Salesforce Lightning Overview

Salesforce Lightning boosts productivity and optimizes operations. Apps can be built quickly to enhance sales and CRM efficiency.

Use Cases

Customers recommend Workflow Management, Engagement Management, Advertisement, as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied with while using Salesforce Lightning.

Other use cases:

  • Sending & Publishing Communications
  • Campaign Management
  • Training & Onboarding
  • Lead Tracking
  • Forecasting
  • Social Media Analytics
  • Business Development
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Business Priorities

Acquire Customers and Improve ROI are the most popular business priorities that customers and associates have achieved using Salesforce Lightning.

Other priorities:

  • Increase Sales & Revenue
  • Enhance Customer Relationships
  • Enter New Markets Internationally Or Locally
  • Scale Best Practices
  • Grow Market Share
  • Improve Stakeholder Relations
  • Improve Efficiency
  • Launch New Products
  • Improve Digital And Social Presence
  • Improve Internal Communications
  • Improve Brand Engagement
  • Establish Thought Leadership
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Salesforce Lightning Use-Cases and Business Priorities: Customer Satisfaction Data

Salesforce Lightning works with different mediums / channels such as E-Mail. Mobile. User Generated Content etc.

Salesforce Lightning's features include Recording, Dashboard, Personalization, etc. and Salesforce Lightning support capabilities include AI Powered, Chat Support, Phone Support, etc. also Salesforce Lightning analytics capabilities include Analytics, and Custom Reports.

Reviews

"...The chatter feature makes it easy to interact with other users...." Peer review by User in Building Materials, Construction

Salesforce Lightning, Scratchpad, SecureDocs Virtual Data Room, Veloxy, ExpensePoint, etc., all belong to a category of solutions that help Sales Enablement. 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 Lightning

Top Industries

  • Computer Software
  • Information Technology and Services
  • Human Resources

Popular in

  • Small Business
  • Large Enterprise
  • Mid Market

Salesforce Lightning is popular in Computer Software, Information Technology And Services, and Human Resources and is widely used by Small Business, Large Enterprise, and Mid Market.

Comprehensive Insights on Salesforce Lightning Use Cases

How does Salesforce Lightning address your Workflow Management Challenges?

What makes Salesforce Lightning ideal for Engagement Management?

How efficiently Does Salesforce Lightning manage your Sending & Publishing Communications?

What solutions does Salesforce Lightning provide for Campaign Management?

32+ more Business Use Cases

11 buyers and buying teams have used Cuspera to assess how well Salesforce Lightning solved their Sales Enablement needs. Cuspera uses 824 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 Sales Enablement needs.

Case Studies

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

for Salesforce Lightning

What is Salesforce Lightning?

Lightning is a reimagined Salesforce platform for boosting productivity and sales optimization that can be used by the Sales, Marketing and other customer facing teams. It can be deployed in small and medium sized businesses, non-profits and start-ups in industries such as Manufacturing, Healthcare, Financial Services, Hospitality and more.

Lightning features include tools for making selling easier, enhancing productivity, and personalized customer service. It enables optimization of business operations enabling accuracy in business performance metrics data, better insight into sales pipeline and service operations, and increased user engagement.

Lightning also includes a quick app building tool that can be used by anyone in the team for building apps without having to use code, thus saving developer time for product customizations. Lightning’s AI engine enables accuracy in outcome predictions, generation of insights, automation of tasks, and next steps recommendations.

What is Salesforce Lightning used for?

Salesforce Lightning is a Sales Enablement Software mainly used by its customers to Acquire Customers and Improve ROI by Workflow Management, Engagement Management and Advertisement .

What are the top features of Salesforce Lightning?

Recording, Dashboard and Personalization are some of the top features of Salesforce Lightning.

Who uses Salesforce Lightning?

Salesforce Lightning is used by Computer Software, Information Technology And Services and Human Resources among other industries.

What are Salesforce Lightning alternatives?

Scratchpad, SecureDocs Virtual Data Room, Veloxy and ExpensePoint are popular alternatives for Salesforce Lightning.

Where is Salesforce Lightning located?

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

Salesforce Lightning Features

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FEATURE RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

4.35/5 ★

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Analytics

4.41/5 ★

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Custom Reports

3.78/5 ★

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CAPABILITIES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

4.35/5 ★

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Analytics

4.41/5 ★

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Custom Reports

3.78/5 ★

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Salesforce, Inc. News

M&A

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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.

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.

Product

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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.

Salesforce, Inc. Profile

Company Name

Salesforce, Inc.

Year Founded

1999

HQ Location

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

Employees

10001+

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Financials

IPO