Drive Customer Engagement with Salesforce Communities

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Drive Customer Engagement with Salesforce Communities Sean Alpert Director, Product Marketing

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Salesforce Communities is transforming industries to drive new levels of customer intimacy. Meeting your customers at Point of Decision and taking advantage of 24/7 engagement is more critical than ever in the era of The Internet of Customers. Revenue is at stake and lots of it. Come hear thought leaders discuss how you can leapfrog over layers of distribution to connect with customers when it matters most.

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Drive Customer Engagement with Salesforce Communities Sean Alpert Director, Product Marketing

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Safe harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of product or service availability, subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services. The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, new products and services, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the outcome of any litigation, risks associated with completed and any possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year and in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the most recent fiscal quarter. These documents and others containing important disclosures are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other presentations, press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

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LAN / WAN

Client

Server

LAN / WAN

Client

Server

Today’s World is Growing Infinitely Connected

customer transactions

connected things Billions Thousands Millions Trillions

SNA Terminal

Mainframe

LTE

Mobile

Cloud

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But Most Companies Are Disconnected From Customers

 Your Customers  Your Company

Service Agents

Salespeople

Your Partners

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Become a Customer Company  Connect with your customers in a whole new way

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Community Cloud  The connective tissue of the Customer Success Platform

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Community Membership is Exploding

1.2B+ users

1B+ users

550M+ users

150M+ users

70M+ users

‘04 ‘13

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We Engage with Communities in Every Aspect of Our Lives

pledged to projects

$1.3B 200k calls to

businesses per day

78m bike rides

shared

85% of B2B

marketers use

94% of recruiters use to vet candidates

19m members

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Businesses Also Must Engage a Broad Ecosystem

Employees

Partners

Customers

Data

Apps

Vendors Resellers

Suppliers

Processes

Agencies Workflow

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But Today’s Technology Falls Short

Branded and open BUT…

Not personalised or interactive

Connected to business data BUT…

Not mobile or personalised

Websites

Interactive discussion BUT…

Not connected to business processes

Social Communities Portals

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How can your company connect customers, partners and employees

to drive business success?

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Introducing Community Cloud  Reimagine customer, partner and employee engagement

Personalised Relevant content recommended to each user. Connected Drive action right from the community. Mobile Rich, branded experience from any mobile device.

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Community Cloud

Personalised

Rich Topics and Profiles Reputation Endorsements

Connected

SEO Unauthenticated Access Connect API

Mobile

Native in Salesforce1 Responsive Design

Accessible via any Browser

Fast

Templates Community Designer

Custom Branding

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Community of Anything

Community Cloud Addresses B2B and B2C Needs

Transform Workplace Connect Customers

Accelerate Sales

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Accelerate Sales with Community Cloud

27% INCREASE IN SALES

Personalised Partners are pushed relevant pipeline and deal flow Mobile Sales and Operations executive monitor sales performance from the community Connected Partners, Sales, Marketing and Operations all access single view of customer and opportunities

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Connect Customers with Community Cloud

38% INCREASE IN CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

Personalised Customers are automatically directed to topics and experts based on their likes and dislikes Mobile Take immediate action in the feed by logging posts and cases Connected Gain immediate access to customer support and leverage the community for questions and answers

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Transform the Workplace with Community Cloud

56% FASTER ACCESS TO EXPERTISE

Personalised Employees are pushed latest news, events and knowledge relevant to their jobs and projects Mobile Architected for mobile first and built for a disparate, global workplace Connected One central location to immediate access knowledge, community and content

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Thank you