Higher Logic Community vs Salesforce Experience Cloud (formerly Salesforce Community Cloud)

• Higher Logic product managers are probably some of the best in the industry. They know their products and aren't pushy in trying to sell them to you. Don't get me wrong, they do try to sell you a product, but they understand that not everyone who is tasked with learning more is also a decision maker. That doesn't stop them from being professional and thorough in their demonstrations or explanation of fees.
• Their technical support is top notch. Not only do they work to resolve issues, they also work with you to help you with non-issues. Our initial redesign was done by an agency that worked with HL directly to set up the new site. When I was tasked with a mini-redesign this year, HL technical support offered me a lot of insight on how to best do this using just my skills and HL.
• They offer training on their platforms to ensure your success as an administrator. There is no cost and you can either go to their onsite two days "boot camp" or you can access a plethora of training videos and webinars through their online users' community.

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• It has a lot of features baked in that are ready to go out of the box which should satisfy most use cases.
• It can be relatively easily customized to meet the individual needs of a company without giving too much ability to poorly build it.
• Integrates well with the rest of an existing Salesforce org if you have one.
• Users will already be familiar with the UI if they're using Salesforce for other reasons.

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• Reporting is copious but you cannot build your own reports so you may have lots of information in several different reports and have to pick and choose across several to combine manually. Exporting functionality is there but there are some reports that are only a screen shot and you cannot export them.

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• None that come to mind - integrations, experience, and use is great! However, if you're trying to learn it yourself, you may benefit from consulting an expert. Or, if you're wondering if it's good for you, a business analysis will suit you well before you implement to save yourselves, time, money, efforts, and even people.

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• The community laid dormant for a while before we revitalized, but it has encouraged more communication between members and then when they have the chance to meet at our annual meeting, they feel like they already know each other and want to sign up for the meeting to communicate with their new friends.

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• Improved online admission application completion rates from mid-60%s to mid-80%s.
• Positive user experience from start-to-finish to leverage one data system for all prospective student data
• Fewer data integrations transforming and loading sensitive student data by leveraging Salesforce Community Cloud to access already existing data

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