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Salesforce vs Teradata comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 20, 2025

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
7.6
Salesforce boosts sales conversions and efficiency by enhancing lead management, saving time, and enabling strategic focus, improving operations.
Sentiment score
8.1
Teradata boosts analytics speed over 100%, enhancing customer service and satisfaction, with high ROI and user approval.
The time saved is spent on more important, innovative tasks that advance us technologically and strategically.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
Salesforce excels in customer service with fast support, useful resources, and high satisfaction, outperforming competitors like Microsoft.
Sentiment score
7.1
Teradata's customer service is praised for expertise but criticized for delays, with ratings ranging from 6 to 10 out of 10.
When I interact with agents or contact Salesforce, they are always responsive and provide good solutions.
The technical support from Teradata is quite advanced.
Customer support is very good, rated eight out of ten under our essential agreement.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Salesforce is scalable and adaptable, supporting global enterprises despite occasional constraints and additional licensing costs.
Sentiment score
7.4
Teradata is praised for its scalability, speed, and flexibility, despite some complexity and cost challenges in cloud environments.
We can scale by purchasing licenses for more users and adding new workflow processes limitlessly.
There are no problems with Salesforce's scalability.
This expansion can occur without incurring downtime or taking systems offline.
Scalability is complex as you need to purchase a license and coordinate with Teradata for additional disk space and CPU.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Salesforce is highly regarded for its stability, often rated between eight and ten, with minor issues mentioned.
Sentiment score
8.4
Teradata excels in stability with minimal downtime, robust architecture, 99.9% uptime, and reliable performance, despite minor large dataset issues.
I would rate Salesforce's stability high, around ten.
I find the stability to be almost a ten out of ten.
The workload management and software maturity provide a reliable system.
 

Room For Improvement

Salesforce needs better integration, UI enhancements, AI analytics, customization, notifications, cost efficiency, and improved customer service.
Teradata users seek better transaction processing, enhanced scalability, modern interface, cloud focus, advanced analytics, and improved support and documentation.
If there is anything I would improve about Salesforce, it would be customer service during the initial implementation, as our experience wasn't as smooth as hoped.
Unlike SQL and Oracle, which have in-built replication capabilities, we don't have similar functionality with Teradata.
 

Setup Cost

Salesforce is seen as costly, especially for scaling enterprises, but offers competitive functionality justifying its price for some.
Teradata's high cost is justified by its superior performance, competitive total ownership costs, and flexible pricing models.
Initially, it may seem expensive compared to similar cloud databases, however, it offers significant value in performance, stability, and overall output once in use.
Teradata is much more expensive than SQL, which is well-performed and cheaper.
 

Valuable Features

Salesforce offers robust CRM functionality with analytics, automation, customization, and seamless integration, enhancing operational efficiency and sales tracking.
Teradata offers efficient, scalable data management with fast query performance, robust security, automation, and cloud flexibility for businesses.
The Salesforce integration with other tools, such as Celonis, is easy to set up and straightforward, allowing for smooth data extraction.
One of the best features Salesforce offers is the ability to design custom workflow processes.
The data mover is valuable over the last two years as it allows us to achieve data replication to our disaster recovery systems.
 

Categories and Ranking

Salesforce
Ranking in Customer Experience Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
38
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Teradata
Ranking in Customer Experience Management
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
76
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (20th), Data Integration (15th), Relational Databases Tools (8th), Data Warehouse (3rd), BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (9th), Marketing Management (6th), Cloud Data Warehouse (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Customer Experience Management category, the mindshare of Salesforce is 8.3%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Teradata is 4.0%, down from 4.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Customer Experience Management
 

Featured Reviews

Alona Bean - PeerSpot reviewer
Automating processes saves time for strategic tasks and provides excellent support
One of the best features Salesforce offers is the ability to design custom workflow processes. This has reduced time significantly, saving hours of manual work since it is now automated via Salesforce. Automating manual processes has streamlined my work, allowing me to dedicate time to more important tasks instead of wasting time on manual data entry.
RajeshKumar25 - PeerSpot reviewer
Harnessing advanced parallelism for top performance while embracing cloud trends
Teradata is primarily used for data warehousing across all customers. My clients have built-in applications that use Teradata, and their use varies from customer to customer, depending on the industry and database size. The primary function is as an OLAP analytical ecosystem Scalability is…
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Comparison Review

it_user232068 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 5, 2015
Netezza vs. Teradata
Original published at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/should-i-choose-net Two leading Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architectures for Data Warehousing (DW) are IBM PureData System for Analytics (formerly Netezza) and Teradata. I thought talking about the similarities and differences…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Educational Organization
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Salesforce?
The solution's analytics reporting features are quite good.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Salesforce?
Pricing is something I'm not directly involved with, as I'm just looking at the data competencies and how exactly things are running.
What needs improvement with Salesforce?
There isn't a particular improvement I can mention at the moment, but I would like to return to the topic later.
Comparing Teradata and Oracle Database, which product do you think is better and why?
I have spoken to my colleagues about this comparison and in our collective opinion, the reason why some people may declare Teradata better than Oracle is the pricing. Both solutions are quite simi...
Which companies use Teradata and who is it most suitable for?
Before my organization implemented this solution, we researched which big brands were using Teradata, so we knew if it would be compatible with our field. According to the product's site, the comp...
Is Teradata a difficult solution to work with?
Teradata is not a difficult product to work with, especially since they offer you technical support at all levels if you just ask. There are some features that may cause difficulties - for example,...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

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IntelliFlex, Aster Data Map Reduce, , QueryGrid, Customer Interaction Manager, Digital Marketing Center, Data Mover, Data Stream Architecture
 

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