What I hate about SalesForce.com

In general, I like SalesForce.com.  I’ve tried SugarCRM and a few others, and keep coming back to SalesForce.  They just have the overall best user Salesforce interface, most integration options, and best Outlook integration of anybody out there.

BUT, it’s getting WAY too complicated.  We decided to start using it to house online product documentation since we need it secured and our partners and resellers have logins to SalesForce.  I’d love to use a wiki but SalesForce is not that forward-thinking apparently.  Anyway, I began looking for the appropriate place to put it, and I was confronted with this staggering array of choices that all appear to overlap each other in some way:

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Now I love features as much as the next geek but… would somebody like to volunteer a guess as to which one should be used for product documentation?  I have no clue, I’m still picking through them all and trying to figure out what they all do.  This is a really lame interface SalesForce, time to catch up to 2004 already.

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  • Nicole

    um. salesforce is so complicated! i can't believe people are still paying for this stuff. you can get a great contact manager free online at http://www.octopuscity.com. pretty easy stuff, no downloads.

  • salesforce

    Contact your account executive Jason! Documents would be the best place to store that information. OR attend one of our Cloudforce 2 you presentations. It will help you understand all of the new features in Salesforce. Good luck!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Stoeckicht/100001473956853 Ray Stoeckicht

    If the product documentation is general, then you can use the “Documents” module. If it is specific to a product that is in your product catalogue, then I would load the doc as a note under the History sub-panel.

    If you are in this love/hate relationship with Salesforce.com, then it might be time to start looking at alternatives. I know that you have used SugarCRM in the past, but there are other options that have a similar feature set and are more cost effective. There is a whitepaper that compares a few:
    http://www.intelestream.net/en/whitepapers/sugarcrm-versus-salesforce-com-and-intelecrm-applications.html