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We performed a comparison between Salesforce Sales Cloud, Siebel CRM, and Zoho CRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The development cost, maintenance cost, everything will be drastically reduced - unlike traditional infrastructure where we maintain everything on our own.""One of the most valuable features is the automation of Sales Cloud. It gives us the ability to easily—without the use of coding—create automation in order for us to do our work a lot more efficiently, whether it's notification reminders or certain automatic processes. There are a lot of things that Sales Cloud can do that, in my opinion, make everyone's jobs a whole lot easier and give them the visibility they need when they require it, when talking to customers and prospecting. It makes the account management process easier as well.""The automation of Salesforce Sales Cloud makes the process very easier to focus on leads and converts them automatically to accounts, contacts, and opportunities.""The reporting features are useful.""Salesforce helps up keep track of candidates.""You can capture all the contacts that relate to an account or business, including personal details.""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.""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."

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"The flexibility is very good.""The tool's complaint management feature is very good. We used a CRM before, which lacked the integrations, so complaints had to be handled manually. With Siebel CRM, we have better integrations and can resolve complaints with a few clicks. When you're in the service industry, tasks matter a lot, especially when you have to access multiple systems to address issues. Being a bank, we currently have around 17 operational systems. It's not feasible to expect users to access them individually to make the necessary changes.""Siebel offers a high level of customization which has been valuable. The solution also offers the ability to model complex products.""Due to the many features that are built in from a CRM perspective, it is the best product we have.""The best thing about the tool is its data model. The underlying data model refers to how the data is stored in databases. We can also experience the ease of developing anything with the tool. We can customize any functionality as per any business challenge.""It is quite robust and flexible. You can develop almost anything you want. You go into the tools, and you can do anything you want.""Siebel is easy to configure and comes with various pre-built industry verticals, so it doesn't require much effort. If you want to roll out Siebel in telecom or manufacturing, they have the verticals.""Siebel CRM is used for distributing information between systems, trouble ticketing, and case management."

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"The solution is always stable.""The most valuable feature of Zoho CRM is its ease of use.""Zoho CRM has been a really good product. From a basic CRM perspective, we use it to maintain the details of our company's customers.""The most valuable features include the dashboards, deal tracking, email tracking, notes, managing notes and the ability to manage databases in one place.""Zoho CRM has a location-based feature where if I'm visiting certain customers in a day, it can indicate to me the most efficient route. However, this is if the location of all the offices or places is updated, it saves my time. The calendar in Zoho CRM is synchronized with Google Calander which is very useful for me.""Customer tracking, order management, sales tracking and PO tracking provide efficiency.""I think the whole pipeline tracking is most useful for us.""I am impressed with the product's information on customers."

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Cons
"I would like to see a more affordable licensing model.""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.""Sometimes they refresh the production environment, which can be a bit of a challenge.""When importing from other apps, it gets messy.""I think the user experience could be improved. I would like the user interface to be a bit more user-friendly and modern.""When integrating Salesforce Sales Cloud with other applications it can be difficult to maintain security.""Its reporting capabilities can be improved. Its reporting interface should be improved to personalize reports.""It would be nice if they had an ERP offering or a firm strategic partnership with a best-in-class ERP. So rather than say they're just ERP agnostic, you would pick whichever ERP you want, which is very generic. I think it would have a lot of merit if they partnered strategically with a best-in-class trusted ERP platform or acquired an ERP platform."

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"It is difficult to set up.""The tool took a lot of time to deploy.""The backend performance of Siebel could be improved as it is often slow. In addition, the Open UI is not that responsive.""I want Oracle to improve the tool’s UI with a vanilla application. I would also like to see an insurance broking vertical in their future releases. There are thousands of brokers who look for an insurance broking solution.""The UI could be improved by being fully cloud native as this is what our customers are looking for. It would also be great to see what updates are coming up for release and for updates to take place automatically without manual intervention.""Siebel CRM can improve as an ERP and for a few corporate business workloads.""Siebel is pricey compared to other CRM tools. That's the problem. Although it's a highly stable and functionally rich application, customers are not willing to pay that price for it. Customers can find CRM software that gives them similar functionality at a lower price. There are so many others on the market like Salesforce.""The user interface, mobile application, and support could be improved."

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"It would be useful to have some way of mapping organizations that could add more value. If I have X company's database and am trying to create multiple contexts for different entities of the same company, I should be able to map it in such a way that I can see the organization chart.""The support response time for this solution could be improved.""The support is not quite good.""The chatbot feature is not very intelligent and lacks AI capabilities.""Zoho CRM’s customer service can be a little difficult to reach sometimes.""Pricing for Zoho CRM could be improved because it is expensive. My company also needs some analytics, so it would be good if Zoho CRM had built-in analytics.""Certain functions have occasional performance issues.""The solution can improve by having a policy that allows us to integrate with the cloud."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The subscription is on a monthly basis."
  • "The main issue is the price. Because it's SaaS, you will have to pay on a monthly or yearly basis."
  • "It is a premium product, so it is not the cheapest solution. I think if it's implemented well, and you're getting the soft cost benefits, the efficiencies, it's justified. But not if you're looking at just apples for apples as a subscription, without the complexity that you can achieve. It can deal with complex business requirements. Some other CRMs can't. But you certainly pay, so it's a premium-charged solution. It's one of the more expensive ones."
  • "I have found Salesforce Sales Cloud to be expensive. However, it is the number one CRM solution in the world. It is worth the money."
  • "The main thing is it is costly. Salesforce it is not cheap, it's costly. Some of our customers say it is a costly solution. So, we have lost some sale opportunities regarding the high price. This is the main thing that we are facing. It is sales per user and the user price is about $150 per month, per user for the Enterprise Edition. The other edition is less than this, but it is costly. A company that has 70 or 80 users would pay more than $8,000 USD yearly because it is cloud based."
  • "My understanding is that Salesforce is a little bit expensive, but in terms of the efficiencies, automation, and visibility, I think it's definitely value for money."
  • "Implementation and add-ons may be additional costs."
  • "Being license based, the license varies by type. The pricing is considered average."
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  • "Its licensing is yearly."
  • "The price of Siebel CRM depends on the usage of the business requirement. For large enterprises the price it's very good but if you are using it for medium scale enterprises, the price is very expensive."
  • "This solution is expensive compared to other solutions in the market. This makes it difficult to convince our customers to use it. The customers who are already using Siebel have thought about moving to Velocity or Salesforce."
  • "I think the tool’s pricing is exaggerated. Once you do the price sizing as per your business needs, you would find that the price of other solutions like Zoho CRM, HubSpot CRM, Salesforce CRM, etc. would be always the same."
  • "The product is expensive."
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  • "There is a license required for this solution."
  • "It is around $1000 a month."
  • "Compared to other CRMs, it is very cheap."
  • "We have an annual license fee that costs $12,000."
  • "If you compare the pricing with SAP, it is well priced and you are able to pay as you go."
  • "We pay for an annual license to use this solution."
  • "There is an annual license."
  • "The licensing is the subscription, where we pay $50 per month per user."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of Salesforce Sales Cloud are opportunity management and metric integration.
    Top Answer:The solution's configuration could be improved because getting a purchase order and administrating the right fields can… more »
    Top Answer:Since Salesforce Sales Cloud is a CRM solution, we use it for keeping contact information, opportunity management, sales… more »
    Top Answer:Siebel is easy to configure and comes with various pre-built industry verticals, so it doesn't require much effort. If… more »
    Top Answer:Siebel has been on the market for the last two decades. It used to be the top solution, but nowadays, you have… more »
    Top Answer:Siebel is a customer relationship management tool. You store customer information, complaints, and opportunities in the… more »
    Top Answer:The platform has a valuable lead qualification feature.
    Top Answer:We consider it a good value and found it to be cost-effective.
    Top Answer:The product's scalability and stability need improvement.
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    Overview

    Salesforce Sales Cloud is the most widely used of sales tools and sales automation software, speeding and streamlining all phases of sales from lead management to analytics and forecasting. Thanks to Salesforce Sales Cloud, more than 100,000+ customers and 2 million subscribers worldwide can manage people and processes more effectively, pursue more business in less time, and close more deals.

    Siebel CRM is a comprehensive customer relationship management solution that helps businesses streamline their sales, marketing, and service processes. With its robust features and user-friendly interface, Siebel CRM enables organizations to effectively manage customer interactions and enhance customer satisfaction. The solution offers a wide range of modules, including sales force automation, marketing automation, and customer service management, allowing businesses to automate and optimize their customer-facing activities. 

    Siebel CRM also provides advanced analytics and reporting capabilities, enabling businesses to gain valuable insights into their customer data and make informed decisions. With its flexible deployment options, including on-premises and cloud-based solutions, Siebel CRM can be tailored to meet the unique needs of any organization. 

    Zoho CRM empowers organizations with a complete customer relationship lifecycle management solution for managing organization-wide Sales, Marketing, Customer Support & Service and Inventory Management.

    Sample Customers
    Coca-Cola Enterprises, Kuoni Global Travel Services, Financial Times, Just Eat, Jobsite, H.R. Owen, PlayerLayer, O2, DMGT, Philips, Xtreme.ie, Business Stream, Remote Asset Management, Dialogue Group
    Hover Automotive India Pvt. Ltd., Lawn Tennis Association, Tªrk Telekom, Bouygues Telecom, City of Atlanta, IGEPA IT-SERVICE GmbH, ec4u expert consulting AG, Salud Responde, Sascar, Banca Transilvania, UL, Ingersoll Rand, The Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB
    JetHub, Anderson Sales Advantage, ActionCoach, Milagro Advisory Group, TECO Pneumatic, Proteomics Consult
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    Educational Organization81%
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    Midsize Enterprise20%
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