What is Salesforce Experience Cloud?
Experience Cloud (formerly Community Cloud) is Salesforce's platform for building branded digital experiences for people outside your company: customer self-service portals, partner portals, employee intranets, supplier hubs, and member communities. It uses the same CRM data underneath so visitors see records, cases, and content personalized to their identity, role, and history.
What does Decision Foundry's Experience Cloud service include?
Information architecture and journey design; site setup and theming on Experience Builder; Lightning component development for custom interactions; community-specific data sharing and security configuration; integration with Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and CMS systems; SEO setup; accessibility compliance; and analytics and adoption design.
How is Experience Cloud different from a custom website or a standalone portal product?
A custom website or standalone portal product can do similar things, but you'd be rebuilding the integration with Salesforce data that Experience Cloud ships with out of the box. Experience Cloud's edge is identity (one user across CRM + portal), data (records auto-shared with the right people), and unified content management. For organizations already on Salesforce, building a portal anywhere else means duplicate integration work and another customer-facing identity stack to maintain.
How long does an Experience Cloud build take, and what does it cost?
A focused self-service portal (case deflection + knowledge base + simple branding) runs 10-14 weeks. A multi-audience portal (customers + partners + employees with distinct data-sharing rules) runs 4-6 months. Complex partner relationship management (PRM) rollouts with deal registration, MDF, and channel pricing extend further. Every engagement starts with a discovery call to scope audiences and use cases.
Is Experience Cloud secure enough for partner portals or member communities?
Yes. Experience Cloud inherits Salesforce's enterprise security model: role-based access, sharing rules, field-level security, IP restrictions, SSO via SAML / OAuth, and MFA. Communities can be public, login-required, or fully partner-only with whitelisted domains. We've built Experience Cloud portals serving regulated industries including financial services and healthcare, and design to the relevant frameworks (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA-adjacent patterns).
Why Decision Foundry for Experience Cloud?
We've built Experience Cloud portals across customer self-service, partner enablement, and employee community use cases for organizations in retail, financial services, healthcare, and media. 85+ Salesforce certifications across the platform. Our FDE engineers embed inside your team to design portals around your real users, not around what's easy to build in Experience Builder.