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Oracle CRM vs Salesforce Service Cloud comparison

 

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Executive Summary

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
5.0
Oracle CRM users report improved efficiency and cost savings, though exact ROI varies and is often user-reported.
Sentiment score
6.5
Salesforce Service Cloud achieves 135% ROI by enhancing efficiency, productivity, and service business, despite implementation costs.
Salesforce Service Cloud requires significant maintenance effort to see ROI.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
Oracle CRM's customer support is praised for availability but criticized for slow responses and inconsistent issue resolution.
Sentiment score
5.6
Salesforce Service Cloud is praised for helpful support and community, despite some critiques on initial response and proactiveness.
Salesforce directly does not give you the support, and it is through the partner that you have to go, leading to some time delays.
Unless you have premium support, assistance is restricted.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Oracle CRM is scalable, adaptable for varying business needs, but on-premises setups may need additional investments for infrastructure.
Sentiment score
8.1
Salesforce Service Cloud offers exceptional scalability for enterprise growth, handling increased users and transactions seamlessly across industries.
Salesforce Service Cloud is the most advanced in scalability, rating around nine to ten.
Nobody can compete with Salesforce Service Cloud's scalability.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Oracle CRM is highly rated for stability, despite installation challenges and minor glitches that don't affect operations significantly.
Sentiment score
7.9
Salesforce Service Cloud is highly stable, reliable, quickly resolves issues, and is positively rated across industries for dependability.
We haven't really had any technical challenges with Oracle CRM.
We rarely encounter stability issues with Salesforce Service Cloud, although when they occur, they cause significant disruption.
 

Room For Improvement

Oracle CRM struggles with outdated UI, slow performance, integration issues, high costs, and inadequate support, needing significant enhancements.
Salesforce Service Cloud requires improvements in email integration, UI/UX, reporting, analytics, and cost efficiency for better user experience.
It's already integrated into our environment, so moving to something else will require a massive investment and change in strategy that we as an organization are not prepared to embark on just yet.
The AI feature needs improvement.
Configuring Flows in Salesforce Service Cloud is very difficult.
Salesforce Service Cloud should focus on simplification.
The pricing of Salesforce Service Cloud is expensive compared to other solutions like our current SAP CRM, which is much cheaper.
 

Setup Cost

Oracle CRM is costly, best for top-tier companies, with scalable pricing and possible discounts on long-term contracts.
Salesforce Service Cloud is seen as costly but negotiable, with user-based pricing offering potential ROI through strategic use.
The approximate licensing costs for Salesforce Service Cloud are around three hundred dollars a year per user.
Salesforce Service Cloud is expensive.
 

Valuable Features

Oracle CRM offers customizable, cloud-based solutions with robust integrations, praised for stability, scalability, and comprehensive CRM functionalities.
Salesforce Service Cloud is praised for customization, integration, automation, user-friendliness, scalability, and features enhancing productivity and visibility.
Currently it's meeting all our needs, hence the migration about six months ago that we moved from on-premise to OCI, to the cloud-based platform to add additional capacity and analytics.
The solution serves end-to-end customer relationship management which includes sales cloud, e-commerce cloud, and marketing cloud.
Salesforce Service Cloud offers pre-built packages that are best in class.
Usability is one of the strongest characteristics of Salesforce Service Cloud.
Salesforce Service Cloud improved our organization with its mobile capabilities.
 

Categories and Ranking

Oracle CRM
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
CRM (8th), Marketing Automation (5th)
Salesforce Service Cloud
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
55
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (2nd), Help Desk Software (4th), Knowledge Management Software (3rd), IT Alerting and Incident Management (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Oracle CRM and Salesforce Service Cloud aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Oracle CRM is designed for CRM and holds a mindshare of 3.1%, down 3.4% compared to last year.
Salesforce Service Cloud, on the other hand, focuses on CRM Customer Engagement Centers, holds 16.6% mindshare, down 17.1% since last year.
CRM
CRM Customer Engagement Centers
 

Featured Reviews

Omair Bokhari - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps business track their customers, sales leads, and opportunities
An area for improvement is the vendors' inability to understand the customers' requirements and communicate them to Oracle. When we started to implement the tool, and during the very initial phases of the product, when Oracle launched it, our company opted for it. We faced a few challenges related to the product speed associated with some functionalities that were not available when the tool was just launched, but later on, it became available, and right now, we are actually using it. The tool is fulfilling our requirements. There were no major hiccups or challenges due to the tool. The solution's mobile app needs to be enriched with more functionalities in the future.
MARIA PILAR CANDA - PeerSpot reviewer
Improved customer service and post-sales support saves time
The solution could be more affordable as it's quite expensive for some organizations, particularly middle-sized companies. Additionally, finding technical talent for improving the solution is challenging. Configuring Flows in Salesforce Service Cloud is very difficult. There are very few technical people in the market capable of implementing all the flows that clients need at this moment. It's primarily a matter of talent limitation, and flow is the technical mechanism of Salesforce Service Cloud for process automation. In general, while they have the knowledge and help solve problems, finding the right person to address specific issues is very challenging.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
University
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Educational Organization
9%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Performing Arts
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle CRM?
The most valuable feature is the ability to automatically enrich deals by connecting to APIs. This allows me to gather additional information about companies, number of employees, and data from the...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle CRM?
The price of Oracle CRM in Vietnam is high, which is a concern. Clients must buy the license once, and if there are updates in the year, they need to buy the new version.
What needs improvement with Oracle CRM?
The AI feature needs improvement. The technical support also has room for improvement.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Salesforce Service Cloud?
The approximate licensing costs for Salesforce Service Cloud are around three hundred dollars a year per user.
What needs improvement with Salesforce Service Cloud?
The solution could be more affordable as it's quite expensive for some organizations, particularly middle-sized companies. Additionally, finding technical talent for improving the solution is chall...
What is your primary use case for Salesforce Service Cloud?
We have many clients with Salesforce Service Cloud and numerous use cases. The main use is in the sales area rather than the marketing area. We utilize it for customer service and customer post-sal...
 

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Sample Customers

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