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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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Users have reported that DemandTools is their go-to solution for advanced data transformation and ID reporting in Salesforce. It is highly …
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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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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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  3. 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.

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use DemandTools to manage our Salesforce database (integrated with our registration platform) via scheduled account and contact dedupe scenarios and mass impact scenarios. It is specifically used by our CRM product team to help us offer a service to our customers who use the Salesforce community portal to access their customer data (i.e., we use the product as a B2B offering to allow our customers an enhanced B2C experience in data management and marketing). The Find Report IDs module is also used extensively to assist in our data management and loading activities.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am the primary user for DemandTools. My boss and another user are both familiar with DemandTools but I handle the majority of operations. I am also training an intern to use some of the modules. Our department is the only one that uses it. I typically use it for updating Salesforce with data from our partners, running dedupe checks, and pulling data from Salesforce to create reports and dashboards.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DemandTools is used by multiple departments in our organization. It's used for batch data operations, data cleansing, and deduplication. When performing batch operations, results can be previewed before committing the update. When used in conjunction with JobBuilder, jobs can be automated. We have numerous automated jobs that run daily. In addition to improved accuracy, the automations save staff time and allow them to focus on higher-level work.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use demand tools on a daily basis. We are duplicating our contact records based on set rigid or loose scenarios. Only the CRM department is using this tool. We find it to be very easy to use once you get to know how to use it. The UI can look a bit old school but it works well. It addresses the problem of duplication of records in our system.
Zowie Fort | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DemandTools is used to manage duplication's on accounts & contacts, convert leads, update account & contact information. It's used to transfer data between team members if projects are handed over and to mass update iaccounts & Contacts info using Powergrid. I also use it to mass delete data. We have several SF orgs and I manage all the data in the events SF org.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using DemandTools for the following use cases:
  • De-duping and importing people lists from webinars and trade shows into Salesfore.
  • Mass de-duplication of leads, contacts, and accounts in Salesforce.
  • De-duping purchased list against existing accounts in Salesforce.
  • Real-time duplicate blocking and merging in Salesforce.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am using DemandTools to support our Salesforce implementation in Financial Services. It is being used as a data-analysis/manipulation tool to support our lead generation and sales activities. As well as generating leads in Salesforce, we also receive data from several other sources, and we use DemandTools to manipulate that data accordingly. This resolved duplication issues, as well as aligning data between systems.
Annette Abell (Bailey) | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a Salesforce.com Partner for 10+ years and having done 80+ implementations, the dirty little secret no one talks about (be to relative to day-to-day operations, implementations, app adoption, re-implementation, any mass email or marketing platform adoptions) is data. Data is ugly. Data is hard. Data has no clean or easy answers. Data is constantly evolving. Data takes strategy, configuration controls, and commitment. No other tool (none!) allows the company using Salesforce.com to assess and address their data issues, which we all have, better. DemandTools features (Mass Impact, Mass Effect, Find ID, etc.) are unparalleled. DataLoader and native data tools do NOT do what really needs to be done to clean what you have and bring in new data from your webinar or mass email or trade shows, etc. in a clean and strategic manner. Salesforce will tell you to import it all as leads. Ha! Like users are going to do all the work to clean those records one at a time to convert properly. There are at least 10 issues with Lead Conversion that virtually guarantee you duplicate and lost data. Not bad data, LOST data. PeopleImport--while hard to initially set up--is critical to anyone in Marketing. While DemandTools is ridiculously expensive now you have to ask yourself if you will willingly and knowingly throw out your Salesforce licensing costs and marketing dollars because you did not budget for DemandTools (and a qualified person to use it). Find ID alone is worth it. Single table dedupe alone is worth it. I could assess anyone's data (and config for that matter) and blow 20 holes into why it's wrong and how DemandTools could fix it AND help maintain healthy data with JobBuilder, etc.
Chelsea Strong | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DemandTools is used by our Salesforce Admins to maintain data quality and run regular data maintenance. It's an incredibly easy and powerful tool to help all admins with any data maintenance. We use it almost daily anytime we need to do mass data updating or to clean up our database with mass-deduping. When initially implementing Salesforce at our company, DemandTools allowed us to mass convert leads and the Find/Report ID's feature is a great feature that I haven't seen other data loaders have.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's used primarily for sales/marketing data but data quality affects the entire organization. DemandTools (Validity) has helped address data quality and data quality control measures at my company specifically clean up hundreds of thousands of duplicate records as well as allowing us to have a system to redirect and auto-merge incoming records. It also allows me to run jobs to reassign account/contact records when sales territories change.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We regularly use DemandTools to make bulk data changes in Salesforce. Sometimes we need to find a number of records that meet criteria and make changes to them. For example, after an academic term commences we will find all of our admissions applications from that term that have not matriculated and we will mark them as closed (Mass Impact). Other times we will receive a list (CSV) from a department on campus who needs a value set and we will upload that list and enter the new values (Mass Effect). Other times we need to see how many people meet a certain condition so we will download those records (Power Grid). Or we may need to add Salesforce data to what we have in our SIS system so we use Power Grid to download those records along with their external ID and in Excel we join that up with SIS data.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DemandTools is used by most of the people in my department. We use it for bulk maintenance of our Salesforce org. My primary use for it is found/report IDs to generate matches for our Sales and Marketing teams, as well as MassEffect for re-assigning and modifying bulk records from our SalesOps divisions. Finally, we utilize MassImpact for our routine maintenance of records (assigning contacts to their account owner and things like that).
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use DemandTools in our marketing departments to import, assign, and mass-manage leads, prospects, and clients in Salesforce.com. It's the easiest way that we have found to bulk update Salesforce in a controllable manner. Without it, we were unable to quickly assign new leads, follow up activities, or notifications for our sales team.
Jared Wacht | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Business Systems and Sales Operations teams use DemandTools every day for various work. It solves mass data update requests that are much more cumbersome to do in DataLoader. This tool has much more functionality and essentially makes SF DataLoader useless.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use DemandTools for data stewardship tasks around master data management using the single table dedupe module. Essentially we use it as a replacement for Data Loader for its mass effect module. Most useful module is MassImpact which is like a targeted logic-based direct update. Really makes data stewardship and the mass update of anything in Salesforce incredibly easy to do. Used to make teams that manage data on Salesforce more accurate and efficient and reduce the errors happening in Excel.
Andrew Schatzberg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used only by the global marketing department within a specific business unit. We use it to manage data in Salesforce and Marketo, performing a number of different functions such as data hygiene, data normalization, updates, deletes, etc. It addresses ongoing challenges with data hygiene and maintenance.
Lauren Murphy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have a managed package with a lot of custom objects, in addition to a lot of internal business rules. DemandTools allows us to save scenarios to be run whenever we need to manipulate large amounts data for different departments and teams quickly and easily.
Josh Stevens | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DemandTools is used by the Salesforce team. While Salesforce has some fairly powerful 1st party tools, the advanced data transformation and ID reporting that we are able to pull using DemandTools makes it our primary tool of choice.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company uses DemandTools daily for a variety of projects; it promotes efficient processes for our Finance, Operations, Sales and Customer Service departments. As the Salesforce Administrator for my company, I'm constantly using DemandTools for territory updates, data cleanup and a myriad assortment of things that come up during day-to-day business.
Rich McVey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Demand Tools is used within my field operations and business systems teams. We use it to de-dupe, upload, and manage our Salesforce database. The problem it addresses is quickly modifying large sets of data, handling territory assignment, and de-duplicating our database. We use Demand Tools at least 3 to 4 times a week.
Beth Follenweider | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have routine tasks that were built around using Data Loader. I've tried to automate data feeds as much as possible but some remain. I use DemandTools to help support finance, customer, service, marketing, and sales. DemandTools helps fill the gap between manual and automated processes. We use a website to collect data tied back to a campaign and are able to use this tool to very quickly update a set of campaigns in real time. The single table dedupe is now part of routine maintenance run by our customer service department.
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