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    Salesforce Experience Cloud

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (formerly Salesforce Experience Cloud or Salesforce Community Cloud) is an online forum powered by Salesforce that enables businesses to connect with their employees, customers, partner organizations, and prospects. Designed to help facilitate communication and information sharing, customers can ask questions and request help, administrators can integrate data from third-party apps, and employees can collaborate across projects and…N/A
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    Salesforce Experience Cloud
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    I have used Oracle Fusion and it was super slow if compared to Salesforce. The loading time was longer and information was not organized in a simple way like Salesforce. Even though I haven't participated in the decision process of subscribing to Salesforce, as an employee I …
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    Salesforce Experience Cloud was selected due to its tight integration with our existing Salesforce CRM platform. Customization of the portal was much, much simpler compared to Sharepoint - especially with role-based security parameters that are ultimately inherited based on …
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    Salesforce Experience Cloud (formerly Salesforce Community Cloud) is better when you are using Salesforce for applications. Drupal is a solid open-source web content management system for internal and external websites, but if you are using Salesforce for services or case …
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    We already have Salesforce Sales and Service Cloud and integration with Salesforce Experience Cloud is easier to configure and manage.
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    We are currently using Vanilla to manage our community (including our knowledge base & ideas), but will be moving to [Salesforce Experience Cloud (formerly Salesforce Community Cloud)] within the quarter. We decided to move forward with Experience Cloud because it integrates so …
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    Does not have direct access to the Salesforce data, must integrate and maintatin that integration which is costly. Just having a single source login is valuable.
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    I have used Datatel/Colleague/Recruiter before. There were issues because only one person at the institution was able to have the student's record open at a time. This was problematic when collaboration between departments was necessary especially in the case of admissions, …
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    After evaluating others on the market, we found that Salesforce Community Cloud comes with many more features than it competitors. Also Salesforce Community Cloud is way more user-friendly than others. And above all, we were looking for faster sales support in which Salesforce …
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    Before Community Cloud, a common alternative was the development of web sites externally with integration to Sales Cloud being made from external API calls. This is a far costlier and more complex endeavour since it requires a dedicated development team to create and maintain …
    Incentivized
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    Overall, Salesforce is the most effective solution since it is part of an integrated stack to house and activate CRM audiences within an email, but also expand upon it via the DMP. This can allow for cross channel reach and exposure frequency measurement. If we were to partner …
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce has highly customizable lead management and scoring, while HubSpot can get small businesses up and running quickly with lead generation via content marketing. HubSpot is unique in its focus on inbound and content marketing—in fact, that's at the core of what the …
    Incentivized
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    I never found another database solution that works as well as Salesforce.
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    As our client already used Salesforce CRM, it is a simple integration tasks to link Community to CRM. As such this was a quick deployment with the base data already being present and easily linked to.
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    I’m sure Salesforce does this as well but we were able to create many macros for Zendesk, that helped our agents interact with customers on a very consistent basis. We haven’t quite got that far in our organization, but I do think it would be useful to our agents.
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    Overall, Communities provides additional features and better front end experience.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce Community Cloud was purchased by the company and I was not a decision-maker or involved in the implementation process. Simply a user.
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk was far better at case management.

    Atlassian Confluence for knowledge base was not perfect but it was better than Community Cloud for search and appearance for the FAQ.
    Incentivized
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    Other online community forum software vendors include, HiveBrite, ForumBee and Memeni. the main competitor being HiveBrite. Additional tools with chat functionality may also include Slack which i have used. Having th ability to create groups by product / team / region etc.

    Incentivized
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    I have personally not used any other software comparable to Salesforce Community Cloud at this time.
    Incentivized
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    We have only ever used a different internal program that was custom built by our web team. It was not functional with Outlook and all the other systems we use daily. Salesforce is our central hub for everything!
    Incentivized
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    Community Cloud is directly connected to the database (Salesforce), so there is no need for a 3rd party or an API to bring systems together. This means that CRM users can see all Intranet items from Salesforce directly. It's also extremely straight forward in use, but can be …
    Incentivized
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    This is the only product we have used.
    Incentivized
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    I did not select Community Cloud, but since we had the Salesforce platform it was preferred to use this instead of Office 365. I currently use SharePoint at my new organization and there is a much higher level of participation, customization, storage, and synchronicity among …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions10.01 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    API10.01 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language10.01 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor8.01 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness10.01 Ratings
    Admin section10.01 Ratings
    Page templates10.01 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design10.01 Ratings
    Publishing workflow10.01 Ratings
    Form generator8.01 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    8.6
    1 Ratings
    Content taxonomy9.01 Ratings
    SEO support8.01 Ratings
    Bulk management8.01 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions8.01 Ratings
    Community / comment management10.01 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    Conversion tracking8.01 Ratings
    Test reporting8.01 Ratings
    Funnel Analysis8.01 Ratings
    User Segmentation8.01 Ratings
    Digital Experience Platform
    Comparison of Digital Experience Platform features of Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Feature
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    Campaign management10.01 Ratings
    Cloud enablement10.01 Ratings
    Content aggregation10.01 Ratings
    Content classification10.01 Ratings
    Multi-channel content personalization10.01 Ratings
    Customer data analytics10.01 Ratings
    DXP Third-Party Integrations10.01 Ratings
    Multi-website management10.01 Ratings
    Digital asset management10.01 Ratings
    Editorial workflows and task management10.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (52 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.4
    (4 ratings)