We performed a comparison between Marketo and SAP CRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Marketing Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of this solution is Smart Campaigns."
"It's pretty good at handling customization and templates. We can put in different variables, so even someone without coding knowledge can create and develop emails that look good on different browsers."
"The most valuable feature is the scoring."
"The smart campaign looks quite interesting and useful."
"It is a very user-friendly solution. I'm mainly working on Design Studio, which is useful for companies in tracking repeat users. The progressive proofing is also useful. It is not available in other solutions."
"The main highlights of Marketo are its support structure, the documentation available, and the features mainly related to forms, landing pages, and leads. Although other platforms like Oracle Eloqua have similar features, Marketo's support structure, lead generation, and segmentation features are easier than those of different platforms."
"I like that the solution is flexible."
"I like that Marketo is user-friendly and has an easy view. It's like a one-stop solution for everyone. It is very good, and you can categorize leads in different ways. You can also create your custom objects and enjoy good connectivity."
"SAP CRM integrates well with SAP ERP which is useful."
"The most valuable feature for me is the flexibility to consolidate the products."
"We like that this solution has made our whole accounting function paperless."
"From the bank perspective, it's user-friendly and simple to develop something specific for a certain customer. It allows customization for individual customers rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach."
"The most valuable feature is lead management and integration."
"The solution assists us in identifying what to send, what to offer, and what customers are buying."
"SAP is very easy to use."
"What I found most valuable in SAP CRM is its multitenancy, and you can use it from your website, SMS, and even social media, and it's all integrated, so my company is trying to leverage on all of those."
"Marketo should give more power to the users for data manipulation."
"Adobe, the parent company, needs to improve on getting more information published to allow users to educate themselves on how to use the solution."
"There is a bit of room for improvement in the level-one support team. It relies too much on documentation."
"Segmentation in Marketo is limited to a maximum of 20 segments. Depending on the company's specific needs, these segments can be based on various attributes such as company, industry, or other values. Sometimes, there's a lag when sending data from Marketo to any CRM. It can take around five to fifteen minutes for the report to sync."
"The user experience needs improvement, particularly in terms of ease of use and navigation between projects."
"I have encountered issues when I had to use filters repeatedly. It would have been helpful if I could duplicate them directly, instead of dragging them. Also, having an option to save filters for future use would have saved a lot of time, especially when dealing with multiple filters."
"Its APIs need to be more flexible because there are some things that are not available in the API."
"Marketo's reporting and dashboarding features could be better. Compared to other tools, the visualization options with charts and graphs seem somewhat limited."
"We would like the coding system within this solution to be more straightforward when carrying out general entry tasks."
"The interface could be improved."
"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."
"SAP CRM should create a more user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI)."
"There is a lot of missing data and data latency issues between the different modules of SAP CRM, which creates a lot of problems."
"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."
"Content management is one area where SAP CRM could use some work because we were seeking a CRM solution that could store BLOB data, like PDF and email data, which takes up a lot of space in the database. Recently, we migrated to a content server, but it would be nice if CRM had built-in BLOB data management because BLOB data is a challenge we've been dealing with since last year."
"In the future, machine learning and artificial intelligence functionality need to be included."
Marketo is ranked 5th in Marketing Management with 22 reviews while SAP CRM is ranked 4th in Marketing Management with 40 reviews. Marketo is rated 8.4, while SAP CRM is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Marketo writes "Useful for lead capture and engagement across social media platforms". 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". Marketo is most compared with Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Oracle Eloqua, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Pardot and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, whereas SAP CRM is most compared with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Siebel CRM, Oracle CRM and Zoho CRM. See our Marketo vs. SAP CRM report.
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