Salesforce Sales Cloud Reviews

We are using Salesforce Sales Cloud to develop sales processes. For example, from the lead creation, submitting the contract, and sending the contract via DocuSign for the user to sign it. We use principle objects, such as opportunity, lead, account, and contact, and some process automation to automate the process of sales.

The automation of Salesforce Sales Cloud makes the process very easier to focus on leads and converts them automatically to accounts, contacts, and opportunities.

Salesforce Sales Cloud could improve by allowing some customization of the processes with coding to avoid the problem of memory. When we use only flows in the process, which can become large flows, they are more complicated to debug and also for maintenance. It's better to invoke some Apex classes to make the process better.

I have using Salesforce Sales Cloud for approximately three years.

Salesforce Sales Cloud is stable.

We have approximately 100 users using this solution in my organization. 

Salesforce Sales Cloud has the ability to scale to large numbers.

We are using this solution on a daily basis.

I have been satisfied with the technical support of Salesforce Sales Cloud.

We deploy the solution using many different tools. The process is simple because you only need to create the package and component and choose the sandbox.

The time it takes to deploy the package depends, it could take a few minutes. However, when we use GitLab or another tool, it takes more time than changeset.

The amount of people involved in the implementation depends on many factors. I have worked with many managers, such as GitLab managers, and we created a branch and later deployed it.

There are some releases that need to be updated and some packages that are necessary for maintenance.

I have found Salesforce Sales Cloud to be expensive. However, it is the number one CRM solution in the world. It is worth the money.

I would recommend this product because it can give a company a chance to have new clients. There is a lot of functionality that can increase the number of clients they have.

I rate Salesforce Sales Cloud a nine out of ten.

We use the solution to manage sales forecasting.

The solution has the ability to run reports on the pipeline and understand the likelihood of the sales. The analytics tools are very good.

The connectivity has some latency. It could be more responsive.

I have been using Salesforce Sales Cloud for ten years.

The tool has some latency.

I rate the solution’s stability a seven out of ten.

It is scalable up to several hundred thousand users. It is highly scalable. We use it daily. I rate the solution’s scalability a ten out of ten.

I have used Oracle Sales Cloud and Microsoft Dynamics.

The initial setup takes three minutes.

I rate the initial setup a seven out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy

ROI is very good. There are productivity and efficiency gains.

I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

It is very easy to integrate with other tools and APIs.

I recommend the solution because they are the market leaders in what they do.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

We primarily use Sales Cloud to process internal requests from field sales and operations.

The reporting features are useful. 

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've been using Sales Cloud for about four years.

I haven't had any stability issues. Sales Cloud seems to be highly stable.

We have thousands of people using Sales Cloud at this company. 

I rate Salesforce Sales Cloud a solid eight out of 10. 

Salesforce Sales Cloud is mostly used for partner lead management.

The most beneficial aspect of Salesforce Sales Cloud is my development life cycle will have been shortened.

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.

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

Salesforce Sales Cloud is extremely stable.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

We used a partner for the implementation of Salesforce Sales Cloud.

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.

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.

I have only ever used the Sales Cloud as customized by the Nonprofit Starter Pack (NPSP) as provided by Salesforce.org and virtually all aspects of that application are incredibly helpful from a nonprofit perspective. It really takes the ‘Sales’ Cloud and turns it into the ‘Nonprofit’ Cloud. We use it for fundraising, grant management, volunteer management and everything in between.

We use Salesforce for every aspect of our business and it improves efficiency and gives us one source of truth when it comes to organizational information. Everything from fundraising to volunteer management goes through Salesforce!

There are data limitations on the platform – in terms of how much data you can store on the platform without having to purchase more. Generally, anything over one GB of data is going to cost your organization extra – this happens fast too so watch out. There is a lot you can do with zero programming knowledge and you can automate most repetitive tasks with no code!

I've used it for roughly five years.

There were no issues with the deployment.

There have been no issues with the stability.

I would call out the one GB data limits as a scalability concern – as it is often an unexpected cost as Salesforce generally hides this nugget of information in the documentation/limitations of the product. From a deployment perspective – not really. It’s a complicated tool so the amount of time, expertise and/or money you have is generally going to impact deployment.

Salesforce relies heavily on their Community to do the work of support/customer service and it has paid big for them. I am usually headed to the Power of Us Hub or the Salesforce Community before I pick up a phone to call support. Overall, that experience is far more positive than trying to contact support. In the rare instances where I have had to call support, they are responsive – but beware of the additional costs for the ‘Premium’ support packages.

In my current role, no. In previous roles, we evaluated other donor solutions and determined that Salesforce was best suited for fundraising and program management. The flexibility and 360 degree view of your constituents is really the draw.

It’s a fairly straightforward purchase process – but the set up can be complex depending on your organizational requirements. The NPSP makes it easy to get off the ground quickly, but additional customization can often require consultant assistance.

I’ve done both – generally working with a vendor for any heavy development/coding work that needs to happen. Everything else I was able to learn. Salesforce does a great job empowering customers and ensuring that they have what they need (including access to peers) to learn the platform. I would say this is a core organizational strength of Salesforce.

In terms of non-profit licensing, you get your 10 free Enterprise Edition licenses as a 501(c)(3) and take advantage of those to learn the platform! As your organization grows, see Salesforce as an investment, not as a free tool that you must ensure continues to cost your organization $0. This will do more harm than good – learn the platform and allow it to grow with you.

You generally have two routes to go when implementing; you can hire a vendor to do the work for you, or you can invest in/hire a staff member/team to learn the platform, gain expertise and implement internally. In the non profit space, I heavily favour the second option as I think investing in some staff time to learn this is great and there is an amazing community to support the process.

The ability to customize many things, from the UI to the business logic, and the fact that the solution uses a cloud platform were valuable features for our organization.

It has sped up development and delivery within the organization.

The areas for improvement are adding more options to customize the UI, and the business logic.

I have been using the solution for 3 years.

No issues with deployment.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

The customer service was good.

The technical support was good.

Initial setup was straightforward. It is just a matter of receiving the initial user credentials, change its password and create the other users after logging in. This is the initial setup prior to developing any customizations.

We implemented through an in-house team.

Setup cost: $280 per month per user, $600 per month per developer + 20% of the total yearly cost (users x individual cost) per sandbox - pre-paid annually.

Before choosing we looked at Microsoft Dynamics.

If seeking help, make sure that the people who will work on your project are certified (don't merely ask if they are certified, ask for a list of their certification numbers prior to agreeing with their statement of work). There are companies that assign junior people to your projects and bill them as senior consultants.
Expect to pay $200+/hour for HIGH quality consultants - if less than that, you may not getting high quality and may end up paying more in the end for the rework or the costs associated with a inadequate implementation.
Start with smaller, short term projects and add functionality and users gradually.
If you're in a large company (has divisions/regions), before attempting companywide adoption, choose a smaller group of users and make sure they are so pleased that they become champions of the product.

We are primarily using it for tracking sales opportunities. Our company has done some things where we've plugged in some resources that it taps into, such as some databases of install base and LinkedIn information about different influential executives that we might reach out to. Those are probably the three primary things that I use.

I assume I am using the latest version.

It helps the company, or at least executives, with forecasting.

It is nice to have the install base information at your fingertips when you look up a company.

We have a very broad set of products at our company. The process to get that information accurately into the Sales Cloud system could use improvement. It shouldn't take weeks of time. The process of identifying products that are being sold for forecasting purposes and sales tracking purposes is too hard.

We're starting to prepackage new product builds that address replacing the install base. If we can get that to be really smooth, it would be great. If a storage array is going to end of service/life, I am looking at something that not only tells me that but also says, "You should replace it with this, and here's the build for it." This way, you don't have to go through the process of throwing up what the new array would look like to get it over to the customer.

I have been using this solution for two years.

I don't really have problems with it. It seems to work when I access it.

I don't perceive any problem from where I sit. 

We probably have 5,000 people who are using this solution. They range from salespeople to management. It is being used extensively. I don't know what the corporate plans are to expand its usage.

I did not contact their support.

I would rate it a five out of 10. The reason is that I'm not using it for myself. I'm using it for other people to get information because I have to do it for my job. It helps me with that, but it is not particularly useful for me in my sales tracking.