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We performed a comparison between Affinity and Salesforce Sales Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two CRM solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"For me, the most valuable feature is the fact that they work with existing Adobe files. And open and edit PDFs and web-optimized exports. It's been very good.""The most valuable features of Affinity are the connection features it provides because you have a large database of startups. The people who worked in the companies and founded them are displayed in Affinity. It can show if they are using some special intelligence feature and that you may know this person, of your connections. For example, if they know the person. It works similar to the way LinkedIn does when you seek a connection. Additionally, Affinity shows how close this person is and how often they contact each other.""I like that it's completely automated. It's a very robust system. You are not going to have faults in it."

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"The most valuable features of Salesforce Sales Cloud are opportunity management and metric integration.""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.""There is a ton of information on the dashboard. Reports are also there for us. We can analyze information across the team and across a period, such as quarterly or annually.""The tracking and monitoring of daily activities within each account is the most valuable aspect of Salesforce Sales Cloud. It allows for staying informed about ongoing activities, ensuring comprehensive visibility into the progress made within each account on a regular basis. Additionally, the plugins that are available, such as ZoolInfo are useful.""The most beneficial aspect of Salesforce Sales Cloud is my development life cycle will have been shortened.""There are many extremely useful features.""You can adapt Salesforce for all customer needs.""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."

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Cons
"Affinity could improve by adding more features. It has been a while since I have used it, but when I did, the features could improve.""It would be better if it were "pay-per-user" instead of "pay-per-account." For example, I'm Siddharth Mallya, and I have two email accounts. Each of those accounts is a separate payable account for me. For instance, I have created a network using my personal email ID, and now I have moved to my company email ID. It'll choose any one of those accounts, and that will become my paid account. For example, if I put in my personal email ID, then that's the account that I pay for. But I'm no longer using it, and it's not going to get updated. If I put in my work email ID, then that's an entirely separate account that I have to pay for.""To get people to migrate, Affinity needs to somehow give them an incentive to change. The key is to make it as similar as possible. Shortcuts and keystrokes would be my biggest learning curve. So, to scale, you're going to have to convince people to relearn their workflow, and everybody's too busy to do that. Scalability is kind of mid because you face adoption resistance if you're pushing out to a studio or staff that are used to Adobe. Many products don't think beyond Microsoft and Adobe. If it's not Microsoft, then they don't understand. So, scalability is a challenge."

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"I think the user experience could be improved. I would like the user interface to be a bit more user-friendly and modern.""There are also certain restrictions on the reports in terms of the number of records. Ideally, that should be removed.""It would be nice if they had an ERP offering or a firm strategic partnership with a best-in-class ERP. So rather than say they're just ERP agnostic, you would pick whichever ERP you want, which is very generic. I think it would have a lot of merit if they partnered strategically with a best-in-class trusted ERP platform or acquired an ERP platform.""The scalability could improve by a small amount.""Its reporting capabilities can be improved. Its reporting interface should be improved to personalize reports.""Compared to other CRM solutions, Salesforce is expensive. It is more affordable for enterprise users than for small businesses.""An area for improvement would be the ease of configuration.""The licensing price could be cheaper."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Affinity is an expensive solution. However, they over a free version trial. The solution is expensive but the people that have used it say it is worth the money."
  • "Affinity follows a pay-per-account model, and I think there will be a monthly or a yearly paid subscription. I have heard that it was expensive."
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  • "The subscription is on a monthly basis."
  • "The main issue is the price. Because it's SaaS, you will have to pay on a monthly or yearly basis."
  • "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."
  • "I have found Salesforce Sales Cloud to be expensive. However, it is the number one CRM solution in the world. It is worth the money."
  • "The main thing is it is costly. Salesforce it is not cheap, it's costly. Some of our customers say it is a costly solution. So, we have lost some sale opportunities regarding the high price. This is the main thing that we are facing. It is sales per user and the user price is about $150 per month, per user for the Enterprise Edition. The other edition is less than this, but it is costly. A company that has 70 or 80 users would pay more than $8,000 USD yearly because it is cloud based."
  • "My understanding is that Salesforce is a little bit expensive, but in terms of the efficiencies, automation, and visibility, I think it's definitely value for money."
  • "Implementation and add-ons may be additional costs."
  • "Being license based, the license varies by type. The pricing is considered average."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:For me, the most valuable feature is the fact that they work with existing Adobe files. And open and edit PDFs and web-optimized exports. It's been very good.
    Top Answer:Affinity Photo needs to work more. They need to align as much as possible with the shortcuts and keystrokes of Adobe. It's just because when you learn a tool as a professional, you tend to learn all… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of Salesforce Sales Cloud are opportunity management and metric integration.
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:Since Salesforce Sales Cloud is a CRM solution, we use it for keeping contact information, opportunity management, sales planning, and accounts planning. We also use the solution's AI functions.
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    Sales Cloud, SFDC, Salesforce
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    Overview

    Reimagining relationship intelligence. Using patented technology, we help businesses leverage their most valuable data to find their next big opportunity

    Salesforce Sales Cloud is the most widely used of sales tools and sales automation software, speeding and streamlining all phases of sales from lead management to analytics and forecasting. Thanks to Salesforce Sales Cloud, more than 100,000+ customers and 2 million subscribers worldwide can manage people and processes more effectively, pursue more business in less time, and close more deals.

    Sample Customers
    T3 Advisors, Cushman & Wakefield,
    Coca-Cola Enterprises, Kuoni Global Travel Services, Financial Times, Just Eat, Jobsite, H.R. Owen, PlayerLayer, O2, DMGT, Philips, Xtreme.ie, Business Stream, Remote Asset Management, Dialogue Group
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Educational Organization8%
    University7%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company31%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Non Tech Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization69%
    Computer Software Company5%
    Financial Services Firm4%
    Manufacturing Company2%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise52%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business46%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise34%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise71%
    Large Enterprise22%
    Buyer's Guide
    Affinity vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Affinity vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Affinity is ranked 23rd in CRM with 3 reviews while Salesforce Sales Cloud is ranked 3rd in CRM with 93 reviews. Affinity is rated 8.6, while Salesforce Sales Cloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Affinity writes "Open source, stable and capable of working with existing Adobe files". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Sales Cloud writes "Vast, configurable, and offers great ROI". Affinity is most compared with Attio, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, monday.com and HubSpot Sales Hub, whereas Salesforce Sales Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SAP CRM, Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP ERP and IQVIA Orchestrated Customer Engagement. See our Affinity vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud report.

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