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What is Salesforce?

Salesforce enables sales teams to maximize their productivity and achieve their goals more effectively. As the premier CRM solution worldwide, Salesforce transcends basic capabilities. It provides teams with vital resources aimed at broadening their client bases, uncovering new opportunities, and closing deals rapidly from virtually anywhere. The platform features an impressive selection of tools, including contact management, opportunity tracking, lead oversight, email integration, report generation, sales forecasting, and file synchronization and sharing, to name just a few. This allows you to invest less time navigating through spreadsheets and more time concentrating on your core business activities. Without the need for any extra hardware or software, our intuitive setup guide empowers you to streamline sales workflows and resolve customer inquiries in just a few minutes. By connecting data across sales, service, and marketing, you can deliver seamless and tailored experiences to your customers. This holistic view of each client encompasses their accounts, interaction history, and connections. Additionally, incorporating social data can significantly enhance your understanding of customer behaviors and preferences, providing you with a competitive edge in the market. Ultimately, Salesforce not only boosts sales efficiency but also fosters stronger customer relationships through insightful data analytics.

Pricing

Price Starts At:
$25.00/month/user
Price Overview:
Essentials - $25 per user per month
Sales Professional - $75 per user per month
Service Professional - $75 per user per month
Free Trial Offered?:
Yes

Integrations

Offers API?:
Yes, Salesforce provides an API

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Company Facts

Company Name:
Salesforce
Date Founded:
1999
Company Location:
United States
Company Website:
www.salesforce.com

Product Details

Deployment
SaaS
iPhone
iPad
Android
Training Options
Documentation Hub
Online Training
Webinars
On-Site Training
Support
Standard Support
Web-Based Support

Product Details

Target Company Sizes
Individual
1-10
11-50
51-200
201-500
501-1000
1001-5000
5001-10000
10001+
Target Organization Types
Mid Size Business
Small Business
Enterprise
Freelance
Nonprofit
Government
Startup
Supported Languages
Chinese (Mandarin)
Chinese (Simplified)
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai

Salesforce Categories and Features

Sales Forecasting Software

Competitor Analysis
Correlation Analysis
Dashboard
Dynamic Modeling
Exception Reporting
Graphical Data Presentation
Modeling & Simulation
Performance Metrics
Sales Trend Analysis
Statistical Analysis

Sales Force Automation Software

Call Management
Campaign Management
Channel Management
Commission Management
Contact Management
Contract Management
Customer Database
Email Marketing
Field Sales Management
Lead Management
Opportunity Management
Performance Metrics
Proposal Generation
Referral Tracking
Sales Forecasting
Territory Management

Sales Enablement Software

Collaboration
Contact Management
Content Management
Document Management
Goals / Quota Management
Lead Management
Meeting Management
Performance Management
Presentation Management
Proposal Management
Territory Management
Training Management

Sales Analytics Software

Collaboration Tools
Dashboards
Forecasting Analytics
Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)
Lead Analytics
Pipeline Management
Predictive Forecasting
Predictive Lead Scoring
Sales Intelligence Reporting

Real Estate CRM Software

Campaign Management
Client / Property Matching
Contact Management
Dashboard
Email Marketing
Interaction Tracking
Lead Management
Property Alerts
Referral Tracking
Segmentation

Manufacturing Software

Accounting Integration
ERP
MES
MRP
Maintenance Management
Purchase Order Management
Quality Management
Quotes/Estimates
Reporting/Analytics
Safety Management
Shipping Management

Lead Management Software

Activity Tracking
Campaign Management
Lead Capture
Lead Distribution
Lead Nurturing
Lead Scoring
Lead Segmentation
Pipeline Management
Prospecting Tools
Source Tracking

Inside Sales Software

Auto-Dialing
Call List Management
Call Recording
Campaign Management
Dashboard
Data Management
Lead Capture
Lead Distribution
Lead Scoring
Performance Management

Customer Reference Management Software

Nomination Tracking
Program Notices
Reference Usage Tracking
Reward Distribution
Search

Contact Management Software

Activity Management
Appointment Management
Contact Database
Contact History
Contact Import/Export
Customer Pipeline
Email Marketing
Group Management
Interaction Tracking
Lead Management
Prospecting Tools
Sales Pipeline Management
Search / Filter
Segmentation
Shared Contacts
Social Media Integration

Construction CRM Software

Client Tracking
Contract Management
Forecasting
Project Management
Quote Management
Sales Management
Scheduling
Time Management

CRM Software

Calendar/Reminder System
Call Logging
Document Storage
Email Marketing
Internal Chat Integration
Lead Scoring
Marketing Automation Integration
Mobile Access
Quotes / Proposals
Segmentation
Social Media Integration
Task Management
Territory Management

Automotive CRM Software

Call Logging
Contact Management
Customer Support
Inventory Management
Lease Management
List Management
Marketing Automation
Product Catalog
Quotes / Proposals
Service Department Management
Showroom Management
Territory Management

More Salesforce Categories

  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Sales Development
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Absolute must for any business looking to scale

    Date: Jun 11 2021
    Summary

    Overall, I highly recommend salesforce to any and all organizations. It can help you scale your business and keep your data organized.

    Positive

    I love that I can have a single system of record to keep all of my data from leads, contacts, different accounts, sales, everything. I use it every day and it keeps me from losing valuable information and drowning in unorganized customer data.

    Negative

    From what I understand, implementation can be brutal, but I haven’t experienced that first hand.

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  • Reviewer Name: Kelly C.
    Position: Independent Contractor Hearing Examiner
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Salesforce has helped us establish optimal sales plans

    Date: Mar 22 2021
    Summary

    As a service for reviewing customer databases, and communicating with them directly from them, Salesforce has everything you need to emerge as one of the easiest to use. By using the essentials plan we were able to support up to 5 people within our work session, and everyone can include their own customer data.

    Positive

    The security of Salesforce allows us to ensure that there are no problems with the size of business we are running, as the adaptability of the service allows us to focus on both large and small businesses. The price of the base version, at $25, is extremely affordable as opposed to many current CRMs.

    Negative

    If we need to include contact information in external records involving funnels, this cannot be achieved through Salesforce. The platform does not get very deep into the area of mass advertising, not even through emails, which leads to not being able to do marketing from it

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  • Reviewer Name: Ronald W.
    Position: Marketing Specialist
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Salesforce CRM for businesses an innovation

    Date: Mar 19 2021
    Summary

    Salesforce CRM annexes all aspects of our customers, from phone calls, emails, meetings and social media. It allows us to manage the different levels of interest from our customers, scheduling meetings and distribution of new leads. Salesforce CRM is customizable, it manages sales teams, which helped us improve productivity and reduce internal costs, when our company started using this tool to create a sales workflow, it gave us an accurate sales forecast. Salesforce CRM also provided us with tools to facilitate and manage email campaigns that generated sales results at the lowest possible cost.

    Positive

    Salesforce CRM has allowed us to manage the relationship with our customers through the Internet or the cloud in such a way that we record all the information efficiently thus fulfilling all their needs, as it allows us to have a report and a follow-up perfectly improving the sales processes within the company.

    Negative

    The cost of the platform is considered relatively high which can be somewhat distressing for small businesses, they should consider the price or have a simpler version, but in turn free, we have had problems with customer service because it is difficult for us to contact them.

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  • Reviewer Name: Frank M.
    Position: Director of Safety
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Increase Productivity using Salesforce

    Date: Aug 17 2021
    Summary

    It is a great tool that can be used by various disciplines in one organization. It can also integrate with various other software.

    Positive

    Salesforce operates like a social media application and is fully customizable to do whatever you need to be done.

    Negative

    Personalization can be difficult to set up initially.

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  • Reviewer Name: Jason C.
    Position: Product Design Lead
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 26 - 99
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Salesforce is our most important sales tool

    Updated: Mar 29 2021
    Summary

    Salesforce can become an indispensable option to improve sales, and therefore, profits. Our experience has been satisfactory in being able to get a head start in managing sales data, and personalized communication with customers. This seems to be one of the most efficient online CRM services we have tried to work with.

    Positive

    The peak of our online marketing operations has been possible only by using Salesforce's capabilities to organize customers into interactive lists, whose information we can seamlessly access whenever we need to include it in sales reports, or to better segment it.

    Negative

    Salesforce does not sync well with email back-office services, so it is impossible to run direct email campaigns involving all the leads we work with, forcing us to communicate with them individually in order to meet our quota.

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  • Reviewer Name: Steven K.
    Position: Serve Pastor
    Has used product for: Less than 6 months
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 26 - 99
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    FANTASTIC tool!

    Date: Apr 02 2021
    Summary

    Overall, I can't recommend Salesforce enough. Great tool for your team and there are so many ways it can be used!

    Positive

    Salesforce is a fantastic tool for sales teams. I love how customizable it is! If you can afford it, definitely recommend.

    Negative

    It is pretty expensive, so start-ups may need to look elsewhere for something a little more affordable.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Senior Implementation Consultant
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    The best tool in its class

    Date: Apr 13 2021
    Summary

    We use Salesforce to capture lead information, store opportunities and existing accounts information. It is used both by sales and professional services teams. We have some custom developed solutions on top as well as a few integrations with other vendors. Overall, a very robust tool for businesses with endless capabilities.

    Positive

    Lead and contact management, account management, dashboards and reporting, integrations and sync, flexibility and customization.

    Negative

    Can't complain about browser experience, but the mobile app is terrible. Also, the Outlook plugin oftentimes had troubles working and updates never came on time.

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  • Reviewer Name: Marlio B.
    Position: Organizational Development People Chief
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 10,000 - 19,999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    SalesForce takes lead generation to the next level

    Date: Jul 27 2021
    Summary

    SalesForce has allowed us to make our way with the use of CRM, among the most important functions are the registration of emails, collection of potential customers, in addition to tracking all customer interaction to increase our sales and overall opportunities. Thanks to its e-mail messaging system, we generate a business assistance option via e-mail, when a customer needs advice or assistance in any business or has a problem, we proceed with incident actions. With SalesForce and its functions for capturing and tracking potential customers, we can also audit sales operators to determine how well they are doing their job.

    Positive

    We can monitor all the activity that exists between our sales people and prospects in real time, to determine how effectively our marketing processes are being managed. With SalesForce we can customize the activities that are performed with our customers or we can adapt them to the needs of the organization, we perform a target segmentation with our customers to try to streamline sales processes. The SalesForce algorithm is intuitive and predictive, with continuous use of the program by any operator within four hours, allows the application to adapt to staff and streamline processes and pop-ups.

    Negative

    When requesting certain basic reports the SalesForce application has some limitations, for example, it is very complicated to generate reports where data from regular customers and potential customers are unified in a single procedure. When you close an SF and want to open it the next day, the program generates an overwhelming amount of tabs that cause the application to partially collapse and you must proceed to close one by one. Sometimes, when applying customer acquisition actions by email, when sending a default message SalesForce generates a very annoying error window that is impossible to decipher the problem since it is ineligible what it says.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: IT Project Manager ( Senior )
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 26 - 99
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    It's a Gem For CRM

    Updated: Feb 01 2021
    Summary

    Overall, Salesforce provides our organization a top-class CRM to manage everything related to sales and customers. We loved this tool, I recommend everyone to try this robust tool.

    Positive

    Salesforce is a gem tool for customer relationship management. From sales overview to user management, it gives endless power to manage everything. Also, it has wide support for tool integrations. Loved it.

    Negative

    At the initial time, it was a little complex to navigate, now it's great.

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  • Reviewer Name: Nate Y.
    Position: Installation Manager
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Monthly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Great tool

    Date: Feb 22 2021
    Summary

    I’ve found Salesforce to be one of the most useful tools in our business. Ease of use, features, and security are crucial in today’s world, and Salesforce has it all.

    Positive

    Sales force has made it easy to add and manage new customers and existing contracts. Extensive capabilities are why so many businesses are using it.

    Negative

    I haven’t found any flaws with Salesforce, in my experience it has been a very useful tool.

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  • Reviewer Name: Annie L.
    Position: CSO
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 26 - 99
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Best CRM

    Date: Apr 09 2020
    Summary

    Still the best Sales CRM out there. I've tried HubSpot and others but this is the best one. Will not use any other CRM.

    Positive

    Best reporting and forecasting tools, great for managing any size sales team. I've used it for a team of 5 and upwards to a team of 100.

    Negative

    Hard to navigate, clunky but Lightning is an improvement.

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  • Reviewer Name: Jenny P.
    Position: Teacher
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Best for sales and marketing management

    Date: Nov 10 2020
    Summary

    Salesforce is the best CRM platform to manage all business needs very effectively and highly recommended for the people from sales and marketing backgrounds.

    Positive

    Salesforce is the number one CRM and provides a customized platform for tracking and updating business portfolios in efficient manner.

    Negative

    There are no cons whatsoever about Salesforce CRM except it needs a proper training for teams to handle and run it.

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  • Reviewer Name: Mika T.
    Position: Systems Administrator
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    It just works

    Updated: Nov 03 2020
    Summary

    While I can think of a few very specific cases where Salesforce might not be the ideal solution, in most cases I wouldn't recommend anything else.

    Positive

    Salesforce is easy to use, easy to customise, and because it's the biggest name in CRM, everything integrates with it. They are constantly adding features, and they have solutions for almost any use case.

    Negative

    Some seemingly simple features are occasionally missing (eg, showing zeroes on a chart). Requests to fix these have sometimes been open for 10+ years.

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  • Reviewer Name: Matthew T.
    Position: Business Development Director
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Robust platform that has allowed us to grow

    Date: Nov 16 2020
    Summary

    Overall its an outstanding platform for customer relationship management. It is a platform we can't live without now!

    Positive

    Salesforce allows us to manage prospects, leads and accounts in a very organized and efficient way. Through Salesforce we have been able to double our revenue in 3 years!

    Negative

    The onboarding and creation of the platform can be time consuming and challenging.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Senior account executive
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Salesforce best CRM

    Date: Nov 05 2020
    Summary

    Overall I’d highly recommend to anyone with a business wanting to keep track of their customers within a CRM.

    Positive

    How easy it is to navigate and to be able to find all the leads with all the info I’d the customers.

    Negative

    Building the reports isn’t the easiest thing to do.

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  • Reviewer Name: Stephania A.
    Position: Data Analyst
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    There’s a reason why Salesforce is the #1 CRM

    Date: Oct 25 2020
    Summary

    I love Salesforce and I would recommended it to anyone looking for a great CRM. I think there are areas that need to be improved but they are actively considers ideas and making changes.

    Positive

    - Salesforce is easy to use/understand
    - User Friendly
    - Strong UI and accessibility
    - security feature

    Negative

    - SalesForce’s reporting tool could be improved.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: System auditor
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Great product with sales reporting

    Date: Jul 17 2020
    Summary

    The insights helps with projection of our sales.
    Reliable with improving customer relations.
    Nice support.

    Positive

    Accurate with sales reporting.

    Reliable with analytics insights for the business.

    Customizable software to use

    Negative

    The best CRM to use with timely and great updates and ease of use.

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  • Reviewer Name: Mohit V.
    Position: Operation manager
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Best in CRM category

    Date: Jul 11 2020
    Summary

    Better customer relationship management gives a business a good platform to increase performance. For this Salesforce is productive CRM tool. It gives entire business in a single dashboard. It offers tons of features to help the sales team perform better

    Positive

    Salesforce is available on cross-platform. One best CRM with contact and lead management. The dashboard brings entire data into a single screen. Real-time analytics to analyze.

    Negative

    I never encountered any serious problem with its functionality.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Customer relations and Marketing Specialist
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    I recommend everyone to try this

    Updated: Nov 06 2020
    Summary

    There are thousands of CRM available but we selected Salesforce because of its reliability and efficiency. It always stands out of the list. Everyone in my business using this tool.

    Positive

    For business growth, you should have Salesforce in your business. It is easy to use, ideal for SME, forecasts the best level lead and customer data, auto tracks email leads, customized dashboard, easy to approach leads, trend-based marketing and customer help desk service.

    Negative

    The deployment into our core service was not very easy.

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  • Reviewer Name: Calvin B.
    Position: Accounts Receivable Specialist
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Salesforce: Highly Scalable CRM

    Date: Nov 11 2020
    Summary

    Overall Salesforce has enabled us to manage customer support in every channel, automate sales and marketing among other obligations.

    Positive

    I like how Salesforce has allowed us to sell faster in the cloud as well as saving time due to spending less time in the market.

    Negative

    On my end, I don't have anything that fails to work for me.

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