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Sales Cloud vs. Service Cloud

If you have already decided to try Salesforce out but do not know whether you need Sales Cloud or Service Cloud, check out some fundamental differences between these Salesforce products

The fact that both Sales Cloud and Customer Service Cloud have five similar objects: Leads, Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities, and Cases seems confusing to many customers. we present this comparison for you to get a general understanding of what cloud your company likely needs.

Sales Cloud: The essence

Sales Cloud is one of the core Salesforce products designed for the management, automation, and analysis of sales processes. Both sales reps and sales managers can use Salesforce Sales Cloud functionality to complete the tasks of different priorities with high efficiency.

For sales reps

• Salesforce Sales Cloud provides efficient and convenient customer communication via numerous channels (a customer service portal, social media, email, etc.) right within Sales Cloud UI. Advanced integration with a customer’s website and social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) allows collecting copious information about contacts or accounts to target their needs more accurately.
• Extensive automation capabilities help sales reps with numerous routine tasks (such as maintaining customer records, managing pricing data, drafting contracts, etc.), thus freeing up their time for nurturing leads and closing deals.

For sales managers

• Sales Cloud provides the ability to construct the sales strategy and manage it within a single system. Sales Cloud also helps sales managers control and assess sales reps. Using performance data, sales managers can identify sales reps’ strengths and weaknesses to improve their skills.
• which allows increasing the performance of the entire sales department. With Sales Cloud, sales managers can additionally deal with such challenges as disjointed sales processes and process alignment with marketing.

Service Cloud: The essence

Our customers claim that using Salesforce Service Cloud helped them make the customer service process faster and more efficient. Since it is much cheaper to retain a customer than to gain a new one, Service Cloud can be a strategically important tool for your enterprise. Customer service managers say it positively affects customer retention rates and ensures that your company is recognized for truly caring about customers.

For customer service agents

• Salesforce Service Cloud provides integration with numerous channels of communication with customers. As communication via each channel is available within Service Cloud UI, customer service agents can serve customers much faster.
• Also, Service Cloud allows creating and managing knowledge bases, which can be a useful source of information that customers frequently request. The knowledge bases help significantly reduce agents’ response times and train new customer service agents faster.
• As Service Cloud provides customer service process automation, service agents solve cases quicker and customers receive answers to their questions with no delay.

For customer service managers

Service Cloud provides the possibility to organize customer service processes and manage them within Service Cloud UI. Service Cloud allows customer service managers to control the performance of customer service reps, which helps, for example, identify the employees’ areas of growth and organize training.

Sales Cloud vs. Service Cloud: Feature comparison

Although Service Cloud overlaps with Sales Cloud a lot, as you saw above, it does not mean that the two Salesforce products are similar.

As Sales Cloud offers features designed to reflect the process of turning a lead into an account, we recommend it to the customers from sales-centric businesses. Among unique Sales Cloud features are:

• Territory Management
• Quotes
• Sales Contracts
• Opportunity Splits
• Sales Forecasting

Useful Sales Cloud add-ons, for example, CPQ providing accurate pricing and quoting with any given product in compliance with a regulated set of rules, are also unavailable with a Service Cloud license.

Service Cloud provides features for advanced customer service management and agent productivity improvement. That is why we recommend implementing this Salesforce tool to customer service-centric businesses. Salesforce Service Cloud has such unique features as:

• Service Console (agents’ unified digital workspace)
• Service Analytics (complex analytics of agent performance)
• Field Service (a tool for organizing on-site customer visits)