Overall Satisfaction with Salesforce.com
It is used across our entire organization as our system of record. We use it (along with several integrated apps) for Leads, Marketing, Sales, Customer Install Projects, Support Cases, and many other internal things that we need to keep record of.
- Salesforce.com is flexible and can accommodate any size company. It is highly customizable and virtually limitless with the development platform. It is a great product, and in my experience, the key to success with Salesforce.com is having people that are dedicated to learning, maintaining and developing the system, with focus on a positive user experience.
- Support for Salesforce.com is incredible. If you don't find what you are looking for in their vast Help & Training documentation, there is a great support community of users where you can search for answers or post your question. Also, a regular web search will return many hits, as well. There are many independent websites that have documentation, code sharing and support forums. But if you need to talk directly to their support team, they are very responsive and I have always had a positive experience with them.
- Salesforce.com is highly available. In the 8 years that I have been using Salesforce.com, I can only recall one time many years ago when we had a problem with the site, and it was resolved relatively quickly. I like that everything is available online and can be accessed from anywhere. This allows for people to work out in the field and from remote offices.
- One of Salesforce.com strengths could also be considered a weakness to some. I think it is great that the product is so flexible and customizable, but that also makes it very complex. It takes dedicated people to manage it. It is an ever-evolving system which is great because it stays updated and constantly improves, but for some it might be hard to keep up with the changes. I know from experience because of the position I was in for many years. I was responsible for the system, but it was not my dedicated role, so many of the updates went unnoticed and we started getting more internal requests to change the way it worked, and eventually we got behind. It's important to have a dedicated team of people, who will be involved with supporting the system, especially with a growing company. It's a wonderful product, but it will not appear so if the appropriate resources are not dedicated to it. You get out of it what you put into it.
Salesforce Sales Cloud Feature Ratings
Using Salesforce.com
84 - Sales & Account Management, Customer Support, Accounting, Marketing