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."
"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."
"It is stable and scalable, and their support has been very responsive."
"It covers sales very well."
"The solution integrates well."
"The integration with other systems is easy."
"CX Sales is very intuitive - you just have to click a few buttons, and you see everything."
"the Oracle CX Sales Eloqua module is very useful."
"The most valuable features are performance and integration."
"There are many extremely useful features."
"CRM solution that performs well. It's multifeatured, so you can use it for different activities such as managing opportunities, managing revenue, reviewing leads, etc."
"The product is very fast and responsive. There's no lag time when you are on the platform."
"The most beneficial aspect of Salesforce Sales Cloud is my development life cycle will have been shortened."
"I have found Salesforce Sales Cloud to be stable."
"Salesforce helps up keep track of candidates."
"There is a ton of information on the dashboard. Reports are also there for us. We can analyze information across the team and across a period, such as quarterly or annually."
"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."
"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."
"CX Sales' stability isn't the best - it has a tendency to crap out and need refreshing, especially when creating quotes."
"The interface of Oracle CX Sales could be more user-friendly."
"The tool must allow developers to check logs."
"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."
"Support is very poor."
"The performance is sometimes slow. There is too much information and this makes it difficult to find the answers we are looking for."
"There are things that could be improved with respect to file sharing. There is a limited file size."
"One aspect I find challenging with Salesforce Sales Cloud is its forecasting feature. While it's useful for analyzing sales data and predicting future revenue, I've encountered instances where the outcomes weren't as perfect as expected."
"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."
"The solution can be difficult to understand for customers of Salesforce."
"The built-in functionality is a little dated."
"The reporting formats could be better."
"We have a very broad set of products at our company. The process to get that information accurately into the Sales Cloud system could use improvement. It shouldn't take weeks of time. The process of identifying products that are being sold for forecasting purposes and sales tracking purposes is too hard."
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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