We performed a comparison between Marketo and Microsoft Dynamics 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."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."
"The main feature of Marketo is sending out emails, so that would be the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Smart Campaigns."
"The product has been stable."
"The most valuable feature is the scoring."
"I like that the solution is flexible."
"One feature I like is the user interface. Compared to other tools I've used, it's much more friendly and easy to navigate. Additionally, it offers a wide range of features, which makes tasks like segmenting data much simpler."
"The smart campaign looks quite interesting and useful."
"Microsoft Dynamics CRM brings the most value in terms of its ease of implementation."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics CRM is the integration with Microsoft Office 365."
"I like that Microsoft Dynamics CRM works, and it's been okay. I like that it is a stable solution. My main reason for using it is that it is stable and meets our requirements from a functionality point of view."
"The product is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics CRM is the flexibility with Microsoft Office 365."
"One of the most useful features is we can configure Microsoft Dynamics CRM in the way that we need. This is configurable."
"The feature I like best in Microsoft Dynamics CRM is being able to market to segments instead of choosing individual people to market to."
"The solution is versatile and customizable."
"Marketo's reporting and dashboarding features could be better. Compared to other tools, the visualization options with charts and graphs seem somewhat limited."
"Its APIs need to be more flexible because there are some things that are not available in the API."
"Revenue management, attribution, and ABM can all be improved."
"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."
"There is a bit of room for improvement in the level-one support team. It relies too much on documentation."
"Marketo should give more power to the users for data manipulation."
"I had an issue while integrating JavaScript with forms. When you embed JavaScript, you can either embed it in a landing page or some other self-contained management system like WordPress. Currently, it provides you access to CSS, where you can customize your form design, but there is no option for JavaScript modification for a particular form. This area needs to be improved where you can integrate JavaScript, and it has the JavaScript functions for that particular form. There are a lot of other areas of improvement. In the design area, they can give us more testing options instead of relying on email testing alone. It would be great if they can provide responsive testing where email clients can be tested within Marketo. It would be also helpful if they can implement some in-built options for users or forms for blocking a generic email ID such as Yahoo or Gmail. Similarly, it would be helpful to have JavaScript features and forms as well as the option to add Google analytics and a header and footer for the landing pages."
"It could be more scalable."
"There are more people using Salesforce. Therefore, there are more partners, and applications for it, and is easier to use."
"It would be a little bit easier if there were better ways to configure and modify native add-ins or plugins."
"Microsoft Dynamics CRM could improve the built-in reports. The ones that are included are pretty generic unless you subscribe to Microsoft BI, which is an extra fee. They should offer the reports without having to purchase a separate subscription for Microsoft BI. However, the reports in Microsoft BI are fantastic."
"The manufacturing module could be improved. I would like to see customization in the next release."
"The solution could have better dashboards and the Microsoft operating system could be more intuitive."
"Out of the box, the solution doesn't really have a desirable user experience. We have to set it up and customize it to meet our needs."
"One area for improvement in Microsoft Dynamics CRM is its end user feedback. It's still not that great compared to Salesforce. They also need to improve on the look and feel of the solution, because those are still slightly better on Salesforce."
"The main issue with Microsoft Dynamics CRM is that its GUI isn't very attractive. Overall, the solution has the same functionalities as other CRMs such as Salesforce, but Salesforce is much simpler to use. Microsoft Dynamics CRM is complicated to use, and this is another area for improvement. It was also more difficult to set up the solution, so its setup could still be improved. What I'd like to see in the next version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a cleaner user interface because currently, it looks messy to me. Salesforce CRM has a better, more simplified user interface that makes it easier for you to get what you need, while in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you have to put in a lot of effort to get things done."
Marketo is ranked 5th in Marketing Management with 22 reviews while Microsoft Dynamics CRM is ranked 2nd in Marketing Management with 68 reviews. Marketo is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Dynamics CRM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Marketo writes "Useful for lead capture and engagement across social media platforms". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Dynamics CRM writes "Intuitive APIs, customizable design, but dashboards could improve". Marketo is most compared with Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Oracle Eloqua, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Pardot and Teradata Customer Interaction Manager, whereas Microsoft Dynamics CRM is most compared with Salesforce Sales Cloud, SAP CRM, ServiceNow, Siebel CRM and Bitrix24. See our Marketo vs. Microsoft Dynamics CRM report.
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