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Acumatica vs Salesforce Sales Cloud comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Acumatica
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Cloud ERP (8th)
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
118
Ranking in other categories
CRM (3rd), Opportunity Management (2nd), Sales Force Automation (3rd), Conversation Intelligence Software (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Acumatica and Salesforce Sales Cloud aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Acumatica is designed for Cloud ERP and holds a mindshare of 3.2%, up 3.2% compared to last year.
Salesforce Sales Cloud, on the other hand, focuses on CRM, holds 2.8% mindshare, down 2.8% since last year.
Cloud ERP Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Acumatica3.2%
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP21.6%
NetSuite ERP21.3%
Other53.9%
Cloud ERP
CRM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Salesforce Sales Cloud2.8%
Microsoft Dynamics CRM3.2%
Zoho CRM2.3%
Other91.7%
CRM
 

Featured Reviews

MZ
Marketing And Technical Specialist at a retailer with 11-50 employees
Centralized ERP has streamlined multi-warehouse inventory and e-commerce operations
To improve Acumatica, loading in between screens can be a slow start. Sometimes, if I'm loading into a screen and I don't have a filter set, it loads everything, and that can slow it down. I think it would be nice if they had some sort of way to save a template for the base setup. They may already have this, and I may not have it, or our IT department may not have it set up. However, sometimes when I go into sales orders, for instance, it would be nice for it to just narrow down to maybe the past seven days instead of all 600,000 records that I have on file in one shot. I don’t have more to add about the needed improvements; I like it other than that.
Jonny Katz - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Business Operations at PeerSpot
Uses data-driven insights to improve workflows and highlights a need for simpler automation tools
Salesforce Sales Cloud can be improved in several areas. First, the UI is an area for enhancement. Even though they've launched Lightning, it's clunky at times with page load speeds. It also needs to be made extremely more user-friendly. For new people using Salesforce Sales Cloud, there is a steep learning curve. Additionally, giving non-admins the ability to make changes on the fly is something that I feel is necessary. Currently with Salesforce Sales Cloud, you need to have a consultant. It's hard to build the flows or workflows. Making it easier for that end-user who's not so technically minded to help themselves is essential. I choose seven out of ten because I think you need a consultant or a consulting company to help you build it out. Certain changes should be made much easier and more user-friendly where an admin can do it. The automation processes need to be much simpler. If you're looking at other tools out there, for example SalesLoft or HubSpot, it's much easier to build those workflows and do automation.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The way everything integrated well with everything else was most valuable. We had one solution for everything, from the first phone call down to follow-up visits for wholesale callers and for just regular purchases."
"This solution supports multiple branches."
"Acumatica has positively impacted my organization by making it nice to have all of the warehouses that we have, four different warehouses, in one page instead of having them spread across different areas."
"Salesforce Sales Cloud is extremely stable."
"Salesforce Sales Cloud is very reliable and provides good stability and security."
"I can see activity per customer. I can find out quickly and easily who was the last person I talked to, when it was, and what we were talking about."
"The most valuable features of Salesforce Sales Cloud are ease of use. It is very simple for the sales team to use. You can integrate it with a lot of other systems."
"Salesforce has been doing a very great job in bringing that to all people as much as possible."
"I find the forecasting the most valuable feature. It's valuable because there are two types of forecasting, customizable and collaborative forecasting."
"User adoption has improved a lot resulting in improvement of data quality and ROI of the software."
"Sales Cloud really helps to point out different numbers for our company in terms of what converts or what doesn't."
 

Cons

"We should be able to personalize it for the company. There should be more customization of the pages so that they seem more like a company rather than as an outside company. We should be able to change company images and things like that and do this kind of personalization."
"For support, we go through a distributor, and the support we receive from them is much better than what we would from Acumatica directly. When we went to Acumatica support directly, we were not happy with it."
"To improve Acumatica, loading in between screens can be a slow start."
"It is very expensive for a small business."
"The solution doesn't have features to break down the structure for multiple people in the project."
"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."
"Reporting can become slow to pull once you reach a certain limit of contact records due to the complexity and volume of the data available."
"If you don't have sysadmin rights, you can be hamstrung doing many things manually and one at a time."
"Salesforce has a built-in functionality called changesets to move functionality from the sandbox and into production. That's a little dated now, and it's not very good for version control or backups."
"Applications that can help with migrating data over from the sandbox to production would make it easier because sometimes change sets can be bulky and they're not always as effective. This can be frustrating when you make a lot of changes and try to put those changes into production."
"Although the implementation was straightforward with our in-house team, it did take 12 weeks to complete the process."
"Premier support costs a lot of money and oftentimes they do not have better information than a good admin could find out on their own."
"The tool's technical challenges vary depending on the requirements. When a new requirement arises, we must analyze the best approach to address it, whether through automation tools or coding. We encounter limitations such as the number of reports we can process or update, the queries we can write, and other similar constraints. Understanding when to utilize coding and when to rely on simple configurations is crucial."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is very expensive for a small business. If you're a small business, it is not a very good solution in that aspect, but if you are big and have more manufacturing, it is well worth it. It comes with the ability to integrate with one website. We had to modify ours. We customized it so that we could do hundreds of websites. In Texas, I believe that we were the only one ever to be integrated with hundreds of websites. So, the development of our API probably cost us a hundred grand, and then there would be maintenance. That's all outside of the standard licensing fee."
"In terms of investment value and return of the investment, Salesforce right now is pretty good on the Western markets where the price of the employees is pretty high."
"Price-wise, the product does not fall under the category of cheaply priced products."
"The licensing fees are reasonable."
"There is a license required to use this solution and the price is expensive. It could be reduced."
"We have a yearly license, and there are no hidden costs. Considering the Indian market, the pricing is reasonable. I don't consider it to be on the high side."
"It is a premium product, so it is not the cheapest solution. I think if it's implemented well, and you're getting the soft cost benefits, the efficiencies, it's justified. But not if you're looking at just apples for apples as a subscription, without the complexity that you can achieve. It can deal with complex business requirements. Some other CRMs can't. But you certainly pay, so it's a premium-charged solution. It's one of the more expensive ones."
"It is alright for now because we ended up getting a discount off the base price. So, for now, it is okay. We may have to renegotiate when we get more users, and I don't know if the price would stay the same or increase. It has just a standard licensing fee. If you end up hiring a consultant for implementation, you will have to pay for the implementation. Other than that, there are no additional fees."
"Salesforce Sales Cloud is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Healthcare Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business56
Midsize Enterprise25
Large Enterprise43
 

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