What is Salesforce Starter?
Sell more at record speed with Starter (formerly Sales Cloud Essentials) — and leave data entry in the dust. With Salesforce, speed, intelligence, and personalization doesn't stop at the desktop. Access and update your data anytime with the Salesforce mobile app. Easily follow up on leads, identify key contacts, and more. See an easy, customizable view of of all your sales details in Lightning, the latest version of Salesforce.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
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94 Plan to Renew
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84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
+91 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 Starter?
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Altruistic
- Security Protects
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Sales Management
Lead Management
Account and Contact Management
Customer Service Management
Activity and Workflow Management
Mobile
Analytics and Reporting
Collaboration
Marketing Management
Quote Contract and Proposal
Telephony and Call Center Management
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Customization
Business Value Created
Breadth of Features
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Implementation
Availability and Quality of Training
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Data Integration
Quality of Features
Vendor Support
Ease of IT Administration
Salesforce Starter Reviews
Hamish D.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Construction
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jul 2021
Cheaper than MS Dynamics and almost as good
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Salesforce Starter from other similar products?
I enjoy using the reporting function more on SalesForce. Some aspects of reporting seem easier via this platform. essentials also seem to have more capability than the basic dynamics counterpart
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Reporting. Also, there is a dynamic forum attached to this platform that allows you to troubleshoot almost in real-time
What do you dislike most about this product?
Lead management could be better + more functionality
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are not in a blue-chip fortune 500 company, this product is defiantly for you. If you are from bluechip, weigh pros and cons with dynamics
Pros
- Reliable
- Transparent
- Security Protects
- Performance Enhancing
Cons
- Less Effective Service
- Wastes Time
- Vendor Friendly Policies
Lainer A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2021
Allows further monitoring.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Salesforce Starter from other similar products?
Salesforce is outstanding, and with strengths, for its integrated project management functions that it offers to end users, once implemented, sales and marketing, as well as area managers, making it easy to manage and develop workflows, assign and follow Tasks and marking permissions, it also offers additional productivity tools available through the App Exchange store.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like Salesforce because it offers all the important standard CRM, sales and marketing tools, this solution enables the use of dashboards and high-level reporting and analytics in a customizable package.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Something that is cumbersome and tedious about this software is that it requires a high internet speed to use Salesforce CRM.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I Recommend Salesforce facilitates a great and easy import process with the ability to seamlessly move data from Gmail, Google Calendar, and Excel spreadsheets.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Manasa G.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2021
Easy Flexible Sales Management Tool.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Salesforce Starter from other similar products?
Salesforce Essentials is a very simple sales management tool for every to set.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Features easy of access and the functionality.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing from the too to dislike so far.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Salesforce Essentials effectively allows easy activities and workflow management for its users.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing