Cloudingo Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[Cloudingo is] used for system administration of Salesforce. No other departments in our organization have access to it. I use this to help clean and dedupe large quantities of data for contacts and accounts that had been entered prior to any creation of duplicate rules or if there are mass dumps that somehow the dupe rules don't catch.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloudingo is great at mass merging account and contact records based off a specific criteria instead of having to do it manually within the record in SF. It also is easy to analyze a record while in a mass merge to see if you need to edit some values. However, having other standard objects would be very beneficial and even having it for custom objects could be helpful.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work with a non-profit organization that uses a Salesforce database to track applications to a grant program. Applicants can log into a community each year to submit a new application. However, since the community is open to the public, applicants often create duplicate contact records (using a new email address when applying), or staff do not always do an adequate search for an existing contact record and internally create a duplicate. Our primary use of Cloudingo is the duplicate merging module to find and merge duplicate contact records.

The organization also uses the address records in Salesforce to send physical mail to their clients. We also use Cloudingo's address cleaning/standardization modules to update address records (to automatically update road to Rd, or pobox to PO Box, for example).

Likelihood to Recommend

I am fairly familiar with DemandTools as a Salesforce database administration tool, so much of this Cloudingo review is in comparison to DemandTools. To be fair, I use DemandTools much more frequently, so some of my bias is probably due to unfamiliarity with Cloudingo's capabilities.

The most useful scenario I have found is for merging duplicate contact records. I find it very helpful that the software "lines up" suspect records and it is easy to manually set individual fields as the master field. The biggest headache is when I've found Salesforce records that I know to be duplicates, but the Cloudingo filters I have set up do not pick them up. I haven't found a way to identify individual records and tell Cloudingo to merge them.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I love Cloudingo. It's not pretty or particularly easy to use, but it works. It works very well. It definitely takes some time to set up and learn how to use, but for most that would be using it, this shouldn't be that big an issue. I use it to keep our CRM data clean. It has helped me clear out tens of thousands of duplicate records—Accounts, Contacts, and Leads. I also use it to import new record lists. Its import wizard allows me to de-dupe and import in the same process. No more vlookups!

Likelihood to Recommend

For cleaning up large amounts of data and performing large data imports, Cloudingo is the perfect solution. You can do everything manually one-by-one, manually run a mass de-dupe, or even set it to run automatically with a schedule or with triggers. If you merge records on a regular basis, Cloudingo is the right tool. If you only have to merge things occasionally, you might not need such a robust tool.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Having clean and up-to-date data in your CRM is extremely important. Cloudingo is used in our sales and marketing departments to... 1) Merge duplicate records 2) Ensure leads are converted to contacts to the appropriate account. Rather than having to manually guess and search for "dirty" data in Salesforce, Cloudingo allows our teams to see the quality of the data in our CRM in a single dashboard view, and also allows us to merge and convert records individually or in groups. Cloudingo helps keep our CRM clean so the rest of the work we do isn't wasted on "dirty" or out-dated data.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloudingo is a Salesforce deduping and cleaning tool. I highly recommend that someone in your company who works with Salesforce data also work within Cloudingo. Cloudingo, also allows you to import leads and contacts into Salesforce in the same document, which is a huge time saver. It is not a segmentation or "missing" data finding tool, like some of their competitors.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cloudingo to connect to our Salesforce.com CRM system to help us identify and remove duplicate email addresses. We send outbound marketing email messages to addresses we acquire by a variety of means. De-duplicating new contacts and leads to ensure we don't send the wrong message, or an unwanted message, to a contact we already know (whether or not their email address matches) is very important.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend Cloudingo for a Salesforce.com shop who wants a wholly cloud-based alternative for data de-duplication in Salesforce, probably irrespective of the data set size.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cloudingo is our primary means of data governance in Salesforce. When I took over the Salesforce database a few years ago I realized just how bad things where in terms of data quality. There are a number of solutions on the AppExchange (some with longer track records) but after demos and trials of a number of them I quickly found that Cloudingo was far more advanced and actually easier to use. In my case, I am cleaning up leads, contacts, accounts based on case history. When I say case I see I mean in a legal sense (not Salesforce cases). We have custom objects that hold a lot of this data and that data is tied to various contacts, accounts and leads.

I am the Salesforce admin by default. I enjoy technology and I like thinking about better ways to do things. Cloudingo has allowed me to clean up our data to a point where we can actually think about outbound marketing and not be worried about doing so.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloudingo does particularly well with large data sets. This was my issue and why I why I went with Cloudingo. The more data you have the longer it is going to take to analyze and Cloudingo is blazing fast for our database size. I am in a user group with someone who deployed Cloudingo to an org with 70 million leads, contacts, accounts and it just mows through it. I guess that is the power of the cloud!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cloudingo is being used to clean up and deduplicate Salesforce objects. We can only really automate the use of Cloudingo for leads due to our data structure and cannot allow it to automatically run on account or contacts due to data loss issues. Those still need to be manually handled.

Likelihood to Recommend

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