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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Salesforce Platform is designed for building and deploying scalable cloud applications with managed hardware provisioning and app stacks. Lightning Web Components are used by developers to build reusable UI components.

    $25

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    Salesforce Agentforce ServiceSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    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
    Starter
    $25.00
    Per User Per Month
    Plus
    $100.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce Agentforce ServiceSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Salesforce Agentforce ServiceSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    Chose Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Service Cloud is a step up from Desk mainly because of its reporting, but if you can integrate other Salesforce products together, I'd recommend looking at its other solutions and looking at its own integrated CRM case closer. Service Cloud isn't the perfect solution, but it …
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    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    52 Answers
    89%
    Would buy again
    25 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    43 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    39 Answers
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Salesforce Agentforce ServiceSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Salesforce Agentforce Service and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    7.9
    81 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.179 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory7.857 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.267 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation6.862 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission8.779 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response7.878 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Salesforce Agentforce Service and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    8.7
    76 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base8.567 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.874 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Salesforce Agentforce Service and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    7.9
    81 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal7.758 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR7.937 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration7.351 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support8.880 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration7.870 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Salesforce Agentforce Service and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    7.2
    30 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.030 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings7.025 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings6.023 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.026 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings6.025 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce ServiceSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (100 ratings)
    8.9
    (36 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.1
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (22 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    8.4
    (45 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (20 ratings)
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce Agentforce ServiceSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    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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    Salesforce
    If you have a large customer base and a large amount of data on each of your customers, it is really strong in creating personalized content that your salespeople can use in their pitch meetings—and then setting up workflows for automated for lifecycle journey creations to automatically go out to customers.
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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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    Salesforce
    • It has a very smooth integration with Salesforce and third-party tools, ensuring easy tracking of policies and assets.
    • It also has impressive security features like used-based permissions and encrypted data.
    • Everything can be managed from a centralized place which saves a lot of time.
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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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    • It takes a while before it recognizes bounced emails.
    • We get so many notifications from a single action. Not sure if this can be modified in the settings though.
    • Error messages are sometimes unclear which makes it hard for us to identify the problem.
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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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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    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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    It's very good, but it's still living in a little bit in an older design aspect, but I think a lot of it is about to come out, just hasn't quite gotten there yet. Still a little clunky from a you have to know it to know it or you know it to use it. It takes a little bit of training to get into it. It's not quite the, anybody can come in and start using it immediately, type feel.
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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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    No answers on this topic
    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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    Salesforce
    I am not an administrator so there may very well be outstanding Support and I am just not privy to it. On a user level it's hard to gauge the effectiveness and responsiveness of Support because nearly everything has to go through an administrator
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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.
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    Salesforce
    We were previously using an older version prior to it becoming Salesforce Lightning Platform so we were well adverse on the advantages of using a CRM, to begin with. It made sense to convert to Salesforce Lightning Platform after we were given a free trial of the platform. Certain reps were chosen to experiment with it and from there a decision was made to move forward. We've been customers ever since.
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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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    • Better visibility of Accounts and Contacts interactions makes it easier to maintain during employee transitions.
    • Tracking of current jobs and relating them to past jobs is very useful.
    • More efficient use of Sales Reps time.
    • Sales Managers have good visibility into how their people are working.
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