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Data Cloud vs Siebel CRM comparison

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

Categories and Ranking

Data Cloud
Ranking in CRM
18th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Siebel CRM
Ranking in CRM
20th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Local Government CRM (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the CRM category, the mindshare of Data Cloud is 0.4%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Siebel CRM is 1.2%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CRM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Data Cloud0.4%
Siebel CRM1.2%
Other98.4%
CRM
 

Featured Reviews

PravinNagawade - PeerSpot reviewer
Salesforce Data Cloud Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Unified customer insights have reduced redundant communications and improved campaign targeting
Every function in Data Cloud has its unique purpose, but Calculated Insight is one of the strongest functions that I believe is very useful. I can accomplish everything, including customization, using Calculated Insight. If a client uses Data Cloud, they can save time and most importantly, they can save budget because I generate the target audience for marketing campaigns using unification. Redundant email or communication never happens due to the unified profiles, which helps businesses save their marketing budget and indirectly increase revenue. That is one of the most important benefits. Technically, there are many benefits, but in terms of business revenue, that is the most crucial part.
ShirazShah - PeerSpot reviewer
CRM Specialist at Allied Bank Limited
Integration capabilities facilitate efficient data management and enhance customer service, but the analytics requires improvement
The analytics capabilities in Siebel CRM have presented numerous challenges. Due to these challenges, we had to integrate Microsoft Power BI. The CRM analytics was not sufficient for our needs, given that we have four million customers and a thousand products. We are currently focusing on the upgrade and discussing with Oracle. If there have been improvements in the analytics side over the past few years, we are open to evaluating them. Currently, all analytics are being done on Power BI. The data is exported to our data lake, and Power BI is being used for all reporting and analytics. Even our customer 360, which is the core of any CRM, has Power BI widgets built-in through iframe because we could not accomplish this through Siebel CRM. The analytics component has been the main pain point for our organization, particularly due to processing time and performance with our large customer base.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"In my opinion, some of the most valuable features of Salesforce are the integrations it has with our internal systems, with sales planning probably being second, and then third is contact information."
"If a client uses Data Cloud, they can save time and most importantly, they can save budget because I generate the target audience for marketing campaigns using unification."
"Because in many cases, we knew what was going to happen before it happened or before the opportunities arose, it allowed us to get a jump on sales and then a jump on delivery, so it allowed us to scale."
"I rate my experience with Data Cloud a nine out of ten."
"We never had a problem with stability."
"Overall, Data Cloud is a powerful product for unifying real-time customer data and enabling personalized activation."
"We moved from an excel sheet to Siebel so it did help us initially in digitizing CRM related business processes and was positioned as single source of truth for CRM."
"Siebel CRM's most beneficial aspects are the workflows. It has complete holistic workflows for a customer management system."
"It is easier to communicate with local companies within a large organization using Siebel CRM."
"Siebel CRM is the number one CRM product in the world."
"Siebel CRM has a strong database model, workflow and integration tools."
"Siebel CRM is used for distributing information between systems, trouble ticketing, and case management."
"Due to the many features that are built in from a CRM perspective, it is the best product we have."
"It is quite robust and flexible; you can develop almost anything you want, and when you go into the tools, you can do anything you want."
 

Cons

"It is a very good product, but it is very complex to implement, change, develop, and integrate."
"There was excessive difficulty to customize for our business processes, so you either change to how they have it set up or you spend money getting someone to fix it."
"Data Cloud is an overall average product."
"In my opinion, areas that can still improve Data Cloud include the speed of the user interface, which is somewhat a problem, and reporting, as creating reports could be a bit easier."
"Most of the time, I believe that not all SQL functions are working in Calculated Insights or in Query Builder."
"Customizability is both an advantage and a disadvantage. While it provides a suitable solution with many pieces to integrate, it also adds complexity."
"The backend performance of Siebel could be improved as it is often slow. In addition, the Open UI is not that responsive."
"It is not easy to set up. It's a bit difficult."
"The analytics component has been the main pain point for our organization, particularly due to processing time and performance with our large customer base."
"Siebel is pricey compared to other CRM tools. That's the problem. Although it's a highly stable and functionally rich application, customers are not willing to pay that price for it. Customers can find CRM software that gives them similar functionality at a lower price. There are so many others on the market like Salesforce."
"Siebel is not user-friendly."
"The user interface could be more intuitive and modern. The Oracle Siebel documentation contains many links, and finding specific information takes time."
"Server may response very slowly if effective load balancing is not done."
"The user interface, mobile application, and support could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Its licensing is yearly."
"The price of Siebel CRM depends on the usage of the business requirement. For large enterprises the price it's very good but if you are using it for medium scale enterprises, the price is very expensive."
"I think the tool’s pricing is exaggerated. Once you do the price sizing as per your business needs, you would find that the price of other solutions like Zoho CRM, HubSpot CRM, Salesforce CRM, etc. would be always the same."
"The product is expensive."
"This solution is expensive compared to other solutions in the market. This makes it difficult to convince our customers to use it. The customers who are already using Siebel have thought about moving to Velocity or Salesforce."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise16
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Data Cloud?
The Salesforce team can make Data Cloud more user-friendly and a bit more open. The documentation should be improved. That is the first thing. They have very poor documentation on Data Cloud. For m...
What is your primary use case for Data Cloud?
We are mainly using Data Cloud to harmonize our Marketing Cloud personalization data and the customer data from our database. Whatever data is coming from Marketing Cloud personalization is streami...
What advice do you have for others considering Data Cloud?
The only good thing about Data Cloud is that it is easily integratable with different Salesforce systems or products. My overall rating for Data Cloud is six out of ten.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Siebel Sales?
I do not have any information on pricing, setup cost, or licensing.
What needs improvement with Siebel Sales?
The analytics capabilities in Siebel CRM have presented numerous challenges. Due to these challenges, we had to integrate Microsoft Power BI. The CRM analytics was not sufficient for our needs, giv...
What is your primary use case for Siebel Sales?
We implemented Siebel CRM in our organization in December 2022. We are currently in discussions with Oracle, but we will stay with Siebel CRM rather than moving to the Fusion version. We are alread...
 

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Sample Customers

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Hover Automotive India Pvt. Ltd., Lawn Tennis Association, Tªrk Telekom, Bouygues Telecom, City of Atlanta, IGEPA IT-SERVICE GmbH, ec4u expert consulting AG, Salud Responde, Sascar, Banca Transilvania, UL, Ingersoll Rand, The Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB
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