scaled from 30 to 150 within three years without a glitch. 

Additionally, we plan to increase usage but that all will depend on how much access the company wants to give the consultants. 

I think the deployment was carried out by a Salesforce Sales Cloud consultant. 

I use Salesforce Sales Cloud to customise order management and tracking. We also use it for revenue recognition, billing and analytics. Salesforce is our primary CRM.

This solution offers a good user experience. It is easy to learn and use, even for those who are using it for the first time.

I have been using Salesforce Sales Cloud since 2008.

This is a stable solution. When any issues are anticipated from Salesforce, we are notified. We have experienced a 99.9% stability rate. 

This is definitely a scalable solution. They have different types of licensing based on your needs. You can increase and decrease the number of users and access it from anywhere. The users are in business functions including the case management team, revenue team, analytics team, development, and QE. 

The support for this solution is good. If you have an enterprise account, you get access to really good support.

Positive

The company I work for used to use Microsoft Dynamics CRM and they switched to Salesforce because Salesforce was skyrocketing during that period of time.

We generally deploy through packages constructed within Salesforce and we use our own local deployments. We have ANT scripts and we were trying to come up with some CI/CD implementations. Currently, our deployment on Salesforce is out of the box. 

Our engineering team completed deployment. Every release cycle took one to three months. We take at least one day to deploy, because we have other integrations and components closely linked to Salesforce. Salesforce have their own release cycle. If they have any changes or new features they want to implement, they have push notifications to the customers on the features utilize.

The return on investment from this solution is from case management and the way billing information is captured. We have Tableau dashboards to pull up how many orders are created for a particular month. This information is supplied to the business to understand how we can streamline, improvise and improve marketing activities. 

Compared to other CRM solutions, Salesforce is expensive. It is more affordable for enterprise users than for small businesses. 

I would advise those considering Salesforce to first understand their business model and how a CRM would fit in. They should understand their use cases and how their business functions can be changed from a technological perspective. 

The Salesforce Lightning feature is a new concept and we need to understand how it could help our business. We need to understand the usability and user experience for customization and to provide solutions for specific industries.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

It's a centralized dashboard for all our in-house information.

We used to have all of the data in Excel sheets, but with the CRM, we can have all of the information in one place. You have access to all your deals, and all the information is visible to everyone in the company. You don't have to ask each employee to share individual sheets with you. Instead, what Salesforce does is that it gives everybody access to all the information on the dashboard.

Opportunity is a feature that I use very frequently. You create an opportunity when you schedule a call with a client. Within the opportunity, I can log all of the relevant data.

The type of customization that comes with Salesforce CRM gives me a lot of liberty and ease of access to add any information that I wish to add. For example, the name, email ID, designation, the name of the decision maker, when the client joined the company, and the amount of influence he will have on the product.

I also like the type of reports that I can create. Salesforce gives you the option of creating customized reports, which helps me to have a clear view of my opportunities. You don't have to necessarily go and check each and every opportunity, and there are in-built reporting capabilities as well.

I'm a massive fan of the custom integration Salesforce offers.

Salesforce Sales Cloud does not integrate with Slack or WhatsApp, for example. As a result, there is no easy way to directly log a conversation with a client that occurred on one of these platforms. There are a few things that still need to be done manually in these instances.

As for additional features, I would like to be able to link my personal phone to Salesforce so that I can log the records from my personal phone as well. With the current setup, they have to set up your ISP. To ensure that your data is logged into the CRM, you have to have the physical phone integrated with Salesforce Sales Cloud. If used with caution, I think this feature is going to help out. In India, the business model is such that nobody replies to an email. So, you have to use your personal phone or WhatsApp.

I've been using Salesforce Sales Cloud for more than three years.

As a user, I'm happy with the stability.

We have 20 people who use this solution, and we hope to expand. However, at my previous company, the Salesforce integration took six months. Therefore, in terms of scalability if you have to add different departments or new employees, the integration may take a while.

The only challenge that I see is in terms of having to run the cycle, create the account, and contact different teams for different purposes. What could be done better is to have a single point of contact for all your queries, but that is a massive request because there are sales teams, support teams, tech teams, dev teams, etc. However, if you can have a sales engineer who can help with all our questions, then it would be great.

The FAQs are helpful, and the technical support team is very efficient and capable of handling all your questions instantaneously. 

Also, the help that I got during the initial stage is where Salesforce stands out completely. They are not about email, chat, or phone. They are present throughout your entire journey.

I'm a massive fan of the Salesforce technical support team and would give them a ten out of ten.

Positive

We went with Salesforce because most of the employees who joined our company had used Salesforce before and because Salesforce comes with a lot of options.

The initial setup is very straightforward.

The deployment took six months from start to finish.

Salesforce saves time, and I have seen a fair amount of growth in terms of efficiency and accountability.

We have a yearly license, and there are no hidden costs. Considering the Indian market, the pricing is reasonable. I don't consider it to be on the high side.

Have a training module in place because Salesforce is a little bit technical and you need to understand all of the features.

The Salesforce Sales Cloud platform stands out from other products, and I would give them an eight on a scale from one to ten.

We use Salesforce Sales Cloud for customer engagement, CB2, marketing, and forecasting tools.

The most valuable feature of Salesforce Sales Cloud is for teams the ability to do marketing on our page and to manage their marketing leads. You are able to close a deal and do the renewal. For the life cycle management for customer management, we use Salesforce Sales Cloud. The performance of the solution is good.

The user interface could be better in Salesforce Sales Cloud because it feels a little heavy.

I have been using Salesforce Sales Cloud for approximately 10 years.

Salesforce Sales Cloud is stable.

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 50,000 users using this solution.

The support is good from Salesforce Sales Cloud.

The installation took approximately three months to complete.

We have approximately 300 people that do the maintenance and support the solution.

I would recommend this solution.

I rate Salesforce Sales Cloud a seven out of ten.

Salesforce Sales Cloud is used to track and manage businesses sales. The solution can manage the sales team and evaluate how effective their tools have been. It can determine if they are delivering value. 

The sales team populates all their activities on the Salesforce Sales Cloud. We have been given the number of calls to make to new customers that have come in, to track the prospective customers, and many other aspects will be captured. You are able to make direct calls to the customer from inside Salesforce Sales Cloud. We are able to link Salesforce Sales Cloud with a voice-over IP that can make direct calls to customers. The solution is highly versatile and it's integrated with our ERP solution of the company. When the potential customer becomes a customer, it does populate instead of having to start putting new things in the ERP system. It has good compatibility between the CRM, the Salesforce Sale Cloud, and our ERP system.

We try as much as possible to look at how loyal has the customer been. We have some of those KPIs that are coming out from the use of Salesforce Sales Cloud. It's a very great tool that the organization is using to track their business, sales team, sales, and effective management of the customers.

The most valuable features of Salesforce Sales Cloud are ease of use. It is very simple for the sales team to use. You can integrate it with a lot of other systems.

I have been using Salesforce Sales Cloud for approximately eight years.

The stability of Salesforce Sales Cloud is good.

Salesforce Sales Cloud is scalable. However, it depends on the licenses and what modules you require. For example, if you want voice integration, they have it. The ability for you to make your call to the customer directly from the system instead of picking up a phone.

In Nigeria, we have approximately 60. In some other countries, it depends on the number of staff that they have because all the systems have a user license. All the finance team is part of it. We have the marketing team and there are some others, such as the customer loyalty score users. Some of the service users that are rendering technical services, such as customer service staff are also part of using this solution.

The number of users can be quite large. It depends on your operations and the area that you want it to cover. Overall the solution is scalable.

Whether we expand or not depends on the business and how it grows. For example, if the sales teams increase, as a result of the business opportunities that are available in the country, we will increase usage of this solution. However, I am not sure because of the COVID-19 situation. It has impacted a lot of business. The possibility of an increase this year and next year is very slim because most organizations are only getting their sales goals.

Our teams in the head office that manages the entire system may need to escalate an issue based on the request of a country. In this case, they will contact Salesforce Sales Cloud who will advise on what to do.

I have used other solutions in this category, such as SAP. Salesforce Sales Cloud and SAP, are very similar solutions.

The setup of Salesforce Sales Cloud is complex. You need specialists in that area to be able to have a good setup. Once it's set up properly, running it is seamless. That's the most beautiful thing about Salesforce Sales Cloud.

Salesforce Sales Cloud is a big system, it stretches across to approximately eight countries for the entire group. The full implementation took approximately six months. It was not done country by country. In my country of Nigeria, it took them close to two months to do the implementation. After it is complete there is a process of improvement. It was approximately two months before everything was finalized and in operation.

We are consultants directly from Salesforce and we have some other consultants from different regions of the country. We have consultants that manage each of the countries' rollout. We did the implementation.

The deployment stretches across different countries and the maintenance is centralized. They have a centralized team at the head office. There are approximately 10 people covering the entire country. We call them the Effectiveness Managers. Each country has what we call the Effectiveness Manager that whose major role is to maintain and look at what is going on in the processes and address any gaps. When they identify something, they report to the central team in the head office.

Then you are talking close to approximately 20 people in the maintenance department. It's a big system for us as far as the capabilities are concerned. It's a big business the team cannot be compared to smaller or medium-size organizations.

The price of the Salesforce Sales Cloud is expensive. We pay monthly for the solution but we are billed quarterly.

The price of the solution could be less expensive.

My advice to others wanting to implement Salesforce Sales Cloud is you have to make sure that you are ready to absorb the price of the solution, it is very expensive. I normally recommend a lower version, such as an open-source CRM.

They have to judge the capability of the financial department of their organization before. The organization has to know their business information well, such as sales, turnovers, the visions, the strategy of the management, and what are they trying to achieve overall.

The business is what will enable me to know whether Salesforce Sales Cloud will be a good fit for them because if they don't have financial strength, the licenses are expensive and they might not be able to afford it. 

I rate Salesforce Sales Cloud an eight out of ten.

I help implement solutions for customers like retailers and the automotive industry. It's used typically to help them with the cold sales process and help them go digital as much as possible into the cloud solutions. That's where we recommend Salesforce solutions based on the discovery we do with customers. We help implement the Sales Cloud platform for the customers. It's a software as a service primarily.

From the company perspective, the benefits would be the quicker return on investment, especially into the sales and service model. It's great for any company deeply into the sales and service model. In terms of investing in Salesforce, which could be Sales Cloud or Service Cloud, two of the offerings that come from Salesforce, the biggest win when I reach out to customers is showcasing to them the quickest way to ROI.

From the customers' point of view, if someone is using this product, Sales Cloud, since it is software as a service, it's pay as you go. The development cost, maintenance cost, everything will be drastically reduced - unlike traditional infrastructure where we maintain everything on our own. With Salesforce being a cloud computing solution, that's less of a headache.

I pay for a number of users who will be using the system in my company. It's license-based and there are various plans available based on the size and type of the organization that I have. That gives a lot of flexibility. You don't need to have strong developers or coders to build something moderately complex. You can do it using a few clicks.

It's really vast. The features that we have and everything else that we can do on the platform are really vast. Salesforce keeps coming up with a lot of new ideas to make sure people can learn this in various ways very easily. They're also targeting importing the admins - not only the developers. They want everybody to be able to click and configure rather than read through some code, et cetera. That's a positive side. Salesforce has been doing a very great job in bringing that to all people as much as possible.

It's a great product and most of the customers are getting a benefit out of using Salesforce.

With the solution being very vast, they need to prioritize features.

So many features being released can be a bottleneck for 90% of the customers. Salesforce has it in their roadmap for the near fix. There are some things that have been on the roadmap for a long time, and there's just so much. You wish they could get certain things out faster. 

One thing that's lacking, especially when I talk to a lot of customers, is the forecasting and revenue capabilities. That's missing from the Sales Cloud itself. You don't have a great way of forecasting or projecting revenue or growth from the information that you currently have in Sales Cloud. That requires a lot of customization and dependencies with a lot of other systems. It would be really great and attract more customers if that becomes readily available out of the box.

I wish the licensing costs and everything else would really become feasible for most of the customers. If it was more affordable, Salesforce would continue to see a lot of customers using their product.

I've been using it quite for some time. It's kind of my day-to-day interaction.

There will be hiccups around releases sometimes. Salesforce releases will be four times a year. Every quarter they do release major upgrades and a lot of new features across the clouds of sales, service, and marketing as well as several other clouds. At times, we see some bugs introduced unintentionally due to the new features or upgrades. In 99% of the cases, Salesforce is quick enough to fix them with an immediate patch or release. In very few cases, they wouldn't be able to and they will take a little bit of time. It may take a couple of months to apply the fix.

Overall, it's great. I have never seen the system being down due to a bug or an upgrade. On the other hand, there could be incidents with the DNS or the network provider - issues with the hardware side that could bring down your sales, for instance, for a few minutes or a few hours. The worst I have seen was one day - and that's in my entire decade Salesforce career.

It's easy to scale. It's 100% scalable.

I happen to work for all types of businesses, meaning startups to large enterprise organizations. Salesforce also offers an unlimited edition which is the premium one. It's a little pricey, however, you get all the features and benefits. Typically, large enterprise organizations will go with the unlimited edition. You can have a professional edition or a couple of other types. People choose enterprise versus professional based on the size of the organization and the number of users who would use the system. 

80% of clients are happy with it and are likely to keep using it. 

Technical support is very good. Tech support comes based on the type of edition that you're using. If you are a premier customer, you have thousands of users and licenses. If yours is the unlimited edition, you will have the A-plus support. If anything comes up, the resolution time is one hour. It goes down based on the type of edition, the type of support package that you have with Salesforce. Overall, it's good. If anything is down in production, they address it within eight hours.

The initial setup is straightforward. They give us some sort of trial log. You take a few weeks and just look around. If you are comfortable, you'll sign the contract and they convert it to the production log, so that trial becomes your sales production.

Typically, unless you are very sure about buying the product, what happens is we recommend, as a consultant, that you can talk to Salesforce and get a trial log. They give you a Salesforce instance. It is not a production instance, it's more of a trial log. The recommendation is you take one or two consultants and set up something really quickly, in a week or two as a prototype, and see if you really like it and your users would like it. You need to ask: are you getting really the benefit of using Salesforce, or not? That would be the quickest way to come to a conclusion, whether this is the right product or not.

Once you want to move forward with Salesforce, we have two options. Either we can get a brand new log, or Salesforce is capable of converting that trial log into your production version so that you can continue to build your stuff there.

One person can do it by themselves in terms of setting it up. You don't need a big team.

There's no maintenance necessary. Once we set it up, it'll be theirs and that's it. You just need to log in and start using it.

Clients have seen very good ROI. Especially users. The data is very good in most of the organizations where we have recommended and implemented Salesforce. That's improving the productivity and they have seen a very good return on investment in several aspects. Some of them are tangible and some of them are soft savings, however, the overall ROI is really good for most of the clients.

You need to pay for the license per user per month. For example, you need to pay $100 per user. If you have 200 users using your Salesforce, that would be multiplied by a hundred, that's $20,000 per month and a quarter million per year. That never stops.

That's a recurring cost. If someone is not ready and hasn't thought through, maybe they would be disappointed in terms of the cost and price. 20% might drop off of Salesforce for various reasons. Mostly, they come to think that Salesforce might not be the right platform for them.

If you get the unlimited edition and a huge number of licenses, the price will go down for sure due to the size of the business. However, if you are starting with really a small fit, it is pricey.

There are additional costs. That depends on, for example, if you have Salesforce Sales Cloud. That's the primary product. After a while, if you decided to enhance or extend it to Service Cloud, you might want to buy a call center product which is Service Cloud.

For that Service Cloud, all you need is additional feature licenses as you already have Salesforce and Sales Cloud on top of that. Some of your users will be part of the call center. In those cases, you will pay a little bit of additional money for those Service Cloud licenses. Again, it depends on the type of product that you're looking for. Those additional features will come with a feature license cost.

We did evaluate other options. We also try to recommend the best product for customers. For example, we go through the requirements and current processes, and everything else as part of the analysis and discovery phase. We see that the phase of the customer and their income and everything else that says the cost that they need to pay for Salesforce. More importantly, we see the day-to-day business that they do. If it is not that heavy, they really don't need Salesforce for what they're doing. In those cases, we recommend building their own solution using Java. It's a one-time investment. They won't have a recurring cost. That's an option for some.

There's also Pega, which is fulfilling Salesforce in the CRM world. There's also ViVA and a few other CRM products competitive to Salesforce, however, they have light pricing and are very affordable. Of course, they're not as super scalable as Salesforce.

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

Anyone considering Salesforce should choose the right implementation partner. They should consider choosing a professional implementation partner right from the beginning. It really helps taking professionals that can evaluate and tell you right at the beginning whether Salesforce is the right fit or not. Even if it is the right fit, they will help you build in the right direction. It could go completely wrong if you don't have a very good architect in the first place when designing the system. Once you design and start accessing it, you will create a good number of records and data.

Down the line, in a couple of years, if you realize that this model won't work, then it is a huge cost to be paid if you want to redo the whole thing. I have seen this multiple times with a lot of other clients, where they were not really knowledgeable and screwed up and ended up paying more for rectifying everything. Therefore, invest money and time in the beginning rather than being sorry later.

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

My use case includes account management, opportunity management, forecasting, lead management, products and pricing.

We store driver information in the account objective. We have also developed an application for technology consulting clients who sell hardware. Software products can be tangible or intangible-like services. We use the product object to store the products.

When there are multiple types of servers, like database servers or application servers we store and use attributes of the server, like the size of the server and whether it's scalable or not.

We use the asset object after the product is shipped to the customer. Price list items and price lists are used for price management that handles pricing across multiple countries. We also use is the charge types and subscription-based models. For example, if you have purchased an internet subscription for one year, your charges could be a monthly, quarterly, half year or yearly.

For our premium customers, they receive discounts. This could be tiered discounts based on the data consumption or the initial discount in the amount of 5%, 10% or 15% based on the type of customer.

Sales Cloud has accelerated the business process. It has helped generate more revenue and close deals faster.

I find the forecasting the most valuable feature. It's valuable because there are a few types of forecasting, customizable and collaborative forecasting. Higher level leadership can forecast revenues using the forecasting feature. The forecasting can be based on the opportunity amount or opportunity line items or subscription product. It enables them to determine what the revenue will be next quarter or next year. It is customizable based on the organization's fiscal year.

Sales Cloud starts with the company and ends with the revenue. For example, a car manufacturing company such as Hyundai, Honda, or Tesla, would set up a campaign. Employees of the office will visit the campaign stall and ask about the features of the car. The sales team of a Cloud manufacturing company can note the details and generate the lead from that campaign and nurture the lead. If the employee is interested, the lead can be converted into an account contact opportunity, or suspect converted into a prospect. Quotations are read to the client, and negotiations commence and the sale will be either won or lost and the prospect becomes our customer.

Salesforce development is faster than others and they have the best documentation. Anyone can learn using their documentation.

They are continuously improving their product three times a year compared to other companies that release new features every two or three years.

There are things that could be improved with respect to file sharing. There is a limited file size.

Also, there is no inbuilt capability to calculate taxes so you have to rely on third party software.

I have been working with Sales Cloud for 3 years.

Salesforce is very stable. We have multiple data centers across the globe. If a data center fails it is highly available and stable, and available 24/7.

Technical support is very supportive and responds quickly and resolves your concerns. Most of the issues are not because of Salesforce, most concerns are because on the developer side or because of limitations due to a cloud based multi-tenant environment. 

I have used multiple CRMs, as it comes under the customer relationship management. Compared to other CRMs, Salesforce is best.

The deployment of Sales Cloud is simple. There are various ways that it can be deployed, the native Salesforce chain sets or the CICD, continuous integration and continuous deployment third party tools to deploy it. Deploying the data, which is a record and deploying metadata that is a component. The record can be deployed using data loader tools, which are native Salesforce features. Metadata can be deployed using end tools, chain set or continuous integration and continuous deployment, like Kin or Microsoft.

It is very quick to deploy, millions of components can be deployed in 30 to 45 minutes if planned efficiently.

The deployment process depends on the organization. The minimum amount of people required for the deployment could be one, even for complex business and maximum would be 10 people to support a very large scale business.

Being license based, the license varies by type. There are standard user licenses, Salesforce license, Salesforce Platform license or community license. Prices range from $5 to $70 or $75 per user per month calculated yearly. It can not be purchased for two or three months, it must be purchased for the whole year. The pricing is considered average. Health Cloud is more expensive than Sales Cloud. 

Account executives from Salesforce will negotiate if you are purchasing licenses in bulk.

Salesforce Sales Cloud is the most powerful cloud of the Sales Cloud. It is scalable and bug-free.

If a company is a business model that is based on lead generation, I recommend that they use the unlimited edition org and use the Einstein product for lead management, lead nurturing and rule based scoring of the lead. Another good feature is forecasting.

I would rate the complete Sales Cloud a 9 out of 10.

We have a partnership with Salesforce. In addition to that, we have fully implemented Salesforce for one of the biggest automotive companies in Baghdad, ZSCO. There are some other companies that give support to and implement Salesforce for them in Iraq. 

We have implemented Sales Cloud to create leads, accounts, opportunities and workflows. We have API integration with our central and PBX, so it's fully integrated. 

In addition to that, we are dependent on Salesforce Enterprise Edition. We have some users who use Platform and some of the users are using Lightning, but usually we are using the Enterprise Edition for Salesforce in our implementation. It is more flexible and more capable to cover many activities. 

Salesforce is not used for financial things. It is not for inventory. It is not for financial activities or operation. It is for CRM, customer relation management.

It is an open platform with API integration with other systems. Salesforce is not a software. It is very famous and available. It is good for creating and generating leads and opportunities. It has wonderful reports as well. The dashboards are amazing. 

It has a workflow inside of it. If you need to send an email or send an SMS to a customer you can do it very easily in Salesforce. 

In addition to that, it is a brand. When we are talking to our clients about Salesforce, people are already aware of the brand. Any company, even big companies are saying that they use Salesforce, so this is wonderful. 

This system is a reliable system. It is without bugs, without problems, you can develop it. You can have outsourced support easily, including videos, all training, partner training, and webinars. It is easy as it's a worldwide software. 

So due to that, we usually go to this international solution to include our customers to help them with growth in their work. 

Salesforce is wonderful. 

The main issue is that is it is costly. Salesforce is not cheap, it's costly. Some of our customers say it is a costly solution. So, we have lost some sale opportunities regarding the high price. This is the main issue that we are facing. It is sales per user and the user price is about $150 per month, per user for the Enterprise Edition. The other edition is less than this, but it is costly. A company that has 70 or 80 users would pay more than $8,000 USD yearly because it is cloud based.

In addition to that, it does not include a professional accounting system, it is operations and it is a CRM. It is not capable of accounting things. 

It is most stable. We don't have any bad feedback on the technical side of Salesforce.

Scalability is wonderful.

Technical support is wonderful. When we open an issue, they call us and solve it well. We don't have any problems.

Previously we used IT Microsoft Dynamics CRM, it is a little bit like Salesforce, but Salesforce's capability is greater.

As for the deployment, you should have a professional guide you in order to do it. Nobody can do the implementation by themselves you can just set up some of basic things. You should have a developer, you should have a partner, you should have a person who has the knowledge. Have training courses in order to do the implementation the right way. 

Salesforce is user friendly in implementation and it is in using it, but you should have a specified person. 

I recommend Salesforce to customers that have commercial or workflow needs and CRM needs. 

I recommend Salesforce to customers that have commercial or workflow needs and CRM needs. I would rate it an 8 out of 10.