Salesforce Experience Cloud

Overview
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Salesforce Experience Cloud
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Salesforce 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
Pricing
Salesforce Experience Cloud
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Offerings
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Salesforce Experience Cloud
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Considered Both Products
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
Oh, the names escape me. And for the life of me, I tell everyone to move on to Communities. So I'm blanking on some of the other vendors out there.
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
It's one of its kind because other products are worked as an internal user, so whosoever whatsoever product you're using the experience cloud work with any of the other product as well is just external view will provide an external view with any of your product, whether you're …
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
Yeah, so we've utilized a few different evaluations of products. Most of them are website or WordPress base, intranet, hidden backend applications. It's just because all the data we have already and we have multiple experience clouds, it allows us to leverage SSO or single …
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
Community Cloud is directly connected to the database (Salesforce), so there is no need for a 3rd party or an API to bring systems together. This means that CRM users can see all Intranet items from Salesforce directly. It's also extremely straight forward in use, but can be …
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I have used Oracle Fusion and it was super slow if compared to Salesforce. The loading time was longer and information was not organized in a simple way like Salesforce. Even though I haven't participated in the decision process of subscribing to Salesforce, as an employee I …
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
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 …
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Salesforce Experience Cloud (formerly Salesforce Community Cloud) is better when you are using Salesforce for applications. Drupal is a solid open-source web content management system for internal and external websites, but if you are using Salesforce for services or case …
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We already have Salesforce Sales and Service Cloud and integration with Salesforce Experience Cloud is easier to configure and manage.
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We are currently using Vanilla to manage our community (including our knowledge base & ideas), but will be moving to [Salesforce Experience Cloud (formerly Salesforce Community Cloud)] within the quarter. We decided to move forward with Experience Cloud because it integrates so …
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
Does not have direct access to the Salesforce data, must integrate and maintatin that integration which is costly. Just having a single source login is valuable.
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
I have used Datatel/Colleague/Recruiter before. There were issues because only one person at the institution was able to have the student's record open at a time. This was problematic when collaboration between departments was necessary especially in the case of admissions, …
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
After evaluating others on the market, we found that Salesforce Community Cloud comes with many more features than it competitors. Also Salesforce Community Cloud is way more user-friendly than others. And above all, we were looking for faster sales support in which Salesforce …
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
Overall, Salesforce is the most effective solution since it is part of an integrated stack to house and activate CRM audiences within an email, but also expand upon it via the DMP. This can allow for cross channel reach and exposure frequency measurement. If we were to partner …
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
Before Community Cloud, a common alternative was the development of web sites externally with integration to Sales Cloud being made from external API calls. This is a far costlier and more complex endeavour since it requires a dedicated development team to create and maintain …
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
Salesforce has highly customizable lead management and scoring, while HubSpot can get small businesses up and running quickly with lead generation via content marketing. HubSpot is unique in its focus on inbound and content marketing—in fact, that's at the core of what the …
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
I never found another database solution that works as well as Salesforce.
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
As our client already used Salesforce CRM, it is a simple integration tasks to link Community to CRM. As such this was a quick deployment with the base data already being present and easily linked to.
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
I’m sure Salesforce does this as well but we were able to create many macros for Zendesk, that helped our agents interact with customers on a very consistent basis. We haven’t quite got that far in our organization, but I do think it would be useful to our agents.
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
Overall, Communities provides additional features and better front end experience.
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
Salesforce Community Cloud was purchased by the company and I was not a decision-maker or involved in the implementation process. Simply a user.
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
Zendesk was far better at case management.

Atlassian Confluence for knowledge base was not perfect but it was better than Community Cloud for search and appearance for the FAQ.
Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
Other online community forum software vendors include, HiveBrite, ForumBee and Memeni. the main competitor being HiveBrite. Additional tools with chat functionality may also include Slack which i have used. Having th ability to create groups by product / team / region etc.

Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
I have personally not used any other software comparable to Salesforce Community Cloud at this time.
Features
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Security
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Salesforce Experience Cloud
10.0
1 Ratings
19% above category average
Role-based user permissions10.01 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
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Salesforce Experience Cloud
10.0
1 Ratings
19% above category average
API10.01 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language10.01 Ratings
Web Content Creation
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Salesforce Experience Cloud
9.3
1 Ratings
23% above category average
WYSIWYG editor8.01 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness10.01 Ratings
Admin section10.01 Ratings
Page templates10.01 Ratings
Library of website themes8.01 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design10.01 Ratings
Publishing workflow10.01 Ratings
Form generator8.01 Ratings
Web Content Management
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Salesforce Experience Cloud
8.6
1 Ratings
22% above category average
Content taxonomy9.01 Ratings
SEO support8.01 Ratings
Bulk management8.01 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.01 Ratings
Community / comment management10.01 Ratings
Results and Analysis
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Salesforce Experience Cloud
8.0
1 Ratings
0% above category average
Conversion tracking8.01 Ratings
Test reporting8.01 Ratings
Funnel Analysis8.01 Ratings
User Segmentation8.01 Ratings
Digital Experience Platform
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Salesforce Experience Cloud
10.0
1 Ratings
10% above category average
Campaign management10.01 Ratings
Cloud enablement10.01 Ratings
Content aggregation10.01 Ratings
Content classification10.01 Ratings
Multi-channel content personalization10.01 Ratings
Customer data analytics10.01 Ratings
DXP Third-Party Integrations10.01 Ratings
Multi-website management10.01 Ratings
Digital asset management10.01 Ratings
Editorial workflows and task management10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(55 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(8 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
7.7
(17 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.4
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
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
Salesforce
  • Complete integration with the Salesforce ecosystem. Data displayed in your Community portal reflects records from a Sales Cloud organization
  • Highly customizable. A Community Cloud portal can be totally customized both visually and with different funcionalities with little to no coding skills required
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Cons
Salesforce
  • The documentation for implementing Experience Cloud can be a bit confusing as their rebranding hasn't made it's way into all articles, resulting in different terminology being used to refer to the same thing
  • Some things are not as intuitive regarding their customizability, so there's a bit of a learning curve (i.e. Lightning apps can't be used to customize layouts in Experience Cloud)
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Usability
Salesforce
Usability is pretty streamlined, especially if you're familiar with other Salesforce products, but even if not, take it from me, as I just entered the technological space about two years ago, that this product is pretty simple to learn. You don't have to jump in with your head underwater. Small wins and learnings along the way are what foster long-term understandings and enable your evolution alongside the product. I definitely recommend Salesforce Trailhead along with it
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Performance
Salesforce
It's delivered on our original requirements and we've found ways to grow its usage. We continue to build on our original success and we can report our data out to leadership to show a true return on investment which is great for growing support and expanding uses for the system.
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Support Rating
Salesforce
We have weekly calls with our Salesforce reps. They bring new ideas to the table and help with taxonomy builds. They have also answered many questions and connected us to the right people for us to grow our knowledge and utilization of the platform. They are a good partner overall in comparison.
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Alternatives Considered
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
Salesforce
  • 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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