We compared Salesforce Sales Cloud and Oracle CX Sales 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. CX Sales is highly regarded for its smooth integration, extensive sales coverage, and opportunity management.
Room for Improvement: Sales Cloud could improve its integration with third-party systems and reporting. CX Sales could improve its account portfolio management, integration with other systems, and mobile application.
Service and Support: Salesforce’s customer service is considered excellent, and users praised its prompt and knowledgeable team. Oracle CX Sales has been criticized for its poor support.
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.
Pricing: Salesforce Sales Cloud is considered pricey. Salesforce Sales Cloud has additional costs for implementation and add-ons. Some users said Oracle CX Sales is complex and time-consuming to set up, but others consider it manageable.
ROI: Salesforce Sales Cloud has shown a positive return on investment by enabling automation, improving productivity, and saving time. Oracle CX sales received mixed feedback for its pricing. Some consider it to be expensive, while others said it was reasonable for the features offered.
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. Oracle CX Sales is praised for its advanced opportunity management features, comprehensive sales coverage, and seamless integration, but users have complained about lackluster customer service.
"The lead and opportunity management features are valuable."
"It is stable and scalable, and their support has been very responsive."
"Account management is a very good feature. It is conceptualized very well, and we can look at all the projects under one account. The data for those accounts remain there throughout."
"CX Sales is very intuitive - you just have to click a few buttons, and you see everything."
"The solution integrates well."
"It covers sales very well."
"the Oracle CX Sales Eloqua module is very useful."
"The integration with other systems is easy."
"The solution can scale massively. I've been quite impressed."
"It is a one-stop shop for running anything related to sales. You can do a lot of 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."
"It is a very stable solution."
"We can also customize Salesforce Sales Cloud to our customer's company requirements. As for your demand, you can customize it. There are so many configurations we can do with the application. There is a lot of functionality that you can implement. It's an easy-to-use, user-friendly, and secure platform."
"The type of customization that comes with Salesforce CRM gives me a lot of liberty and ease of access to add any information that I wish to add. For example, the name, email ID, designation, the name of the decision maker, when the client joined the company, and the amount of influence he will have on the product."
"The most valuable features of Salesforce Sales Cloud are opportunity management and metric integration."
"Contact records are most valuable."
"The interface of Oracle CX Sales could be more user-friendly."
"We have had some issues with integration between our old database and the Oracle CX Sales Cloud, but it has been working well for the time being."
"Support is very poor."
"CX Sales' stability isn't the best - it has a tendency to crap out and need refreshing, especially when creating quotes."
"They should have a mobile app because the sales folks travel a lot. Rather than logging into an application on the desktop, a mobile application update should be easier for them."
"It gives multiple entries for the same data because if you enter it once, it has to populate all other fields that are relevant."
"You can get disconnected if you do not have a strong, reliable internet connection."
"The tool must allow developers to check logs."
"The solution's customer support is not so good."
"Amount of storage provided is limited."
"Salesforce Sales Cloud does not integrate with Slack or WhatsApp, for example. As a result, there is no easy way to directly log a conversation with a client that occurred on one of these platforms. There are a few things that still need to be done manually in these instances."
"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."
"There could be an option to change the price list without creating a new quote."
"The monitoring is very good, but it could be better."
"The solution is secure. However, they could always improve on security."
Oracle CX Sales is ranked 17th in CRM with 11 reviews while Salesforce Sales Cloud is ranked 3rd in CRM with 94 reviews. Oracle CX Sales is rated 7.4, while Salesforce Sales Cloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle CX Sales writes "Can look at all projects under one account and is more process oriented". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Sales Cloud writes "Vast, configurable, and offers great ROI". Oracle CX Sales is most compared with Siebel CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Oracle Fusion Service, SAP CRM and NetSuite CRM+, whereas Salesforce Sales Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SAP CRM, Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP ERP and Camunda. See our Oracle CX Sales vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud report.
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