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Salesforce Service Cloud

Score8.5 out of 10

397 Reviews and Ratings

What is Salesforce Service Cloud?

Service Cloud is a customer service platform that helps businesses manage and resolve customer inquiries and issues. It provides tools for case management, knowledge base, omni-channel support, automation, and analytics, enabling companies to deliver exceptional customer service experiences.

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Top Performing Features

  • Organize and prioritize service tickets

    Prioritize tickets to ensure most urgent are tackled first

    Category average: 8.6

  • Ticket creation and submission

    Users and agents can easily enter new support requests.

    Category average: 9

  • Email support

    Integrates with email so that agents can send and receive information related to support tickets via email; email communications are attached to support tickets.

    Category average: 8.8

Areas for Improvement

  • External knowledge base

    Customers can self-service by searching through help articles.

    Category average: 8

  • ITSM collaboration and documentation

    Issue resolution through collaboration mechanisms like discussion threads, social tools; agents can attach notes, files, etc. to tickets in order to maintain a record of all interactions related to the case.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Customer portal

    Customer portal allows customers to submit tickets themselves and/or access self help resources.

    Category average: 8.3

Salesforce Service Cloud Reporting

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Salesforce Service Cloud for case management and the reporting is where we need some expertise

Pros

  • Agent can record case details
  • Associate contact seemlessly
  • Attach voc

Cons

  • Case creation for follow-up deals
  • Routing

Return on Investment

  • Reduction in ticket resolution

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Other Software Used

Salesforce Sales Cloud, Field Service Cloud

Case management and tickets escalation are the best features

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We manage cases, case management using service console in service cloud. The ticketing system in external system was not feasible enough to maintain tickets and not user friendly.

A new custom dynamic service console to maintain or case management for the agents to resolve the cases timely .

Pros

  • case management
  • omni channel

Return on Investment

  • reduction in resolution time
  • knowledge articles

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce Sales Cloud, Conga CPQ and Salesforce Revenue Cloud

Other Software Used

Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce CRM Analytics, Salesforce Revenue Cloud

Salesforce Service Cloud Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Fast support to customers, providing real time solutions with access to training articles for self service. Fast case assignments, proper priority routing and ability to track customer issues.

Pros

  • Case routing
  • Case assignment
  • Summary overviews

Cons

  • Tab windows for screen flows

Return on Investment

  • Lower cost

Other Software Used

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Best platform for servicing customers with various channels

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Salesforce Service Cloud for email to case setup, web to case, knowledge management, reports and dashboards, Entitle management, omni channel support, Live agent, lightning record pages for single view , Queues , Skill based routing and proving the services for the products we sold under sales cloud in Airline industry

Pros

  • Email to case
  • Web to case
  • Queue, Public groups
  • Reports and dashboards

Cons

  • Cage age fields calculations
  • Service console view
  • Live chat enhancements

Return on Investment

  • Improved our business with best service support by growing the sales
  • Reporting
  • Live chats

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Service

Other Software Used

Rally Platform

Good choice for native Salesforce companies

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Salesforce Service Cloud for our ticketing system. When customers have issues they can report those issues via email or via a landing page where they can fill out basic ticketing information to submit a ticket. We also host our knowledge center on Salesforce Service Cloud and allow some customers to access all of their open and historical tickets from Salesforce Service Cloud.

Pros

  • Response time reminders
  • Connected to CRM

Cons

  • Integration with Jira
  • Team management
  • Cost

Return on Investment

  • Faster ticket response times
  • Detailed reporting on overall cases and case management