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Salesforce Experience Cloud Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.2 out of 10
Score
8.2 out of 10

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Pros

Customizable UI: Users have consistently appreciated the platform's customizable interface, which allows for extensive design flexibility and easy configuration, enhancing user experience. The ability to tailor the UI to specific preferences has been a key factor in users' positive feedback.

Easy-to-use plugins for customization: Many reviewers have highlighted the availability of easy-to-use plugins for full-page customization without the need for coding skills, simplifying the process of creating personalized designs. This feature has contributed significantly to users' satisfaction with the platform's customization options.

Integration with Salesforce sales: Customers have valued the seamless integration with Salesforce sales, emphasizing how it streamlines data manipulation and enables effortless modification of data structures. This integration has proven to be a valuable asset in optimizing sales processes and overall efficiency for many users.

Reviews

72 Reviews

Salesforce Communities Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use our Snowflake Partner Network, which is the Salesforce Community that we have implemented. We have two communities — one’s the customer side and one’s the partner side. I manage our partner side, and it’s a way for us to really help our Snowflake partners engage with us, both on the sales aspect and also helping the partner provide information about their customer engagements with us. So it’s really a good portal for us to be able to develop our partners.

Pros

  • I really like the fact that our Salesforce team is able to continue to manage the Salesforce product. It’s a similar UI. A lot of the tech stack that we have within Salesforce is also transferable into the community, so it’s been nice to not have to bounce around engineering teams.

Cons

  • I am excited to see what we do with Slack within the partner communities, so I’m definitely keen on learning more about that and going into the different sessions here. Outside of that, I think the communities sometimes feel a little old, so in terms of just some of the UI and the look and go — I know you can customize it all — but I’m excited to see other ways companies do their partner communities. And it’s always interesting to kind of see the UI that they’ve developed. But yeah, just in general, I think sometimes, maybe it’s just our org, it looks a little old.

Likelihood to Recommend

Salesforce Communities is great in that it leverages a lot of both Salesforce standard and custom features. For us to be able to have leads and opportunities and deal registration — very standard motions within partner communities — it’s nice to be able to have that interface link directly with our sales model at Snowflake. So yeah, it’s really nice to be able to not have to bounce from technology to technology. I think that’s really important when we think about Salesforce Communities.

Vetted Review
Salesforce Experience Cloud
7 years of experience

Salesforce Experience Cloud Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

When I work with other companies for this, it's mostly for interactions with external customers and sometimes even internal people can use it as well. Experience Cloud is more geared towards lighter weight users, but it's customizable in the sense that you can add new Salesforce data and share that with external users, even up to guest users who haven't even registered. It's compatible with most of the other features within Salesforce. Like if you hook it up to sales, we could hook it up to service and things like that. Or it can be just its own customer app to deal with whatever you need to do with.

Pros

  • It's quick and easy to set up at a basic level and provides reasonably out of the box drag and drop kind of customization, but it also allows you to customize it to a deeper extent using something more pro code tools.

Cons

  • My biggest one right now is around customization of the out of the box record level visibility. It's limited to Salesforce's old page layouts, which is pretty much static layout and doesn't offer any dynamic features like Salesforce. Internal stuff has dynamic lightning record pages. I'd love to see that functionality migrated over.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited, like I mentioned earlier, there's if you're interacting with customers at any level where you want them to be able to come in, either self-service order management, things like that, your products, that's one level. And also I didn't mention is for partner cloud. So if you're partnering with resellers of your products and more advanced use cases, it makes sense for that because it can let them have insights into sales pipelines and things like that as needed.

Vetted Review
Salesforce Experience Cloud
10 years of experience

Salesforce Experience Cloud Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a portal that our investors should log in and they need to see what is their investments, what is their transactions, or they need to see their monthly reports and dashboards. There's a calculation. Basically they're going to see what is their account report.

Pros

  • Experience Cloud has been a good user interface and it's fast and it's related with Salesforce. It seems like it's a different domain, but it is not the only problem. When I get Salesforce, I guess when Salesforce introduced Experience Cloud, they were fast. There is a lot of box around the experience cloud, but it's still nice

Cons

  • There is a button for using Experience Cloud. Some Salesforce instance does have it and some Salesforce instance doesn't have it. And we have to reach the Salesforce support. I would like to just easily reach the Salesforce support for Experience Cloud because you need to wait and they need to escalate the support. Other than that, I like their email informations also, but the permission sets are so hard to, you need to apply to the Experience Cloud too, but it's really hard to do it. I guess they're the bad sides, but other than that, it's fast and it's so good.

Likelihood to Recommend

I mean, basically if you want to show different user face, your customers or clients or partners, you can basically easily use Experience Cloud. They don't need to log in Salesforce and they can't reach your data, which is the better benefit, I guess.

Salesforce Experience Cloud Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This solves multiple business problems that we have. Most of them are related to our external client usage. We have multiple different client groups and have set up multiple experience clouds for each of the client groups. Some of those experience clouds allowed us to manage our relationship with parents, so for registration, while others help us manage our relationship with third parties, individuals such as our coaches. We use the app version of the experience cloud for that, which allows us to put the device, the program, and the experience onto a mobile experience for them so they don't have to be around a desktop or a computer.

Pros

  • Experience Cloud allows you to, at a much more reasonable rate, interact with your client groups while also collecting data about those client groups and running automations off of those client groups and their interactions through backend Salesforce.

Cons

  • You still see a lot of customization within the product to usually get to your different client groups, so having some more out of the box functionality would be useful, especially for things such as tying to leads, contact structures, flow automations, and then also pricing is always a challenge.

Likelihood to Recommend

For well-suited, this product is great for your external clientele groups that you would not necessarily want to have a high user fee rate for. So basically general public or a group that will be authorized to come in and just do a few things here and there, but you don't necessarily want them access to all of your systems and your data points for groups that it would not be a great use for. I'd say probably your high level internal staff, they're going to be using a lot of the backend functionality automations, evaluating data, managing data, and doing custom inputs. That's just not what's intended for.

Vetted Review
Salesforce Experience Cloud
10 years of experience

Salesforce Experience Cloud Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Not in my organization. I would say I am helping others telling them how partner portal PRM is useful for them, what are all the different licensing costs for them and then helping them for the implementation side as well.

Pros

  • Salesforce has everything inside. So external user, first of all, licensing cost is less than the internal user. Also, they don't have to make a call out, call phone, call or write an email each time to the internal agent to know about their partnership, either peers, whether their onboarding are done or not.
  • Any details, self service is now made by the partners or the customer by its own. They have a product or the service visibility by their own and that's where we can reduce the time of all the internal employee. And we can also introduce AI by the way, and if they have any portion and frequently asked portion usually. So for all this small problems, usually they reach out to and call to the customer service and they say, Hey, this is not working, that's not working. And then they can help themselves with the help of frequently asked questions or with the help of agent right now.
  • Along with that, the training. So in order to increase your partnership peers, they have to perform some kind of trainings. They can see all the training videos right away in their portal. No interaction with the internal user for now until and unless is required so they can help themselves right now. It's very, very useful. I would say that.

Cons

  • So for this the particular product, the good part is there is a CMS contain management and it's very good because you can add your content inside whether it's a video, PDF, word file, whatever you want to. But the problem is we cannot do the more customization inside that. I cannot read whether the customer has clicked on the particular video. I cannot read the customer has gone through the document or not. And a few customers are very particular about the look and feel of what they're seeing. They have a theme, so we need to mask the theme in order to maintain the CMS based on the theme. I have to do some CSS that I would say and override the existing classes, but they also have to expose more so that I can do the more customization inside CM side. That's the only thing, but everything is fine.

Likelihood to Recommend

For customer and the partner, honestly, I cannot find anything which that less appropriate. If you don't have a customer, if you are developing CRM for your internal employee, well then you don't have to go and use a particular PRM portal. But if you're dealing with partner or a customer, which is outside user, I'll definitely recommend it.

Salesforce CMS is great

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Salesforce CMS to streamline content management, ensuring seamless collaboration across teams and delivering personalized experiences to employees and customers. The platform allows us to centralize content, making it easily accessible across multiple channels, including our internal HR portal and external career pages. The key business problems it addresses include content fragmentation, inconsistent messaging, and inefficiencies in updating HR policies, job postings, and training materials. With role-based access controls, our HR team can efficiently create, manage, and distribute content while ensuring compliance with company standards. Our use case primarily focuses on HR and talent acquisition, where we leverage Salesforce CMS to enhance employee engagement, automate policy updates, and maintain brand consistency across recruitment and onboarding materials.

Pros

  • Seamless Multi-Channel Content Delivery
  • Personalized and Dynamic Content
  • Intuitive and User-Friendly Content Management

Cons

  • Limited Flexibility in Content Customization
  • Steep Learning Curve for New Users
  • Limited Native Asset Management Features

Likelihood to Recommend

HR and Employee Self-Service Portals: Organizations using Salesforce Experience Cloud can leverage Salesforce CMS to create centralized knowledge hubs for HR policies, onboarding resources, and internal communications. Employees can access up-to-date content without IT involvement, improving efficiency and reducing HR’s administrative burden. Multi-Channel Content Distribution: Businesses needing to push content across different touchpoints (web, mobile, email, and customer portals) benefit from Salesforce CMS’s ability to deliver consistent messaging seamlessly. A sales enablement team can publish case studies and product updates on a customer portal while simultaneously integrating content into marketing emails. Personalized & Dynamic Content: Companies using Salesforce CRM can leverage Salesforce CMS to deliver AI-driven, tailored content based on user behavior, preferences, or past interactions. For example, a recruiting team can show custom job recommendations based on a candidate’s past applications.

Vetted Review
Salesforce Experience Cloud
3 years of experience

Salesforce CMS: Seamless for CRM, Challenging for Content Teams.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Salesforce is used in our organization to manage digital content across multiple platforms to ensure consistency and efficiency in content delivery. Business problems addressed: 1. Salesforce provides a single source of truth instead of different teams storing content in various locations. 2. Salesforce allows us for seamless multi channel distribution. 3. Targeting specific customer segments 4. Salesforce allows us to personalize content dynamically based on CRM insights.

Pros

  • Salesforce dynamically adjusts content to maximize engagement and conversions.
  • Salesforces enforces structured workflows, preventing unauthorized changes and ensuring content quality.
  • Salesforces significantly streamlines our content strategy.

Cons

  • Unlike other CMS platforms like Wordpress and Adobe Experience Manager, Salesforce does not provide a fully featured editor with a drag-and-drop design tool.
  • Our content creators and marketing team often struggle with permissions and how to distribute content across different experience cloud sites.
  • Also, there is no side-to-side comparison view for content editors to update the content easily.

Likelihood to Recommend

Our company wants to serve personalized blog posts, product recommendations, and gated content to leads based on the industry and engagement history. Its AI-driven content personalization tailors articles and assets based on CRM data. Integration with Marketing Cloud and pardot allows dynamic content insertion into emails and landing pages.

Vetted Review
Salesforce Experience Cloud
2 years of experience

Another winner in the Salesforce “Suite”

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

the business use a Salesforce CMS for content management. Specifically for content that our registered investment advisors use and distribute to clients and prospects. This content is regulated and is auditable by the SEC. As such a centralized control over this content, the creation of it, and the distribution of it, is paramount

Pros

  • Allow for content consolidation
  • Version tracking
  • Content and distribution list associations

Cons

  • Licensure and pricing
  • Bundling with other licensed SF products
  • Role and permission granularities

Likelihood to Recommend

Salesforce is one of the largest players in enterprise software and technology. Because of its ubiquity, it is a very safe solution choice. deployment and immigration support services for Salesforce CMS, while pricey, are worth the investment the customized of the platform and the book are away being dependent on. It’s integration with other enterprise systems

Salesforce CMS use

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Salesforce CMS to centralize content management across multiple digital channels, ensuring that sales, marketing, and service teams have access to consistent, up-to-date content. Aids all of our teams, including marketing, product, and customer support, to collaborate.

Pros

  • Allows teams to collaborate and share updates
  • Content Fragmentation- having the main space
  • leverage Salesforce CMS to publish content across various touchpoints without duplicating efforts

Cons

  • Steep Learning Curve, we need a consultant
  • Limited Customization in Content Components
  • Hard to integrate with out other tools

Likelihood to Recommend

For ticketing based projects it's been fantastic to work with. For instances where we're keeping data in Salesforce CMS and others in the org don't, it's hard to get on the same page

Vetted Review
Salesforce Experience Cloud
2 years of experience

Salesforce CMS for Collaboration

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization uses Salesforce CMS to share ideas and content with one another. This is especially helpful because our team has a global footprint so whenever we need to access content made by somebody in a different location, we can access it in the system. The business problem that this product addresses is giving my team and company one centralized location to share content with one another .

Pros

  • Content sharing
  • Collaboration

Cons

  • Update speed
  • Organization

Likelihood to Recommend

One scenario in particular which comes to mind is that we have a global team which works to support some of our tier one accounts and whenever we receive communication from them, we need one place to access it without having to dig through emails or Excel files. We use Salesforce CMS to have one place to access all of this information including contract information.

Vetted Review
Salesforce Experience Cloud
2 years of experience