Salesforce Essentials Overview

Salesforce-essentials offers a powerful CRM solution for small businesses to enhance sales processes and stay competitive. Control of sales processes and business success is facilitated.

Use Cases

Customers recommend Engagement Management, Helpdesk Management, Sales Document Management, as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied with while using Salesforce Essentials.

Other use cases:

  • Knowledge Management
  • Contact List Management
  • Communication Management
  • Lead Tracking
  • Collaboration
  • Workflow Management
  • Customer Case Management
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Business Priorities

Enhance Customer Relationships and Acquire Customers are the most popular business priorities that customers and associates have achieved using Salesforce Essentials.

Other priorities:

  • Increase Sales & Revenue
  • Improve Stakeholder Relations
  • Improve ROI
  • Increase Customer Life Time Value
  • Improve Efficiency
  • Improve Brand Engagement
  • Build Brand Awareness
  • Grow Market Share
  • Increase Average Basket Value
  • Improve Digital And Social Presence
  • Improve Internal Communications
  • Scale Best Practices
  • Launch New Products
  • Establish Thought Leadership
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Salesforce Essentials Use-Cases and Business Priorities: Customer Satisfaction Data

Salesforce Essentials works with different mediums / channels such as Social Media. Twitter. and Facebook.

Salesforce Essentials's features include Personalization, Ticketing, Recording, etc. and Salesforce Essentials support capabilities include Email Support, 24/7 Support, Phone Support, etc. also Salesforce Essentials analytics capabilities include Custom Reports, and Analytics.

Reviews

"Salesforce as a technology platform has proven its adaptability. It’s been shown that we can build many services and solutions on it that offer extra value for our internal users, customers, and ultimate end users. It’s a central part of our vision ...for the future." - Tuomas Pyyhtia

Salesforce Essentials, Less Annoying CRM, Teamgate CRM, Pipeliner CRM, Freshsales, etc., all belong to a category of solutions that help CRM. Each of them excels in different abilities. Therefore, determining the best platform for your business will depend on your specific needs and requirements.

Popular Business Setting

for Salesforce Essentials

Top Industries

  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology and Services
  • Consumer Electronics

Popular in

  • Small Business
  • Enterprise
  • Mid Market

Salesforce Essentials is popular in Manufacturing, Information Technology And Services, and Consumer Electronics and is widely used by Small Business, Enterprise, and Mid Market.

Comprehensive Insights on Salesforce Essentials Use Cases

How does Salesforce Essentials facilitate Engagement Management?

How does Salesforce Essentials address your Helpdesk Management Challenges?

How efficiently Does Salesforce Essentials manage your Sales Document Management?

How can Salesforce Essentials optimize your Knowledge Management Workflow?

Why is Salesforce Essentials the best choice for Contact List Management?

53+ more Business Use Cases

17 buyers and buying teams have used Cuspera to assess how well Salesforce Essentials solved their CRM needs. Cuspera uses 2588 insights from these buyers along with peer reviews, customer case studies, testimonials, expert blogs and vendor provided installation data to help you assess the fit for your specific CRM needs.

Customer Testimonials

CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Salesforce Essentials testimonial

Tuomas Pyyhtia

Solution Owner, Field Service Operations

KONE
Salesforce as a technology platform has proven its adaptability. It’s been shown that we can build many services and solutions on it that offer extra value for our internal users, customers, and ultimate end users. It’s a central part of our vision for the future. Testimonial By Tuomas Pyyhtia
Salesforce Essentials testimonial

Patrick Spence

CEO

Sonos
There's a time in a customer's journey where they might run into an issue or a problem, and that is a defining moment where you can either rise to the occasion and help them or not. If you can address it, you raise the value in the mind of the customer. Testimonial By Patrick Spence
Salesforce Essentials testimonial

Rob Birse

Vice President, Global Advanced Analytics, AI, and B2B Ecommerce

Kellogg
Data is foundational, but it is only the beginning of the journey. We’re moving advanced analytics right to the forefront of our engagement strategy. Testimonial By Rob Birse
CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Salesforce Essentials testimonial

Tuomas Pyyhtia

Solution Owner, Field Service Operations

KONE
Salesforce as a technology platform has proven its adaptability. It’s been shown that we can build many services and solutions on it that offer extra value for our internal users, customers, and ultimate end users. It’s a central part of our vision for the future. Testimonial By Tuomas Pyyhtia
Salesforce Essentials testimonial

Patrick Spence

CEO

Sonos
There's a time in a customer's journey where they might run into an issue or a problem, and that is a defining moment where you can either rise to the occasion and help them or not. If you can address it, you raise the value in the mind of the customer. Testimonial By Patrick Spence
Salesforce Essentials testimonial

Rob Birse

Vice President, Global Advanced Analytics, AI, and B2B Ecommerce

Kellogg
Data is foundational, but it is only the beginning of the journey. We’re moving advanced analytics right to the forefront of our engagement strategy. Testimonial By Rob Birse

Case Studies

Manufacturing

CASE STUDY JSW Steel

JSW Steel used MuleSoft to transform its value chain. They integrated 32 systems with 120+ APIs. This improved order management and customer experience. They achieved a 99.7% integration success rate.... API calls increased by 52%, reaching 7.2 million per year.

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Information Services

CASE STUDY BARC India

BARC India improved field service productivity by 25% using Salesforce automation. They unified panel and inventory management on a single platform. This helped them service more households and ensur...e high-quality data. The same team of 650 field executives can now conduct 15% more panel visits per day. They can also visit 20% more households. BARC uses Salesforce to manage 55,000+ metering devices and plans to expand to 300,000 households.

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Consumer Goods

CASE STUDY Tata Consumer Products

Tata Consumer Products transformed its sales and distribution with Salesforce. They built a platform called MAVIC, automating distributor management. Onboarding time reduced from a week to 45 minutes.... The MAVIC app enables 6 million transactions monthly. Over 3,000 distributors were onboarded in four months. The platform is used by 8,000 sales employees to serve 12,000 distributors and 1.6 million retail outlets.

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Manufacturing

CASE STUDY Godrej & Boyce

Godrej & Boyce used Salesforce to unify their CRM across business units. This helped them offer a connected customer experience. They moved sales processes to Salesforce Sales Cloud. This unified cus...tomer data and sales workflows. Sales teams now engage customers consistently. They reduced the time to connect with customers from a day to two hours. Predictive analytics increased lead conversion probability to 80% in one business unit.

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Information Technology and Services

CASE STUDY EXL

EXL used Salesforce to improve sales efficiency and customer focus. They implemented Sales Cloud and Revenue Cloud to optimize their sales processes. Automation and real-time insights helped sales te...ams engage customers better. EXL's sales team now predicts deal success and improves conversion rates. The company plans to integrate Salesforce further for a robust customer experience.

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Financial Services

CASE STUDY Bike Bazaar

Bike Bazaar uses Salesforce to improve loan processes. They cut loan approval time from 20 to 5 minutes. They manage twice as many cases as before. Product launches are now 6 times faster. Data insig...hts help them target promotions and manage risks.

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Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

for Salesforce Essentials

What is Salesforce Essentials?

Salesforce Essentials is the vendor's small business plan for its CRM (Sales Cloud) and customer support (Service Cloud) solutions. It is designed for a small sales team to sell smarter and faster with the help of the app's built-in intelligence. It helps to acquire customers and enhance customer relationships.

Salesforce Essentials help to obtain data from email, calendar, spreadsheets, phone, chat, social channels, and more to get a view of every customer and the business. It connects with customers for a personalized customer experience and sells faster and smarter with built-in intelligence.

Some of its features include a 360-degree customer view, in-app tutorials, and guided setup, easy customizable view of all sales details, automatically connect multiple support channels, automate repetitive tasks, and many more.

What is Salesforce Essentials used for?

Salesforce Essentials is a CRM Software mainly used by its customers to Enhance Customer Relationships and Acquire Customers by Engagement Management, Helpdesk Management and Sales Document Management .

What are the top features of Salesforce Essentials?

Personalization, Ticketing and Recording are some of the top features of Salesforce Essentials.

Who uses Salesforce Essentials?

Salesforce Essentials is used by Manufacturing, Information Technology And Services and Consumer Electronics among other industries.

What are Salesforce Essentials alternatives?

Less Annoying CRM, Teamgate CRM, Pipeliner CRM and Freshsales are popular alternatives for Salesforce Essentials.

Where is Salesforce Essentials located?

Salesforce Essentials is headquartered at 415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States.
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Peers used Salesforce Essentials for engagement management and helpdesk management

Salesforce Essentials Features

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FEATURE RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

3.92/5 ★

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Custom Reports

3.96/5 ★

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Analytics

3.90/5 ★

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CAPABILITIES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

3.92/5 ★

Read Reviews (16)
Custom Reports

3.96/5 ★

Read Reviews (276)
Analytics

3.90/5 ★

Read Reviews (59)

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Salesforce, Inc. News

M&A

Salesforce acquires AI recruiting startup Moonhub weeks after Informatica deal

Salesforce has acquired Moonhub, an AI-driven recruiting startup founded by former Meta engineer Nancy Xu. Moonhubs team will join Salesforce to advance its AI initiatives, including Agentforce. This move follows Salesforces recent acquisitions of Informatica and Convergence.ai, signaling a continued focus on expanding AI capabilities in cloud-based enterprise solutions.

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Partnership

Salesforce Once a Silicon Valley Rebel, Now an AI Revolutionary - CIOL

Salesforce is advancing its AI strategy by leveraging its $8 billion Informatica partnership to unify enterprise data and enhance trust in its AI-driven CRM solutions. This move positions Salesforce as a leader in integrating artificial intelligence across customer relationship management, enabling smarter automation and deeper insights for business users.

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Product

Copado Robotic Testing Debuts in AWS Marketplace, Enabling AI-powered, Salesforce ...

Copado Robotic Testing is now available in AWS Marketplace, offering AI-powered test automation for Salesforce applications. This release enables Salesforce customers to streamline testing workflows, accelerate release cycles, and improve software quality using Copado's cloud-based platform integrated with AWS.

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Customer

From Hours to Minutes: JPW Industries Order Processing Transformation with Salesforce Partners and AI

JPW Industries automated its order processing and customer service by deploying Salesforce Agentforce AI, in collaboration with RafterOne. The solution replaced manual workflows, accelerated order turnaround, and enabled 24/7 support. Salesforces AI-driven platform centralized knowledge for agents, improving efficiency and customer experience in the manufacturing tools sector.

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Salesforce, Inc. Profile

Company Name

Salesforce, Inc.

Company Website

https://www.salesforce.com/in/

Year Founded

1999

HQ Location

415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States

Employees

10001+

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Financials

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