What Does Salesforce Do?

If you have customers, you’ve got customer data. But what do you do with it? How can you use that data to grow lasting relationships and your business? Many companies come to us frustrated because they can’t easily answer these questions. Sales doesn’t share data with marketing. Marketing doesn’t know when a customer has an open service ticket. Commerce doesn’t have transparency on marketing campaigns. You get the picture. Data silos are real. And painful.

Salesforce’s customer relationship management (CRM) software breaks down the technology silos between departments and helps you build strong, lasting customer relationships.

We call our entire portfolio of products and services Customer 360. It’s how you can unite your company — your sales, service, marketing, commerce, and IT teams — around a single shared view of your customers using AI and real-time, actionable data to help wow your customers every time.

The result? Customer information — from tech support chats, recent purchases, website behaviour, and more — flows throughout your company in real time. Your sales team knows exactly what products to offer. Your service team helps customers faster. Or better yet, customers are empowered to resolve issues on their own with automated self-service tools. The ability to automate and unify millions of data points in real time creates a special kind of customer magic. Customer trust in your company grows.

Customer 360 helps you lower costs with your entire organisation using one trusted platform. It increases productivity with built-in automation and generative AI, and it drives efficient growth by empowering your employees to exceed customer expectations.

Want to know the best part? Customer 360 works for every industry and every size of business at any stage of growth. And it is flexible, which means you can customise the apps and tools you need to meet the needs of your business today, scale as you grow, and integrate with third-party partners to help you customise your experience fast.

Another thing about our CRM: It lives in the cloud. This means all of your teams are connected on one platform no matter where they’re physically located. This cloud-first approach to customer relationship management (versus on-premise software) allows companies to lower maintenance costs, follow a pay-as-you-go model, and more efficiently enable remote or hybrid work.

Our platform is built on Hyperforce, our next-generation cloud infrastructure, which lets Salesforce applications scale rapidly and enables you to run your Salesforce apps from anywhere in the world. Our latest innovation, Data Cloud, helps you make the most of all your data. Data Cloud connects your historical, web, mobile, API, CRM, and even real-time data so all your teams have a complete picture of customers and their interactions with your business. This helps your teams make every customer touchpoint hyper-personalised, so you can build stronger customer relationships at scale.

Customer data also powers Einstein GPT, the world’s first generative AI for CRM. Einstein GPT is like having an AI sidekick that helps you auto-generate sales tasks, dynamically create personalised customer content, or even write code. All of this AI and data come together on our low-code platform, which helps you customise and automate fast for your business.

Did we mention we’re customer obsessed? We are! And that’s why we’re committed to helping you make the most of our technology and deliver success. We have an entire support ecosystem to help you reach your goals fast — whether it’s collaborating with industry experts and our professional services team, accessing any of our thousands of apps in the AppExchange, or empowering your workforce to learn in-demand skills with Trailhead. In fact, 89% of Salesforce customers achieve positive ROI in nine months.*

And with Slack, Customer 360 simplifies communication and information sharing with customers, teams, and partners to power digital workflows for a new way to work. Salesforce Customer 360 is your solution for uniting your company and growing customer relationships.

Marketing Cloud helps you save time, increase efficiency, and meet customers on their preferred channels — email, web, social, mobile, ads, or any combination. And with the help of unified analytics and AI insights, rest assured you’re getting the most out of every dollar and optimising campaign performance. Marketing teams that use Salesforce estimate a 31% average increase in customer engagement and 27% average decrease in costs to acquire new customers.*

With Marketing Cloud Customer Data Platform, you can understand your customers through real-time data and engage with relevant messaging to deliver hyper-personalised interactions everywhere. And Einstein GPT for Marketing can dynamically generate personalised content to engage customers and prospects on their preferred channel. Remember when marketers used to daydream about delivering the right message, at the right time, on the right channel? Well, now you can.

Learn how Customer 360 helps you increase efficiency, improve results, and lower costs.

Did you know that Salesforce was originally made for sales teams? Our goal is to help sellers reduce costs, increase productivity, and win more deals. On average, our customers have realised up to 32% cost savings**, 29% increase in sales productivity, and 27% increase in win rates after implementing Sales Cloud.*

How does this happen? We created a single platform to simplify and manage the entire sales cycle — from prospecting to deal close to upsell and cross-sell. With Sales Cloud, you’ve got the full sales tech stack ready to automate and scale all your manual sales processes, inspect your pipelines and forecasts with precision accuracy, and connect all customer touchpoints for the best buying experience. Einstein GPT for Sales puts the power of AI in your sales workflows by auto-generating such sales tasks as composing emails, scheduling meetings, and preparing for the next interaction.

Sales Cloud provides sellers with real-time insights and recommendations to help them spend less time on busywork and more time closing deals. And better still, by connecting sales with marketing, service, and more, your opportunities increase, and your customer experiences feel more seamless and engaged.

Sure thing! If you want to build simple, seamless business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) commerce experiences that help grow revenue, engage customers, and connect commerce to the rest of the business, Salesforce has tools for that, too.

Easy to implement and adapt, Commerce Cloud can help you maximise revenue by creating personalised shopping experiences across channels and removing friction from the buying experience, even if a customer starts their shopping journey on one channel and completes it on another.

In fact, Commerce Cloud customers see a 26% decrease in costs to place orders and a 29% increase in online revenue.* That is why our commerce tools are trusted by industry-leading brands.

Absolutely! With Service Cloud, Salesforce customers decrease their support costs by 27% on average.* Our leading customer service tools help you scale service that customers love while maximising ROI and driving efficiencies from the contact centre to the field — all on a single platform. Einstein GPT helps personalise and expedite service interactions by generating knowledge articles from past case notes and auto-generating chat replies. Today, customers expect to interact with your business through their preferred channels. We can help you manage those critical touchpoints to provide seamless customer experiences including customer service, self-service channels, field service, and digital channels like chat, SMS, and social messaging apps.

With automation and intelligence, your agents can resolve cases faster, provide instant support, and have a complete and informed view of your customers at every interaction. The opportunities for time and cost savings are limitless when all your teams are on the same page.

Whether your team is tech-minded or not, our integrated Information Technology (IT) tools can help your entire organisation automate processes, build more intelligent apps, and secure data across Customer 360. We’ll put you on the path to increase productivity by automating processes that help teams across your organisation improve scale, transparency, and security as you need it. With Salesforce, organisations see a 25% decrease in IT costs.*

We have many customer stories to share, but let’s look at just one example of how Customer 360 helps deliver success.

L’Oréal, the world’s number one beauty company, has always combined the best of beauty and technology. And with the help of Salesforce Customer 360, it is forging deeper customer relationships with unique beauty journeys tailor-made to each consumer’s taste, budget, and shopping habits.

With Marketing Cloud Personalisation, L’Oréal builds individual consumer journeys from real-time and historical data, delivered through the channels each consumer prefers, such as email or social media. ‘‘Messaging based on shopping habits and use of Salesforce services powers our quest to bring greater personalisation, relevance, and satisfaction to our consumers in this ever-evolving and complex beauty consumer journey,” said Asmita Dubey, chief digital and marketing officer.

Throughout L’Oréal’s 200-plus websites, the beauty giant has integrated Commerce Cloud with Einstein product recommendations to deliver AI-powered recommendations based on a consumer’s browsing or purchase history. So if a customer adds a lightweight sunscreen to their cart, for example, Einstein may recommend SPF lip balms or moisturisers at checkout. This powerful AI capability has enabled L’Oréal to generate double-digit increases in average order value (AOV) from its websites.

L’Oréal also uses Service Cloud to consolidate data across brands and channels, such as SMS, chat, and email, into a single view of each consumer. From a single dashboard, agents can pull up consumers’ service and purchase history, view the status of their orders, and even see activity updates in real time. Not only does this provide more seamless experiences for customers looking for help, the employee experience is also better.

“Service Cloud reduces case processing time because agents don’t have to struggle with so many different systems,” said Dubey. “This allows us to better care for our consumers, and therefore drive better consumer satisfaction.” As a result, agent satisfaction scores are up by 70%.

By connecting their customer data, utilising the power of AI, and uniting their teams with Customer 360 L’Oréal can deliver ultra-personalised consumer experiences on a global scale for its millions of customers.

Salesforce is best known as one of the first cloud-based software companies that revolutionised business technology. We took the Rolodex and made it accessible to everyone in the company 24/7 by placing it in the cloud. No longer would companies need to install expensive and custom-built computer infrastructures. And we’ve been building on that ever since to become the world’s #1 CRM.

Today, we continue to innovate CRM with generative AI, real-time data, and best-in-class CRM, to help companies connect with their customers in new and better ways.

As a company, we do much more than build great products. We believe that our greatest resource is our values, and that businesses big and small can use their platforms for change to build a better future.

We’re doing what we can to tackle the current climate crisis, trust crisis, and the crisis of inequality. Since we began in 1999, we’ve placed a major emphasis on supporting the global environment. We launched Net Zero Cloud, and we’re behind the 1 trillion trees effort to unleash a global reforestation movement.

Companies can create welcoming environments for all employees by seeking diversity and teaching inclusivity. We have an equality at work module on our Trailhead online learning platform with more information. We also have training anyone can access on how to build ethical and inclusive products. It’s part of a movement to build technology with intention.

Additionally, our 1-1-1 philanthropic model means we’ve donated more than $240 million in grants, contributed 3.5 million hours of community service, and provided product donations for more than 39,000 nonprofits and educational institutions since we started. You can learn more about our philanthropic efforts here.

As the customer company, Salesforce has always been customer-obsessed, which is why customer success is one of our core values. While we know our customers are facing economic challenges, supply chain challenges, staffing shortages and more, we also know businesses can’t be successful without putting their customer at the centre of their business. Every company must be a customer company.

A whopping 88% of customers say the experience a company provides is as important as its products and services, according to Salesforce’s State of the Connected Customer report. This means it’s not only about what you offer customers, but when, where, why, and how you reach them.

Today’s customers want to trust they’re getting what they need from you, when and where they need it. They want experiences to be effortless, and they’re loyal to brands they can count on. Salesforce’s connected customer experiences help you ensure that trust.

To sum it up, Salesforce creates CRM-based tools and solutions for companies of all shapes and sizes. We focus on the success of our customers so that you can build strong, lasting relationships with your customers. But that’s not all. We rely on all our core values — trust, customer success, innovation, equality, and sustainability — to shape our culture and inform how we serve and benefit all our stakeholders, including customers, shareholders, employees, our communities, and our planet.

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*Source: 2022 Salesforce Success Metrics Global Highlights study.

Data is from a survey of 3,706 Salesforce customers across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, Australia, India, Singapore, Japan, and Brazil conducted between June 8 and June 21, 2022. Results were aggregated to determine average perceived customer value from the use of Salesforce. Respondents were sourced and verified through a third-party B2B panel. Sample sizes may vary across metrics.

** Based on average costs of comparable solutions. Information purposes only.