Salesforce Service Cloud vs Hiver: Which is a better fit?

Naga Kiran: I'm Naga Kiran. I'm technical lead working in L&T Infotech. Our company is in technical side. We implement Salesforce technology for many companies. Rating I give for Salesforce Service Cloud is four out of five. Salesforce Service Cloud is used in our company as a ticketing system. Previously, we used to have Legacy ServiceNow ticketing system, but now we have replaced with Salesforce Service Cloud. So, that is where we are using it for now. Salesforce Service Cloud offers us many configuration stuff. You don't want to know program to design like Automated Logic. Instead, you have lot of automation in-built in Salesforce. Salesforce provides that to us, so that we can use in our environment and it will be useful for achieving all the service-related issues. One thing that I like the most about Salesforce Service Cloud is it offers lots of automation, which can be easily... It's point-and-click interaction. You don't want to learn coding also. It's just point-and-click interaction, where you can achieve those automations. For example, you can create different teams. In support system, you require different teams, right? So, you can create different teams and you can measure the quantity, how much days it is staying in the queues. Everything can be done easily in the point-and-click interaction in Salesforce Service Cloud. One thing which I feel bad about Salesforce Service Cloud is the license cost. The license cost feels a little bit more when you compare with the competitors. Second thing is the UI. It is offering us Salesforce Lightning, but still that UI is not up to HTML standards. There, Salesforce can improve a bit.

Brian: Hi, my name is Brian. I am the Director of Accounting at MD Squared Property Group, and I would give Hiver a four out of five. When I started at MD Squared, we were a very small company, and of course, you're doing everything via email. And as we scaled over the years, we were looking for a ticketing solution so we could keep track of our emails and make sure that everything was resolved in a appropriate amount of time. So I started looking into different ticketing systems, and we found Hiver and decided to go with that one. I was looking into a variety of different solutions, some of which had these very extensive online platforms to manage all different types of things. They were very robust, but I decided to go with Hiver because it integrated with Gmail, which we were using at the moment, so we were able to seamlessly integrate that with our existing systems. And I really liked that it was simple and easy to use, and it would not be intimidating for new users, and I thought it was very appropriate for a mid-size firm such as ours, that went from having no solution to having its first ticketing and email tracking solution. Getting started with Hiver was very quick and easy. Their customer support team is great and available 24/7. We had a amazing, I guess, your onboarding associate, who walked us through how to use it on various occasions. And ultimately, all you need to do is install a plugin on your Chrome browser into Gmail, and it's all set, and you pretty much can set it up as you go. And it is very quick and easy to get online, which is one of the reasons why we decided to go with Hiver. So Hiver is very quick and easy to get online, but I would recommend that you have somebody in the office who's ready to handle the influx of data that will be coming in. I think you just need a plan for how you're going to close and resolve these open tickets and just making sure that all of your data flows are working as planned. But I wouldn't be intimidated, because everything is fairly easy to change and to improve. I'd say we jump into it at a small scale and do some initial testing to see how it's going to work, and you could scale up from there. And once you're online and you understand the basics, it's very simple to scale up and make it more robust and more impactful for your company.