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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Planhat

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/APlanhat is a post-sale customer platform designed for enterprise B2B organizations to aggregate customer data, automate lifecycle workflows, and monitor account health. As a dedicated Customer Success platform, it evaluates product usage telemetry, communication logs, and financial metrics to proactively manage customer health and support value realization.N/A

    Salesforce Experience Cloud

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (formerly Salesforce Experience Cloud or Salesforce Community Cloud) is an online forum powered by Salesforce that enables businesses to connect with their employees, customers, partner organizations, and prospects. Designed to help facilitate communication and information sharing, customers can ask questions and request help, administrators can integrate data from third-party apps, and employees can collaborate across projects and…N/A
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    PlanhatSalesforce Experience Cloud
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    PlanhatSalesforce Experience Cloud
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    PlanhatSalesforce Experience Cloud
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    96%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    45 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    Features
    PlanhatSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Planhat and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Planhat
    7.5
    13 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
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    Role-based user permissions7.513 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Planhat and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Planhat
    7.5
    13 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
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    API8.112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Data Extraction / Integration
    Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Planhat and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Planhat
    8.2
    14 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
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    Product usage8.214 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help desk / support tickets8.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Success Management
    Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Planhat and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Planhat
    7.9
    14 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
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    NPS surveys7.712 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sponsor tracking8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer profiles9.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated workflow6.713 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal collaboration8.513 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer health scoring7.914 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer segmentation7.914 Ratings00 Ratings
    CSM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Planhat and Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Planhat
    6.9
    13 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
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    Customer health trends6.813 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement analytics6.813 Ratings00 Ratings
    Revenue forecasting5.68 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboards8.213 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    PlanhatSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (14 ratings)
    8.9
    (71 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (18 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.4
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    User Testimonials
    PlanhatSalesforce Experience Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Planhat
    For someone working in the Customer Success team, Planhat is a must-have software. All your client-level data can be easily managed, stored, and reviewed at any point in time by Planhat. It also helps the management and the leadership team better see each account and its usage. It also helps in identifying potentially risky customers and taking the required actions to engage and retain the account. It also gets integrated easily with other meeting recording tools wherein the summary from the tool gets easily synced with Planhat
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    Salesforce
    For well-suited, this product is great for your external clientele groups that you would not necessarily want to have a high user fee rate for. So basically general public or a group that will be authorized to come in and just do a few things here and there, but you don't necessarily want them access to all of your systems and your data points for groups that it would not be a great use for. I'd say probably your high level internal staff, they're going to be using a lot of the backend functionality automations, evaluating data, managing data, and doing custom inputs. That's just not what's intended for.
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    Pros
    Planhat
    • Reporting - you can set up filters with boolean criteria to give you insight into everything you need to know.
    • Playbooks - these are very good for less-experienced CSM's who need a step-by-step guide on how to deal with different stages of the customer lifecycle. More experienced CSM's may not need the playbooks.
    • Usage data for customers - there's a wide range of charts in Planhat that tell the story of client consumption.
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    Salesforce
    • Easy to use, just like Salesforce's other products. Many users can sit down and figure it out in no time, and with a little training become power users.
    • Fast and secure - Salesforce is a leader in the cloud world so you get consistently fast results and security that is top notch in the industry.
    • Accessible from anywhere - if you use cloud CMS already this is a no-brainer, but for those that do in-house CMS still, this is a major difference. Mobile access from anywhere on the planet without a VPN is something you just can't do without the cloud.
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    Cons
    Planhat
    • Allow for cc'ing of AEs or others within the same organization from the messaging center. When I went to send a message from within Planhat, I had to manually type out the AE's email address every time if I wanted them cc'd.
    • The fonts were funky if I went to add text into an existing email template. For example, if I added in an extra sentence or paragraph, in Outlook on the recipient's end, the font was different despite looking the same within Planhat. Gmail was all consistent, Outlook was showing a different font.
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    Salesforce
    • Unlike other CMS platforms like Wordpress and Adobe Experience Manager, Salesforce does not provide a fully featured editor with a drag-and-drop design tool.
    • Our content creators and marketing team often struggle with permissions and how to distribute content across different experience cloud sites.
    • Also, there is no side-to-side comparison view for content editors to update the content easily.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Planhat
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Renewal exercise is already underway. Platform is to ubiquitous to not leverage, especially at a Fortune 50 firm
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    Usability
    Planhat
    It takes a while to learn Planhat even for experienced users. It has limitations in terms of what data you can present where, but its important to set internal guides outside Planhat as well so everybody working collaborative. But as CSM Planhat is a great- and critical tool which I use daily to optimise my work schedule and customer interaction with various topics.
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    Salesforce
    Strengths: - Intuitive for Salesforce Users – If you’re already working within the Salesforce ecosystem, the Salesforce CMS is easy to navigate, with a clean UI, drag-and-drop content management, and reusable assets for quick updates. - Seamless Integration – Since it connects natively with Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and CRM, it allows for efficient multi-channel content distribution without needing extra third-party tools. - AI-Powered Personalization – The ability to deliver dynamic content based on user profiles and engagement data is a huge plus, making content delivery more relevant and impactful. Challenges: - Learning Curve for New Users – If you're not already familiar with Salesforce, the interface can feel overwhelming, requiring training to fully leverage all features. - Limited Customization & Workflow Automation – While it works well for structured content, advanced approval workflows and deep editorial customization are limited compared to enterprise CMS platforms like Adobe Experience Manager. - Media & Design Limitations – Salesforce CMS is not as robust for managing rich media-heavy content, which can be frustrating for teams needing more flexibility in multimedia presentation.
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    Performance
    Planhat
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Again, since we provide and recommend solutions, I can't speak to every client's individual experience, but can offer general reflections as to keep their collaborations private, that they are satisfied with the experience. We hear a lot about how this system helps to encourage collaborations between their own business partners, customers, and internal members, and enables quality integrations with other products that help drive revenue.
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    Support Rating
    Planhat
    The support team couldn't be better. They are quick to respond, very helpful, and thorough. Our CS manager was always happy to schedule calls to go through specific feature queries and she ensured we had a smooth and quick setup.
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    Salesforce
    Although support from Salesforce itself can be quite unresponsive sometimes, the community hub is incredibly helpful. The large user base of Salesforce products contribute to troubleshooting and the forums are a powerful tool for finding solutions and possible bugs and response times can be quite fast compared to your regular support channels.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Planhat
    I was not the person involved in choosing Planhat, but it seems to me that Planhat is much better suited to an account management style role, whereas Hubspot is closer to a sales CRM instead. In my position, Planhat is better suited as it is more graphical, more flexible, and easier to find information on.
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce Experience Cloud was selected due to its tight integration with our existing Salesforce CRM platform. Customization of the portal was much, much simpler compared to Sharepoint - especially with role-based security parameters that are ultimately inherited based on attributes within the Salesforce CRM platform. Salesforce Experience Cloud was a natural fit for this customer-facing purpose.
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    Return on Investment
    Planhat
    • Planhat has, for the first time, given us a 360-degree view of all our customers and access to all the different types of communication we have with them across different departments and functions.
    • The ability to automate workflows, tasks, and assign playbooks to the various phases of our customer lifecycle has aligned all our departments.
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    Salesforce
    • Time savings for our customer success team - no need to continually follow up on tickets as customers have access to see status themselves
    • In the future, it will also allow us to create more impactful knowledge articles that will increase self-service over ticket creation
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