Here's a recap of the leading Salesforce Marketing Cloud Partners:

1. FoundHQ
2. Slalom Consulting
3. Dentsu
4. Deloitte
5. WPP
6. Pierry (now Wunderman Thompson)
7. Torrent Consulting
8. OSF Digital
9. Bubblebox
10. Belmar

This includes specific recommendations for Enterprise, Mid Market, and SMB Customers.

Keep in mind that Marketing Cloud is slightly unique product because there are 2 Types of Salesforce Marketing Cloud Consultants.

Type 1 is a Marketing Cloud Specialist that helps with the actual deployment and integration of the tool.

Type 2 is more of a Marketing Cloud Email Specialist, working as part of the Marketing team for ongoing campaign build, deployment, and reporting. Some Partners will offer both capabilities while others will only focus on of these areas, so scope the project accordingly!

The top 10 CPQ Cloud Partners:

1. FoundHQ
2. Axia CPQ
3. Cirrius Solutions
4. DemandBlue
5. AdVictoriam
6. Carnac Group
7. Jade Global
8. CloudMasonry
9. Roycon
10. Silver Softworks

Salesforce CPQ is arguably one of the most challenging products to implement properly.

This largely comes down to the fact that it is so dependent on well established business processes, a clean understanding of how you Go-to-Market with pricing, product bundling, renewals etc.

The #1 recommendation when selecting a Salesforce CPQ Partner is to pick a vendor that focuses 100% on Salesforce Revenue Cloud, which includes CPQ and Billing. The Architects and Consultants should bring extensive Financial Systems experience, ideally working with non-Salesforce tools like Zuora, Netsuite, BigMachines, and other products beyond the Salesforce platform to provide more well-rounded experience.

More than anything, be sure to conduct customer reference checks with CPQ Partners. You want to understand how CPQ is performing 3-6 months after the initial implementation to truly measure the success of the project.

Here's a list of the the Top 10 Experience Cloud Partners:

1. FoundHQ
2. Ad Victoriam Solutions
3. SP Tech
4. Access Global Group
5. Atrium
6. Oe:gen (acquired by OSF Digital)
7. Roycon
8. Cloud Giants
9. Pracedo
10. DemandBlue
11. Aetherus

Salesforce Experience Cloud (formerly Communities) is another slightly unique product, since it's one of the few Salesforce products used by external users and places greater emphasis on the quality of UX/UI Design and Front End Development with Lightning Web Components.

Salesforce Partners that have only focused on deploying Internal Tools (meaning, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and other products only used by internal employees of a company) won't necessarily have the UX Design experience you want to build the best digital experience possible on the platform.

Additionally, the use of Experience Cloud extends into a variety of use cases - some B2B, others B2C - so identifying a Partner that has deployed the product in the exact use case you have in mind is critical.

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Top Tableau Partners

Here's a list of the the Top 9 Tableau Partners:

1. Decision Foundry
2. FoundHQ
3. CleaR
4. Atrium
5. Neurflash
6. Saleon Consulting
7. Revelation AI
8. Saberpoint
9. Praesto Consulting

A dynamic platform like Tableau has a ton of advantages, but few you fully maximize out of the box. Working with a partner or with a Tableau Consultant is the easiest way to make sure your implementation is set up according to your company needs.

Top reasons to use get Tableau help include:

• To gain insights from your data: Tableau helps companies visualize and analyze their data in a way that makes it easy to see patterns, trends, and outliers.
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• To improve collaboration: Tableau makes it easy to share visualizations with others, both inside and outside of the organization.
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• To automate tasks: Tableau can be used to automate a variety of tasks, such as data preparation, data analysis, and report generation.
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• To scale analytics: Tableau can be scaled to meet the needs of even the largest organizations. This means that companies can use Tableau to analyze more data, and to share visualizations with more people.

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Top Nonprofit Partners

Here's a list of the the Top 10 Nonprofit Partners:

1. OpenTent
2. Craftsman
3. FoundHQ
4. Kell Partners
5. Cloud for Good
6. Arkus
7. Cloud Creations
8. Heller Consulting
9. Exponent Partners
10. Yurgosky

Managing relationships with your donors, as well as staying on top of potential donors is essential for nonprofit orgs and it's why Salesforce for Nonprofit was created. Engaging with a Nonprofit Partner or Consultant will allow your organization to accurately manage their relationships. Donor management, volunteer management, grants, reporting, etc can be implemented and managed depending on each organization's needs, so you want to make sure your partner understands your specific goals and processes so that the tech can enable a more efficient operation.

Top Pardot Partners

Here's a list of the the Top 9 Pardot Partners:

1. Cloudtegic
2. FoundHQ
3. Invado
4. Cloud Analogy
5. Forcery
6. Rotive
7. Sercante
8. Showerthinking
9. SP Tech

Partners that are purely focused on Pardot are not easy to come by. Our Pardot Consultants come from different backgrounds but they all have one thing in common, they're head down on Pardot.

As we have established, there isn't' really such a thing as THE best Salesforce Partners.

There is A best Salesforce Partner for each specific project you have in mind and the most successful Customers will leverage different Partners for specific work streams and projects, identifying the right Specialist in each area.

FoundHQ Can Help

FoundHQ is the #1 Salesforce Hiring Platform for companies looking to engage with Salesforce Partners or Independent Consultants.

Step 1: List a Project or Schedule a Discovery Call to discuss the project details

Step 2: We will provide a curated selection of vetted Partners and Consultants for you to review

Step 3: We will facilitate an introductory call with all recommendations and help you manage the RFP, SOW review, and negotiation process

Step 4: Get started on the work and use us as a point of escalation for any needs along the way

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