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    Emplifi

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Emplifi offers a platform that enables brands to manage social marketing, commerce, and care. At the core of this platform is Emplifi Fuel — the outcome and enablement layer that connects all modules across marketing, commerce, and care. Fuel empowers brands to optimize the customer journey, unifying data, automation, and AI-driven insights to ensure every interaction drives meaningful business outcomes. The platform's core capabilities include:…N/A

    Agentforce Sales

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce' Agentforce Sales (formerly Salesforce Sales Cloud) is the company's flagship CRM platform. The AI CRM for Sales features data built right in.

    $25

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    Pricing
    EmplifiAgentforce Sales
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $25.00
    per month per user
    Professional
    $80.00
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $165.00
    per month per user
    Unlimited
    $330.00
    per month per user
    Agentforce 1 Sales
    $550
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    EmplifiAgentforce Sales
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    EmplifiAgentforce Sales
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    Emplifi Inc
    Chose Emplifi
    Brandwatch has a bigger scope on listening outside conversations on Twitter or other channels such as Influencers. Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud has that ability but works best in helping us manage our own scope (eg. fanpages and accounts) like comments form our fans and brand …
    Incentivized
    Chose Emplifi
    Socialbakers can be your one stop shop for all social platform performance. Hopefully it will expand metrics coverage in the future to get more flexibility on the data analyses with more comparisons.
    Incentivized
    Chose Emplifi
    Salesforce's Radian 6 is too clunky and hard to translate for management. The native platforms are good, but again without competitor details.
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    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    94%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    143 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    63 Answers
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    125 Answers
    Features
    EmplifiAgentforce Sales
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.4
    7 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
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    Ratings
    Boolean keyword searches6.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam6.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis5.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.3
    8 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
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    Content planning and scheduling7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience targeting7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content optimization7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
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    Automated routing and prioritization7.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk actions6.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
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    Lead generation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content marketing7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Paid media management7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    5.8
    8 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
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    Twitter6.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Facebook7.98 Ratings00 Ratings
    LinkedIn4.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Google+8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instagram7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pinterest3.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    YouTube3.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.4
    8 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
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    Campaign success analytics7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time tracking6.78 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitor analysis5.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.7
    8 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
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    Role-based user permissions & privileges7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile access6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.2
    268 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings8.6268 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings8.6258 Ratings
    Territory management00 Ratings7.5211 Ratings
    Opportunity management00 Ratings9.0258 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings7.7243 Ratings
    Contract management00 Ratings8.0214 Ratings
    Quote & order management00 Ratings7.6197 Ratings
    Interaction tracking00 Ratings8.9228 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings8.0190 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.7
    104 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Case management00 Ratings8.3102 Ratings
    Call center management00 Ratings7.782 Ratings
    Help desk management00 Ratings7.286 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.8
    243 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Lead management00 Ratings7.8238 Ratings
    Email marketing00 Ratings7.9205 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.0
    247 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Task management00 Ratings8.3235 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings7.078 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings8.7200 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.3
    260 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Forecasting00 Ratings7.8228 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization00 Ratings8.5247 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings8.7257 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.5
    251 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Custom fields00 Ratings9.0248 Ratings
    Custom objects00 Ratings8.7238 Ratings
    Scripting environment00 Ratings7.7175 Ratings
    API for custom integration00 Ratings8.5209 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    9.0
    282 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.0220 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.0254 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.7
    160 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Social data00 Ratings8.0158 Ratings
    Social engagement00 Ratings7.4156 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.9
    216 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Marketing automation00 Ratings7.9212 Ratings
    Compensation management00 Ratings7.9146 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Emplifi and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Emplifi
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.3
    231 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Mobile access00 Ratings8.3231 Ratings
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    Enterprises
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    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    EmplifiAgentforce Sales
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (110 ratings)
    8.9
    (470 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (61 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (36 ratings)
    8.4
    (166 ratings)
    Availability
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    9.0
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    Performance
    -
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    8.0
    (20 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (43 ratings)
    9.0
    (98 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (15 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
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    9.0
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    Configurability
    -
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    9.0
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
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    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
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    8.2
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.0
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    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.9
    (85 ratings)
    Professional Services
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    9.3
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    User Testimonials
    EmplifiAgentforce Sales
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Emplifi Inc
    - Very well suited to grabbing top-level and more in-depth social performance data, across campaigns and BAU activity. - Not as well suited for moments where you need benchmarking or context of your performance compared with a previous time frame. This can be a bit clunky to go back and forth with as it requires multiple dashboards or consistent manual time-frame changes.
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    Salesforce
    Obviously, for any business, there are two main areas to focus on — the sales path and the service path. Sales Cloud wouldn’t be suited for a company that’s primarily into support services. For those kinds of companies, Salesforce has a different product — Service Cloud. So, for anyone in the support or service space, Sales Cloud isn’t the right fit.
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    Pros
    Emplifi Inc
    • Helps us prioritize requests based on urgency and tone
    • Helps us divide work between several teams
    • Helps us keep an eye on how our posts are being recieved and are performing
    • Helps us stay in contact with customers, and helps us understand particular customers needs
    • Helps us separate the chaff from the wheat
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    Salesforce
    • The customizations - We have an organization that operates differently from most companies, so we’ve had to implement quite a few customizations — and Salesforce allows us to do that quite quickly. Most of the time, delays come from dependencies on other internal parties rather than the system itself.
    • From my perspective as a consultant, one of the biggest advantages is that everything is in Salesforce — all the details, all in one place. The ability to customize it easily is a big plus; there’s really a lot you can do with it.
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    Cons
    Emplifi Inc
    • Would love more robust search parameters for labels. ex. search for tickets labeled 'Availability' AND 'United States' but excluding any that are only one of those labels
    • Ability to break conversations into multiple tickets; so labels can be more accurate if the same person reaches out again after 3 months with a totally different question
    • The social account quick view doesn't always load the follower count for people reaching out to us. it makes it slower to manager messages from high level creators
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    Salesforce
    • We still need to include the production part. We started using Salesforce to sell the seeds — our inventory is in SAP — and from there we handle sales and track the process of planting, harvesting, selling, and then collecting payments. But we don’t yet manage the earlier production processes, like production planning. We handle allocation, but not full production planning, and that’s an area where we still have room for improvement.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Emplifi Inc
    the balance between quality and price si perfectperfect for agency that have many client to manage, because it helps us to save time (we don't have to plan content from every single account, only one click to look at different community and moderate...)it also help the team works: senior can review content direcly from emplifi; labeling DM/comments as done help us to track where a collegue stop and we have to startIt makes the content approval from clients very easy
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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
    Emplifi Inc
    Since the main use of the Live Advisor is on the website that doesn't have e-commerce capabilities, it has been challenging to attach an specific metric to Emplifi's solutions and their usability in our websites. The Live Advisor is helping us to deliver our unique sale proposition in digital channels, which is great, but it is difficult to assign a higher mark in usability due to the limitation just explained.
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    Salesforce
    Because I think it could be easier. We have different standards today since we’re used to interacting with consumer apps like Starbucks, where all you do is scan your card. Then, when you use Sales Cloud, there are still a lot of manual inputs. So my mission with AI is really about figuring out how to make that easier.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Emplifi Inc
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Emplifi Inc
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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
    Emplifi Inc
    We have a dedicated Customer Success manager, and that is very helpful. Anytime we have questions or need support, they are always there to answer. If thety do not know the solution, they always go around the bend to find one and provide it to us. They are always very kind.
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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
    Emplifi Inc
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Emplifi Inc
    The online training was fine but, in the end, the best way to learn any product is by actually using it.
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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
    Emplifi Inc
    The platform is so easy to understand that no "expensive consulting firm" is necessary to implement it!
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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
    Emplifi Inc
    We have used Sprinklr to source UGC content as well, but found the platform to be much more time intensive when searching for the desired images. Additionally, Emplifi's UGC tool has incremental tools the other platforms do not provide, including the ability to share images on digital screens within the property and put carousels on our websites.
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    Salesforce
    So I've evaluated, implemented Microsoft Dynamics in the past. I've used Oracle CRM solutions. I've used Daylight, which is a very niche CRM system the last couple of years. And I've evaluated a variety from Legacy Microsoft Ones to Zoho and Sugar when making implementation decisions at other companies. But usually I've gone with Salesforce. I'd say it's better than most. The only one that I generally prefer, and last time I chose an implementation from scratch, I did Microsoft Dynamics. And the reason is for small mid-size organization, Microsoft Dynamics, if you already have Microsoft Office products, it's much better integrated to all of the Excel, Word, OneNote, Outlook email than what you get from Salesforce. And so that's the only one that if someone's a Microsoft organization and small sized company, it'll save a lot of integration things, a lot of security, a lot of login and access and IT management by just sticking within the Microsoft ecosystem. But outside of that, if you don't use Microsoft or if you're a large organization or have other needs that you want, Salesforce I'd say is better than all of the other CRM offerings out there. It's the easiest to use and the most robust and the most vendors and products for the ecosystem.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Emplifi Inc
    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
    Emplifi Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    It's very scalable as it has a ton of features (but you do need an admin who understands how to leverage these features). Because of the various features, we've also needed to host onboarding sessions with our users so that they can familiarize themselves with the platform, which isn't always super user-friendly or intuitive.
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    Professional Services
    Emplifi Inc
    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
    Emplifi Inc
    • reporting - this has massively reduced the time spent on creating reports for social media activities
    • paid ads - has provided detailed analysis of how our ads are performing
    • community - reduced the time taken to respond to social messages, resulting in more leads
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    Salesforce
    • It allows me to keep a close eye on all of my performance metrics through the Dashboard Reporting, ie what my sales pipeline looks like, how much it's changed in the last 60 days, new opportunities created in the last 7 days, # of emails sent for the week, etc. The ease of the design and output make it really easy to check my progress throughout the day to find where I have holes and am falling short on my personal and work goals. It's resulted in greater transparency with my Mgmt Team and shorter 1-on-1 mtgs with my boss as he can see exactly where I am at all times (to be fair, I'm a senior sales rep, so he pretty much lets me do my job completely unfettered), but it does prove that I am continually producing which recently resulted in a raise I didn't even ask for.
    • The SF repository is so detailed that I don't have to spend tons of time finding frequently used websites attached to a client or see what all interactions with the company look like. Even though I don't use SF for my bulk emails and email sequences, SF provides me with an email to use in the bcc of these emails which links everything back to SF. I find that extremely helpful. This really impacts my efficiency and I can honestly say that once I started using all the functionality of data management, it saved me about 20% of my time/week that I could then allocate towards other revenue-generating tasks like prospecting and account management. The more time I have for those, the better. My year-over-year on accounts 1 year and older just grew by 17% this last year.
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