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Freshdesk Omni vs SugarCRM Platform comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Freshdesk Omni
Ranking in CRM Customer Engagement Centers
13th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.1
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SugarCRM Platform
Ranking in CRM Customer Engagement Centers
10th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
CRM (26th), Marketing Automation (10th), Sales Force Automation (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the CRM Customer Engagement Centers category, the mindshare of Freshdesk Omni is 0.8%. The mindshare of SugarCRM Platform is 3.7%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CRM Customer Engagement Centers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SugarCRM Platform3.7%
Freshdesk Omni0.8%
Other95.5%
CRM Customer Engagement Centers
 

Featured Reviews

Ava Grace - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Nestlé
AI-driven omnichannel support has reduced churn and improves response time for customer inquiries
The best features Freshdesk Omni offers are quicker response for simple questions, self-service when we are closed, easy to configure, great and user-friendly UI, and easy to adopt. The self-service feature helps my team and customers by ensuring that even when we are closed, a customer still gets the answers they need due to our integration with AI, which improves overall service quality and user satisfaction. I find it helpful for basic information when customers are reaching out and needing simple answers. Freshdesk Omni has positively impacted my organization by allowing less agent involvement while managing more work, preventing wasted time by blocking unnecessary repeated actions, reducing fast response time for tickets, and fostering more engagement and collaboration with the team, especially when working on difficult concerns. Good customer service has reduced churn by 30% as a specific outcome of using Freshdesk Omni.
reviewer1345677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager / IT Planning & Architecture Services at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Easily customizable, automation enhances the marketing campaigns but support is the main hiccup for us
It has been effective in managing customer relationships. It has sales email campaigns, plus integration with Active Directory. And there are centralized reports for the CEO and the general managers. We work with automation for these marketing and email campaigns. It sends out emails to prospective customers related to sales offers automatically. And it copies the sales team so that they can follow up. They are tracking the sales leads. So, the automation within SugarCRM enhances the marketing campaigns. For now, my work is done because I am the IT strategy and planning manager. I just try to deliver the solution according to the requirements of the business. From my side, it's implemented already, the requirement related to the sales funnel. But if they have any other requirement from the business side, they will submit it to me, and then I will look for a suitable solution.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Freshdesk Omni has positively impacted my organization by allowing less agent involvement while managing more work, preventing wasted time by blocking unnecessary repeated actions, reducing fast response time for tickets, and fostering more engagement and collaboration with the team, especially when working on difficult concerns."
"I would evaluate the impact of Freshdesk Omni on my issue escalation processes as much better than my previous solutions, as it really helps resolve most of the ongoing process problems."
"Freshdesk Omni has positively impacted our organization by helping us reduce operational costs, such as through automating tasks, and we have been able to reduce our operational cost from 30 to 55%."
"I can share that it has elevated our customer support by 65 percent when it comes to time saved and cost savings."
"It works well with Jira. You can customize it to fit your needs."
"The most valuable features of the SugarCRM platform include its flexibility in customizing fields, layouts, and dashboards."
"Available source code, good documentation, training programs, and a relatively active community, provide the hallmarks for a successful open source effort."
"My advice to others is this is a good solution for importing or exporting any graphics."
"This solution's stability is very good, it runs almost without effort, and we don't have any support issues with it."
"By default, it comes with a really good model where you can start working with it without having a lot of developers in your team."
"Affordable and commercial open source solution is good for organizations with budget constraints."
"It has sales email campaigns, plus integration with Active Directory."
 

Cons

"Regarding improvements, one way Freshdesk Omni can be improved is that the reporting generation automation does not work well."
"Freshdesk Omni can be improved in multiple ways."
"Freshdesk Omni can be improved in terms of reporting and analytics because I cannot extract the actual contents of my knowledge base."
"Additionally, setting up Freshdesk Omni with Dialpad and Amazon Connect requires multiple configurations, API integrations, and permissions that may be difficult for non-technical users."
"Putting so many things into SugarCRM became a much-hated task, mainly because of the horrible UI."
"I would like to see more integration on a mobile platform in the next release."
"Pipelines, forecasts, and reporting in general, are not that good in the free version."
"Sugar Enterprise could improve by removing bugs and glitches. For example, a comment was made but in the comment section, it was never displayed. However, the problems we faced might not be the fault of the solution."
"It lacks customization, and this is the main reason that we are switching to a different solution."
"At the moment, there is a complicated flow in regards to the user's permissions and what they can see."
"In the next release, I would like to see personalization of information about customers or specific businesses or opportunities."
"Sugar Enterprise could improve by removing bugs and glitches. For example, a comment was made but in the comment section, it was never displayed."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Construction Company
13%
Engineering Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Freshdesk Omni?
Freshdesk Omni can be improved in terms of reporting and analytics because I cannot extract the actual contents of my knowledge base. I would like to note that automations could be enhanced since f...
What is your primary use case for Freshdesk Omni?
My main use case for Freshdesk Omni is that customer service is monitored by an omnichannel system that dispatches every contact to the most suitable agent, so customers can receive prompt answers ...
What advice do you have for others considering Freshdesk Omni?
I give Freshdesk Omni a nine out of ten rating. I give it a nine because it has been very time-saving and cost-effective, as the AI functionality seems good. If integrated with your system, it help...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sugar Enterprise?
All are almost the same pricing. Maybe the cheapest is Salesforce, I believe.
What needs improvement with Sugar Enterprise?
The only challenge was that we implemented it in our on-premise data center instead of using it in the cloud. That was a little bit of a challenge. But it was overcome with the help of SugarCRM com...
What advice do you have for others considering Sugar Enterprise?
To start with, SugarCRM is a very good platform. It's easy to implement and easily customizable. Might be later when you want to scale, then I would recommend Salesforce. Overall, I would rate it a...
 

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Sample Customers

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Redglaze Group, TengoInternet, Hilco, Bancvue, Vet Adivsor
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