Salesforce Platform Reviews

Our primary use case is as an end user.

It is very user-friendly, and intuitive, it will lead you and take you to the next steps.

I would like to see the organizational details improved to make it less difficult to bring new clients on board.

I have been using Salesforce Platform for the past few years.

The stability is good and I would rank it an eight out of ten.

The scalability is excellent with more than fifty thousand users.

The technical support team is called internal.

I would rate Salesforce Platform an eight out of ten.

In my role at the company, I use Salesforce Platform for many purposes, such as opportunity tracking, lead management, lead tracking contacts, and forecast productivity measurement.

Salesforce Platform overall helps me to track my business better.

What functions we don't get out of Salesforce, we typically receive from third-party applications that extend the capabilities. We integrate a lot of different products with Salesforce.

Salesforce Platform has a cumbersome interface when creating reports, dashboards, and those types of things. They could be a little bit more simple. The administration has to be an aficionado to do any sort of administration and maintenance, for example, setting up the way you want to modify the lead tracks or functions. These systems tend to be quite cumbersome.

I have been using Salesforce Platform for approximately 20 years.

We have had the typical amount of bugs or glitches while using Salesforce Platform, however, none that were significant. There are always bugs and glitches in software, but not anything enormous. I think it's become much more stable over time.

The scalability of the Salesforce Platform is good. We had a small implementation, we don't really have too much data or too many people. It has been scalable for what we have used it for.

We have 20 people in my organization that use this solution.

We hire someone to maintain the solution for us and we use them for technical support. However, they might call Salesforce or tech support but I have not contacted technical support.

The setup of the Salesforce Platform is complex. You have to be very well-educated; no one can set the Salesforce Platform up on their own. They have to be a trained Salesforce developer in order to set it up and in order to maintain it. It's not something you can do overnight; there is a lot of work involved.

For the number of people that are using Salesforce Platform in my organization, I feel the price is reasonable.

Salesforce Platform is a good solution that does its job. However, I don't know that every company needs it. A company our size could probably manage with a less capable CRM with less overhead, but it does more than what we need it to do.

I rate Salesforce Platform an eight out of ten.

I was using the Salesforce Platform for forecasting, client opportunity creation, tracking, and client input and tracking.

The solution has improved over the years and the inputting of opportunity information is done a lot better and the GUI is good. The ability to customize dashboards and other elements was useful, we were able to move things around, for example, the forecasts. Most of the cells and input places were set, but we can customize the view and what we were looking at, such as on a daily, or weekly basis.

The solution is comprehensive, there is a wide range of features available. There are features that have been available from the beginning I am just learning about them now. 

I have found it takes an exceedingly long time to put opportunities or clients in the system. If I have an opportunity that I need to put in the system it could take approximately 10 minutes. This is a lot of time when you have multiple opportunities to put in. There are other tasks to do that are required by supervisors, such as forecasts. What I have done to save time is I did not input as much detail as I could have because I knew it was going to take me an hour to get five leads in.

I have used Salesforce Platform for approximately four years.

The stability of the solution was good.  There were some bugs or glitches but nothing substantial or out of the ordinary that took us down for the day or prevented functionality.

The solution is easy to scale. For example, adding new employees.

We have approximately 1,000 people using Salesforce Platform in my organization. This includes managers, sales teams, and other employees.

In general, we would log calls into our company technical support for issues, and then they would escalate it as needed to the Salesforce team.

I have used other solutions similar to Salesforce Platform, such as Microsoft Dynamics. As a standard, the past three or four companies I have worked for have been using the Salesforce Platform.

Our IT did the implementation of the solution.

The price of Salesforce Platform is very expensive. There are other solutions that are similar that cost a quarter of what Salesforce Platform does, such as HubSpot.

I have evaluated HubSpot and it does 85% of the functionality of the Salesforce Platform.

I would advise those wanting to implement Salesforce Platform to have a dedicated Salesforce administrator who is used to have all changes go through them. Everything has to go through one person or it can get really complicated to manage.

Salesforce Platform is very good at what it does. However, it is still cumbersome, but then again, all the solutions I have used that are similar are all cumbersome. They all are asking for a lot of information in order to capture good realistic data. I have been doing technical sales amongst other things for 30 years and I do not know how these solutions can be made less cumbersome and still capture accurate information out of it.

I rate Salesforce Platform a seven out of ten.

I primarily just log into the platform and approve some of the entries which are there. I know there is a marketing aspect as well, however, I don't use it that much.

The reporting of the solution is excellent.

The dashboards are excellent. They are very clear and easy to understand.

The entire solution is very customizable and you are able to add many functionalities.

There are very good analytics capabilities.

The solution is easy to use. All of the UI is great. You can navigate it with ease.

The workflow process is fine. We haven't had any issues surrounding that aspect.

The solution should keep adding features. They've continued to develop a lot of functionality over time with their additive approach to developing the product.

There needs to be more documentation. They need to make it easier to find what you need in order to get help and solve problems.

Technical support could be more responsive.

The solution could increase the number of plug-ins on offer. They should have ready-to-go modules that can just be added at any time to increase the capabilities in a number of directions.

I've been using the solution for one and a half years at this point. It hasn't been that long.

The product is very stable. The performance is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.

You can add small functionalities, so it's scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. You can customize it to add to it in many ways.

We have about 200 people who use it in our organization.

The technical support has been good. That said, likely the lead time to resolve issues can be a bit quicker. Definitely, they do a good job in correcting some of the problems that we face, however, the time it takes to resolve the problem can be quicker. They're okay overall.

I did not handle the implementation process. For us, the solution comes pre-installed. The IT team installs it on our computers you can probably go to a site and then log in on the cloud.  I do not have much knowledge about the setup and deployment.

We are customers and end-users of the product.

It's my understanding that we are using the latest version of the solution. I don't know the exact version number.

I'd recommend the solution. It's worked well for us overall.

I would rate the solution eight out of ten.

We are predominantly a Salesforce consulting company and we do Salesforce implementation for various types of clients.

We are in the implementation business and we help our clients. Most of our services are in the nonprofit public sector and CPQ.

In terms of a CRM or a BAR, Salesforce is absolutely great from a client standpoint.

The completely out-of-the-box service is absolutely great.

The process and the workflows are amazing.

Integration with a few of the other products such as Spring Boot is a problem. 

Integration needs improvement. We have found that there are some issues with integration. 

DevOps is lagging in Salesforce development practice. We are looking for a better understanding of DevOps for Salesforce.

I would like to see automation DevOps in the next release.

It's a 14-year-old company and we have been using Salesforce Platform for nine months.

We are using the latest version. We have been working with both public and private clouds.

There have been some issues with the stability of the Salesforce Platform, but it's very minor compared to other applications.

The scalability of the Salesforce Platform is amazing. There are no issues with the scalability of this product.

We have 1,000 employees who use it.

As partners with Salesforce, we are dedicated and in touch with Salesforce all of the time.

The technical support is good.

The initial setup is straightforward. It is quite easy.

The price varies depending on the cloud.

We are exploring multiple different tools at this point.

Within our company, we haven't developed automation practice so far, which is the reason why I have been doing research to identify the most suitable tool exclusively for Salesforce functional automation.

I would recommend this solution to others. This is the right time to look into Salesforce, so it's going to be huge in few years.

I am totally in love with this solution. Any issues it may have for example with integration are all minor when you compare it with the performance, scalability, and ease of use. I would definitely rate it a ten out of ten.

We use the mobile application, the Lightning application. We use it with consulting and integrating the different products like vCloud or integration with Google. There are some that we do production also. Everything is on mobile now. So we use mobile apps and then we develop those applications. It's a Cloud browser and device support that we are doing the programming. So basically now we are developing that in the Lightning Application, where we can. That is based on the event architecture and by the company's controller, we write those according to that. We develop the programming that will go to the software, we need to have the APEX programming materials for the IBM system, or with Lightning RAWC, who with integration we need to go with other configuration tools. So there are a lot of things that need to be captured in developing the project.

They also have features they are integrating to the other services or managing the technical management or you can go with the integration point of view and you can able to, in the build tool, do the configuring of those things in terms of other approvals or like customization. And you can include the time bond overflows for the emails. So all these parts come from the Salesforce only. So Appian does not have it, it comes with that only and now we are able to do it.

If you compare it with Appian, there are business rules that you are dealing with. With less code, we are making a higher standard. So maybe, in the future, Salesforce can make it a more integral part of the application. And they are also strategic partners with multiple companies, so maybe that is the reason they are sustainable and they the four versions every year. These things likely depend upon robotics programming and they use the latest technologies for a more stable portal. So we need to be more cautious about the coding and so data file would be more stable. But as a partner, there will be some time-taking process to make it up in the implementation. When you compare with Appian, they have to improve more on configuration and more systematic care, configuring by itself and if they are making other things in the area that they update. 

The process should be automatically approved. They should also configure the maps that we initial use. I think the alerts can be used differently, or customize the targeted content mills can also be automated. Those things can also be included in Salesforce. I was looking at this map that needs to be included. Like a world map. An easy way of getting those details and then adding to it and then being able to do it in a more simplified way, visually.

I have used Salesforce App Cloud for two years.

Stability is more than adequate. It takes a number of developers to handle that currently. Most of the people don't know that a lot of features are developed with rules. Unless you are a developer you won't be able to design it currently. So it's easy to do a mini-platform now with Salesforce. That may be the strategy, but if it is having combined information within one platform, it is stable.

At first, the setup can be difficult. But once we get it deployed and get our tools implemented it is more automated. We have now set up a solution that allows us to easily deploy quickly. So once you understand the coding program, then it was easier for them to deploy. It usually takes about a month to deploy.

I would rate the Salesforce Cloud App at an eight out of ten.

Marketing and Sales Lead, Forecasting, Campaign management.

We have different sets of businesses: B2B and B2C. So depending on business users and requirement, we were dealing with their requirements of creating leads, managing forecasting and all. So Salesforce has helped us customising the system as per business user needs.

Areas of improvement can be around Engagement of Customers feature and approvals of transactional records.

Two years

There was no Issues in deployment because we haven't customised Salesforce much for our users. Instead, we focused on using standard Salesforce and integrating it with Netsuite.

No issues with stability.

We didn't encourage scalability because we were had Netsuite, which we already customized so much. So, we decided to keep Salesforce simple enough to just store customer data and help capturing forecasting.

A three out of 10.

A two out of 10.

No. We just decided to use Salesforce as a CRM system as its Forecasting and Marketing Lead is a good module to work with.

We used standard Salesforce, so setup wasn't complex.

We implemented through an in-house team

Pricing and license differ and depend on how much license you are purchasing from them.

We didn't evaluated any system at that time. But after Salesforce got implemented, we tried evaluating other systems as well