For a business to be successful, it is important to use Customer relationship Management (CRM) to increase your customer base, sales and revenue. The one name that we hear when it comes to CRM solutions is Salesforce. With the rapid advancement in technology and heavy competition among businesses, even leaders and business owners are looking for solutions to improve their relationships with customers. Salesforce is the leader in the CRM industry. In this article let’s look at what is the future of Salesforce and how can businesses benefit from these new trends and features.
Take a look at Salesforce evolution
Customer 360 Journey: Pandemic has bought a lot of changes in every business and customers have become digital-first. So as the customers evolve, businesses should move into digital in order to retain their customers. According to reports from Mc Kinsey, it is discovered that more than 75% of customers In the US had experimented with other brands and retailers during the pandemic and 60% of them made a shift to a new brand... This shows how quickly the customers change and evolve.
Analyzing Data: Organizations nowadays are looking and analyzing data of their customers for seamless interactions from various touchpoints (such as social media profiles, newsletter, physical form, phone support, etc.).But according to reports from Salesforce, it is noticed that only 50% of the organizations are able to access and visualize the data. This is because most of the data is scattered and resides on multiple clouds which makes it difficult to analyze and visualize. This is the sole reason people use Salesforce as it helps them to get all the data in one place and the sales, marketing, and service teams can work together without any confusion.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Approaches:
Developing platforms that learn by themselves, is interesting right? Salesforce has recently come up with AI-powered Einstein, which gives insights and recommendations that help companies in making better sales decisions. Custom deep learning models are available which predict by reading your CRM data. Here are some of the features that show how Salesforceis using AI and ML to develop better platforms for organizations.
Tableau: Tableau for CRM is used to design and create a dashboard within a few clicks. Tableau is the top Business Intelligence and analytics software.
Voice-enabled Analytics: Einstein’s voice was launched by Salesforce in the year 2018. This feature uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to process the user requests and users can update or delete records or tasks using their voice. Einstein voice bots enable users to design their own voice assistants for custom applications.
AppExchange: AppExchange is a marketplace for third-party apps. Salesforce is working to upgrade its AppStore, by providing more installable apps to improve sales, marketing, and customer interactions of the businesses.
Salesforce Blockchain:
Salesforce offers open-source Blockchain technology from the hyper ledger and enables users to migrate their data and workflows.
Ecosystem: Being one of the most popular CRM software, there are thousands of other applications that can be integrated with the Salesforce platform to extend the capabilities and functionalities.
Lightning web components: Lightning web components are HTML elements that enable users to develop lightweight UI designs.
Mobile Applications: According to Gartner it is predicted that mobile technologies are being used by 40% of the sales organizations for most of their tasks. Salesforce has been constantly striving to get the entire CRM into a mobile application. Salesforce has laid a solid foundation to achieve the goals and here are some of the upgrades that Salesforce is currently aiming at:
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