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I have inadvertently made a name for myself inside Salesforce for migrating people off of it in short timeframes. My last meeting with them for a company, they

by burnte 2y ago

I have inadvertently made a name for myself inside Salesforce for migrating people off of it in short timeframes. My last meeting with them for a company, they asked if I was the same [Name] who worked with X, Y, and Z, all companies I moved from Salesforce. I actually got them to settle a contract for 50 cents on the dollar for early termination. There's a real market for people who will pay to move from SF to see huge savings. Being a Saleforce export would only help.

tootie 2y ago
Curious what you see people are moving to. We migrated to SF from a super legacy piece of shit so it's been a big improvement but it's a beast for a company our size and wicked expensive.
- burnte 2y ago
  It's usually either another CRM, like Nutshell, Sugar, Zoho, or a dozen other CRMs, or pointing out that what they built out Salesforce is another type of app all together, and direct them to a proper app for that market. The latter type tends to be ticket systems, document management ssytems, and in the case of one company they used it as an EMR. The EMR they used was open source but did very little. They liked the "free" aspect of it, but they were paying $400k/yr on Salesforce to do all the things their EMR didn't, as well as another app platform they were building out on. I pointed out they were spending $600k/yr on an EMR, not zero dollars. The COO pitched a HUGE fit but they did move to a $200k/yr EMR that did everything and they saved tremendous amounts of time in clinic, and money in administrator salaries.
  - bigfatkitten 2y ago
    If you want a batteries-included platform on which to quickly build CRUD apps, Salesforce is actually a very good choice so long as you're not at all worried about money.
- bigfatkitten 2y ago
  > super legacy piece of shit That's a very common nickname for Siebel.

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I have inadvertently made a name for myself inside Salesforce for migrating people off of it in short timeframes. My last meeting with them for a company, they

by burnte 2y ago

tootie 2y ago
Curious what you see people are moving to. We migrated to SF from a super legacy piece of shit so it's been a big improvement but it's a beast for a company our size and wicked expensive.
- burnte 2y ago
  It's usually either another CRM, like Nutshell, Sugar, Zoho, or a dozen other CRMs, or pointing out that what they built out Salesforce is another type of app all together, and direct them to a proper app for that market. The latter type tends to be ticket systems, document management ssytems, and in the case of one company they used it as an EMR. The EMR they used was open source but did very little. They liked the "free" aspect of it, but they were paying $400k/yr on Salesforce to do all the things their EMR didn't, as well as another app platform they were building out on. I pointed out they were spending $600k/yr on an EMR, not zero dollars. The COO pitched a HUGE fit but they did move to a $200k/yr EMR that did everything and they saved tremendous amounts of time in clinic, and money in administrator salaries.
  - bigfatkitten 2y ago
    If you want a batteries-included platform on which to quickly build CRUD apps, Salesforce is actually a very good choice so long as you're not at all worried about money.
- bigfatkitten 2y ago
  > super legacy piece of shit That's a very common nickname for Siebel.