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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Salesforce Partner Management

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Partner Management is a partner relationship management (PRM) software solution offered by Salesforce.

    $25

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Salesforce Experience CloudSalesforce Partner Management
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Essentials
    $25
    per month per user
    Professional
    $75
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $150
    per month per user
    Unlimited
    $300
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce Experience CloudSalesforce Partner Management
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—All plans are billed annually.
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    Community Pulse
    Salesforce Experience CloudSalesforce Partner Management
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Salesforce
    Chose Salesforce Partner Management
    Tune provides great on-boarding experience for new users, but the functionality of the product itself is limited. For example if you multiple partners worldwide who sell your product, Salesforce CRM integration is a must to achieve business goals. Salesforce ecosystems helps to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Partner Management
    Since our main CRM for the business is Salesforce, the choice for the Salesforce Partner Management was a no-brainer and no other option was researched at the time. While it would not be ideal in most scenarios, for us it proved to be the right choice under our timeframe and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Partner Management
    Since our sales team already uses Salesforce, it was easier to just go with Salesforce Partner Management. Salesforce has a very manageable learning curve and has many classes and lessons for users, while PartnerStack is more limited. Salesforce Partner Management has robust …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    26 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    Salesforce Experience CloudSalesforce Partner Management
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Salesforce Experience Cloud and Salesforce Partner Management
    Feature
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Salesforce Partner Management
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Salesforce Experience Cloud and Salesforce Partner Management
    Feature
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Salesforce Partner Management
    -
    Ratings
    API10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Salesforce Experience Cloud and Salesforce Partner Management
    Feature
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Salesforce Partner Management
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Salesforce Experience Cloud and Salesforce Partner Management
    Feature
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    8.6
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Salesforce Partner Management
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Salesforce Experience Cloud and Salesforce Partner Management
    Feature
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Salesforce Partner Management
    -
    Ratings
    Conversion tracking8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test reporting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Funnel Analysis8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Segmentation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Digital Experience Platform
    Comparison of Digital Experience Platform features of Salesforce Experience Cloud and Salesforce Partner Management
    Feature
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Salesforce Partner Management
    -
    Ratings
    Campaign management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud enablement10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content aggregation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content classification10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-channel content personalization10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer data analytics10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    DXP Third-Party Integrations10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-website management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Digital asset management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Editorial workflows and task management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Salesforce Experience CloudSalesforce Partner Management
    Small Businesses
    Yext
    Score8.9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Sitecore Digital Experience Platform
    Score8.7 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Progress Sitefinity
    Score6.8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce Experience CloudSalesforce Partner Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (52 ratings)
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce Experience CloudSalesforce Partner Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    Salesforce Experience Cloud is well-suited for organizations that have clients who periodically or routinely need to access historical data or documents. The product also offers an exceptionally effective tool to engage with customers around support/service issues and the entire Case management functionality built into the Salesforce platform. The product might be less well-suited in environments where there is exceptionally high staff turnover within customer accounts, or where there is a substantial lack of very basic computer skills.
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce Partner Management is a great tool for scenarios where a partner portal needs to be created in a quick and cost-efficient manner by teams that do not necessarily have a broad technical knowledge and when the time to market is key. In the situations where the use case is more advanced and cannot be covered by the out-of-the-box functionalities of SPM, then the tool is less effective.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Complete integration with the Salesforce ecosystem. Data displayed in your Community portal reflects records from a Sales Cloud organization
    • Highly customizable. A Community Cloud portal can be totally customized both visually and with different funcionalities with little to no coding skills required
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    Salesforce
    • Clear, concise user interface.
    • Organizes calls & notes & client info into one uniform platform.
    • Allows knowledge to be shared across the organization & account teams.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • The documentation for implementing Experience Cloud can be a bit confusing as their rebranding hasn't made it's way into all articles, resulting in different terminology being used to refer to the same thing
    • Some things are not as intuitive regarding their customizability, so there's a bit of a learning curve (i.e. Lightning apps can't be used to customize layouts in Experience Cloud)
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    Salesforce
    • One thing is, you have to put the time you took on the case if you edited it. I would like to change the name or a note and not have to go back and put how long it took.
    • Reports can sometimes be hard to create.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    We are definitely going to renew as we created and developed a very functional and complete solution that we won't want to lose. and the reason we achieved that is by continuously evolving and enhancing. That would not be possible without the qualified technical support we have at our disposal internally.
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    Usability is pretty streamlined, especially if you're familiar with other Salesforce products, but even if not, take it from me, as I just entered the technological space about two years ago, that this product is pretty simple to learn. You don't have to jump in with your head underwater. Small wins and learnings along the way are what foster long-term understandings and enable your evolution alongside the product. I definitely recommend Salesforce Trailhead along with it
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce Partner Management is complete and has great usability. Just as a Salesforce full CRM does. However, when you have to deploy the initial implementation and/or create the infrastructure for your Salesforce Partner Management it might require, as expected, a very good support and development team and resources
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    Performance
    Salesforce
    It's delivered on our original requirements and we've found ways to grow its usage. We continue to build on our original success and we can report our data out to leadership to show a true return on investment which is great for growing support and expanding uses for the system.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    We have weekly calls with our Salesforce reps. They bring new ideas to the table and help with taxonomy builds. They have also answered many questions and connected us to the right people for us to grow our knowledge and utilization of the platform. They are a good partner overall in comparison.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    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, financial aid, and registration. We also had to do our work and then log out before asking a questions of another department. Sometimes simultaneous use was necessary. However, this was years ago and they may have since updated the program.
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    Salesforce
    Tune provides great on-boarding experience for new users, but the functionality of the product itself is limited. For example if you multiple partners worldwide who sell your product, Salesforce CRM integration is a must to achieve business goals. Salesforce ecosystems helps to avoid having multiple tools and licenses. One big differentiator is that Salesforce Partner Managements allows for personalization that is user-friendly, while with Tune user is expected to do some coding
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Improved online admission application completion rates from mid-60%s to mid-80%s.
    • Positive user experience from start-to-finish to leverage one data system for all prospective student data
    • Fewer data integrations transforming and loading sensitive student data by leveraging Salesforce Community Cloud to access already existing data
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    Salesforce
    • Single integrated lead management system- positive.
    • Partner information and communication - positive.
    • One system for all partner needs like assigning deal registration or MDF- positive.
    • Trainings required internally- negative.
    • Too expensive- negative.
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