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    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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    Salesforce Experience Cloud
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    Salesforce Experience Cloud
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    Salesforce
    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.
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    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    As our business heavily relies on Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud, we need a CMS that works natively with our existing Salesforce Data. Other platforms would require third-party connectors or custom API development, making integration more complex and expensive. …
    Incentivized
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    Pulls data from Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud to dynamically update content, we didn't want to use too many 3rd party tools that would expose our busines to threats
    Incentivized
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    I used to use WebWave at my previous firm and felt like it was more for website creation rather than content sharing internally. I was also in a different role so I meant my needs at my last firm. My focus has changed and now Salesforce CMS is the best product for my team to …
    Incentivized
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    Integration between the two is easy and superb
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    I love that this is available to compete with Adobe and stay afloat. It's a fantastic tool and product. What sets it apart is the ease of use and the collaborating factor using it within Salesforce. It has kept our organization functioning smoothly and we get a lot more done …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Even just a single administrator can be enough to address the needs of the end users with Salesforce CMS. It provides extensive support for customer service and marketing processes. Salesforce CMS creates highly personalized customer journeys across all communication channels …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    This product is a little bit cleaner and easier to use. It has a better user interface and is more fun. I really like how it operates. It is more approachable for new users and offices that are just breaking into some of these things. I think it works really well in that …
    Incentivized
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    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    We already have Salesforce Sales and Service Cloud and integration with Salesforce Experience Cloud is easier to configure and manage.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce CMS is directly integrated with Salesforce CRM. As part of Salesforce Suite, all the activities of Salesforce CMS are integrated and organized with the information stored on Salesforce CRM, reflecting in a very simple and user-friendly usage of the tool. For this …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Salesforce CMS beats the competition due to UI, user friendliness, support, and ease of use as well as deployment. The entire system and process is simple to understand, has many different places for you to store key information, and is easily implemented at your company. …
    Incentivized
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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 …
    Incentivized
    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.
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    Incentivized
    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, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Matches and can exceed depending on business needs and requirements.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Salesforce has a wide variety of services and its user interface was easy to understand and use.
    Our teams [thought] Salesforce to be better. When we were comparing the features as per our Marketing and Branding teams needs and uses, Salesforce came out on the top.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Workday - this is more readily used for providing training content.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Experience Cloud
    The Microsoft solutions were used previously, and were probably easier to use since they integrate with windows desktops so well. However, Salesforce is more integrated with mobile and the cloud platform, therefore it is inherently client device agnostic, which is ultimately …
    Incentivized
    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 …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    45 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    28 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (71 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (18 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
    • 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
    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
    Salesforce
    Renewal exercise is already underway. Platform is to ubiquitous to not leverage, especially at a Fortune 50 firm
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    Usability
    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
    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
    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
    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
    • 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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