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Microsoft Dynamics CRM vs Salesforce Sales Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 12, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.6
Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers significant ROI through consistent upgrades and integration, outweighing its high cost with efficiency benefits.
Sentiment score
7.2
Salesforce Sales Cloud boosts productivity, decision-making, and efficiency with increased donations and streamlined sales for nonprofits and companies.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers helpful support but response times vary, with prioritization for partners and premium members enhancing satisfaction.
Sentiment score
7.0
Salesforce Sales Cloud offers efficient service, with tiered support quality; users commend premier services but seek faster basic support.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Microsoft Dynamics CRM is favored for its scalability, customization, and integration, despite occasional stability issues and cloud limitations.
Sentiment score
7.8
Salesforce Sales Cloud is scalable across company sizes, supporting expansion but may face data limits and cost challenges.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Microsoft Dynamics CRM is stable and reliable, with minimal issues and frequent updates enhancing its performance and robustness.
Sentiment score
8.2
Salesforce Sales Cloud is stable and reliable, with minimal downtime and consistently high user satisfaction ratings.
 

Room For Improvement

Microsoft Dynamics CRM needs enhancements in customization, integration, automation, scalability, affordability, performance, and customer support for small businesses.
Salesforce Sales Cloud has a complex interface, slow loading, high cost, limited integration, and requires improved AI, automation, and support.
 

Setup Cost

Microsoft Dynamics CRM's pricing is variable, offering robust features, with enterprise agreements benefiting larger organizations despite high costs.
Salesforce Sales Cloud offers customization and features but is costly; bulk purchases and consultants can optimize expenses.
 

Valuable Features

Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers customizable integration with Microsoft tools, enhancing sales management, user experience, and cost-effective business operations.
Salesforce Sales Cloud enhances productivity with customizable features, automation, integration, and user-friendly interface for improved sales and CRM.
The CRM is very fast, which is the most important aspect, and it's very handy.
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Ranking in CRM
2nd
Ranking in Sales Force Automation
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
76
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (1st), Local Government CRM (1st), Marketing Management (2nd)
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Ranking in CRM
1st
Ranking in Sales Force Automation
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
113
Ranking in other categories
Opportunity Management (2nd), Conversation Intelligence Software (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the CRM category, the mindshare of Microsoft Dynamics CRM is 12.7%, down from 14.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Salesforce Sales Cloud is 9.9%, up from 9.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Q&A Highlights

it_user128490 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 08, 2017
 

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.
Richard Mottershead - PeerSpot reviewer
Infinitely customizable, good end-to-end sales and customer management processes but lacks good documentation
Essentially, it's the CRM solution for managing customers and leads. The features that had the most significant impact on our sales efficiency include flexibility, regular updates, and very good end-to-end sales and customer management processes. AI and machine learning are on the agenda for next year. Initially, it will be very silo-based, but eventually, we'll be integrating MIBI data into our solution. Sales Cloud's reporting and analytics capabilities influenced our sales strategy quite a lot. We can build every report as a dashboard, and there are various sorts of things. We are using Tableau as our MIBI analytic solution, which is also owned by Salesforce these days.
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Answers from the Community

it_user128490 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 8, 2017
Aug 8, 2017
Lots of good information already presented! We work mainly with Dynamics CRM and BPM'Online, but have done a little bit with Salesforce, and it also pays to know your competition. Features - comparable, but it depends upon what you want to do. For example, SFDC has better reporting overall in my opinion, as there are some limitations to the built-in reporting for MSCRM. And sending a quote ...
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it_user107976 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 3, 2014
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
it_user81639 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 3, 2014
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)
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Educational Organization
77%
Computer Software Company
4%
Financial Services Firm
3%
Manufacturing Company
2%
 

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?
During a period of time, restoring data and maintaining it could be better in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Dynamics CRM?
I use Microsoft Dynamics CRM because of its flexible design.
What do you like most about Salesforce Sales Cloud?
The features of Sales Cloud most useful for testing and running email campaigns are highly valuable.
What needs improvement with Salesforce Sales Cloud?
There is no room for improvement in Sales Cloud. I would not want any new features included in the next release.
 

Also Known As

Dynamics CRM, MS Dynamics CRM
Sales Cloud, SFDC, Salesforce
 

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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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