We compared Salesforce Sales Cloud and SAP CRM across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Salesforce Sales Cloud users have lauded the solution’s open API and ability to track sales opportunities. SAP CRM is valued for its customization options, lead management capabilities, integration features, and native integration with SAP ERP.
Room for Improvement: Salesforce Sales Cloud could improve its integration with third-party systems and reporting. SAP CRM needs improvements in its mobile interface, data visibility, and integration.
Service and Support: Salesforce’s customer service is considered excellent, and users praised its prompt and knowledgeable team. SAP CRM's customer service and support have received mixed feedback. SAP CRM's customer service and support have received mixed feedback.
Ease of Deployment: Salesforce Sales Cloud's initial setup can be complex and time-consuming, potentially lasting for months or even years. However, users can speed up the process with external tools. The setup process for SAP CRM can be complicated and time-consuming, requiring customization and a specialized team.
Pricing: Salesforce Sales Cloud is considered pricey. Salesforce Sales Cloud has additional costs for implementation and add-ons. SAP CRM is seen as expensive, and some users have said it isn’t worth the money.
ROI: Salesforce Sales Cloud has shown a positive return on investment by enabling automation, improving productivity, and saving time. Some reviewers have reported that they realized an ROI from SAP CRM within three to five years.
Comparison Results: Salesforce Sales Cloud is a user-friendly platform praised for its extensive feature set and customization options. At the same time, customers have complained that Salesforce’s licensing costs are too high and reporting capabilities are limited. SAP CRM is commended for its integration with SAP ERP, but the solution is considered costly and hard to deploy.
"Salesforce Sales Cloud is very reliable and provides good stability and security."
"The ability to work on it from anywhere is most valuable. All you need is a computer, a browser, and an internet connection to access your instance. It can be accessed from anywhere, which is pretty cool and user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of Salesforce Sales Cloud are opportunity management and metric integration."
"There are many extremely useful features."
"Salesforce is a very powerful tool which helps us to build that through tools like Process Builder or Flows, or even write code to achieve these scenarios."
"It has custom fields and custom reports which can align to our business objectives and marketing focus."
"I would recommend Sales Cloud for anyone who has a sales team that needs to be optimized and for any size of enterprise."
"The product is very fast and responsive. There's no lag time when you are on the platform."
"The platform is highly scalable."
"The solution is easy to use."
"SAP CRM is very fast, providing accurate information and good results."
"The most valuable feature is lead management and integration."
"One of the main things is that the reports are very customizable. It is very easy and user-friendly to customize the reports the way the user wants. They can see the reports as per their expectations and change them accordingly."
"SAP CRM integrates well with SAP ERP which is useful."
"We get very good support from SAP."
"The solution assists us in identifying what to send, what to offer, and what customers are buying."
"The solution's scalability has some limitations."
"The cost of this solution could be improved."
"The reporting formats could be better."
"I would love Salesforce to keep on committing and building out what they call flows. It's their point-and-click version of coding. You don't have to be a coder to create essentially what a developer would have to normally, which is a great feature, but it could still be improved upon."
"The areas revolving around archiving and backup in Salesforce Sales Cloud are not as advanced as some of the other solutions in the market."
"The solution could improve the partner management and communities. For the enterprise licenses, we have the help, but it should also be extended with the features to the partner community."
"When integrating Salesforce Sales Cloud with other applications it can be difficult to maintain security."
"The tool's technical challenges vary depending on the requirements. When a new requirement arises, we must analyze the best approach to address it, whether through automation tools or coding. We encounter limitations such as the number of reports we can process or update, the queries we can write, and other similar constraints. Understanding when to utilize coding and when to rely on simple configurations is crucial."
"There could be some specific configurable options on the UI level to improve visibility."
"CRM is costlier than its competitors."
"It was not very stable. It was not a network problem because we were using tools that were not SAP. They were working well. But when I'm running the SAP, it's not working for us."
"Previously, the SAP CRM used to use simple servers, but now SAP uses HANA. The problem with the HANA databases is their interoperability with other solutions. SAP CRM could improve by working better with other solutions."
"As SAP CRM is still in its pilot version in my company, and my team is still experimenting on it, there's little room for exploration, but its setup is not as straightforward, so this could be an area for improvement."
"It can be a bit more user friendly, to be honest. Sometimes there are too many apps options. It should offer better UX (user experience) to make it easier to navigate and easier to use."
"The implementation and integrations could be better. After we went into the production environment, we had some issues. Most of them were with the ERP integration. Many other issues were around the client's integrations between the ERP and CRM platforms. It could be more user-friendly. It wasn't very user-friendly initially, but now it's easier for them to use. Now, the users can use that platform better than at the beginning. We would like to see reports with more analytic features and artificial intelligence in the next release. For example, show more metrics and KPIs and more dynamic dashboards. Because the platform has some models, but it's not easy to use. It's a little complex."
"I think what needs to be improved is the solution for Brazil's organization."
Salesforce Sales Cloud is ranked 2nd in CRM with 101 reviews while SAP CRM is ranked 4th in CRM with 40 reviews. Salesforce Sales Cloud is rated 8.4, while SAP CRM is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Salesforce Sales Cloud writes "Vast, configurable, and offers great ROI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP CRM writes "It integrates well with our existing solutions, so we can analyze the data for analytics, forecasting and modeling". Salesforce Sales Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP ERP, IQVIA Orchestrated Customer Engagement and Vlocity, whereas SAP CRM is most compared with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Siebel CRM, Oracle CRM, Zoho CRM and monday.com. See our SAP CRM vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud report.
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