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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    per month

    Splunk Enterprise Security

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASplunk Enterprise Security is an analytics-driven SIEM that helps to combat threats with actionable intelligence and advanced analytics at scale.N/A
    Pricing
    Agentforce SalesSplunk Enterprise Security
    Editions & Modules
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Agentforce SalesSplunk Enterprise Security
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    209 Answers
    99%
    Would buy again
    109 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    179 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    90 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    216 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    103 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    143 Answers
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    125 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    90 Answers
    Features
    Agentforce SalesSplunk Enterprise Security
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Salesforce Agentforce Sales and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.2
    268 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    -
    Ratings
    Customer data management / contact management8.6268 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management8.6258 Ratings00 Ratings
    Territory management7.5211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Opportunity management9.1258 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)7.6243 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract management8.0214 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quote & order management7.6197 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interaction tracking9.0228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management8.0190 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Salesforce Agentforce Sales and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.7
    104 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    -
    Ratings
    Case management8.3102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call center management7.782 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help desk management7.286 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Salesforce Agentforce Sales and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.7
    243 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    -
    Ratings
    Lead management7.7238 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email marketing7.8205 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Salesforce Agentforce Sales and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.0
    247 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    -
    Ratings
    Task management8.3235 Ratings00 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management6.978 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting8.7200 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Salesforce Agentforce Sales and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.3
    260 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    -
    Ratings
    Forecasting7.8228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization8.5247 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports8.7257 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Salesforce Agentforce Sales and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.4
    251 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    -
    Ratings
    Custom fields9.0248 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom objects8.6238 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scripting environment7.6175 Ratings00 Ratings
    API for custom integration8.5209 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Salesforce Agentforce Sales and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    9.0
    282 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    -
    Ratings
    Single sign-on capability9.0220 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions9.0254 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Salesforce Agentforce Sales and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.6
    160 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    -
    Ratings
    Social data7.9158 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social engagement7.3156 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Salesforce Agentforce Sales and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.9
    216 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    -
    Ratings
    Marketing automation7.9212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compensation management7.8146 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Salesforce Agentforce Sales and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.4
    231 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile access8.4231 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Salesforce Agentforce Sales and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    -
    Ratings
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    8.9
    108 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings8.6106 Ratings
    Correlation00 Ratings8.9105 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings9.5106 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility00 Ratings8.0107 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings8.9102 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings9.9108 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings8.5102 Ratings
    Data integration/API management00 Ratings8.5104 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings9.4100 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings8.5101 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings9.093 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings8.9101 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings9.0107 Ratings
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    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Agentforce SalesSplunk Enterprise Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (470 ratings)
    8.1
    (110 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (61 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (166 ratings)
    6.8
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (29 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (20 ratings)
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (98 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (15 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (19 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.9
    (85 ratings)
    8.7
    (98 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.3
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Agentforce SalesSplunk Enterprise Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Cisco
    Splunk ES is great for organizations with complex IT environments, and real-time visibility into their infrastructure is critical. We use it as the central platform to sort through alerts, run diagnostics, and respond to incidents. We have integrated it with SOAR and automations; both help keep our security posture up to date.
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    Pros
    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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    Cisco
    • Writes Powerful Queries: The queries that can be written using the Splunk Query Language are very powerful and highly customizable to meet every need. Ex: Writing queries to search the intersection of two different sources like Network and Endpoint Logs.
    • Offers Dashboard Abilities: Helps build complex panels for Dashboards in addition to providing several out-of-the-box panels. Ex: creating panels to calculate the performance of analysts in a given timezone.
    • Helpful Search Aids: It helps to set up complex custom alerts very easily. The interesting fields section is very helpful while threat hunting. Ex: It shows all the users and the frequency of each in a failed login event. The user list on the interesting fields is useful to look for suspicious logins.
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    Cons
    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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    Cisco
    • Improved User Interface Customization: While the interface is generally intuitive, providing more options for users to customize their dashboards and views would enhance the overall user experience. Tailoring the interface to specific roles or use cases could be a valuable addition.
    • Simplified Alert Management: Streamlining the process of managing alerts, such as grouping or categorizing them based on severity or type, would make it easier for security teams to prioritize and respond to incidents effectively.
    • Expanded Threat Intelligence Feeds: Increasing the variety and sources of threat intelligence feeds available within ES would provide a broader context for identifying and mitigating emerging threats, ensuring a more comprehensive defense against evolving attack vectors.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Cisco
    We are very happy with Splunk and would advise anyone to take a serious look at it. It might look pricey but the rewards Splunk offers seem endless.
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    Usability
    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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    Cisco
    I gave it a 6/10 because it's a perfect tool for experienced Splunk users. It's very difficult to add people to the Splunk team due to the complexity of the solutions. It took weeks to write useful SPL queries and even more time to be independent of the solution.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    Cisco
    I don't think I've ever seen Splunk ES go fully offline or have any downtime greater than a few minutes on rare occasions.
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    Performance
    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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    Cisco
    It takes a long time for items to load if you are just generally searching through logs. It is best to use the data models which load faster but can be strange in terms of what is coming from which logs where. Yes, you can look it up, but this also requires familiarity with where things are and how to look them up.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Cisco
    It's good when it's responsive, but I've had times where I had to wait quite a while for a response. But these are typically the exceptions rather than the rule. When you do get a response it is always well-informed and appropriate. I would say they've been trending better over time with this.
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    In-Person Training
    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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    Cisco
    I experienced only on-line training, but the trainers were very professional and competent. Maybe it could be more useful if they also have an experience in projects because sometimes they didn't have a real project experience to communicate to the students. Anyway, it was very interesting and I learned many thing that's very difficoult (or maybe impossible!) to have by myself, aven if I have more than 10 years of Splunk activity experience.
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    Online Training
    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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    Cisco
    It was very interesting and I learned many thing that's very difficoult (or maybe impossible!) to have by myself. The only problem was that, when I worked with the Splunk Professional Services, I found some difference between the training contents and the information from PS. In addition is required a long experience on Splunk Enterprise for the data ingestion part, in other words I'm able to work with ES because I'm worling on Splunk since 11 years, otherwise I'd some problem.
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Cisco
    It's a fantatic product and it was very useful the presence of Splunk Professional Services for the Design Phase and the final Health Check.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Cisco
    Splunk enterprise is the only solution that we’ve been able to identify that provides risk based alerting, which allows our SOC to reduce analyst fatigue which would be a huge problem without it. Before RBA, there were thousands of alerts a day and it was impossible to review all of them
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    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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    Cisco
    for my exterience, unit pricing and billing frequency are correct. As I already said, I hint to have more discount flexibility, expecially with new customers, because there are competitors less expensive and very aggressive that are dangerous. In addition the possibility to don't pay the license for the development period could be a very interesting feature for the final customers.
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    Scalability
    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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    Cisco
    - 8 out of 10 and took 2 for the data pipeline and administration part. Even if you'd like to improve yourself or your team, you have to pay a lot of money and it could be more than GIAC education + cert. - Normalization for Data models and CPU-based searches can be a problem sometimes.
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    Professional Services
    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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    Cisco
    I had a fantastic experience with Splunk Professional Services: they worked with us in our last SON project (a SOC migration for a very large customer) and helped to build a multi tenent environment even if ES isn't a multi tenant platform. Th Splunk PS was a very professional and competent people, he is italian and was able to speak with our italian customers.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Cisco
    • We have a 100% success rate on all our ES implementations due to the amazing documentation and Splunk enablement on the subject.
    • Our Splunk ES business has grown 100% YoY for the last 3 years.
    • In terms of long term management and maintenance, ES has been highly stable and predictable, reducing our overhead on costly services team for ad hoc maintenance work.
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