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HubSpot Sales Hub vs IFS Cloud Platform comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.9
HubSpot Sales Hub boosts efficiency in lead tracking, communication, and sales management, significantly enhancing business value and strategy.
Sentiment score
5.5
IFS Cloud Platform offers long-term ROI, with some users seeing 4.5x returns in 18 months, improving efficiency and reporting.
Without it, we wouldn't be able to manage everything properly or strategically plan our sales strategy.
Head of Digital Engineering, Management Consultant at Stax Inc.
Our team has started working 30 to 50 percent faster, along with a cost saving of around 30 percent and a reduction in downtime by 30 percent.
Cloud Operations Engineer
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.7
HubSpot Sales Hub provides prompt customer service, praised for responsiveness, but faces occasional language and time zone challenges.
Sentiment score
5.5
IFS Cloud Platform has mixed reviews; users cite excellent local support but slow responses and documentation challenges.
They consistently respond and provide solutions, though some limitations are inherent to the tool itself.
Head of Digital Engineering, Management Consultant at Stax Inc.
The community of HubSpot Sales Hub and information available in Google is sufficient enough to basically self-help myself.
Process Improvement Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
It is more difficult with the language in Portuguese, which complicates understanding other functions.
Account Executive at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
HubSpot Sales Hub offers scalable usage for moderate-sized teams, though larger growth may require additional modules and costs.
Sentiment score
7.6
IFS Cloud Platform is highly scalable and adaptable, suitable for varied businesses, yet requires attention to hardware and updates.
Regarding scalability, I think it's really well-designed; not to some enormous size, but it allowed us to start easily and then expand really.
Process Improvement Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
IFS Cloud Platform has standard functionalities that follow the standard supply chain management processes, and it is easy to customize or configure.
Consultant at Arcwide
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
HubSpot Sales Hub is highly rated for stability, consistently reliable with minimal issues and infrequent API glitches.
Sentiment score
8.0
IFS Cloud Platform is highly stable, with occasional user-induced issues, earning an 8-9/10 for reliability and adaptability.
For instance, out of 10,000 API requests, approximately 10 might get missed with absolutely no record of them.
Head of Digital Engineering, Management Consultant at Stax Inc.
I don't recall experiencing any outages or downtime with HubSpot Sales Hub.
Process Improvement Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Now, with the drastic developments especially in the cloud applications known as Arena on IFS Cloud Platform, it has improved tremendously.
Consultant at Arcwide
 

Room For Improvement

HubSpot Sales Hub requires enhancements in lead capture, automation, pricing, UI modernization, and better training and documentation.
IFS Cloud users find documentation unclear, tools inflexible, integration challenging, support lacking, and pricing high, hindering performance and usability.
HubSpot seems to be in the lead right now in terms of consolidating a lot of those point solutions into one core platform, which Sales Hub is a part of, and the CRM and marketing pro are also core to driving our business and go-to-market engine.
VP of sales at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
The problem with the email tracking feature is that it recognizes auto-screening in email tools, which means HubSpot Sales Hub thinks an email opened by an end-user is actually an email that is screened, giving me false expectations.
Process Improvement Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The overall cost is relatively high compared to some alternatives available in the market.
Head of Digital Engineering, Management Consultant at Stax Inc.
There is not much available online, and the documentation availability is on the lower side compared to other products, especially Maximo.
Senior Director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
It would be useful if the platform could identify bottlenecks, predict capacity management issues, and recommend specific actions to users before operations are impacted.
Cloud Operations Engineer
They are working on IFS AI, but we have not explored much into that yet, and if they want to keep their competitive edge, that is an area they need to concentrate on.
Consultant at Arcwide
 

Setup Cost

HubSpot Sales Hub offers competitive pricing with flexible options, appealing to enterprises, despite potential complexity and varying costs.
IFS Cloud Platform offers competitive user-based pricing with negotiable discounts, though potentially costly for smaller businesses requiring multiple modules.
We managed to get a really great discount for the first year because we had recently raised a round of Series A funding, qualifying us as an early-stage startup that received a pretty significant discount in year one.
VP of sales at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
The sales component is somewhat expensive, making the overall cost higher compared to some other available options.
Head of Digital Engineering, Management Consultant at Stax Inc.
 

Valuable Features

HubSpot Sales Hub streamlines sales with features like pipeline management, CRM integration, and marketing automation for efficient, strategic planning.
IFS Cloud Platform offers a modern, customizable UI, robust modules, and seamless integration to enhance efficiency across industries.
The most important feature for us is the ability to plan workflows and integrate other systems manually, even without native connectivity.
Head of Digital Engineering, Management Consultant at Stax Inc.
It has significantly helped us build our pipeline in a way that sets the foundation for us to have something that is going to really scale and give us the data we need to best manage our business.
VP of sales at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
What I like about HubSpot Sales Hub the most is that it's complex in a good way, it has everything I need, it's well-integrated with other tools, and it's easy to integrate with.
Process Improvement Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
IFS Cloud Platform has impacted my organization by allowing our team to spend less time reconciling data and more time executing business operations.
Cloud Operations Engineer
The integration of IoT with IFS Cloud Platform is performing well, enabling us to integrate with predominantly any third party through the standard inbuilt connectors that are readily available.
Consultant at Arcwide
There are fewer fields on the user screen compared to other products.
Senior Director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

HubSpot Sales Hub
Ranking in CRM
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
AI Sales & Marketing (7th)
IFS Cloud Platform
Ranking in CRM
29th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Customer Experience Management (9th), Field Service Management (2nd), Help Desk Software (16th), ERP (19th), Activity Based Costing Software (10th), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) (4th), Local Government CRM (11th), IT Asset Management (12th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (16th), License Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the CRM category, the mindshare of HubSpot Sales Hub is 0.9%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IFS Cloud Platform is 0.8%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CRM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HubSpot Sales Hub0.9%
IFS Cloud Platform0.8%
Other98.3%
CRM
 

Featured Reviews

Mano Senaratne - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Digital Engineering, Management Consultant at Stax Inc.
Seamless integration boosts workflow through custom connectivity
The main advantage is its ease of use, and it comes with multiple connectors that can be used to integrate several other systems. The most important feature for us is the ability to plan workflows and integrate other systems manually, even without native connectivity. This is significant because we have connected our internal systems to HubSpot Sales Hub using the API. Another valuable feature is the email tracking module. Once a person is tracked, it adds all the metadata into the platform for later audit or progress tracing of the email. The custom reporting functionality is very helpful. We have been using custom reporting with HubSpot Sales Hub to get periodic reports and see the progress of certain projects. It helps us plan our sales strategy by tracking variables based on project size or site projects. We can link these projects to data and components, which helps us strategically plan based on the reports. The associated lists feature is new, though it has certain limitations when exporting data. HubSpot Sales Hub provides 95% flexibility in terms of allowing us to export, transform data, and bring it back. However, there are some limitations with the associated list feature and the API in terms of flexibility.
reviewer2268153 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Operations Engineer
Integrated planning has improved production scheduling and now reduces downtime and costs
The biggest friction point I have run into with IFS Cloud Platform is user adoption, which has been the biggest challenge, as different users in the organization need to get accustomed to the new processes after years of using spreadsheets and legacy systems, requiring training and a mindset shift, along with challenging data migration and process standardization. My advice to someone considering IFS Cloud Platform with a similar workflow is to spend sufficient time understanding and standardizing their business processes before implementing it, as the technology is very powerful, but the real value comes when processes, data, and teams are all aligned. I would rate my overall experience with IFS Cloud Platform as a 9 out of 10.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
13%
University
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Construction Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise3
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HubSpot Sales Hub?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was a bit confusing, to be honest; I think HubSpot has gone through a lot of recent change around the packaging and the way that it is sold in ...
What needs improvement with HubSpot Sales Hub?
I look forward to seeing a lot of the innovation in the space regarding Agentic AI and the ability to have AI agents working on your behalf via HubSpot to do some prospecting for and to fill the to...
What is your primary use case for HubSpot Sales Hub?
My main use case for HubSpot Sales Hub is that it syncs very well with the way that we track our business via the HubSpot CRM, and it provides me workflows and solutions to manage my day-to-day act...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IFS Applications?
The product is reasonably priced. The costs are justified by the value provided, considering the comprehensive features and minimal need for customization. I rate the pricing a seven out of ten.
What needs improvement with IFS Applications?
When it comes to AI, I feel that is the area where we expect something more from IFS Cloud Platform. They are working on IFS AI, but we have not explored much into that yet, and if they want to kee...
What is your primary use case for IFS Applications?
Currently, I am working with Arcwide, which is a service industry that predominantly focuses on IFS consulting, including IFS implementations, rollouts, upgrades, and support services.
 

Also Known As

No data available
IFS Applications, Assyst, IFS Cloud
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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China Airlines, Electrolux Group, Babcock, Cimcorp, Sky, Multiplex, Veolia. 
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