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Salesforce CRM Analytics

Score8.4 out of 10

963 Reviews and Ratings

What is Salesforce CRM Analytics?

Salesforce CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau CRM) is a cloud-based business intelligence solutions and analytics software. It provides users with automated data discovery, CRM-connected analytics, top-down views of data, augmented analytics, predictive insights, and customizable data visualization tools.

Top Performing Features

  • Single Sign-On (SSO)

    Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications

    Category average: 8.6

  • Publish to Web

    Category average: 8

  • Multi-User Support (named login)

    Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Mobile Application

    A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.

    Category average: 7.2

  • Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

    Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

    In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.

    Category average: 7.4

Salesforce CRM Analytics Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The CRM analytics for us is really that insight into bridging that customer experience and advisor experience. With the wealth management advisors that we support, how do we look at how they're engaging with the platform versus the outcomes that we see for both our customers as well as the business.

Pros

  • So for us, it's really getting insights into the integration of the actual wealth management advisor. What are they doing on a day-to-day basis? Where are there are opportunities for growth where they can have that next best contact for their book of business?

Cons

  • I think it's really tying it more cleanly to that customer experience. Right now, a lot of what we have is internally looking at that employee advisor experience, but how do we tie that more effectively to things like net promoter score or looking at outcomes of the results, tying it to other parts of the organization that may not be using Salesforce or that CRM analytics tool so we can make sure we are tying truly what does the customer experience look like? What does the advisor experience look like? What are the systems and tools that are driving those experiences behind it? I think for us it's really that first integration layer between the customer and advisor experience.

Return on Investment

  • In the past six months since we've really changed this over to Salesforce, that really understanding where the advisor can reach out next, that's been such a critical component of this transition for us, is looking at not only just looking at a timeline of customers, which historically was like, all right, well let's just reach out to them every 12 months. There wasn't really much thought process behind it. It's being able to integrate things around life stage or integrating different areas of improvement. Do we have a beneficiary inheritance that we came down the line? Do we have a retirement from a particular institution? Are they starting to do retirement minimum distributions, but they didn't let us know that they're doing that? It's integrating a lot more data points to truly drive that next best contact beyond just a time balance scenario.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Siebel CRM

Salesforce CRM Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the system to input accounts, clients, any leads, any opportunities that we have for our system or for our company. But we use that probably daily. We pull reporting based on that. If we need to do any outreach personally for that, I usually use it, utilize it for outreach, and then just pretty much like customer management and everything like that.

Pros

  • I will say the reporting is extensive. You can pretty much do anything. I really like the custom reporting of that. I like that it gives you the opportunity to do accounts and separation for actual opportunities and customers, and then also leads. So I like that you can kind of divide it all up.

Cons

  • I would say since we are kind of smaller, that if it could be a little bit more simplified sometimes in certain areas. Like with reporting, I use a lot of the customer reporting just because a lot of the reports are very extensive. So I would say just making it a little bit more simplified in that terms.
  • We use MailChimp, and so having the ability to pull our list into MailChimp, that would be pretty nice too.

Return on Investment

  • I would say it's been positive just because as a company, anyone that has access to it can go in there and pull any company information and we're very up to date then on all of our client base. So I would say it's been a very positive impact.

Usability

Other Software Used

Intuit Mailchimp

Salesforce CRM Analytics Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our primary use is to support our job seeking clients or customers, whatever you want to call them. We have a profile built for them, of course. And then we use this for tracking which programs they're in with us as far as the grant funded programs that we administer. And we also communicate them with them over text messaging.

Pros

  • It's easy to build custom reports to do analytics. That's definitely the thing that I like the most.
  • It's incredibly user-friendly with having multiple people inputting data.

Cons

  • Some things that we have to get an add-on for would be nice to have directly come from Salesforce. Like the SMS texting, we do have to use a third party for that. So if that could be built in and be part of the package that we already use, that would be great.

Return on Investment

  • Super positive with the texting capability with this new generation that we work with.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Analytics and SAP Analytics Cloud

Other Software Used

Worknet, Microsoft 365

Great tool to have everything under control

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Salesforce CRM Analytics in order to track all the information that we have in Salesforce, which is our main repository for all the information related with customers, prospects and partners, All our revenue is tracked there, so it´s very easy to see the return of the investment of each single campaign.

Pros

  • Check the return of investment
  • Track marketing activities
  • Track customer interactions

Cons

  • Personalization
  • Implementation

Return on Investment

  • Better understanding of our customers interactions
  • Better control of the ROI
  • Better control of all the marketing activities

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Zoho Analytics, HubSpot CMS Hub and 365 Data Science

Other Software Used

Demandbase One, Adobe Marketo Engage, Microsoft 365

Well build platform for Reports and dashboards generation with various features

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Salesforce CRM Analytics as reporting tool, and this serving our purpose as we are travel industry company we use to report the the bookings against each travel agency and related services subscription details, these all details we can track in single page with the reports and dashboards creation.

Pros

  • Accounts with Bookings details
  • Products and related services offerings
  • Subscription details of the customers

Cons

  • Dynamic dashboards
  • Color pallets
  • Custom report types

Return on Investment

  • Our bookings reports scheduled helps us to know the status of business
  • Easy to sell the related services with the customer identification
  • Leadership can easily track the business growth

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Qlik Analytics Platform

Other Software Used

Rally Software, Salesforce Revenue Cloud