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    Salesforce Agentforce Service

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AService Cloud is a customer service platform that helps businesses manage and resolve customer inquiries and issues. It provides tools for case management, knowledge base, omni-channel support, automation, and analytics, enabling companies to deliver exceptional customer service experiences.

    $25

    per month

    Pricing
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Editions & Modules
    Starter Suite
    $25
    per month
    Pro Suite
    $100
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $165
    per month per user
    Unlimited
    $330
    per month per user
    Agentforce 1
    $550
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Basically I use only a couple of the sales process.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Zendesk - I think it's not exactly user-friendly for the final user, but it's user-friendly for the configuration. So it's easier to manage when we have these amounts of data we're going through and it's more AI prepared. So by far Salesforce is more ready for what we want as …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    We selected this product because we already had some competencies in Salesforce. We own a Salesforce partner with expertise in this area, and on top of that, Salesforce purchased it — it was originally called Velocity. When Salesforce decided to acquire it, that finalized the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    I evaluated ServiceNow also, but we didn’t see much customization kind of thing compared to Salesforce Service Cloud. And yeah, that’s it — I didn’t evaluate many other products because I’ve been working on this one for the last 14 years. I just evaluated a few things in that. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    ServiceNow, it's not related to each other.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    I think Agentforce now got a lot of, I mean it will make our lives easier because there's a lot of automation going on at the same time. We're excited about Salesforce voice as well. That will help us in Service Cloud. So it's more of unified service for us that say a Service …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Evaluated ServiceNow. Evaluated Zendesk. We selected it primarily because we already had the Salesforce ecosystem and we didn't want to bring in another vendor. For us it was important to make sure that our data is only in so many different systems and so many different cloud …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    We moved from a customer first program, which was real clunky. So this is way better, it's smoother, the interface is more intuitive.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Oh, now see, I forget the names of the other ones I've done. I mean I've used C4s, I've used some lower end ones too for local small business and I'd even recommend Salesforce for small business. Say pricing strategy for small businesses is harder for them to keep up with the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Going back when this product was selected, they went through probably a two year evaluation process. We weren't personally a part of that obviously because we were on the implementation side, but they evaluated many products. Microsoft and Pega were the two main front runners …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    I wasn't by the evaluation for years, so not that, but historically I've been here for 13 years, so not a lot, but previous company had a home built solutions for it, so they designed their own and built their own. But that was a big telco in the UK we had our own data centers …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    We have both sales and service
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Best user interface and advanced features, easy to implement and best licensed
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    I honestly prefer Zendesk to Salesforce Service Cloud. I find that Zendesk is easier to manage both on the support ticket side, as well as the knowledge center side. It looks and feels easier to use than Salesforce Service Cloud. Salesforce Service Cloud is fine, but it is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Zoho is not very real-time, it has limited integration capabilities, and the UI is not very satisfactory for any incoming customer. The performance is slow and impacts the overall customer journey. The data stored in the backend is slightly scattered and needs to be cleaned …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Salesforce is a really great case management tool. Made things a lot easier for our team. Wanted something fairly simple that had a variety of capabilities we could customize.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    We used Salesforce for years, Left for Hubspot, and then came back to Salesforce (SF). As they say, don't fix it if it's not broken. Salesforce and customizing were better for us.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Salesforce Service Cloud offers deep integration with our current and expanding CRM data, along with numerous pre-built features that didn't exist in Kayako when we used it. (We used to use an instance Kayako installed in a private cloud environment.) Salesforce Service Cloud …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Because it has good ratings and it is easy to setup .it also has good word of mouth.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Zendesk has it's own challenges in terms of Administrator difficulties and a completely different back-end than Salesforce Service Cloud. I would recommend Salesforce Service Cloud if you need a clean database of Companies and Contacts. Zendesk does not excel in overall CRM …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Salesforce Service Cloud has more unique customization features that benefit the organization as a whole.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    I'm not at the level where I would be part of the decision making process for choosing a vendor or product for the organization. Every position I've held, I've come into a company that has already implemented or is in the process of implementing Salesforce. Honestly I would not …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    52 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    43 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    39 Answers
    Features
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    7.9
    81 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.279 Ratings
    Expert directory7.857 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.267 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation6.962 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission8.779 Ratings
    Ticket response7.978 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    8.7
    76 Ratings
    8% above category average
    External knowledge base8.567 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.874 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    7.9
    81 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Customer portal7.758 Ratings
    IVR8.037 Ratings
    Social integration7.451 Ratings
    Email support8.880 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration7.870 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (100 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.1
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (22 ratings)
    Availability
    8.4
    (45 ratings)
    Performance
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (20 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    I think Service Cloud is best suited for medium to large operations that require both proactive and reactive service. It’s a great fit for post-sales support. However, I wouldn’t recommend it for very small companies because it can be quite costly, and many of the features may go unused. Salesforce also performs best when you have a capable team managing it, so it’s important to consider your organization’s size and readiness before starting. Once you do, I recommend exploring other parts of the Salesforce ecosystem—Service Cloud works even better when integrated with Sales Cloud, since it allows better visibility across teams.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Email to case is an interesting piece of it. The threading is very strong, sometimes too strong, but it does very well at handling the incoming emails.
    • The omnichannel routing, using skill-based routing is really effective.
    • Pathing. So making the workflow and helping the team understand what it is that they're trying to do, what they have to accomplish, those step-by-step pieces. That's really helpful.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • We had a principle initially to try and use Omni as much as we can from the user experience perspective, but have found that fairly restrictive. It was very difficult to actually get the right customer experience and customer engagement going. So we're actually on a journey at the moment to replace all of our Omni with Lightning web components that gives us that flexibility. That's probably one area where we've had some challenges in terms of how we've used the product out of the box.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    Professional edition works best for a small company with lower call volumes and is very useful but as you grow exponetially I think it has limited ability to do all the things we want to - SLA management, defect, release management to name a few. Reports and dashboards being available in real time.
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    I had Salesforce experience prior to using Service Cloud which made it a little easier to learn and navigate, but overall my team (some who had no Salesforce experience) caught on very quickly and found Service Cloud to be easy to use.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Salesforce
    Working on an application that caters to customer needs requires a platform that acts as a mediator between the actual person and the client. This mediator handles the customer and resolves many of their doubts, helps them map through the entire process, and automates the processes. Such a platform is Salesforce Service Cloud. For queries that cannot be serviced by the platform, it creates a separate ServiceNow ticket for us, and it is assigned.
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    Performance
    Salesforce
    The Salesforce Service Cloud generally has very good performance, however the overall new Lightning user experience can bring that down. For example, if you have too many tabs open, then it can take a while for the Lightning UI to load. This UI is probably not well equipped to handle loading of all of that information at once, but Users tend to leave their tabs open all day long. It can also be fickle depending on which browser you use, what extensions you have installed, and whether you've cleared your cache. This can be the downfall with any software as a service though, not just Salesforce
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    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    Salesforce offers support, although it generally gets routed to overseas support teams first, and once they are unable to help, it gets escalated up the chain to higher tiers. Frequently, the answer back from support is that there is no native solution, and we either have to turn to the AppExchange for some solution provided by another developer, or custom build our own solution.
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    In-Person Training
    Salesforce
    Our in-person training was provided by our implementation partner and it was quite good. This was in part because we were already working with them and so it naturally leant itself to a good training relationship. And because they were building our customizations and configuring things, they could then provide training on those things naturally.
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    Online Training
    Salesforce
    Trailheads are great but it was often unclear what actually applied to our organization. This made it difficult to get a whole lot out of it. Part of it is that because the basic Salesforce features didn't quite work for us, we had to add customizations, which then nullified a lot of the training.
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    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    I would go through an implementation very differently knowing what I know now. It was difficult coming from systems we liked in post-sales service and having to adapt to the clunky and underwhelming feature set in Salesforce. I would trim back our expectations
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    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    We selected this product because we already had some competencies in Salesforce. We own a Salesforce partner with expertise in this area, and on top of that, Salesforce purchased it — it was originally called Velocity. When Salesforce decided to acquire it, that finalized the decision for us.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Salesforce
    The product has scaled up with our company growth just fine. No issues here other than slowness in clicking around and running reports
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • We have cut our service team in half over the past 5 years due to the efficiency of the tool
    • The amount of direct inquiries to our technical team is less than 10% compared to the number support tickets that get entered in the system for them to work in a more organized manner
    • Responses are 100% more timely because tickets can be responded to by any individual in the queue or on the team, as opposed to direct emails to just one person
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