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Microsoft Dynamics CRM vs monday.com comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Ranking in CRM
2nd
Ranking in Marketing Management
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
73
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (1st), Local Government CRM (1st), Sales Force Automation (2nd)
monday.com
Ranking in CRM
3rd
Ranking in Marketing Management
3rd
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
224
Ranking in other categories
Project Portfolio Management (1st), Project Management Software (1st), Opportunity Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the CRM category, the mindshare of Microsoft Dynamics CRM is 14.1%, down from 14.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of monday.com is 4.5%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CRM
 

Featured Reviews

Arun Srivastav - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to use and integrates well with emails, WhatsApp, and SMS gateways
The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics CRM is the campaign feature. The solution's campaign feature allows you to collate a group of customers and the frequency of email notifications sent to them. You can put an advertising budget for a series of customers, whereby high net-worth individuals will be marketed for high-end products. Low-end customers will be in a different campaign. So, we run campaigns on different sectors of customers. One of the solution's good features is integration because it directly integrates with Microsoft tools. Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Teams are built into it. The solution gives a varied network of text and email gateways, which are already integrated and come with the package.
SolèneVerhaeghe - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps you avoid delays because you can visualize your deadlines and track your progress
I like the automation you can do with monday.com. You can automate priorities, status changes, notifications, etc. You may need another solution to create this automation in other tools, but monday.com includes everything. The Gantt view for project planning is also pretty good. The interface is another area where monday.com shines. It is colorful and visually appealing. You can paint with colors, and there are multiple views. If you are the type of person who wants all of your information displayed linearly, you can set it up in lines. It's the best tool for evaluating timelines and projects. The most challenging part is deciding how you want to display your information, but as soon as you know what you're doing, it's effortless to view where you are in the project and who's involved. You can set up a simple project in under five minutes, but a super complex one might take a few days. I think it's straightforward if you know how you want to organize your information. monday.com is accessible to non-technical users but takes a lot of time. They have many tutorials, and you can easily use monday.com if you can take the time to go through them and learn. When you initially create a project, it's only a board with lines on which you enter the tasks. You have some columns with the task owner, status, deadlines, etc. It is not that easy to understand all the features and how you can use them for your case, which is why people contact me. When you implement the tool, you decide which layout to use and what information you want to disclose. I've seen clients who have been using this for three years, and they still only know how to do things one way because they haven't taken the time to understand all the features. It's crucial to spend time at the start and learn the tool. I don't think the learning curve is that huge.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution's return on investment is worth it."
"Dynamics is a complete tool that helps the company measure and track sales, orders, current customers, and the sales pipeline."
"Multifeatured CRM software with good stability and scalability."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics CRM is the flexibility with Microsoft Office 365."
"The product is highly scalable, particularly in the cloud environment, where resources can be increased as required."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM are its easy operations and functionality."
"Dynamics is easy to use. There are several fields I can filter."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Dynamics CRM is its ease of use."
"The product gives the whole team an overall view of the status of every single project that we develop, alongside budget management and support triage."
"There are a lot of features and once you understand how to use them, it's quite easy to get the benefit out of them."
"Since I'm using it for a variety of purposes, not just project management, I can customize boards and workspaces based on the needs of that particular workflow."
"Monday.com has made it much easier to keep track of a wide range of tasks whilst we have a team distributed over multiple countries and timezones."
"I love being able to set up alerts."
"The handling and administration of Monday.com are manageable even for beginners."
"Before signing on with Monday, we had no idea what the total value of our book of business was, and keeping track of renewing policies was very difficult."
"It has helped us to divide work by assigning tasks and forecasting how busy we will be in the future."
 

Cons

"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."
"The mobile side of the product doesn't look that great right now."
"It would be better if it were more secure."
"I would suggest enhancements in customization and better integration for testing codes to improve the functionality of Dynamics CRM."
"The manufacturing module could be improved. I would like to see customization in the next release."
"The solution should improve the user experience in the process of creating and activating offers."
"The price of Microsoft Dynamics CRM could improve."
"Microsoft Dynamics CRM could improve by making the ports and dashboards more intuitive using Microsoft Azure analytical features. Compared to Salesforce and other partners, the dashboards in Microsoft Dynamics CRM are less intuitive."
"The data linkage could be improved. For example, sometimes you cannot automate item creation when you link different items to each other. You cannot connect the data deeply from field to field. It's somewhat complicated to link a contact to some account fields and automate the contact's behavior based on the value of those fields. The data is sometimes not structured enough for deep processing."
"The solution shouldn't let the system directly pull out Outlook (the Windows default mail system) whenever we click on an email address."
"Constant updates mean the service is down sometimes, which isn't ideal."
"I wish there were more calculations available across boards and pulses."
"A new feature that we would love is the ability to create custom reports from our workspaces."
"Expanding the analysis to contain all boards in a specific folder without having to add them manually would be ideal."
"We'd like to see cross-board automation."
"The solution could be improved by adding more plugins for Adobe (not just Photoshop) and adding a plugin for Discord."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."
"It is a very comprehensive package. We get everything from Access to D 365. We get Microsoft's suite of tools. I'm not too sure about the pricing, but I can't imagine it being cheap."
"The cost could be cheaper. I would rate them 3 out of 5."
"I'm not aware of any licensing costs for Microsoft Dynamics CRM."
"It's kind of pricey. It's about $50 or $60 per user."
"We have to buy a separate license in order to implement the social listening feature."
"The solution is open source and is free. However, it does require a Dynamics 365 subscription."
"Dynamics CRM's pricing is fair."
"The solution is quite inexpensive. For example, we pay $8,500 for 75 users. It's somewhere around $100 a user, approximately."
"I think monday.com's paywalls are a little too high. Some basic features are locked behind the premium subscription. Some applications they offer within their subscription model are locked in an expensive package. These applications provide functionality that would benefit small teams, but it's too much money for a startup or a small business."
"We tell others it's about $2200 for a ten-person plan and it can be adjusted; it's easy to scale."
"It's quite expensive when it goes to the enterprise license. Other tools like Jira cost 5 a month, and then their enterprise license is 38 a month, which is quite expensive for what we can do. It's £500 for a tool on a large enterprise. I'd have hoped that enterprise costs go down, not up. The pro license is £14, and then everything else is much more expensive, which is another barrier for us to adopt because other comparable tools are much more affordable when you have such a high multiplier as well."
"The licensing cost is not that high for monday.com. However, if you need an implementer, the cost is high because there aren't so many monday.com professionals."
"The pricing of monday.com was a little bit high for us, especially here in South Africa, compared to Basecamp."
"It's definitely affordable. I don't think it is necessarily the cheapest, but it's definitely not the most expensive. The price is well worth the value that we get out of it."
"Though I am unsure about the product's pricing plan, there is a need to make monthly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution, and it operates on a per-user plan."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Educational Organization
64%
Computer Software Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
4%
Manufacturing Company
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Microsoft Dynamics CRM?
The most valuable features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM are all the filters and possible reports.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Dynamics CRM?
The UI/UX needs improvement as it is not intuitive from day one. It becomes intuitive once learned, however, it should be less complex initially.
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Dynamics CRM?
The use cases are for HR management, resource management, project insight, and timesheet management. It is mostly connected with people and resource management.
Do you recommend Monday.com?
Monday.com is one of the best project management softwares available on the market. It lets you create and customize the tools you need to run every aspect of your work. I particularly favor it bec...
What do you like most about monday.com?
The product's initial setup phase was straightforward.
What needs improvement with monday.com?
I believe the reporting functionality could be improved on monday.com. While some reports are accessible, this area has room for enhancement. For example, including a Gantt chart in project plannin...
 

Also Known As

Dynamics CRM, MS Dynamics CRM
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Sample Customers

Metro Bank, Nissan, Pandora, Delta, Haynes International, City of London, Trek and many more market leaders.
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