Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dayforce
Score 7.9 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Dayforce HCM is a cloud-based platform encompassing HR, payroll, benefits, and talent and workforce management. It provides companies with a scalable framework and real-time data, such as continual pay calculations, to enable efficient decision-making.N/A
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce Sales Cloud is a platform for sales with a community of Sellers, Sales Leaders, and Sales Operations, who use the solution to grow sales and increase productivity. The AI CRM for Sales features data built right in, so that companies can sell faster, sell smarter and sell efficiently. Salesforce Sales Cloud is used for, and supports: Buyer Engagement Sales Engagement Enablement Sales AI Sales Analytics Team…
$25
per month
Pricing
DayforceSalesforce Sales Cloud
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Starter
$25.00
Per User/Per Month
Professional
$80.00
Per User/Per Month
Enterprise
$165.00
Per User/Per Month
Unlimited
$330.00
Per user/Per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DayforceSalesforce Sales Cloud
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
DayforceSalesforce Sales Cloud
Considered Both Products
Dayforce
Chose Dayforce
It's been wonderful having payroll, HR, Time, and Benefits all in a single application. I don't have to guess which system I need to use for these because they're all together on Ceridian Dayforce.
Chose Dayforce
We really did not look at many other products since this one was the first one we began looking at and were "sold" very quickly on the real-time, all-in-one solution it appeared to offer. We were previously using separate systems for talent acquisition, payroll, and HR …
Chose Dayforce
It's been a great experience so far. We migrated from Powerplay Ceridian, so it was a seamless transition to Dayforce. We were too small of a firm to have a direct integration with our Benefits provider.
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Chose Salesforce Sales Cloud
Salesforce.com is more thorough than Siebel. However, its speed isn't as fast. I believe that our company selected to use Salesforce.com because of the multi-level functions it has like database management, reporting capabilites, order management, internal and external …
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Top Cons

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Features
DayforceSalesforce Sales Cloud
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
7.8
581 Ratings
0% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.1504 Ratings00 Ratings
Employment history8.4539 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.9529 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.8531 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting7.4482 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management7.7527 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)7.5351 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
8.4
581 Ratings
4% above category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Pay calculation9.0567 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors7.5283 Ratings00 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment8.9131 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration8.0456 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.0552 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.5436 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management8.1294 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
8.0
527 Ratings
1% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Approval workflow8.3495 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details7.7509 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment7.9416 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
8.1
593 Ratings
0% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
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Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information8.5564 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information8.7577 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.0397 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition7.1206 Ratings00 Ratings
View job history8.0473 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
7.5
97 Ratings
3% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Tracking of all physical assets7.597 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
7.2
580 Ratings
5% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Report builder7.6571 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.7571 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data6.3399 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
7.8
373 Ratings
3% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
New hire portal7.8363 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.8319 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
7.7
240 Ratings
6% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Corporate goal setting7.4201 Ratings00 Ratings
Individual goal setting7.8220 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility7.6188 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking7.9225 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
7.8
264 Ratings
2% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Performance plans7.5245 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.6210 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking7.9247 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders7.8243 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency8.0219 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
6.9
119 Ratings
13% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools7.194 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking6.8102 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search6.6107 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development7.094 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
7.3
286 Ratings
6% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Job Requisition Management7.5270 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.5264 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.5221 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.5253 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention6.6216 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking7.4263 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.2257 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.7
237 Ratings
0% above category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings8.5237 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings7.9228 Ratings
Territory management00 Ratings7.4182 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings8.4231 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings7.4216 Ratings
Contract management00 Ratings7.0188 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings7.5172 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings7.4202 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings7.6164 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.4
79 Ratings
1% below category average
Case management00 Ratings7.679 Ratings
Call center management00 Ratings7.363 Ratings
Help desk management00 Ratings7.366 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.6
216 Ratings
1% above category average
Lead management00 Ratings7.8211 Ratings
Email marketing00 Ratings7.4181 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.4
219 Ratings
2% below category average
Task management00 Ratings7.4209 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings7.056 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings7.7172 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.7
232 Ratings
1% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings7.3201 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings7.7220 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings8.1229 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.0
223 Ratings
5% above category average
Custom fields00 Ratings8.1221 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings8.1211 Ratings
Scripting environment00 Ratings7.9157 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings8.0184 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.7
225 Ratings
4% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.8192 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.6198 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.4
142 Ratings
2% above category average
Social data00 Ratings7.5141 Ratings
Social engagement00 Ratings7.3138 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.7
192 Ratings
8% above category average
Marketing automation00 Ratings7.8188 Ratings
Compensation management00 Ratings7.7128 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Dayforce
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.0
203 Ratings
7% below category average
Mobile access00 Ratings7.0203 Ratings
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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Paypro Workforce Management
Paypro Workforce Management
Score 9.5 out of 10
Creatio
Creatio
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Infor Human Resources
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Score 7.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
DayforceSalesforce Sales Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(621 ratings)
8.4
(369 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(85 ratings)
9.0
(56 ratings)
Usability
6.3
(60 ratings)
7.5
(120 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(12 ratings)
9.8
(27 ratings)
Performance
5.0
(13 ratings)
9.0
(18 ratings)
Support Rating
7.7
(65 ratings)
5.7
(91 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.0
(11 ratings)
7.9
(11 ratings)
Online Training
7.4
(18 ratings)
9.1
(15 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.6
(43 ratings)
1.0
(18 ratings)
Configurability
8.8
(13 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(9 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.9
(14 ratings)
8.6
(28 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(8 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.9
(18 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.9
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DayforceSalesforce Sales Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Dayforce
Ceridian is well suited for transferring time data between systems to ensure employees are accurately compensated based on their time. Ceridian is not ideal when an employee has transferred to a different country. (As previously mentioned, we are required to create a new user record which with our setup requires the existing employee to be hired in the new location).
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Salesforce
Salesforce Sales Cloud is, in my experience, well suited to large B2B businesses who are driving demand and lead generation, and tracking customers through the funnel. It is a system we needed for a long time and has made a huge difference. However, I think it would have been more appropriate for a smaller business / a business who sets this up earlier on. There are great advantages to having historical data. It is really useful for allowing all commercial teams to work together, including sales, new business, marketing, client success etc. However, it relies too much too often on human error. If more things were automated and simpler, perhaps with AI queries, it could be easier to use
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Pros
Dayforce
  • Reporting. It has an extensive report builder with stock reports, ad-hoc reports, and the ability to build your own custom reports.
  • Payroll. The continuous payroll engine makes processing complex payrolls much easier and faster.
  • Forms. The stock forms are a great jumping off point to start creating custom forms that work better for your processes and organization.
  • Documentation. Every module is well documented, and you're always bound to learn something if you read through them properly!
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Salesforce
  • Logging notes: SF makes it easy to log notes in the timeline or static notes that live in an easy-to-see spot for longevity.
  • Logging activities: It's easy to post a call, text, email, etc.
  • API data: Once connected, SF is critical to automation, such as website activity, login activity, pages visited, etc., which saves the Customer Success side time in understanding account activity.
  • Custom fields: you can add custom fields to really personalize your experience. We use quite a few and it's brilliant.
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Cons
Dayforce
  • In payroll, there are sometimes issues with calculating pay when people’s rates change mid-pay period
  • Would love to see an option to assist with building SQL or XML statements in the future (maybe co-pilot AI?)
  • Would love an easy way to store pre-hire documents with candidates that syncs over to their HR profile when hired
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Salesforce
  • I have hard-coded the auto-update of the phone number format and state format from some codes shared by the community, but I do not know where to do it. I cannot reset it either.
  • It is unclear what functionalities each version has. We use the enterprise version, and it seems we can only have one design of the pipeline. But different business segments would have very different sales cycles, and hence, pipeline tracking would be different. It would be nice to have this available in our version.
  • It seems I cannot create a report to pull notes logged at the account levels.
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Likelihood to Renew
Dayforce
We are highly invested in Ceridian's Dayforce product. It give us the flexibility and scaling that our growing company needs. Its potential reaches beyond the basic HR functions to the decision making that our Management Team needs. Ceridian is always innovating the employee and employee experiences to offer cutting edge options.
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Salesforce
There are days when I wish we hadn't switched, but I know that if we put in the time, we will get to where we want to be with the software and that it has many more capabilities than anything else we looked at. However, the amount of time and onboarding we need to do is also far greater than we realized/were told when we originally bought the product. They told us we should hire onboarding support, but at the end, after we had already reached our budget maximum for this, so it's been slower than we had hoped.
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Usability
Dayforce
I think it's very usable for the employee. I don't think it is as easy for the HR/PR admins - especially if there is an issue. There are so many setup screens that need to be looked at to try to figure out why payroll isn't calculating properly, hours aren't feeding over correctly, or benefits are not calculating properly. For the most part, they can't do their own troubleshooting. The same is true for the managers. Our managers find it cumbersome to go into make any schedule changes after the schedules have been generated.
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Salesforce
Salesforce has been designed on the basis of "Clicks, not code". So anyone willing to learn the Salesforce user interface (which is quite good as far as management software platforms go) is able to become a Salesforce user or even a Salesforce administrator. You don't have to know coding language to work in the Salesforce environment. Also, Salesforce has one of the best software training resources (Trailhead) that I have ever encountered. It is free to all, easy to use, and most importantly it is interactive. No scrolling through endless text in a user manual. There are hands-on modules and related videos interlaced and through it all you earn points and badges to display your level of learning.
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Reliability and Availability
Dayforce
We have never experienced a total/unplanned outages that effected our ability to process payroll. However, there are times when the application's speed is significantly effected - and processing a payroll may take up to twice as long as normal.
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Salesforce
Salesforce is always available securely from any internet-capable device anywhere in the world, UNLESS you choose to set security measures so that ONLY trusted IP ranges may access the system at certain times of the day. It's all about choice and flexibility with Salesforce products.
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Performance
Dayforce
We haven't noticed any slow-down due to the integration of Dayforce WFM with our Ceridian HPL products (HRIS and Payroll). The new HTML view of the timesheets don't load as quickly as the old Silverlight view - however, we have gotten used to the change.
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Salesforce
Salesforce performance in general is excellent. "The cloud infrastructure beneath Force.com has been fine-tuned over the past 10 years. It powers nearly 100,000+ businesses running more than 185,000 applications that 3 million users count on every day."
Points per Salesforce -
1) Multitenant kernel - With a multitenant platform, each business that uses the app doesn’t have its own copy. Instead, all businesses share a single copy and then customize it for their specific needs.
2) ISO 27001 certified security - You can’t compromise when it comes to enterprise-level security. Force.com is road-tested and trusted by nearly 100,000+ companies, including many of the world’s most security-conscious organizations, such as banks and health care providers.
3) Proven reliability - All Force.com apps run on world-class data centers with backup, failover, and disaster-recovery facilities. Force.com has had a proven 99.9 percent uptime record for years.
4) Proven, real-time scalability - Force.com is used by many of the world's largest enterprises, including Cisco, Japan Post Network, and Symantec. Applications can automatically scale from a few users to millions of page views, as needed.
5) Real-time query optimizer - You need fast access to your data. The Force.com query optimizer delivers under 300ms response time, at a massive scale.
6) Real-time transparent system status - You can always see real-time system performance, availability, and security information at trust.salesforce.com.
7) Real-time upgrades - Unlike traditional software platforms, our upgrades never break your customizations, code, or integrations. We upgrade the platform for you 3 to 4 times each year. As a result, you’re always on the latest version, with access to the latest features, performance, and security enhancements.
8) Real-time sandbox environments - With a single click, you can create copies of your applications, configuration, and data in separate environments for development, testing, and training.
9) Three global production data centers and disaster recovery - Force.com runs on three geographically dispersed, mirrored data centers with built-in replication, disaster recovery, a redundant network backbone, and no single points of failure
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Support Rating
Dayforce
Most of the time the support is great; it's not always super efficient but I always get the help I need. Occasionally it takes a lot longer than we had hoped or get conflicting responses. We had one ticket recently where we were told we would have to pay the service team to support us on the project and then another person called the next day with the solution to our query and was able to find a solution easily. Generally, though, the response is great and they either walk me though how to do something via a Zoom Meeting or they email step-by-step instructions on how to do it and say if I have questions we can set up a meeting to discuss further.
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Salesforce
The overall support has been good. More and more features are being released quite frequently. Very small features are also making big difference in how the tool can be adapted and used better. If there is anything we need or are stuck, the support team sets up a call and helps in resolving the issue/provides workarounds.
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In-Person Training
Dayforce
Because the training we reviewed at Insights has changed how we use the system everyday. This is a key factor in our training.
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Salesforce
I attended two training sessions. I would rate them a 4 as an advanced user. It was very basic – great for someone new – would give 8+ for new person.

I had 3 years of experience at the time. I skipped basic and went onto advanced and still not helpful. A lot of it was best practices that didn’t feel relevant for our business
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Online Training
Dayforce
The online training is very good, there is a wide variety of topics offered and several dates and times. The instructors are very knowledgeable about the subjects they are teaching. There are so many ways to program Dayforce that just the basics seem to be covered in the class.
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Salesforce
I have gone through multiple. The content that’s delivered is quite basic – I wish they had more advanced training.

We are grandfathered into premium support plus training. We get unlimited access to instructor led and online training for free. We have taken advantage of this
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Implementation Rating
Dayforce
Have a strong internal team. Communicate with your implementation team - they are there to make it work for you. Take the time to really think about how you want the system to work for you - in some cases, you may need to rethink your own business practices to see if you are working harder when the system could do it for you
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Salesforce
Just from an organizational standpoint - we standardized our data prior to moving to Salesforce. But we essentially standardized it wrong. That's created a big disgusting mess for us know that I'll have to deal with as the Admin. Be sure you think through use cases prior to doing something like that - seek outside opinions on how the data will work best, especially depending on what else you're going to integrate with Salesforce.
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Alternatives Considered
Dayforce
All of the info for Payroll, HR updates, employee updates, Time worked and PTO are in a single application, with a single login, updated in every screen or module in real time. There is no lag in data from screen to screen or from user to user, its almost instant.
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Salesforce
The thing that puts Sales Cloud above the top is its simple user interface, which is easy to interact with. The visuals and automation are also quite amazing. Given its attention to data and customer relationship management, Sales Cloud is tough to beat. Of course, Microsoft Dynamics integrates nicely with other Microsoft products, and Monday is a tool everyone is familiar with, so it is hard to compete with those.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Dayforce
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Salesforce is the most widely used CRM system. Professionalism tends to increase when things go wrong for market leaders. Salesforce considers us as users because they own the market. Having all of our data in one place and all of our teams working within Salesforce. Anyone who uses Salesforce is impacted by it, even if they don't.
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Scalability
Dayforce
Overall, we are extremely happy with the Dayforce WFM module. Our biggest pain point is concerning the twice annual software upgrades - which is the only reason I haven't rated them as a '10'. Because every customer is configured differently, the upgrades can sometimes have adverse effects on our current configured policies/rules. And although they roll-out the upgraded version in a test environment several weeks before go-live, not all testing is accurate in that environment. Some issues do not present themselves until you are working with live punches.
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Salesforce
Salesforce sales cloud implementation can give you the desired outcome for your business. Its workflow, approval, sync, and file-sharing features help automate the process. The Macros feature helps business to shorten their sales cycle. Sales Cloud also allows businesses to make the right decision with its real-time business insights and analysis.
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Professional Services
Dayforce
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Using Salesforce.com has made my daily routines more efficient and simplified the manual tasks I had to perform independently. I can now access data from any device, online or offline, and provide better guidance to my team about the forecasts provided by the built-in artificial intelligence (AI). A chat with a Salesforce support specialist would be great. The knowledge base has a community forum where Salesforce users can ask questions and learn more about the product.
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Return on Investment
Dayforce
  • Performance Reviews/Comp used to be handled via paper and tracking/reporting was a nightmare - having all of that in the system is so much more efficient and provides huge ROI
  • Our organization used to have big problems with hiring managers going rogue and hiring positions that aren't approved by Finance - we built an approval workflow in the system that triggers before any req is approved which has completely solved this problem
  • Dayforce Wallet has been a huge perk for our employees - it's heavily used and our crew love it
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Salesforce
  • All tools we've implemented with Salesforce had a pretty quick positive ROI with the exception of CPQ & Billing. That was a very large project that I would only suggest for businesses with many SKUs that tend to be packaged together.
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ScreenShots

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Salesforce Sales Cloud Screenshots

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