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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service vs monday.com comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 11, 2026

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
5.8
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service improves efficiency, reducing staffing costs by 10% and boosting customer satisfaction by 20%.
Sentiment score
6.8
Users praise monday.com for boosting efficiency, productivity, and collaboration, positively impacting workflow despite varied financial metrics.
Being able to auto-create, auto-close, and many other automated functions makes it easier to follow processes and make fewer mistakes.
Project Engineer at Unilever
We have about 14% of time savings on average on a given project and about 17 to 18% in cost savings as well.
Vice President, Finance and Operations at Fruitist
Some of the advantages or returns on investment we've seen since we started using monday.com include the time savings from automating tedious tasks, making team catch-ups quicker.
Sr. Project Manager at GlaxoSmithKline
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
4.5
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is praised for helpful support but criticized for slow response times on complex issues.
Sentiment score
7.4
Monday.com’s customer service is responsive and efficient, though users desire more personalized responses and live interactions.
When somebody is doing a ticketing system transition at an enterprise level, it is obviously a complex affair involving hundreds of people and tens of teams at various points in the transition or implementation life cycle.
Sr. Manager, Tmt Business Consulting (Focused On B2 B Tech Product Cos.) at a security firm with 11-50 employees
We are using local Microsoft partners, not Microsoft themselves.
Executive at Empowered Analytics
I would evaluate Microsoft tech support as an eight out of ten, as they are quite responsive.
Head, Customer Experience Business Partnering - Corporate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I would rate their customer service a ten.
Head of Financial Team at resolutte
The customer support is very proactive, responsive, and easy to reach.
Sr. Project Manager at GlaxoSmithKline
monday.com is very cost-effective and it has great customer support.
Project Engineer at Unilever
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
Microsoft Dynamics 365 shines in scalability for large businesses, though licensing and integration limitations are noted by some users.
Sentiment score
7.9
Monday.com efficiently supports scalable team growth with customization and automation, despite pricing and technical challenges for smaller companies.
Within about four to five months of rolling this out across teams, we got usage rates up to anywhere between 70 to 85% of members within each of the teams that we rolled out using monday.com on a daily basis or a few times a week.
Vice President, Finance and Operations at Fruitist
monday.com is very scalable because we can work with multiple projects at a time from different departments, and it can handle all of that.
Project Engineer at Unilever
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is highly praised for stability, though users desire fewer updates and improved dashboards.
Sentiment score
7.9
Monday.com is reliable with minimal downtime, praised for stability; occasional bugs and slowdowns occur but are quickly resolved.
We got on the phone with our rep and the IT support team and we were able to get our issues resolved within an hour.
Vice President, Finance and Operations at Fruitist
monday.com is very stable.
Project Engineer at Unilever
 

Room For Improvement

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service needs improvements in UI, customization, integration, support, scalability, AI features, and documentation.
Monday.com users seek improved automation, performance, integration, customization, and collaboration tools for a streamlined and user-friendly experience.
More flexible rule-defining back ends that you can customize to your business context more closely than you can right now would be better.
Sr. Manager, Tmt Business Consulting (Focused On B2 B Tech Product Cos.) at a security firm with 11-50 employees
The solution could improve by providing internal scorecards for agents and much better staff ratings.
Executive at Empowered Analytics
The main area for improvement is the pricing model.
Head of Business Solutions at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The need for a stable connection is critical as there are network issues that slow our processes down.
PM at Galaxy Software Services
I would like to have the ability to create more than two levels of subtasks in monday.com.
Project manager at WITS
The integration with Google Sheets is also not working very well.
Sr. Project Manager at GlaxoSmithKline
 

Setup Cost

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service offers competitive pricing, perceived as affordable for enterprises but costly for individual users.
Monday.com offers competitive pricing, scalable licensing, and valued customization, though some extra costs may arise for setup services.
We did our integration with sales automation and other tools internally, which incurred no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees.
Executive at Empowered Analytics
The pricing is within the market range, but there is room for improvement.
Head of Business Solutions at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is quite expensive.
Head of Financial Team at resolutte
The pricing is cost-effective, especially for my organization, helping us manage a lot of projects efficiently.
Sr. Project Manager at GlaxoSmithKline
 

Valuable Features

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service offers automation, integrations, and AI for efficient workflow management and improved customer satisfaction.
Monday.com enhances productivity with automation, customizable templates, integration, and user-friendly features for seamless project management and collaboration.
It has a workflow feature and offers excellent automation capabilities that streamline our customer service.
Executive at Empowered Analytics
It is fully integrated and easily scalable with other Microsoft tools like Power BI, which is a great advantage.
Head of Business Solutions at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very well integrated with Microsoft Teams and 365 as an overall platform.
Sr. Manager, Tmt Business Consulting (Focused On B2 B Tech Product Cos.) at a security firm with 11-50 employees
monday.com saves time and gets everyone on the same page within my team.
Head of Financial Team at resolutte
monday.com has positively impacted my organization because automation helps us automate a lot of time-consuming and tedious tasks, and we've been able to save about 80% of our time.
Sr. Project Manager at GlaxoSmithKline
Through automation of tasks which were previously time-consuming and tedious, we've been able to save a lot of time and cost.
Project Engineer at Unilever
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Cust...
Ranking in CRM
11th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
monday.com
Ranking in CRM
5th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
232
Ranking in other categories
Project Portfolio Management (3rd), Project Management Software (2nd), Marketing Management (4th), Opportunity Management (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the CRM category, the mindshare of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is 0.6%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of monday.com is 1.2%, down from 4.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CRM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
monday.com1.2%
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service0.6%
Other98.2%
CRM
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2245296 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager, Tmt Business Consulting (Focused On B2 B Tech Product Cos.) at a security firm with 11-50 employees
Enterprise ticketing has streamlined high-volume customer issues and provides unified analytics
The place where you can define the rules is at the back end. That module, where you write the assignment rules or the skill set rules or prioritization rules, has very limited flexibility in these rules engines. More flexible rule-defining back ends that you can customize to your business context more closely than you can right now would be better. Customization for the information design in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is needed. The foundational information that goes into service management comes as foundational information that you need to program into or load into the service management platform. Right now, you need to change the rules to load them in the format that is required, and this should not be happening. AI capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service are more focused on the productivity aspects and the backend aspects. It is not personalizing interactions. The CRM part is more where these kinds of front-end customer personalizations take place.
Shreyans Parekh - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Finance and Operations at Fruitist
Centralized workflows have boosted cross-team collaboration and made complex projects manageable
monday.com can continue to improve their AI capabilities. When comparing monday.com to several alternatives when I was evaluating a project and project management, product road mapping, and workflow management platform for us, I looked at competitors such as Asana, ClickUp, SmartSheet, Airtable, and Notion. In my opinion, competitors such as Airtable and SmartSheet, especially followed by Asana and ClickUp, have worked on their AI and generative AI roadmap to combine database functionality with a very user-friendly interface for knowledge management and project tracking, essentially combining both worlds. Their AI is more sophisticated than what monday.com has released thus far. They provide a cleaner task-focused workflow management platform and I think that monday.com can still improve on this core piece of their technology. I think monday.com could also seek to be more process-oriented and intuitive. Other alternatives such as Asana and SmartSheet offer that approach. There is a steeper learning curve to learn monday.com in my opinion compared to Airtable, Asana, and others because I have also used those tools and platforms at other organizations. There is a bit of a learning curve with new users on monday.com because it is not as streamlined as I have experienced with competitors such as SmartSheet or Airtable. The capability sets are great, however, you may need to be hand-held via a monday.com rep when you get started within your organization or view the library of tutorials that monday.com has available. You can also view them on YouTube and that will help you get started on monday.com.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
11%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business180
Midsize Enterprise26
Large Enterprise30
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service?
The pricing is within the market range, but there is room for improvement. I have annual subscriptions.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service?
The place where you can define the rules is at the back end. That module, where you write the assignment rules or the skill set rules or prioritization rules, has very limited flexibility in these ...
Do you recommend Monday.com?
Monday.com is one of the best project management softwares available on the market. It lets you create and customize the tools you need to run every aspect of your work. I particularly favor it bec...
What needs improvement with monday.com?
The user experience of monday.com can be better, but this is true for any platform. It could be more user-friendly. From my perspective, it's how you handle the fields, but I'm not the one that's u...
What is your primary use case for monday.com?
Since January 2025, I have been working as a CEO, so I'm not doing a lot of hands-on tasks anymore, but I'm using lots of Google tools and monday.com, mainly. The Google tools I'm using include Goo...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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Raw Digital, Wix, Discovery, Frost & Sullivan, Adidas, Asos, Uber
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