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 solution integrates well."
"The lead and opportunity management features are valuable."
"The integration with other systems is easy."
"the Oracle CX Sales Eloqua module is very useful."
"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."
"CX Sales is very intuitive - you just have to click a few buttons, and you see everything."
"It covers sales very well."
"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."
"Salesforce is a very powerful tool which helps us to build that through tools like Process Builder or Flows, or even write code to achieve these scenarios."
"It is an open the platform with API integration with other systems. Salesforce, it is not a software. It is very famous and available. When you are creating leads, generating leads, opportunities, it is wonderful in the reports as well. Dashboards are amazing."
"On the high level, it's all about managing the clients, managing the opportunities around those clients, managing the tasks, calls, activities, all those things."
"This is a stable product."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The performance is good, and it is easy to use."
"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 interface of Oracle CX Sales could be more user-friendly."
"They've been lacking in creating customization from scratch and in sales."
"Improvements for Oracle CX Sales include enhancing the user interface (UI) to meet modern standards. Many clients prefer a more optimized UI over the classic one. The market is moving towards better UI and UX design coupled with functionalities. Oracle has a tool called VBCS that can help improve the UI. With VBCS, the look and feel of the application can be completely transformed. For example, Oracle CX Sales has been implemented for Ferrari, a top automotive industry player."
"The tool must allow developers to check logs."
"It gives multiple entries for the same data because if you enter it once, it has to populate all other fields that are relevant."
"CX Sales' stability isn't the best - it has a tendency to crap out and need refreshing, especially when creating quotes."
"You can get disconnected if you do not have a strong, reliable internet connection."
"Support is very poor."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. Its reporting interface should be improved to personalize reports."
"The problem is the solution has gotten so big, it's very complex now. It's a bit difficult to figure out how to do certain actions."
"The solution is secure. However, they could always improve on security."
"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."
"It could have a more user-friendly interface."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of configuration."
"I need to do a lot of customization to implement an ERP solution for an energy and utilities client versus a BFS client. Salesforce should look at the common customizations each client wants and see how much of that can be standardized into industry-specific specific solutions. That would speed up implementation, so we don't need to go through the same steps a hundred times. Salesforce could do it once and put it out for the rest of the clients to use it."
"When integrating Salesforce Sales Cloud with other applications it can be difficult to maintain security."
Oracle CX Sales is ranked 14th in CRM with 13 reviews while Salesforce Sales Cloud is ranked 3rd in CRM with 99 reviews. Oracle CX Sales is rated 7.4, while Salesforce Sales Cloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle CX Sales writes "Offers the capability to customize it the way I want, create my own CRM, and create a new closed integration with everything". 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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