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 Oracle CX Sales Eloqua module is very useful."
"In my experience, the most valuable feature of Oracle CX Sales varies depending on the vertical of the business you're in. Oracle offers industry-specific products tailored to different sectors. However, the sales cycles and methods remain largely consistent across the board."
"It is stable and scalable, and their support has been very responsive."
"The solution integrates well."
"It covers sales very well."
"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."
"The analytics features in Oracle CX Sales are good."
"This is a stable product."
"The most valuable feature of Salesforce Sales Cloud is for teams the ability to do marketing on our page and to manage their marketing leads. You are able to close a deal and do the renewal. For the life cycle management for customer management, we use Salesforce Sales Cloud. The performance of the solution is good."
"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."
"Salesforce helps up keep track of candidates."
"The ability to work on it from anywhere is most valuable. All you need is a computer, a browser, and an internet connection to access your instance. It can be accessed from anywhere, which is pretty cool and user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are the reporting and the custom codes."
"The most valuable features of the solution are reporting and dashboards."
"The automation of Salesforce Sales Cloud makes the process very easier to focus on leads and converts them automatically to accounts, contacts, and opportunities."
"They've been lacking in creating customization from scratch and in sales."
"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."
"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."
"Support is very poor."
"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."
"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."
"The scalability could improve by a small amount."
"The reporting formats could be better."
"The solution's configuration could be improved because getting a purchase order and administrating the right fields can be a real headache for us, especially when the Sales Cloud system enters an error stage."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of configuration."
"Salesforce Sales Cloud needs a more user-friendly interface."
"Compared to other CRM solutions, Salesforce is expensive. It is more affordable for enterprise users than for small businesses."
"If they could have convenient APIs into the other parts of the corporation that I wish to share data with, that would be helpful."
"I think the user experience could be improved. I would like the user interface to be a bit more user-friendly and modern."
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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