It is essential to create a seamless customer experience across multiple channels and platforms to ensure customer satisfaction. This not just leads to better collaboration between different teams but also aids in business growth. All this requires having in place a robust solution, and Salesforce Customer 360 offers proper Salesforce support.
What is Salesforce Customer 360?
Salesforce customer 360 is a platform designed to help organizations better connect with their customers by promoting consistent internal operations. The platform supports internal collaboration by bringing sales, marketing, analytics, commerce, service, and IT. By leveraging this data, the platform creates unique customer IDs that can be used across all Salesforce and other applications. With this, a seamless customer experience can be created as all the teams in an organization will have access to this data.
Listed below are some reasons why Salesforce customer 360 can prove to be a game-changer for forward-looking organizations:
Personalized Customer Experience: Small businesses that manage their data on spreadsheets or sticky notes fail to deliver personalized experiences to their customers as it is difficult to understand customer contexts. Businesses should provide their customers with personalized experiences to maintain lasting customer relationships to remain competitive. Salesforce customer 360 enables teams to craft reliable data on genuine customers and their needs. This enables organizations to augment their customer service and solve customer issues.
Better Customer Experience: Figuring out genuine business customers and where they are isn’t easy. Customers, too, are apprehensive of sharing their data again and again. Salesforce customer 360 simplifies the customer satisfaction index when they connect with a business entity. Businesses leveraging such a system can benefit their entire workforce from marketing, sales, and service as they can store data that’s accessible to all. With this, customers start trusting the business and their efforts towards customer success.
Business Forecasting: Businesses can achieve sustainable growth when they meet or exceed the expectations of customers. However, this is a big challenge for small businesses. Businesses must consider leveraging Salesforce 360 to help them adapt to various apps related to sales, marketing, support, and service while fulfilling customer expectations and business growth. In fact, this platform is designed to manage a small team size of 1-20 people that can avail both sales and service functions in a single app.
Better Business Decisions: For making intelligent decisions, it’s vital to have access to well-researched facts, figures, and data points. By having a rich customer database demand forecast, sales forecast expected revenue, and customer market projection, better decision making becomes possible as, in the presence of factual data, better planning can be done. With well-articulated figures in place, both long-term decisions and planning for short-term ventures can be ensured. By having in place a robust solution like Salesforce 360, a foundation for consistent and trustworthy and business intelligence can be laid as it offers features such as Salesforce scripting, reporting, content management system, and more.
Final words:
In a nutshell, it can be inferred that the power of a robust solution like Salesforce 360 can be leveraged to improve the internal operations of a company and significantly improve customer experiences. However, investing in a powerful solution like Salesforce 360 requires time, thought, and advice from a certified and experienced Salesforce consultant.
As a business entity, your priority lies in improving the bottom line of your business by generating greater ROI. To ensure consistent growth of your business, you need to chart out an appropriate customer satisfaction strategy as customers tend to be the life and blood of every business undertaking. The most important aspect of this strategy should be to have in place a robust system that can provide a single view of all the customer-related data.
Salesforce with its rich features, functionalities and ever-evolving ecosystem has become an obvious choice for business owners looking to streamline their otherwise scattered business processes to ensure increased efficiency and productivity. While this cloud-based platform is pretty flexible, easy to use and above all widely accepted across the globe, the real challenge lies in implementing it. This is because the process of Salesforce implementation requires 100 percent focus, dedication, and technical know-how, which practically wouldn’t be possible for you to dedicate while handling other essential business activities.
To make the most of your Salesforce investment, you must have by your side a reliable Salesforce Implementation Partner who can help you with successful implementation, conformation, and deployment.
Why Should You Hire the Services of a Salesforce Partner?
Rather than taking the less expensive route of doing the Salesforce implementation on your own, or hiring a less qualified Salesforce partner, it’s in your best interest to engage the services of a knowledgeable and experienced Salesforce partner. Doing so will help you realize the following benefits:
Ensures Business Process Efficiency: To enjoy a better return on your Salesforce investment, proper knowledge of accurately relating Salesforce’s features to your business processes is important. A knowledgeable partner with experience of working in your industry and knowledge of best practices will be able to dive into your processes and connect technology to your business goals.
Provide the Right fit: It is to be noted that when it comes to Salesforce implementation one-size-fits-all approach, doesn’t seem to work. A reliable Salesforce partner will ensure you get the most out of your Salesforce investment. Rather than using the common implementation technique, an experienced Salesforce Consulting partner will make the necessary adjustments to provide your organization with the right implementation.
Provide Training and Support to Your Team: Getting your team to use a new system can be challenging. However, with a knowledgeable and skilled implementation partner by your side, your team will have an easy go-to resource if and when they have queries while handling the new system. Your Salesforce partner will provide your team with the necessary training for operating the new CRM solution in the best possible way.
Help You Capitalize on Opportunities: Reviewing your business systems and developing them regularly will ensure that they align with your business objectives. A skilled Salesforce partner can help you frame up your objectives and the way they connect with your CRM. This will help you develop a roadmap for the future while helping you realize a better return on your investment for the times to come.
Help You Save Money: If you take into account the internal overhead necessary to manage a project, you will realize that a reliable Salesforce partner will not just outperform an internal team but will also be more cost-effective.
Quick Wrap-up: Whether you are thinking about implementing a new Salesforce CRM or already have one that requires a bit of customization and configuration, it makes sense to have a skilled Salesforce implementation partner by your side. By leveraging their expertise and experience, you will not just be relieved of the stress involved in doing it yourself but will also reap in the benefits of better process efficiency and ROI.
Let us start this blog by defining the meaning of a Salesforce Trailblazer. A trailblazer is a person who is not afraid of learning new things, does innovative work and most importantly, a person who builds a better world for others.
Humans are a bit resistant towards the changes and we don’t adjust towards change easily. When one is in their comfort zone, then it is hard to get them out and put in a different & new zone.
Taking my friend’s example, she worked on excel sheets for over 4 years and one day her organization switched to a new solution and asked all employees to manage their work on that new solution only.
That new solution was Salesforce. I know about Salesforce and its benefits so if I was in her place, then I would jump out of happiness. But she was not aware of it so she was finding it hard to adjust to the Salesforce Solution.
Well, we know that using Salesforce with the business process, not only improves the efficiency but also create a transparency among the department heads so that they can administer and take action when required.
It doesn’t matter how awesome your new Salesforce Solution is if your employees don’t use in their day to day activity. So, it is important to follow End-User Adoption techniques so that your employees can make the most of the Salesforce Solution. You can improve End-User Salesforce Adoption by the following methods:
Proper Training / Guidance to the End users:
It is important to provide full-fledged training, especially to the immediate end users before switching to a new Salesforce solution. Video, tutorial, live demo on UAT or Developer Mode proves to be quite beneficial and helps a lot in adapting.
One can also provide customized training for different users depending upon their permission, groups. When the employees attend the training, they share their doubts, feedback about the solution which in turn helps in making the solution even better for the employees.
Proper User Documentation:
It is a common phenomenon that most of the said things in any meeting, training evaporate from the human mind in a given period of time. We tend to remember few things while other parts are lost.
Suppose you gave training to your employees about the new Salesforce Solution but there will be a chance that few of your employees get stuck in some functionality and they don’t have anyone to ask for help. Well, in that case, their productivity is hampered and time.
So, it is always better to provide User Documentation of newly developed Salesforce Consultant or Salesforce Solution so that they can refer the document whenever they get stuck.
Implementation of new solution with ongoing work process:
While designing a new Salesforce solution for your organization, try to blend the existing business process flow and new solution together so that the employees can get used to the new system while performing their day to day activities.
Make your users understand the importance of new solution:
When there is demand, then there is a supply and the same applies here. When you sense need for implementing new solution equipped with new technology then you go for the new solution and implement it with the existing business process to ease the ongoing flow.
It is also important to explain the need for introducing a new Salesforce solution and what benefit can one achieve from the new solution.
That’s all for this article, in case you need Salesforce Consultant or Salesforce Implementation Partner, then please feel free to reach out to us at sales@girikon.com
With Shield, Salesforce looks to strengthen its promise of taking its Trust Services to the next level. Now, even industries with regulatory and compliance requirements such as Financial Services, Healthcare, and Public Sector can leverage the speed and innovation of cloud computing with the assurance of highest level of data protection, availability, and performance.
The needs of specific industries can vary depending on the criticality of the data that they manage and use. While some may need to track sensitive customer being exported others might need to encrypt them or maintain an audit trail of data to safeguard data integrity. The understandably high pressure of balancing the shift to cloud platforms with meeting compliance needs has deterred several organizations from making the shift thereby being bereft from the benefits that it promises to bring along!
Salesforce Shield is a premium set of integrated services built natively in the Salesforce1 Platform. With it, comes the capability to track the way in which one’s sensitive data is being used & handled. It certainly is a strong empowering tool for customers with complex governance and compliance needs to be able to track data going back up to ten years along with sensitive data encryption if they so desire.
Salesforce Shield includes the following core services:
Event Monitoring: This feature gives customers the transparent visibility into which users are accessing what kind of data along which the actions that they are taking on it.
Field Audit Trial: Salesforce customers now have the ability to go back & check their data state up to 10 years. It provides Audit trial data for up to 60 fields per object.
Platform Encryption: All sensitive data can now be easily encrypted at rest (at the metadata layer) without hampering any business functionality.
Transaction Security: Users can add various processes to Event Monitoring using the transaction security feature. Specific events can be configured with Salesforce to trigger actions as required. For example: When any User tries to access the Salesforce from any unsupported browser it will not provide access.
The Shield Platform works through the combination of the tenant key (available with the customer) and a master secret controlled by Salesforce to generate the org-specific data encryption key. This key is used to encrypt sensitive data stored in standard and custom fields, files, and attachments. The derived keys are never persisted to disc, ensuring maximum security for encryption keys.
Setup Salesforce Shield
Setup -> Security Controls -> Platform Encryption
Create Tenant Secret
Enable encryption for files, fields, and attachments
Assign permission to generate, rotate, and archive your org’s keys
If user has the permission to “View Encrypted data”, then the data gets decrypted before presenting it for user
Fields with the following field types: Text, Long Text Area, Phone, Email and URL in standard or custom objects can be encrypted
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