Questions a Prospect Should Ask Salesforce.com

Long Term Success & viability

  • Is salesforce.com committed to my long-term success? How have you structured for this and where do you invest?
  • What happens when outages occur? Do you provide a service level agreement for availability and performance?
  • What if I want to move to on-premise in the future?

Data

  • Who owns my data? How do I get it out if I need it?
  • Where is my data hosted and who owns the data centers?
  • Does my data on a separate, private database, or one that is shared with other customers?

Additional costs

  • How much does it cost me to: Add mobile users? Run additional reports? Export or back up my data?
  • Will prices go up again like they did for Unlimited Edition in 2007?
  • Will my current discounts carry over when my contract is up for renewal?

Product

  • How do I achieve a complete customer view? My customer data also resides in ERP and legacy systems.
  • My business requires additional security – how do you provide this?
  • Can I build workflows based on external data, such as credit history checks, or cross-sell based on external analytics data?