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Jose LuisGonzalez - PeerSpot reviewer
Territory Manager at Dynatrace
Real User
Sales CRM used to manage opportunities and provides a centralised view of our customer base
Pros and Cons
  • "It is a good platform that shows consolidation of information for our customer base."
  • "The performance is sometimes slow. There is too much information and this makes it difficult to find the answers we are looking for."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution for opportunity and account management, contact management, quoting, marketing and for registration of events.

What is most valuable?

It is a good platform that shows consolidation of information for our customer base.

What needs improvement?

The performance is sometimes slow. There is too much information and this makes it difficult to find the answers we are looking for.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for three and a half years. 

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This is a stable solution. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This is a scalable solution. 

How are customer service and support?

We have not needed to contact customer service and support. 

What other advice do I have?

I would advise others to customize the solution according to their business needs and goals and to make it as user friendly as possible.

I would rate this solution 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.
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Aha Lin - PeerSpot reviewer
Field Sales Representative , Enterprise at Google
Vendor
Useful modules and reliable
Pros and Cons
  • "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."

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.
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Commercial & Enterprise Account Executive, Sub-Saharan Africa at New Relic Inc
MSP
Multifeatured CRM solution with good performance; used for managing opportunities and revenue, and reviewing leads
Pros and Cons
  • "CRM solution that performs well. It's multifeatured, so you can use it for different activities such as managing opportunities, managing revenue, reviewing leads, etc."
  • "Salesforce Sales Cloud needs a more user-friendly interface."

What is our primary use case?

I use Salesforce Sales Cloud for managing opportunities. I also go through leads on it. I also use it for managing the revenue generated from my book of business. I also use its dashboard.

What is most valuable?

I like that Salesforce Sales Cloud performs really well. I have no problem with its performance. I also find it extensible.

What needs improvement?

What I'm expecting from Salesforce Sales Cloud is a more user-friendly interface. It's what could be improved in the solution.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been dealing with Salesforce Sales Cloud for four and a half years.

What other advice do I have?

I'm a salesperson and I'm using Salesforce Sales Cloud, e.g. it's what we're using in our company currently. We're using the latest version. It's a cloud-based solution.

I didn't find any issues with the solution. I don't have any negative feedback about it.

I'm a user, not an admin of Salesforce Sales Cloud, so I wasn't part of the process of setting it up, but I could access the solution without any issue.

I would assume there is over 1,500 people who use the solution within the company, and it's being used extensively. I'm not aware of how many people handle the deployment and maintenance of Salesforce Sales Cloud, as I'm not involved in those processes.

I never needed technical support for the solution, because I never had any issues to complain about.

I'm recommending Salesforce Sales Cloud to others, without doubt.

I would 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.
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AdemolaOlamide - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Manager at Computer Learning centre
Real User
Top 20
Simple implementation, good performance, but could be more user-friendly
Pros and Cons
  • "I have found Salesforce Sales Cloud to be stable."
  • "Salesforce Sales Cloud is not as simple to use as Zoho. It requires some level of expertise before you can use it. However, you can easily learn how to use the solution as you go along."

What is our primary use case?

We use Salesforce Sales Cloud for management assistance and for CRM.

What needs improvement?

Salesforce Sales Cloud is not as simple to use as Zoho. It requires some level of expertise before you can use it. However, you can easily learn how to use the solution as you go along.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Salesforce Sales Cloud for a few years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have found Salesforce Sales Cloud to be stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Salesforce Sales Cloud is scalable.

We have approximately 75 users using this solution.

How are customer service and support?

I have not contacted technical support.

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

I preferred using Zoho rather than Salesforce Sales Cloud. We switch to Zoho because the price of Salesforce Sales Cloud was expensive.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of Salesforce Sales Cloud is simple and took approximately one hour, but not as simple as Zoho.

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

The overall price of Salesforce Sales Cloud could be better, it is more expensive than other competitors. There is an annual license for Salesforce Sales Cloud.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend the solution to others.

I rate Salesforce Sales Cloud a seven out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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reviewer1760238 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales development manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Scales very well and allows you to do a lot of things, but its interface has way too much information and needs to be cleaned up a bit
Pros and Cons
  • "It is a one-stop shop for running anything related to sales. You can do a lot of things."
  • "It is very clunky. Its interface can be more user-friendly. There is always way too much information going on in Salesforce. It puts too much on your screen. It gives you every piece of information in the world, whereas I need less. It would be nice for it to be cleaned up a bit."

What is most valuable?

It is a one-stop shop for running anything related to sales. You can do a lot of things.

What needs improvement?

It is very clunky. Its interface can be more user-friendly. There is always way too much information going on in Salesforce. It puts too much on your screen. It gives you every piece of information in the world, whereas I need less. It would be nice for it to be cleaned up a bit.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for about four or five years.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is highly scalable. We have at least 500 users. About 70% to 80% of the company is using this solution.

How are customer service and support?

I haven't interacted with them. It is usually handled internally.

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

I haven't used any other solution.

How was the initial setup?

I wasn't involved with its implementation, but it is complex, and it has to be. I can't fault it.

What other advice do I have?

Salesforce is often recommended in order to scale, but it makes more sense to use Salesforce once you have scaled. There are smaller and simpler solutions, and if you don't need the complexity of Salesforce, it doesn't make sense to use it.

I would rate it a seven out of 10. I am generally satisfied with it.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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reviewer1740669 - PeerSpot reviewer
Recruiter at a recruiting/HR firm with 51-200 employees
Real User
It helps us track our business processes, but the user experience could be better
Pros and Cons
  • "Salesforce helps up keep track of candidates."
  • "I think the user experience could be improved. I would like the user interface to be a bit more user-friendly and modern."

What is our primary use case?

Generally speaking, Salesforce is for tracking all the processes within the company. We use Salesforce to keep track of candidates and provide an overview of what's happening in the company. It can also tell you what your colleagues are doing. 

What is most valuable?

Salesforce helps up keep track of candidates.

What needs improvement?

I think the user experience could be improved. I would like the user interface to be a bit more user-friendly and modern. 

For how long have I used the solution?

We've been using Salesforce for about five months. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Yeah

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I think Salesforce is scalable. We have almost 2,000 users. 

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Salesforce Cloud six out of 10. I'm not sure if I would recommend it. I guess it depends on what you're using it to do. I don't know if it's the best, actually. Maybe I would say no. It's like asking me, "Would you recommend a bike?" If it's a flat street, yes. 

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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Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1-10 employees
Real User
Robust and customizable with many useful features
Pros and Cons
  • "There are many extremely useful features."
  • "There are also certain restrictions on the reports in terms of the number of records. Ideally, that should be removed."

What is our primary use case?

I am fundamentally a consultant to businesses exploring CRM solutions. My first choice, subject to the customer's budget, is Salesforce. At my office, we have been using Salesforce primarily for lead management, sales cycle management, renewal management, and sales performance management. We have also integrated it with our help desk and our HRMS. 

We use the Salesforce Platform edition with 300 objects which gives us a phenomenal ability to develop specific functionalities that we need for our unique requirements.

How has it helped my organization?

An integrated approach to CRM always helps in streamlining activities across all the departments. We have been able to better our response times, reduce our sales cycles, and have increased overall sales revenue. Similar results have been observed for all our customers who have implemented and adopted SalesCloud in the right manner. 

We have developed a module for integrating our digital marketing tool with Salesforce. The campaign ROI monitoring ability has helped us to increase our marketing effectiveness to a great extent.

What is most valuable?

There are many extremely useful features. Lead scoring is useful for automatically signaling the importance and urgency of acting on any particular lead. Website integrations are useful for getting in the lead data into Salesforce along with auto-tagging of the customer's point of interest. The automation rules that have been set up across all modules deliver tremendous value by speeding up things, ensuring process compliance, and increasing productivity. 

The customized and role-based dashboards help our team to make the right decisions.  

What needs improvement?

Featurewise, the product almost has all CRM features that one can think of. Beyond CRM, if the integration with MS Office can be made tighter and smoother, that could be great value for customers. Especially integrating MS Word and MS Excel would be really useful. 

If a lighter version of CPQ is made available, it would help many midsize customers. As of now, Salesforce is the most expensive CRMs out there - making it a bit more affordable will help them in a big way. 

There are also certain restrictions on the reports in terms of the number of records. Ideally, that should be removed.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution for more than seven years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is extremely stable. We haven't seen any nasty surprises. trust.salesforce.com is a great place to check the stability and dependability of Salesforce.  

Irrespective of the number of concurrent users, the automation rules, reporting requirements, workflows etc, the system performance remains the same. There is no performance degradation by additional of number of users or increase in data or increase in automations or functionalities whatsoever. 

trust.salesforce.com gives a real-time view of all salesforce datacentres and the various clouds in terms of their health, availability, uptimes, maintenance status, security and compliances. There is a lot more indepth information if one really wants to dig deeper. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is highly and seamlessly scalable. it is very robust at any scale.

How are customer service and support?

This is not applicable to us. However, the back-to-back support from Salesforce has been pretty good.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

We have used a homegrown application earlier. Switching to Salesforce was due to the capabilities provided by the Salesforce platform. It practically molds itself as per an organization's working style. 

How was the initial setup?

It wasn't complex for us as we are ourselves are implementation partners. For customers, it can turn out to be pretty overwhelming. 

There are so many features and so many possibilities, it is very easy for anyone to keep asking for more. That is often the biggest pitfall. A step-by-step phased approach is usually more successful.

What about the implementation team?

We have a highly skilled implementation team.

What was our ROI?

We've seen an ROI of at least 20%.

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

Salesforce surely is one of the most expensive CRMs out there. However, if implemented in the right manner and adopted extensively, it does deliver a great value to the organization. 

While deploying Salesforce, I would generally suggest engaging a consultant for optimizing the license costs. Salesforce sales team may try to oversell. A 3rd party consultant like us can help you with an unbiased opinion. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We did not evaluate others while choosing for ourselves. However, as a consultant, we frequently need to show customers comparisons with Navision, SAP, and Oracle.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Other
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Apart from being users of salesforce, we are also an implementation partner to Salesforce.
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Salesforce consultant - IT manager at Gegobyte Ltd
Consultant
Flexible and scalable with great customization
Pros and Cons
  • "Suitable for all sizes of organizations."
  • "Amount of storage provided is limited."

What is our primary use case?

My main use case for this solution is for the sales and marketing team to gather leads and convert them to accounts. Using Salesforce, they gather information and log calls, texts, and meetings. We also use Salesforce to set up price books.

How has it helped my organization?

Salesforce has been very useful during the COVID-19 pandemic, as its database contains all our customer history, so we were able to maintain our customer relationships.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature Sales Cloud provides is that it allows teams to convert leads to opportunities and accounts. We can use its forecasting feature to tell us the expected sales volume and its target feature to see how the pipeline is forecasting. The dashboard also allows managers to monitor their teams' performance.

What needs improvement?

An area for improvement would be to open the door for other partners to develop interfaces for software integration. In addition, the amount of storage provided is limited, so the product is less cost-effective when working with larger amounts of data.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This solution is very easy to scale, thanks to the processes builder and the automation process builder. We can scale and customize the solution as we want, according to the business.

How are customer service and support?

I'm very satisfied with the technical support.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was fairly complex as there is a full cycle of operations to consider when deploying.

What about the implementation team?

I implemented through an in-house team.

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

There are a variety of licenses available depending on the customer's needs. Implementation and add-ons may be additional costs.

What other advice do I have?

Salesforce is very flexible and provides developmental tools in case you have special requirements. I think this is a very, very good product that can help many organizations to achieve success, and that is suitable for all sizes of organizations. I would recommend not going with every feature, as this is a wide and flexible product, so get to know the product before implementing it. I would rate this solution as ten 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
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