SALESFORCE
What is SAS?
What Made Salesforce An Instant Hit?
The answer to this is very simple, it was Cloud Computing. Salesforce wasn’t just about a better product at a fraction of the cost. It was about replacing the lengthy installation process and moving everything to the internet. They changed the business model – no more long-term contracts or expensive licensing deals, anyone could use Salesforce with only a simple 50-dollar monthly subscription fee.
Why Salesforce?
- As seen in the above image, Salesforce provides you with the fastest path from Idea to App. You can concentrate on building your app using Salesforce tools, rather than building the infrastructure and tools yourself. This can save you years of time and millions of dollars.
- Salesforce customers generally say that it’s unique for three major reasons:
- Fast – Traditional CRM software can take more than a year to deploy, compare that to months or even weeks with Salesforce.
- Easy – Salesforce wins in the easy to use category hands down. You can spend more time putting it to use and less time figuring it out.
- Effective – Because it is easy to use and can be customized to meet business needs, customers find Salesforce very effective.
- Salesforce is in the cloud, so your team can use it from anywhere with access to the internet.
- If you are a business that is rapidly changing or you are a seasoned company that’s been around for years, your business is probably changing too. Salesforce is completely scalable to your growth.
- Salesforce seamlessly integrates with 3rd party apps. If you want to integrate Salesforce with Gmail you can do it, if you want to integrate it with your accounting software you can do that too. On the other hand, integration is tough with other CRMs.
- Salesforce is affordable, especially if you consider its vast variety of capabilities. Even startups and small business can use Salesforce.
Statistics which make you choose Salesforce
As of May 2016, Salesforce has had over 150,000 customers across the world. In the world of CRM, Salesforce dominates with a 19.7% market share. Its closest competitors SAP (12.1%), Oracle (9.1%) and Microsoft (6.2%) are far behind. The Salesforce AppExchange features over 2,700 applications which has driven a total of over 3 million installations and more than 70% of Salesforce customers use applications that are listed on the AppExchange. Today, many companies are developing their applications on Salesforce platform or are migrating to Salesforce. This has increased the demand for Salesforce developers and administrators. Currently, Salesforce Architect is one of the hottest skills to have on a tech resume.
