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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 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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Product Details

What is DemandTools?

DemandTools is a data quality platform that aims to ensure data remains a valuable asset.

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

DemandTools Screenshots

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For more than 20 years, DemandTools has earned a reputation of being the most trusted and dependable set of tools for Salesforce data managers. In fact, it's ranked by G2 Crowd as the #1 data tool based on market presence and satisfaction–and 94% of our reviews are 4 or 5 sta...
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DemandTools Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Cloudingo and Experian Address Validation are common alternatives for DemandTools.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of DemandTools are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

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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Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
One experience I had with DemandTools is specifically with Find/Report IDs in which I was able to search my database for any existing donors. I was able to identify which existed by matching the email AND last name to pull the record IDs. These were then used to mark those accounts as existing vs new donors. I do not have any less appropriate scenarios but when exporting the Excel file from DemandTools, there was an option to export for every line item match, which can be confusing without prior reading of knowledgebase article or a YouTube video.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
DemandTools is perfect for any system that constantly adds new records to its database. For example, in higher education, we are constantly purchasing search names from various vendors and DemandTools allows us to make sure we are not doubling up on the same records. It saves us money in the long run as we are not mailing out multiple copies of our brochures to the same person.
Jessica Houbre | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
DemandTools is great for cleaning up your database, along with keeping data clean. We use the dupe lists to pull a report but manually review each duplicate to ensure it is in fact the same person being merged. I'd love to see how others are using the product in terms of deduping.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DemandTools is a wonderful tool to use to remove duplicate records from your CRM data by merging the records within the CRM itself according to the logic that you specify. It is also a wonderful tool to use if you need to scan your CRM data for specific records by criteria and need the record ID, or any other field from the record returned.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We brought in 400,000 records for a department that needed to have their information in Salesforce. The records had never been touched, cleaned, deduped, or cared about. We brought them in, used DemandTools to dedupe and merge, and then only found out the requestors were never going to use them. DemandTools to the rescue when we used them to jettison the whole lot back at them!
Kayla Laws | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Great for general data management. Today alone, I've used DemandTools products to push a new list of leads into Salesforce, take a mass list of customer contacts and update a field required for a new process, and to check the current state of our duplicates in the CRM.

My main hurdle with DemandTools is that it lacks the ability to build automated data cleansing processes into the system that will tie into the CRM like some of the competitors in the industry.
June 01, 2021

A useful tool

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suited for times in which changes need to be made to several users at once. Not well suited for single or few users. It takes too much time to create a CSV in order to change a single user.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Demand Tools is well-suited for uploading data files of hundreds of thousands of records into the database. It is useful for finding, updating and correcting data already in the database. A useful tool for merging duplicate records. Power Grid is useful for updating records that fall into a certain set of circumstances without having to reload the files. I don't have any comments that are negative.
Brian Treml | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Data deduplication is a great place to use DemandTools. It has logic to select the master record/field and gives a great user interface to manage the deduplication. There is no plotting or visualization of the data, it is a tool for looking at data in tabular formats with grouping.
Bilal Comertpay | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
If you have unformatted data and wish to reshape it into clean and formatted data sets for other applications like mass mailouts, address comparisons for logistics or other similar applications, I can highly recommend this as a solution. Validity (the company we purchased this through) also should be noted here, our positive experience with the software is also a testament to the professionalism and experience offered by the team at validity, we were very satisfied with the results. So satisfied... I have taken the time to write this review as we were in a real difficult position before we found this offering.
December 04, 2020

DemandTools is a winner!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DemandTools is well suited for almost any data task that would be preformed regularly. A very powerful combination is to pair these demand tools scenarios with job builder and automate away some tasks that may be manual today. DemandTools is great for making quick work of data uploads and edits.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DemandTools is well suited for deduplication and find/report IDs. Until we have more a robust, automated deduplication processes with our external systems, we use the dedupe tool to merge Salesforce accounts and contacts daily. The more duplicates we have, the more potential bad data we have. As a company, we also acquire smaller financial firms with their own book of customers. Before we import a new list of contacts, we use the find/report IDs function to make sure none of the new contacts already exist in Salesforce. This is (1) easier than searching the database for each individual user, and (2) loading in a bunch of potential duplicates.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is a very good ETL tool and provides a lot of configuration possibilities without the need to learn coding. Scheduled batches allow you to perform jobs that would usually require coding experience. The system does feel a bit archaic though and the steps to perform some of the batch updates do not offer the best user interface experience
December 02, 2020

Amazing DemandTool

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

PowerGrid is the module I use daily. It can query data easily without coding and can be sorted or filtered which makes viewing data, making updates, or deleting data on the Canvas very user friendly. And it works for almost all the objects.

The scenarios save me a lot of time for the repeated work and is very user friendly too.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DemandTools is well suited for general de-duping. However, when items need to be filtered on a more granular level it tends to need additional resources. One of its limitations is cross comparison on fields.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  1. We use this tool for cleaning and loading lists of Prospect data provided by vendors.
  2. I use this tool for "house-cleaning" and data integrity for key objects like Accounts and Opportunities, ensuring any missing data is reported so we can update those individual records (Like Territory, Region, Industry).
  3. I use PowerGrid for edits and mass moves of data (Change of Territory, change of record ownership).
  4. We use the tool to "Backfill" data when we make a change to a picklist or organizational data, like add or remove an industry.
  5. I use the job builder for batches of data cleaning that I used to run on a weekly basis. I have batched them in Job Builder and now they run daily.
Raheel Alam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's an incredibly powerful suite of tools that every Salesforce administrator needs to perform their job. If you need to clean 100s of thousands of records like we did, dedupe and mass merge, mass reassign after staff turnover or just backfill data to every record, DemandTools is more than well suited to meet your needs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DemandTools is a great resource for everything from mass upserting records, matching a spreadsheet of records to existing records, and de-duplication of records (including any custom object). I tend to use the Data Loader when I'm executing simple mass inserts or exports instead of DemandTools.
November 24, 2020

Scenarios are great

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It works really well and quickly once you have everything set up and ready to go. It helps a lot when we're matching alumni/donor information with our current database to make sure that everything lines up correctly. It doesn't really help (our office at least) with identifying existing members any better.
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