Likelihood to Recommend Frankly, if I can do something in Scratchpad instead of
Salesforce , I prefer Scratchpad because it's faster, easier, simpler, with a much more readable and useable interface.
Salesforce has been getting requests to allow font size modification for over a decade and hasn't even done that. That's what sent me looking for something like Scratchpad. I sort of view it as a much more user-friendly UI to layover SF. It's faster and less frustrating than SF for frequent daily activities. It's great for creating notes and tracking tasks at a basic level in a much more user friendly environment than
Salesforce . But it interacts w/ SF, which is great!
Read full review Seismic excels at being a one-stop shop for all content that is relevant to salespeople and the deal cycles they work through. It does a great job not only making content and training readily available but also at distributing the right content at the right time/for the right scenario. Based on my experience with the tool, this was a go-to for many reps (myself included) because it saved us so much time. Rather than sifting through documents and collateral, we could easily find what we needed in a matter of moments.
Read full review Pros Scratchpad notes are super easy to use and link to Salesforce Opportunities. Allows you to update all the necessary Salesforce opportunity fields without going into Salesforce. Easy to use Task manager that helps you stay on track through the day. Extremely easy to use and their CS team is always willing to provide training and help. Read full review Seismic allows for one location to store all relevant content so that associates are not having to spend as much time searching for what they need. Seismic provides the ability to fully customize content such that one template can serve many needs with the simple ability to answer questions that drive the customization in the content. This customization can range from simple to quite complex depending on your level of expertise with the tool. Seismic provides a lot of flexibility when it comes to organizing your content and how to make the experience of accessing that content unique to the needs of each user in the system. Jamie Clarke Assistant Vice President, Sr. Digital Solutions Manager
Read full review Cons When pulling in Salesforce reports, it doesn't have full ability to do grouping/sorting. When looking at pipeline view there's not an ability to expand the default view to see more than 5 people per group. It'd be nice if comments would go as a task rather than a buzz. Read full review Adding more integration points and use cases with Salesforce would be good to have Navigating to a specific resource gets cumbersome sometimes especially with lots of content Bulk user operations and taking actions on behalf of other users would be good to have as well Read full review Support Rating Seismic's support team has been exceptional at providing support when an issue has come up, or when we have had questions regarding the platform. They have responded quickly, and I feel as if they truly try to find a solution to the quickest of their abilities. My team and I truly feel supported when it comes to reaching out to Seismic.
Read full review Alternatives Considered It doesn't. Scratchpad is more agile and much easier to use as a seller managing a large patch with lots of opportunities. SAP is robust but is far more complicated and involves a lot more inputs to get the same outputs that you can get with Scratchpad in half the time and effort.
Read full review Savo, Google Drive, Shared folders Savo - was best in class a long time ago (and has since been bought by Seismic) - but required a lot of administrative work to setup and maintain. I had three people working on it full time to create pages and managing content. Shared folders and google drive are good to share content, but terrible at searching and tagging (not fully indexed and no tagging)
Read full review Return on Investment I save many hours a week using Scratchpad to simply manage my tasks. I no longer waste time waiting for SFDC to load. I can easily create opps, adjust the pipeline, and check to see if someone is already prospecting into an account. Read full review We can quickly generate product-specific proposals. We've experienced repeated frustrations while trying to edit/update the LiveDoc. Errors in LiveDoc coding have occasionally produced errors in the generated proposals where certain fields (Customer Name, for example) should have been automatically completed but were not. Read full review ScreenShots