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Salesforce Service Cloud Review
Product Snapshot
Product Pricing
- $65/user/month (Professional Edition)
- $135/user/month (Enterprise Edition)
- $300/user/month (Unlimited Edition)
Technology
The Service Cloud is delivered on a Software-as-a-Service model, requiring no additional hardware or software installations. Full functionality and information can be accessed with an Internet connection.
Customer Focus
The Service Cloud is ideal for any sized business with service and support processes.
Select Customers
Hewlett-Packard, Starbucks, TransUnion, Pervasive Software, AIG Edison Life Insurance Company
About Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce’s Service Cloud is a customer support solution that helps businesses deliver more responsive and faster service across every channel, from the contact center to social networks. The Service Cloud enables businesses to meet their customers where they interact, such as Facebook or Twitter, to ensure that every customer need is met.
The Service Cloud can also improve agent collaboration, improving their productivity and the customer experience they deliver. With the Service Cloud, companies can service and engage with their customers in more effective ways while also improving service agent performance.
About the Company
Salesforce.com is the leading enterprise cloud computing company with a strong focus on the Social Enterprise, which infuses a social context into the way businesses are run. Founded in 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com has gained recognition for its innovative products right from the start. Salesforce.com delivers a range of CRM and business applications that help companies improve the way their employees collaborate and the way they connect with customers.
Salesforce Service Cloud Key Features
- Use the collective expertise within the organization to close cases and reduce escalations
- Follow articles and cases to know when the status on cases has been updated
- Use both traditional and social channels to create and track incoming cases
- View customer social profiles
- Route and escalate cases automatically
- Integrate with back office or telephony applications
- Let customers search the knowledge base and get case updates
- Enable customers and agents to interact in communities
- Listen and engage with customers using public social networks
- Filter what’s important and respond quickly to customers
- Integrate questions and requests made by customers on social networks into the case queue
- Quickly find answers across every channel
- Use information from social channels or Chatter to create knowledge articles
- Let customers get answers to their issues 24/7
- Get high-level visibility into service levels with dashboards
- Drill down to the details and create customizable reports
- Find the metrics that matter most in real-time with Chatter
- Use incoming customer emails to create cases automatically
- Deliver faster service with custom email templates
- Integrate with other email applications like Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook
- Provide faster answers to customers
- Embed Live Agent for instant chat on websites
- Crowd-source knowledge to help customers find the right answers
- Let customers share, discuss, and vote on their ideas
- Use analytics to get insight into communities
- Implement customers’ ideas to show that companies are listening
- Share knowledge base answers on Google and other search engines
- Provide answers to customer questions directly on the website without requiring a login
- Show service information on a public Web page
- Outsource service to partners with a portal where they can create and update cases
- Share information in real time with partners to deliver better service
- Create a partner knowledge base to ensure that the right answer is always provided to customers
- Stay updated about customer issues from anywhere using mobile devices
- View dashboards and the latest service performance metrics on the road
- Manage and resolve cases in the field
- Manage and automate support processes such as quotes, returns, and case resolution
- Create scripts to guide your agents through any type of customer interaction
- Streamline the approval process by automating processes such as refunds and more
- Find and install apps for field service, surveys and more
- Improve productivity with pre-built dashboards and gadgets
- Customize free starter templates to your service processes
- Match customers with the right level of service
- Get an instant view of service history with visual SLA timelines
- Create service entitlement levels based on product, service, or contact
- View service level entitlements at a glance
- Get instant SLA alerts from Chatter
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Pros
- The Service Cloud’s extensive customer channels–including online communities, customer self service, public knowledgebases and more–cut down on labor intensive human services, giving agents more time and resources to focus on other customer-facing processes.
- The Service Cloud features extensive social media capabilities, integrating these tools into the core system–ensuring a seamless, uncomplicated experience for the user.
- The Service Cloud includes a powerful Visual Process Manager tool that helps to create workflows and approvals, while reducing the amount of manual activities that must be performed.
Cons
- The Service Cloud, like other Salesforce.com solutions, can be relatively expensive compared to other Software-as-a-Service CRM products available on the market.
- Salesforce.com does not offer a Service Level Agreement unless the customer requests one, and SLAs often fall behind the guarantees of other CRM providers.
- If businesses are seeking a broader solution that covers other back office processes, such as accounting, Salesforce.com products like the Service Cloud lack such features.
Overall
For organizations that primarily use a contact center as the point of delivery for customer service, Salesforce.com Service Cloud may offer what is needed to improve their support processes. If companies are seeking a best-of-breed CRM solution, Salesforce.com has more than established its reputation in such an area, and the Service Cloud offers tightly integrated applications to streamline service processes, while also providing innovative social media capabilities.
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