We use Salesforce for lead management, opportunity tracking and sale tracking. It provides insight into what has been sold and a forecast for future opportunities.
Asana Lead Manager at Izei Consulting Group
Powerful sales tool and CRM used for lead tracking and opportunity management
Pros and Cons
- "Salesforce highlights what are we selling in different regions and which regions or areas offer opportunities. We are able to view sales by month, quarter or year."
- "In five minutes, you can create a marketing campaign and send the campaign to users in less than 10 minutes."
- "Salesforce is a powerful tool and you need specialists to create or to develop new functionalities. It is a difficult platform to learn to manage and you need years to know the whole product."
- "Salesforce is a powerful tool and you need specialists to create or to develop new functionalities."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Salesforce highlights what are we selling in different regions and which regions or areas offer opportunities. We are able to view sales by month, quarter or year.
What is most valuable?
I like how you can create marketing campaigns. In five minutes, you can create a marketing campaign and send the campaign to users in less than 10 minutes.
What needs improvement?
Salesforce is a powerful tool and you need specialists to create or to develop new functionalities. It is a difficult platform to learn to manage and you need years to know the whole product.
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For how long have I used the solution?
I have used Salesforce for four 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. I previously used Asana but Salesforce offers better scalability compared to Asana.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service team respond really quickly. I would rate their support a five out of five.
What other advice do I have?
Even though we have more than 50 employees in our organization, only 10 users use Salesforce. This is because licenses are expensive and more employees use Asana which we have free licenses for.
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Lead Sales Engineer at Lumen Technologies
The reporting features are useful.
Pros and Cons
- "The reporting features are useful."
- "I haven't had any stability issues, and Sales Cloud seems to be highly stable."
- "I would like if Sales Cloud had the flexibility to create or edit the forms used to submit requests. Right now, they're fixed, and users can't edit them. Only administrators have editing privileges, so it takes too long to make changes."
- "I would like if Sales Cloud had the flexibility to create or edit the forms used to submit requests. Right now, they're fixed, and users can't edit them."
What is our primary use case?
We primarily use Sales Cloud to process internal requests from field sales and operations.
What is most valuable?
The reporting features are useful.
What needs improvement?
I would like if Sales Cloud had the flexibility to create or edit the forms used to submit requests. Right now, they're fixed, and users can't edit them. Only administrators have editing privileges, so it takes too long to make changes.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using Sales Cloud for about four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I haven't had any stability issues. Sales Cloud seems to be highly stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have thousands of people using Sales Cloud at this company.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Salesforce Sales Cloud a solid eight out of 10.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Strategic Deals Consultant - Service Provider at Cisco
Simple dashboard creation, useful reports, and helpful support
Pros and Cons
- "Salesforce Sales Cloud is very user-friendly, and simple to create dashboards and extract the reports. Additionally, it integrates well with other applications."
- "Salesforce Sales Cloud is very user-friendly, and simple to create dashboards and extract the reports, and it integrates well with other applications."
- "When integrating Salesforce Sales Cloud with other applications it can be difficult to maintain security."
- "When integrating Salesforce Sales Cloud with other applications it can be difficult to maintain security."
What is our primary use case?
We are using Salesforce Sales Cloud to create opportunities and tickets. We are updating the information and running reports.
What is most valuable?
Salesforce Sales Cloud is very user-friendly, and simple to create dashboards and extract the reports. Additionally, it integrates well with other applications.
What needs improvement?
When integrating Salesforce Sales Cloud with other applications it can be difficult to maintain security.
The next release of Salesforce Sales Cloud should add better integration with communication systems, such as Webex.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Salesforce Sales Cloud for approximately three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of Salesforce Sales Cloud is good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Salesforce Sales Cloud is scalable.
We have approximately 1,000 users using this solution. We have plans to increase usage in the future.
How are customer service and support?
The support from Salesforce Sales Cloud is very helpful.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
In my previous company, I used an in-house built CRM system.
What about the implementation team?
We use ten technicians that support Salesforce Sales Cloud.
What other advice do I have?
I would highly recommend this solution to others.
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.
Useful modules and reliable
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable features of Salesforce Sales Cloud are code hub management and sale opportunity management."
- "The most valuable features of Salesforce Sales Cloud are code hub management and sale opportunity management."
- "Salesforce Sales Cloud overall is too complex. There is too much functionality, it's hard for the user, at the beginning. It takes a lot of time to update the information."
- "Salesforce Sales Cloud overall is too complex. There is too much functionality, it's hard for the user, at the beginning. It takes a lot of time to update the information."
What is our primary use case?
Salesforce Sales Cloud is used for many things, such as opportunity, pipeline, and code hub management.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of Salesforce Sales Cloud are code hub management and sale opportunity management.
What needs improvement?
Salesforce Sales Cloud overall is too complex. There is too much functionality, it's hard for the user, at the beginning. It takes a lot of time to update the information.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Salesforce Sales Cloud for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Salesforce Sales Cloud is a stable solution.
How are customer service and support?
I have not contacted support. Our company has its own support.
How was the initial setup?
My company installed the solution Salesforce Sales Cloud. I was not involved.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Salesforce Sales Cloud an eight 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.
Client-Partner at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It covers the entire cycle from lead generation, demand planning, and opportunities to realization and closure
Pros and Cons
- "Our use case within the organization covers the entire cycle from lead generation, demand planning, and opportunities to realization and closure. For our clients, Salesforce is used more to plot the cycle from products to cash and lead to revenue. They mostly build offers and pricing quotations in the Salesforce environment through their field marketing agents."
- "Salesforce runs smoothly."
- "I need to do a lot of customization to implement an ERP solution for an energy and utilities client versus a BFS client. Salesforce should look at the common customizations each client wants and see how much of that can be standardized into industry-specific specific solutions. That would speed up implementation, so we don't need to go through the same steps a hundred times. Salesforce could do it once and put it out for the rest of the clients to use it."
- "I need to do a lot of customization to implement an ERP solution for an energy and utilities client versus a BFS client."
What is our primary use case?
Our use case within the organization covers the entire cycle from lead generation, demand planning, and opportunities to realization and closure. For our clients, Salesforce is used more to plot the cycle from products to cash and lead to revenue. They mostly build offers and pricing quotations in the Salesforce environment through their field marketing agents.
What needs improvement?
Salesforce could integrate downstream systems by adding Tableau or MuleSoft into the KDDI. But is there a way to figure out industry-specific solutions? From an ERP standpoint, SAP has industry-specific solutions that are a straight fit for separate industry verticals.
I need to do a lot of customization to implement an ERP solution for an energy and utilities client versus a BFS client. Salesforce should look at the common customizations each client wants and see how much of that can be standardized into industry-specific specific solutions. That would speed up implementation, so we don't need to go through the same steps a hundred times. Salesforce could do it once and put it out for the rest of the clients to use it.
I've handled verticals like manufacturing, automobile, telecom, and BFS. The use cases vary from one to the other. There is no standard recommendation per se. I've handled some three or four clients per vertical. Maybe one or two clients in each industry have a Salesforce ecosystem. Let's say I've had two instances of a financial service client asking for a specific level of customization, so why doesn't Salesforce include that in the cost.
Salesforce could consult with companies in these different industry verticles to determine the level of customization they need and what common tweaks could be included in the out-of-the-box product. That's something I would love.
It would be great if Salesforce could pitch customers a base product with an estimate of how much time it would take to implement. On top of that, they could offer the client a set of packages consisting of three or four use cases essential to that customer's vertical and give them a standardized time for implementing these add-ons to the core product.
I don't think clients can afford a designated Salesforce consultant, and that's why businesses come to integrators like us. There's a demand for easy deployment maintenance of Salesforce's no-code, low-code platform with automation. It would help the clients deploy an ecosystem within their organization rather than relying on somebody else to do the implementation and jam it together.
At the same time, it might make sense for Salesforce to integrate an RPA provider like Pega did with the Open Spam acquisition. Salesforce should definitely look into out-of-the-box automation.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been working with Salesforce for five or six years. It's the solution we use for internal organization and what I propose to my clients based on their needs, as well.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Salesforce runs smoothly. I've never had a client come back and say, "It is the end of this product's life, I want to switch over from Salesforce because the support is ending by this quarter." I've never seen that case ever.
How was the initial setup?
Salesforce is as easy to install as any other product in the cloud today. I don't think it's difficult for any engineer. The hard part is integrating Salesforce into your environment, which typically involves deploying with hundreds of other upstream and downstream systems on the data flows.
It depends on the number of use cases and customizations the client wants. This varies from client to client in terms of the standard data flow, the number of reports, level of fields, etc. The initial implementation could be done in weeks or months, but it's not for us to decide whether that is sufficient. The client chooses whether to stick with the base product or customize it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Salesforce is affordable. I don't think there are any significant issues there.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
There are very few instances where we've engaged in a consultation to figure out the right product like we did with MDM versus MRK. For the most part, I believe the client will have the appetite and the know-how to pick the right product.
As system integrators, we typically implement the entire product on the cloud or provide customizations on top of the base product. That's our main involvement in the clients' environments. Generally speaking, we don't go to our clients and tell them why they should pick Salesforce over Siebel or vice versa. That type of conversation is for salespeople from Salesforce or Oracle who pitch to the client directly. The licensing deal goes through the vendor directly.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Salesforce 10 out of 10 because I've made five or six Salesforce deals with clients. If there were any problems with the solution, I would not have secured those deals as a salesperson. I would never hesitate to give Salesforce a perfect 10 because it has helped me sell more solutions to clients. If the clients are buying, it means the solution is good.
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.
Prysmian Group at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Good reporting, easy to customize, and provides multiple ways to view the information
Pros and Cons
- "There is a ton of information on the dashboard. Reports are also there for us. We can analyze information across the team and across a period, such as quarterly or annually."
- "So far, everything has been good."
- "It is a bit pricey."
- "Its license is expensive. It is probably a lot more than smaller solutions."
What is our primary use case?
I'm using it for the selection of sale pipelines, project opportunities, and sales analysis.
I'm using its latest version.
What is most valuable?
It is easy to customize, and it is also easy to view the summary of a project opportunity.
There is a ton of information on the dashboard. Reports are also there for us. We can analyze information across the team and across a period, such as quarterly or annually.
There are multiple views to display information. You can display information as a table, and you can also split the views.
What needs improvement?
It is a bit pricey.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for about a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I have not tried to scale it. We have five to seven people in my team who are using this solution.
I'm working in a global company, and in my business unit, for the local region, we have five to seven people using this. We also have a group of people abroad who view this information.
How are customer service and support?
I have not interacted with their technical support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I used another one about three years ago, but I prefer Salesforce.
How was the initial setup?
It might be a bit complex the first time, but it is not very hard to understand.
What about the implementation team?
It was done inside the organization. We have a team for this.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Its license is expensive. It is probably a lot more than smaller solutions. It is around £500 a month, but I don't know how many licenses we have.
What other advice do I have?
So far, everything has been good. I would advise others to go for it if they can afford it. It is very good.
I would rate it a nine out of 10 because nothing is perfect.
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.
Directeur Grands Projets at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Good dashboards, interface, and technical support
Pros and Cons
- "The performance is good, and it is easy to use."
- "The performance is good, and it is easy to use."
- "The monitoring is very good, but it could be better."
- "The monitoring is very good, but it could be better."
What is our primary use case?
Salesforce Sales Cloud is used because it is requested by our customers and colleagues.
For the moment, I only know one CRM, and it's Salesforce Sales Cloud.
I don't use it directly, I am a business unit director. For me, Salesforce is used because I need information about the customers and sales.
Salesforce Sales Cloud is used to collect address information and sales revenue about our customers.
We provide this solution to our clients.
Our clients only enter the data to follow the project.
What is most valuable?
The performance is good, and it is easy to use.
All of the information that we need is stored in Salesforce Sales Cloud.
We have no issues with this solution.
The user interface is excellent.
The monitoring has improved. The monitoring for the fixed bugs is beneficial for our developers.
Training is available for our clients before they start to use this software, which makes it easy for them to use this CRM.
We have a team of specialists for training for this CRM.
What needs improvement?
Maybe a product can always be improved. But, for me and our office, we don't need any more information than what we already have in the system.
Perhaps the MMI or ESM side could be better than what we currently have.
The monitoring is very good, but it could be better.
For how long have I used the solution?
I use it every week because I need information about my customers. It is a mandatory requirement for me.
As it is a cloud-based solution we are always using the most recent version.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have a lot of managers who use Salesforce because we use it for our development teams and can use it for requirements, we can use it for customer requests, bugs, and bug fixes, and all managers require customer information.
This solution is used by more than 150 people in our company, and we have 200 customers.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is fine.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I require solutions other than Salesforce because we have procurement direction, which we use to share other solutions, other software for CRM, and other needs for our company.
How was the initial setup?
I was not involved in the installation of this solution. It was already installed on our PC I just have to open the software and use it.
The installation was completed by our IT team.
We also have an IT team That ensures that there are no issues with the security system.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We pay for the Salesforce Sales Cloud license.
When this solution is installed on the customer site for our project, there is no licensing cost to the customer.
We don't have an issue with the price. We don't pay a lot because we have several licenses and any users.
The licensing fees are reasonable.
What other advice do I have?
Yes, I would recommend it for other users.
When you use Salesforce, we have another team that is in charge of developing other CRM module complements. If we require information that is not currently available in this CRM, our development teams can create it.
We have Salesforce, and if we need other information that isn't actually in the CRM tomorrow, we have our IT teams. They have some developers, who can create this module, we can add it, and you will have the information we require.
If we need some dashboards, or if we need more dashboards than we already have, we have some teams that can develop this software. We have a separate module component that can add to our CRM.
I would rate Salesforce Sales Cloud a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Director - Enterprise Applications at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Helpful support, useful life cycle management, and highly stable
Pros and Cons
- "The most beneficial aspect of Salesforce Sales Cloud is my development life cycle will have been shortened."
- "Salesforce Sales Cloud is extremely stable."
- "The solution could improve the partner management and communities. For the enterprise licenses, we have the help, but it should also be extended with the features to the partner community."
- "The price of Salesforce Sales Cloud could be reduced. It is expensive."
What is our primary use case?
Salesforce Sales Cloud is mostly used for partner lead management.
What is most valuable?
The most beneficial aspect of Salesforce Sales Cloud is my development life cycle will have been shortened.
What needs improvement?
The solution could improve the partner management and communities. For the enterprise licenses, we have the help, but it should also be extended with the features to the partner community.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Salesforce Sales Cloud for approximately two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Salesforce Sales Cloud is extremely stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Salesforce Sales Cloud is good, we have not had any issues.
We have a few thousand users using this solution in my organization.
How are customer service and support?
We have premier support and it is very good. Whenever we hit roadblocks, we do reach out to the support and they're very cooperative.
I would rate the technical support of Salesforce Sales Cloud a four out of five.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously had an in-house solution. We switched to Salesforce Sales Cloud because it was a good time in the market to do so and the solution as all the latest changes in the industry which we would receive automatically into our organization.
How was the initial setup?
The complexity of the implementation of Salesforce Sales Cloud depends on the business. If your business process is complex, the implementation will turn out to be complex. Our implementation was a complex one because we have different processes we had to configure, it was time-consuming. It took approximately six to eight months to configure everything.
What about the implementation team?
We used a partner for the implementation of Salesforce Sales Cloud.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price of Salesforce Sales Cloud could be reduced. It is expensive.
We pay for a standard license and there are not any additional fees other than the premier support.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise others Salesforce Sales Cloud is a good tool. However, the price is high and other solutions in the market should be looked at because of this.
I rate Salesforce Sales 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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