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Salesforce.com Inc

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Composite Score

8.8 /10

CX Score

8.9 /10

931 Reviews Write a Review

What is Salesforce Sales Cloud?

The all-new Sales Cloud CRM software allows you to be more efficient, more productive, more everything than ever before as it allows you to close more deals, accelerate productivity, get more leads and make more insightful decisions.

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Awards & Recognition

Salesforce Sales Cloud won the following awards in the Customer Relationship Management - Enterprise category

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2025 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2025

8 Top Rated Capabilities

9 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

8 Top Rated Capabilities

9 Top Rated Features

2024

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

9 Top Rated Capabilities

8 Top Rated Features

2023

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

2022

9 Top Rated Capabilities

9 Top Rated Features

2022

Product Impact
Conflict Resolution

2022

Salesforce Sales Cloud Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Salesforce Sales Cloud?

3% Negative

7% Neutral

90% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Respectful
Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Lead Management

Sales Management

Account and Contact Management

Analytics and Reporting

Customer Service Management

Collaboration

Activity and Workflow Management

Marketing Management

Quote Contract and Proposal

Telephony and Call Center Management

Mobile

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

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Salesforce Sales Cloud Reviews

Satya K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Tremendous Product Functionality

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Salesforce Sales Cloud from other similar products?

Sales Cloud. It is Unlock business growth and customer success with the power of Data and CRM along with AI

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Easy to use

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing can be dislike

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For a Business Growth

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Kyle B.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Tons of features, but a bit difficult to use

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Salesforce Sales Cloud from other similar products?

It has been around for many years. It truly has stood the test of time. It integrates with pretty much any other sass product.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

All of the integrations.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It's not very easy to use. Too many clicks / difficult to navigate and difficult to train new people on how to use it for it's full capacity. It's a bit time consuming compared to other products like Hubspot CRM.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It's a great solution for enterprise and mid market sales teams. If you are a high volume smb sales team you might want to check out others (HubSpot CRM, Zoho CRM, SugarCRM, Monday.com, etc.)

Pros

Effective Service
Respectful
Acts with Integrity
Includes Product Enhancements

Cons

Inhibits Innovation
Slower Product Innovation
Less Performance Enhancing

Nikola P.

Role: Operations
Industry: Energy
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Simplicity reliability flexibility and easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Salesforce Sales Cloud from other similar products?

I would say it's the big product portfolio, flexibility and easy integration

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Flexibility and integration. This gives you ability to do almost anything. You can manage your business from one point, from pre-sales activities to retaining your customers and tracking their happiness and satisfaction

What do you dislike most about this product?

I wouldn't say it's a dislike, but more a thing Salesforce can improve - filtering options on dashboards. like custom calendar selection, or simple search box for filtering.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Anyone who wants to track their business and/or manage customers in quick and reliable way, must try Salesforce. The simplicity, quality and reliability of this CRM will quickly bring benefits to, almost any, business

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

Salesforce Sales Cloud Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Salesforce Sales Cloud?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Lead Management Track and optimize prospective customers through lead generation, customer inquiry and capture, filtering, grading distribution, and contact/lead nurturing.

Sales Management Lead gen, pipeline management, team & geography-based assignment. Compensation & contract management. Ability to pull customer data from the social cloud.

Account and Contact Management Customizable records with customer demographic information, account history, and billing information.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Customer Service Management Includes case and ticket management, automatic escalation rules, advanced resolution tools, multi-channel integration, and in-band response capabilities.

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Activity and Workflow Management Text or code-based and visual workflow designers.

Marketing Management Multi-channel campaign management and analytics, budget tracking, click-to-lead capabilities, and social property management, keyword mining, and analytics.

Quote Contract and Proposal Includes web portals, quoting capabilities, order tracking and fulfillment, and rapid deployment templates for e-commerce sites.

Telephony and Call Center Management Computer-telephony integration for bringing call info into the CRM suite. Advanced call recording, scripting, queuing, and Interactive Voice Response (IVR).

Mobile Ability to support multiple devices, OSes and platforms using mobile optimized, HTML-based web access and/or native applications.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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Conversation Intelligence

Sales Enablement

Lead Management

Salesforce Sales Cloud Reviews

Satya K.

Tremendous Product Functionality

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kyle B.

Tons of features, but a bit difficult to use

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Nikola P.

Simplicity reliability flexibility and easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Lead Management

Sales Management

Account and Contact Management

Analytics and Reporting

Customer Service Management

Collaboration

Activity and Workflow Management

Marketing Management

Quote Contract and Proposal

Telephony and Call Center Management

Mobile

Vendor Capability Ratings

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support