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What is DemandTools?
DemandTools for AppExchange is a data quality toolset for Salesforce.com CRM centric customers. The product comprises 11 individual modules to control, standardize, verify, deduplicate, import and manipulate Salesforce and/or Force.com data.
Complete Solution for Database Management!
Protect the quality of your data!
Great for keeping your data clean!
Powerful Data Quality Refinement Tool
Quick Deduping Tool for Demanding Data
DemandTools = Great Tool, Great Value!
A useful tool
DemandTools helps manage the demands of data loading
Demand Tools: A great Swiss Army Knife for those in charge of data integrity in Salesforce
DemandTools - Offered a swift solution to a longstanding issue.
Would recommend DemandTools for keeping Salesforce data clean and up-to-date
DemandTools is a winner!
You should "demand" DemandTools for your organization!
DemandTools favorite features and some areas that offer scope for improvement
Amazing DemandTool
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What is DemandTools?
DemandTools for AppExchange is a data quality toolset for Salesforce.com CRM centric customers. The product comprises 11 individual modules to control, standardize, verify, deduplicate, import and manipulate Salesforce and/or Force.com data.
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What is DemandTools?
DemandTools helps users manage CRM data in minutes, not months, so that they have accurate, report-ready data that can be trusted, enabling users to market, sell, and support more effectively.
By fixing common data problems, automating data quality routines, and working within specific processes and customizations, DemandTools is designed to give stakeholders reliable data and insights, encourages CRM end-user adoption, and provide cleaner data with less effort.
DemandTools has 13 modules to make it a versatile and adaptive data quality solution for CRM.
Data Quality Assessment
Understand how strong or weak data is and know where to focus remediation efforts.
Module: Assess
Duplicate Management
Detect, eliminate, and prevent duplicate records from misleading sales and marketing teams and causing friction in the customer journey.
Modules: Dedupe, Convert, DupeBlocker, PeopleImport, Match
Data Migration Management
Maintain data integrity while moving data into and out of Salesforce.
Modules: Import, Export, Delete, PeopleImport, Match
Standardization, mass modification, and business insights
Apply record changes en masse and standardize data to get trustworthy insights in every report.
Modules: Modify, Tune, Reassign
Email Verification
Verify email addresses in CRM to keep communication flowing with customers.
Module: Verify
DemandTools Features
- Supported: Data Quality Assessment
- Supported: Duplicate Management
- Supported: Data Migration Management
- Supported: Data Standardization and Mass Modification
- Supported: Record Ownership Management
- Supported: Mass Lead Conversion
- Supported: Email Verification
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Users have reported that DemandTools is their go-to solution for advanced data transformation and ID reporting in Salesforce. It is highly regarded for its ability to efficiently clean up Salesforce data, preventing the accumulation of junk data in the system. While it may require some initial research to learn how to utilize all its features correctly, DemandTools proves to be a powerful tool for cleaning up messy Salesforce databases.
DemandTools allows users to manipulate large volumes of data quickly and easily, enabling them to save scenarios for different departments and teams. This makes it an invaluable tool for various tasks such as imports, data cleanup, field updates, and targeted marketing data updates. Users rely on DemandTools for managing duplicates on accounts and contacts, converting leads, updating account and contact information, and efficiently transferring data between team members.
One significant advantage of DemandTools is its ability to enable operations teams to make large-scale changes to Salesforce in real-time, creating a more agile company environment. The tool excels at locating and merging duplicate records within Salesforce, as well as updating batches of records simultaneously. Additionally, DemandTools empowers users to format data in Salesforce for intelligent call routing and enhance data for sales and customer success teams.
Administrators find DemandTools indispensable for performing database updates, de-duping scripts, and utilizing scheduled batch functionality. It is leveraged by various departments like Technology and Admissions to effectively de-dupe contacts, accounts, and opportunities. The flexibility of DemandTools with its powerful filtering options plays a crucial role in removing duplicates, ensuring complete records, and facilitating mass movement of data. Overall, users appreciate the power of DemandTools in improving data quality within Salesforce databases.
Powerful and straightforward tool for data maintenance: Users have found DemandTools to be a powerful and straightforward tool for their data maintenance needs. Many reviewers stated that it provides solutions for all their data maintenance requirements, making it an invaluable tool that saves them hours of valuable time on a daily basis.
Customizable scenarios and queries for efficient duplicate search: The ability to fully customize scenarios and queries in DemandTools has been highly appreciated by users. This feature allows them to search for potential duplicates more efficiently, resulting in a streamlined process. Some users mentioned the helpfulness of being able to define the data they want to keep on the resulting record after merging duplicates.
Find/Report IDs feature for easy data searching: Users have praised the Find/Report IDs feature in DemandTools, which has made searching for specific data much easier and saved them significant time. They have also found this feature invaluable when cross-checking external data with internal data.
Confusing and Non-Intuitive User Interface: Some users have expressed frustration with the confusing and non-intuitive user interface of DemandTools, making it difficult to navigate through the modules and perform tasks efficiently. Multiple reviewers have mentioned a learning curve associated with using the software.
Lack of MAC Support and Sub-par Dynamics Integration: Users have expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of support for MAC operating systems and find the user interface complex and difficult to navigate. Additionally, they mention that the software's support for Dynamics is sub-par, leading to a lack of strong relationship with the support team.
Outdated User Interface and Limited Flexibility in Tune Results: Several users find DemandTools' user interface outdated and in need of a refresh. They also desire more flexibility in displaying Tune results, suggesting that improvements should be made in these areas for a better user experience.
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Utilize the free version: Many users suggest using the free version of BeanFlumper as it provides most of the necessary features without requiring a purchase.
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Run the software on your own system: Users advise against using the cloud version of BeanFlumper due to potential lagging issues. They recommend installing and running the software on your own system for a smoother experience.
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Consider purchasing for larger businesses: Some users believe that BeanFlumper is more suitable and valuable for larger companies with over 500 employees. They suggest considering a purchase if your business falls into this category, as it may better meet the specific needs of larger organizations.
These recommendations aim to help users make informed decisions about utilizing the free version, avoiding potential lag issues, and determining whether BeanFlumper is suitable for their company size.
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- 6.9Implementation Rating6 ratings
- 7.5Configurability2 ratings
- 8.5Product Scalability2 ratings
- 9Ease of integration1 rating
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(101-117 of 117)DemandTools Review
- Dedupe lead to lead
- Dedupe lead to contact
- Lead to contact when importing originally.
Best De-Duping Tool out there for CRM
- DemandTools makes it easy to identify and merge duplicate records.
- DemandTools Customer Service is top notch.
- The training I received was excellent. I received a personalized session and there are recorded sessions to review as time permits.
- I cannot think of any.
DemandTools should be in high demand.
- One strength of DemandTools is how simple it is to use. It's set up in a very user-friendly format, with icons that you can hover over that will explain how to use that particular section.
- Additionally, DemandTools is very customizable so that each user can tailor it to their specific needs.
- Also, as an add-on tool, DemandTools is great at running in the background without slowing down your computer or any other concurrently running programs.
- The biggest area for improvement is related to its de-duplication tool. It would be nice to be able to default certain fields (such as Lead Source) from the record being deleted and have them overwrite the values in the same fields on the surviving record. The system allows you to keep certain values, but it has to be done one-by-one.
DemandTools will get the job done
- Cleaning up addresses
- Normalizing company names
- Deduping records
- It isn't a tool you can easily/quickly plunge into, but that's to be expected with something this powerful.
DemandTools' range of abilities gives big bang for the buck
- Allows you to make any import field a 'key' for import matching.
- Has easy to use point and click functionality to allow for complex procedures.
- Makes mass updates and cleanups faster and easier with flexible criteria.
- Importing lists of individuals can be a multi-step and cumbersome process. For those imports, I always use PeopleImport, rather than DemandTools. It reduces my time investment by about 75%.
- The matching functionality on company names can sometimes be a bit difficult to master, there is fine line between exact, cleaned, or fuzzy and occasionally DemandTools misses the mark.
DemandTools - The quintessential utility for saleforce.com
- Ability to mass update data in any object using a custom set of filters. The MassEffect module is superb at doing this on a wide scale, the ability to update a particular field based on other data from the object or related objects through a formula is extremely powerful.
- Data de-duplication is a very powerful feature. The ability to create rules to determine which data becomes the master record is a very useful feature.
- The ability to take an Excel spreadsheet and update or insert data en mass is a very powerful feature. I like that DemandTools lets you do this efficiently by taking advantage of BULK processing in Salesforce.com.
- Data recovery/restore. One of the most understated features of DemandTools is that every-time you run an update job a system generated restore file is created. It's very easy to return the data to the state is was in prior to the update.
- The UI is looking a little dated and tired, I personally don't have any issue with it. Bottom line it is a utility and I'm glad they spend their development resources on creating a robust tool.
Best Addition to Your Salesforce Toolbox
- Data Standardization - it's a truly beautiful thing using this tool. There's more than one module that will let you update every record in the system if you have to, or you can filter it down to only update records that match particular criteria.
- Data Maintenance - At least 10% of our database is duplicates. DemandTools works wonders in helping us clean those up. Especially helpful are the Lead2Contact and Lead2Account deduplication tool. We use these most in correlation with our marketing automation tool which creates new records as leads if the email address doesn't match. Running a quick scenario in Lead2Contact will merge the new leads with existing contacts without losing data.
- Data Format - The ability to format my data uniformly brings joy to my OCD heart. Built in to the software are programs for North American businesses to standardize information. Phone numbers, states, countries, addresses, etc.
- Better scheduling of tasks. This is something I would like to do but I haven't figured out how to do it yet
- Better UI - I feel like I'm in the 90s or early 2000s
- Ability to use punctuation in things - like searching for all accounts with a comma in them or a semi colon
How DemandTools has helped my organization
- I love that you can map fields and create a scenario that can be used over and over again. This makes weekly or monthly updates pretty seamless. I have found this especially useful when using MassEffect.
- DemandTools makes it very easy to look at your current data and compare how it should be changed before you change it. MassImpact and PowerGrid have really made updating and deleting data incredibly easy for me.
- I am a leader of two Salesforce user groups. Nearly everyone I talk to has had at least some issues with duplicate contacts. I often recommend that they use DemandTools to dedupe their contacts and I that Single Table Deduplicator is such a comprehensive tool. DemandTools' deduplication tool makes it easy to choose which fields you want to evaluate, the contact data you need to compare, and which will be the master. You can also update fields within Single Table Deduplicator before you merge the contacts. I have been able to merge contacts in probably 10% of the time it would have taken me if I had tried to do them one by one within Salesforce.
- One thing I wish DemandTools had was a reporting tool. I often have thought DemandTools does such a great job of showing current data in Salesforce according to my specifications, that they should create a reporting module. Sometimes, I have exported my data with Find Report ID's and used the resulting spreadsheet as a report.
- I also wish their Data Backup tool was a little bit more user friendly. When I tried to use it, it seemed to take way too long and I could not understand how to get it to download data in a timely and efficient manner.
- Some time has passed since I tried this, but I briefly used DemandTools to do a nightly update to data within Salesforce (I think it was through Mass Impact). However, I found it difficult to schedule the update and understand how it might impact the data. I think this could be an amazing feature if more information was offered on it and if it was easier to set up.
DemandTools - a highly recommended data integrity tool for Salesforce.com Administrators
- I used Demand Tools to mass convert Lead records into Account and Contact records, matching up many of the records with existing Account and Contact records prior to converting them, this avoiding a lot of data duplication.
- After inserting data records from various company systems into the Salesforce.com database, a lot of duplicate records were created. DemandTools was used to reduce the data duplication through several iterative processes requiring multiple, different filter criteria scenarios.
- Following a mass data integration into Salesforce.com from several company systems, it was necessary to update the address and phone number formats to a standardized format using DemandTools to make the corrections.
- During the de-duplication process it would be nice to pick and choose key values from different duplicated records. Currently DemandTools only allows retention of a single record's data field values, which may lead to missing information in a field that was populated in one of the other duplicate records but not in the retained record. E.g., one record has the proper email address while another record has the proper phone number, so which record do you retain? It would be great to designate by field which values you want retained in final merged record.
- The ability to create a SQL database backup would be nice. Currently if a Salesforce.com object has more than 250 data fields it cannot be backed up into a MS Access database.
- During the de-duplication process it would be helpful to copy and then paste data values from one record and add it to another record. E.g. if there are two duplicated records and both have different values in a "Comments" field, and you want to retain the values from both records, it would be great to be able to combine the data from both records in the "Comments" field using a copy and paste methodology so the retained record has all of the data from both records.
How much data duplication is taking place? How often does the data need to be de-duplicated? What data integrity tools are available for use now? How is data extracted, inserted, and/or updated and how often? How important is data format standardization?
You need Demandtools. You just don't know it yet.
- DemandTools is excellent in easily mapping data when doing Mass updates.
- The UI is very easy to use for any function.
- The dedupe tools are powerful. The Find Report ID's function is so powerful.
- The back and recovery files are easy to use.
- The automation and scheduling is an area that can be greatly improved. Currently you have to use a Windows task scheduler. If there was a built in scheduler that can run on IOS or Windows that would be great.
- Ability to run on IOS. It's is a huge annoyance to have to install a VMware Fusion to run DemandTools. There have been times I've resorted to using Lexiloader just to avoid having to launch Fusion.
DemandTools keeps my org dupe-free
- Reduces time spent manually merging duplicate records within our database
- Allows me to fully customize the scenarios I run to query for potential duplicates
- Much faster and more efficient than searching for potential duplicates through the SFDC UI
- Allows me to define the data I want to keep on the resulting record
- I would love if DemandTools could be changed to work more like CRM Fusion's other related product, DupeBlocker. I would like if it handled duplicates within the Single Table Dedupe in the same fashion as DupeBlocker, where the older, original lead remains the "master" and the newer lead's data gets appended to it. With DemandTools, you are limited in your options for master record selection. Within DemandTools, I am forced to choose "Newer Record" as my master, because I want to retain the most recent contact details. However, this causes me to also overwrite my lead created date with the newer lead's information, thereby resulting in lead created date values which don't reflect the true creation date of the original lead.
- I would also prefer the ability to create tasks with details of the merge.
DemandTools is a must have for Salesforce data hygiene
- The tools for deduping records are very complete. Not only will it clean up duplicates within the same database, but you can compare leads to existing account and existing contacts to look for duplicates in separate databases.
- They have several ways to do mass updates of multiple records at one time, and I had done updates of 50,000+ records at one time so it will handle large batch updates.
- I have yet to find something that I think they do poorly. The tool is focused in some very specific areas but handles those areas very well.
DemandTools - the Salesforce tool to demand
- The Mass Effect feature is invaluable for reassigning records, cleaning data elements and adding or appending data elements.
- Find/Report ID, here's a real life scenario I used in the last week. Find every Opportunity that has a Contact Role and every Contact at an Account with an Opportunity based on an All Contacts report I ran from Salesforce.
- Cleansing - there is to date no easy way to identify and merge records in mass within Salesforce. Data cleansing should be an activity that every organization does once a quarter.
- To my knowledge there is no access to the Account/Partner or Opportunity/Partner objects within DemandTools, whether this is a DemandTools limitation those are simply objects that Salesforce will not allow third party tool to access I'm not aware but it's a gap.
- Updating the Salesforce Pricebook and Opportunity Line Items has historically been difficult, again this might be a Salesforce driven issue but identifying the correct ID's and mapping them in DemandTools is challenging.
DemandTools review
- Easy to follow and highly customizable user interface
- It has a lot of data manipulation options. For a similar category, this easily has the highest number of options and selections
- Works with both standard and custom objects with equal ease
- DemandTools is definitely one of the most robust data analysis/manipulation tools around. But because of the huge amount of functionalities provided, it can be still a bit too technical for business users or non-IT admins to use
- A revamped interface might be considered looking into - with help text or pop-up windows . Sometimes you are deep into it and there are 15 windows going on ...a little bit context-setting for each of the buttons or tabs or actions would help . Also, the numbers inside the buoy ring type markers are a little hard to read.
- Web version of the tool/app would be nice
- Run queries for analysis
- Mass update data as needed
- De-duplication
- Backup
DemandTools - Admin's best friend
- DemandTools works great to dedupe across our entire Salesforce database
- Great ease of use to reassign large amount of records while being able to define the criteria broadly or very specific
- I use the MassEffect tool on a daily basis. It is so quick and easy to make updates or changes to the database
- The error log is helpful but since it is is another file you always have to open something else. It would helpful to have an error screen to view instead of needing to open a file each time
- Depending on how your system is set up you can get into a lot of trouble with merging duplicates, based on your sharing settings. Make sure the access level is set for users with access to DemandTools, specifically managing duplicates, as the merge is not something you can fix by pushing a button to revert back
Saved hours of admin time.
- Easy to learn the basics. Offers more advanced functionality if you take the time to learn.
- Saves dozens of hours for administrators and end-users use by reducing the number of existing existing duplicates and reducing the number of duplicates created during mass imports.
- Easy mass record updates.
- Can be cumbersome when making query edits
Great data hygiene tool.
- Does everything we need. Allows us to automate tasks nightly for standard clean-ups that occur when humans touch the data – (country, abbreviations, etc…).