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Salesforce Sales Cloud vs Siebel Contact Center comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Salesforce Sales Cloud
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
118
Ranking in other categories
CRM (2nd), Opportunity Management (1st), Sales Force Automation (2nd), Conversation Intelligence Software (2nd)
Siebel Contact Center
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Contact Center Platforms (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Salesforce Sales Cloud and Siebel Contact Center aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Salesforce Sales Cloud is designed for CRM and holds a mindshare of 2.4%, down 8.1% compared to last year.
Siebel Contact Center, on the other hand, focuses on Contact Center Platforms, holds 2.1% mindshare, up 1.5% since last year.
CRM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Salesforce Sales Cloud2.4%
Microsoft Dynamics CRM2.8%
Zoho CRM2.1%
Other92.7%
CRM
Contact Center Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Siebel Contact Center2.1%
Genesys Cloud CX11.1%
Amazon Connect9.5%
Other77.3%
Contact Center Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Jonny Katz - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Business Operations at PeerSpot
Uses data-driven insights to improve workflows and highlights a need for simpler automation tools
Salesforce Sales Cloud can be improved in several areas. First, the UI is an area for enhancement. Even though they've launched Lightning, it's clunky at times with page load speeds. It also needs to be made extremely more user-friendly. For new people using Salesforce Sales Cloud, there is a steep learning curve. Additionally, giving non-admins the ability to make changes on the fly is something that I feel is necessary. Currently with Salesforce Sales Cloud, you need to have a consultant. It's hard to build the flows or workflows. Making it easier for that end-user who's not so technically minded to help themselves is essential. I choose seven out of ten because I think you need a consultant or a consulting company to help you build it out. Certain changes should be made much easier and more user-friendly where an admin can do it. The automation processes need to be much simpler. If you're looking at other tools out there, for example SalesLoft or HubSpot, it's much easier to build those workflows and do automation.
reviewer2492265 - PeerSpot reviewer
Freelancer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Has efficient automation features and the ability to integrate with multiple systems
The initial setup is quite difficult for the latest versions from 2020 and beyond and can take about four to five hours. It can now be deployed on the cloud. Oracle offers the same images for on-premise and cloud deployments, making it easy to switch between the two. I created the docker image using VM and completed the setup in a few hours.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is expensive but also one of the largest business systems you'll have in your company because it'll integrate absolutely anything you need it to."
"The company wants to implement the idea of democracy within IT. As an end user, you can do a lot by yourself, so you do not have to write code. The idea is that they go for low-code and they use flow. It's possible to update records and do things like automation without writing real codes. I think this is one of the advantages of the solution."
"It is fast, accurate, I can access it anywhere, I can log calls live while the information is fresh in my mind, and it has really helped expand our customer base."
"Contact records are most valuable."
"This solution offers a good user experience. It is easy to learn and use, even for those who are using it for the first time."
"The solution has provided our company with a common platform, a common process, and has created a common skill set, and institutional awareness of major transactions."
"Salesforce is very flexible and provides developmental tools in case you have special requirements."
"Salesforce helps up keep track of candidates."
"You can integrate it with various systems for batch processing and other configurations."
 

Cons

"Salesforce is a powerful tool and you need specialists to create or to develop new functionalities. It is a difficult platform to learn to manage and you need years to know the whole product."
"Salesforce must build some connectors and features to make integrations easier."
"My age-old complaint with Salesforce Sales Cloud is that it has to be refreshed because it's a cloud-based system. If you make any updates, you have to refresh and save because you're fundamentally looking at what's running in the cloud. It can be slow since you constantly refresh and save the screen. If you were running a local application, like a local CRM system, as you input anything, it would be more seamless."
"My rating for Salesforce Sales Cloud is seven. There are modern AI products that are now in the market offering better capabilities."
"The built-in functionality is a little dated."
"Salesforce has a built-in functionality called changesets to move functionality from the sandbox and into production. That's a little dated now, and it's not very good for version control or backups."
"Reporting can become slow to pull once you reach a certain limit of contact records due to the complexity and volume of the data available."
"As of now, Salesforce is the most expensive CRMs out there - making it a bit more affordable will help them in a big way."
"The product can be complicated to develop, as many methods exist to achieve solutions."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's pricing is based on the number of users. It has a different pricing for 0-100 and another for 100-500 users."
"It is a premium product, so it is not the cheapest solution. I think if it's implemented well, and you're getting the soft cost benefits, the efficiencies, it's justified. But not if you're looking at just apples for apples as a subscription, without the complexity that you can achieve. It can deal with complex business requirements. Some other CRMs can't. But you certainly pay, so it's a premium-charged solution. It's one of the more expensive ones."
"Its license is expensive. It is probably a lot more than smaller solutions. It is around £500 a month, but I don't know how many licenses we have."
"The price of the product is very high. I rate the product price a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one means low price, and ten means expensive."
"Sales Cloud is quite expensive."
"We pay a yearly subscription fee."
"The subscription is on a monthly basis."
"Sales Cloud is expensive."
"The platform is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
7%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business56
Midsize Enterprise25
Large Enterprise43
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Sales Cloud, SFDC, Salesforce
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Sample Customers

Coca-Cola Enterprises, Kuoni Global Travel Services, Financial Times, Just Eat, Jobsite, H.R. Owen, PlayerLayer, O2, DMGT, Philips, Xtreme.ie, Business Stream, Remote Asset Management, Dialogue Group
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