We compared Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Salesforce Sales Cloud across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Microsoft Dynamics CRM is considered robust and reliable. Users praised its ability to measure and track sales and seamless integration with Microsoft Office 365 and Azure. Salesforce Sales Cloud users have lauded the solution’s open API and ability to track sales opportunities.
Room for Improvement: Microsoft Dynamics CRM requires improvement in terms of mobile experience, interface design, and performance. Salesforce Sales Cloud could improve its integration with third-party systems and reporting.
Service and Support: Reviews of Microsoft support were mixed, with some users expressing frustration at long response times and challenges contacting the support team. Salesforce’s customer service is considered excellent, and users praised its prompt and knowledgeable team.
Ease of Deployment: Some Microsoft Dynamics users found the setup uncomplicated, while others struggled with it. 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.
Pricing: The cost of Microsoft Dynamics depends on factors like licenses and customization. While Dynamics is generally considered expensive, some users find the pricing fair or slightly cheaper compared to competitors. Salesforce Sales Cloud is considered pricey. Salesforce Sales Cloud has additional costs for implementation and add-ons.
ROI: Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides a significant ROI due to its upgraded features and integrations. Salesforce Sales Cloud has shown a positive return on investment by enabling automation, improving productivity, and saving time.
Comparison Results: Users like Microsoft Dynamics CRM for its native integration with popular Microsoft products, but some users have said that setting up Microsoft Dynamics can be complex and time-consuming. Others have suggested lowering the price and improving the interface. 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.
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics CRM is the flexibility with Microsoft Office 365."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The history of engagement with our customers, including all conversations, has been most valuable when using this solution."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting tab."
"The most valuable feature is that because this solution uses the cloud, you only have to install it and allocate it to a user, making it quite easy to use."
"Our clients appreciate that the solution can be used to monitor everything their customer interacts with in their business."
"One of the most useful features is we can configure Microsoft Dynamics CRM in the way that we need. This is configurable."
"The most valuable feature in Microsoft Dynamics CRM is funneling."
"Salesforce is such a widespread software in terms of what it can do and its scope. Theoretically, you can run a whole company off of it. There are many valuable features, such as reporting and analytics. You can customize almost the whole environment is what appeals to so many companies the most."
"The most valuable features are custom objects, custom workflows, triggering, and integration with other SaaS solutions."
"On the high level, it's all about managing the clients, managing the opportunities around those clients, managing the tasks, calls, activities, all those things."
"I can see activity per customer. I can find out quickly and easily who was the last person I talked to, when it was, and what we were talking about."
"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 is nice to have the install base information at your fingertips when you look up a company."
"The performance is good, and it is easy to use."
"The automation of Salesforce Sales Cloud makes the process very easier to focus on leads and converts them automatically to accounts, contacts, and opportunities."
"Dynamic's management could be improved. The tech management should have better technical capabilities."
"The product is very old."
"Microsoft Dynamics CRM is operational enough, in terms of frequency, but an area for improvement would be its dashboard. Currently, it's widget-like, so hopefully, it could be improved, particularly to allow you to create a custom dashboard using a query. A custom dashboard would make the solution better and is an additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM because right now, it only has a default dashboard, but maybe my account has limited access, so I can only see the default version of the dashboard."
"The installation was difficult. I'm not the person that implements the solution. However, to have the solution function in the correct way, the process can be difficult."
"A built-in automation engine to automate parts of workflows would be beneficial. That's the feature I'd be most happy to see expanded. It's currently tagged as simple automation, but I'd love some predictive capability."
"The manufacturing module could be improved. I would like to see customization in the next release."
"The price of Microsoft Dynamics CRM could improve."
"The overall price of Microsoft Dynamics CRM could improve."
"As a cloud solution with web browser, it's different than my classical way of thinking. It's modern, but for older people, maybe it's not that understandable. It could be more user-friendly, maybe with an option to switch between interfaces."
"The setup of Salesforce Sales Cloud is complex. You need specialists in that area to be able to have a good setup. Once it's set up properly, running it is seamless. That's the most beautiful thing about Salesforce Sales Cloud."
"Applications that can help with migrating data over from the sandbox to production would make it easier because sometimes change sets can be bulky and they're not always as effective. This can be frustrating when you make a lot of changes and try to put those changes into production."
"I need to do a lot of customization to implement an ERP solution for an energy and utilities client versus a BFS client. Salesforce should look at the common customizations each client wants and see how much of that can be standardized into industry-specific specific solutions. That would speed up implementation, so we don't need to go through the same steps a hundred times. Salesforce could do it once and put it out for the rest of the clients to use it."
"There could be an option to change the price list without creating a new quote."
"Salesforce is a powerful tool and you need specialists to create or to develop new functionalities. It is a difficult platform to learn to manage and you need years to know the whole product."
"It is a bit pricey."
"The built-in functionality is a little dated."
Microsoft Dynamics CRM is ranked 2nd in CRM with 68 reviews while Salesforce Sales Cloud is ranked 3rd in CRM with 93 reviews. Microsoft Dynamics CRM is rated 7.6, while Salesforce Sales Cloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Dynamics CRM writes "Intuitive APIs, customizable design, but dashboards could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Sales Cloud writes "Vast, configurable, and offers great ROI". Microsoft Dynamics CRM is most compared with ServiceNow, SAP CRM, Siebel CRM, monday.com and Salesforce Service Cloud, whereas Salesforce Sales Cloud is most compared with SAP CRM, Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP ERP, IQVIA Orchestrated Customer Engagement and Vlocity. See our Microsoft Dynamics CRM vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud report.
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Well, the best CRM is really the one that matches the requirements of your business, because what works for one organization does not necessarily works for another. However, there are some common features that makes one system more attractive over the other. From my point of view, both of them are worth trying, but if you’d like to try some outstanding alternative, I suggest you to take a look at bpm’online sales https://www.bpmonline.com/sales/ - it’s a cloud CRM that includes out-of-the-box processes that serve as best practices for lead management, opportunity management, quote management, order and invoice management and so forth. Your sales team will definitely appreciate the pre-build processes that enable companies to jump start using the system from day one.
We work with both platforms, we can do almost all applications with either platform.
Features - Comparable
Usability - Comparable
Performance & Availability - Comparable
Cost Model - Microsoft is Less Expensive
Compatibility with different mobile devices - Microsoft needs third party tool for full functionality
Integration with other back end ERP - Comparable
It depends upon what you want to achieve. As well I am certified Siebel Core consultant and have worked wih SFDC and MS Dynamics, still all the three caters various features unique in their own way. Having said that if the client is in favour of MS Dynamics then
Features - it is stil evolving and requires considerable changes
Cost - it is defintely comparable with SFDC but not with Siebel as the cost is high in Siebel.
Usability - it is not complex and lots of drag and drop
Features available
Performance - This depends on what the client needs are.
Integration - requires more change and it has it's own challenges
I hope this helps for now. Please feel fee to reach me if you need any further questions or clarifications
I am not familiar with MS Dynamics, and have never used it. However, just from a look at the website, this package seems more the equivalent of a Marketo or Eloqua kind of application. At Liquidware Labs, we use Marketo, Salesforce, extended with RainKing.
Not sure if my background would be helpful for this issue, but if this individual would like to speak with me directly about the goal for marketing with CRM packages, then I would be happy to discuss.
Thanks.
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Please see the following article: http://learnsf.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/comparing-salesforce-with-microsoft-dynamics-xrm/
A few anecdotes to consider:
*The few MS Dynamics customers I know report that it has a lot of bugs, quirks and really cumbersome to customize
*In one quote/evaluation I've seen, MS Dynamics had a final quote that was one third of a similar Salesforce quote (that is, same number of users, type of licenses, etc)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM -
*Pricing based on your needs
*99.9% Service Level Agreement (SLA)
*Microsoft had a pre-developed reporting engine within SQL Server called SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
*MS Dynamics CRM Online is a true Microsoft Outlook application, not just a plugin
Salesforce.com -
*Enterprise Edition - $125/user/month , Salesforce Mobile Classic - $50/user/month
*No Service Level Agreement (SLA)
*Salesforce is repealing Outlook features; for example, users can’t manage opportunities and leads anymore
*Salesforce doesn’t have a concept of a fluid user interface for Leads –> Contacts –> Opportunities