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SAP CRM vs Sage CRM comparison

 

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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:
 

Categories and Ranking

Sage CRM
Ranking in CRM
27th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAP CRM
Ranking in CRM
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
Local Government CRM (2nd), Marketing Management (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the CRM category, the mindshare of Sage CRM is 0.6%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP CRM is 10.7%, up from 10.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Samuel Benavides - PeerSpot reviewer
Useful employee and client monitoring, reliable, and good online support database
I would encourage people to use this solution. Sage CRM is effective because it allows for all communication, transactions, cases, opportunities, and leads to be accessed by team members. This means that even if an individual is absent, the team can still respond to clients, customers, or suppliers in a timely manner. As a result, there is a high level of efficiency in decision-making and time management with the use of CRM. It is highly flexible. I rate Sage CRM an eight out of ten.
GodfreyNoel - PeerSpot reviewer
Excellent user experience with ease of use and reliable technical support
When SAP CRM does the maintenance, it can take a long time, which can impact business continuity because we have to wait for the maintenance team to finish their work. Maybe if SAP could establish how you can access the tool using a cloud-based environment that would be virtualization, that would be better.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution's technical support is fast to respond."
"The most valuable feature is the case management system, which allows for the customization of workflows and saving solutions."
"The part I like the most is the reporting."
"The Sage Accpac solution has definitely been the most valuable because the finance features are excellent."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"The most useful aspect of Sage CRM is the capability to keep track of each staff member's communication and bill processing activities. The ability to track both customers and employees is a useful tool."
"It has been helpful for opportunity management and lease management."
"Sage CRM is flexible, customizable, and user-friendly."
"Getting the right information at the right time across different programs is important. These programs lack interaction between them. IPA is a good option to bring them together."
"The solution assists us in identifying what to send, what to offer, and what customers are buying."
"It was comfortable setting up the tool."
"The primary use case for us is lead creation and data management."
"SAP CRM's most valuable at a branch level."
"We like that this solution has made our whole accounting function paperless."
"We use SAP CRM for customer service improvement. The main idea is to make sure our team has the right information when talking to customers. This helps them process things like price approvals for quotes faster. The goal is to make the product more efficient, and faster, and, in the end, provide better customer service."
"The user interface is excellent."
 

Cons

"Sage CRM would benefit from improving its interaction with email communication sites and social media platforms in order to gather more leads."
"Its user interface could be better."
"From an improvement perspective, the ability to make modifications to the product needs to be more user-friendly."
"I would like Sage to improve their UI."
"The scalability of this solution depends on whether you have a team that can configure it for scale."
"The product could be improved by modernizing the charts and analytics. Additionally, the export features and interactivity of the charts need enhancement."
"With regards to monitoring the transaction with alerts, it could be better."
"Sage CRM doesn't have a dashboard for dynamic reporting."
"The tool's installation on the cloud takes time, but it should be easier. One transaction takes around one to one and a half hours."
"I think what needs to be improved is the solution for Brazil's organization."
"We would like the coding system within this solution to be more straightforward when carrying out general entry tasks."
"There is a lot of missing data and data latency issues between the different modules of SAP CRM, which creates a lot of problems."
"What I see as a challenge against our competitor is that Salesforce comes with more flexibility, for enhancement purposes, whereas the SAP CRM Cloud is more robust and rigid. It's not flexible to implement any bespoke solution."
"When features do get added, we would like the product to notify us in a timely way."
"Our users are using it primarily from their laptop browser and very few are using it on their mobile because the mobile is not that user-friendly."
"SAP CRM could improve by making the solution more current, it is out of date. There are no more updates for SAP CRM."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have a yearly license."
"From an African perspective, the solution is relatively expensive."
"Though my company has to have a perpetual license per user, there is a need to make annual payments towards the costs attached to the support my organization receives from Sage CRM's technical team."
"We pay for eight core modules and 20 user licenses and this costs us $1500 per year."
"The product is expensive."
"The product is expensive."
"The licensing model for SAP CRM is customer-based."
"From the maintenance perspective, SAP CRM is quite expensive compared to cloud services because the current solution they're using is managed by us and we are hosting it on servers. There is the cost of hosting, and managing servers and applications. The overhead is substantial, but this solution is a legacy system. It will take some time for the customer to migrate out of it."
"The company has seen an increase in revenue."
"SAP CRM is not suitable for smaller businesses because it is expensive. The larger businesses would be able to handle the cost."
"There is a license required to use SAP CRM."
"There is a license required for the solution and most of my clients purchase an annual license."
"SAP CRM is an expensive product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
27%
Government
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Sage CRM?
The solution's technical support is fast to respond.
What needs improvement with Sage CRM?
The product could be improved by modernizing the charts and analytics. Additionally, the export features and interactivity of the charts need enhancement.
What do you like most about SAP CRM?
Getting the right information at the right time across different programs is important. These programs lack interaction between them. IPA is a good option to bring them together.
What needs improvement with SAP CRM?
One area for improvement is the security model, especially regarding records management retention and the audit and legal holds. Since we're in the middle of a cloud digital transformation, it's es...
 

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