Pipeline CRM vs. SAP Sales Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Pipeline CRM
Score 5.2 out of 10
N/A
Founded in 2006, Pipeline CRM (formerly PipelineDeals) is a CRM for small and midsize businesses, empowering sales teams across a breadth of industries to build game changing relationships. Pipeline is built around a customizable user experience, sales focused features, and customer support and service. The vendor, headquartered in Seattle, boasts 18,000 users in 60 countries who use Pipeline to gain visibility into their sales, accelerate opportunities, and close more deals.
$300
per year per user
SAP Sales Cloud
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
SAP Sales Cloud (formerly SAP Cloud for Sales) is a cloud sales application with sales automation, enterprise resource planning (ERP) integration, and collaboration capabilities.N/A
Pricing
Pipeline CRMSAP Sales Cloud
Editions & Modules
Start
$300
per year per user
Develop
$396
per year per user
Develop
$588
per year per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Pipeline CRMSAP Sales Cloud
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Pipeline CRMSAP Sales Cloud
Features
Pipeline CRMSAP Sales Cloud
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Pipeline CRM
6.9
Ratings
11% below category average
SAP Sales Cloud
8.2
Ratings
6% above category average
Customer data management / contact management8.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Workflow management8.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Territory management7.00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Opportunity management8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)4.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Contract management5.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Quote & order management6.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Interaction tracking9.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management7.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Pipeline CRM
7.8
Ratings
3% above category average
SAP Sales Cloud
8.2
Ratings
8% above category average
Case management7.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Call center management8.20 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Help desk management8.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Pipeline CRM
5.0
Ratings
41% below category average
SAP Sales Cloud
7.5
Ratings
1% below category average
Lead management8.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Email marketing2.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Pipeline CRM
4.5
Ratings
51% below category average
SAP Sales Cloud
8.2
Ratings
8% above category average
Task management3.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management5.50 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Reporting5.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Pipeline CRM
6.7
Ratings
12% below category average
SAP Sales Cloud
8.4
Ratings
10% above category average
Forecasting8.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Pipeline visualization5.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Customizable reports7.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Pipeline CRM
9.5
Ratings
24% above category average
SAP Sales Cloud
7.7
Ratings
3% above category average
Custom fields10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Custom objects10.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Scripting environment8.20 Ratings7.70 Ratings
API for custom integration10.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Pipeline CRM
6.0
Ratings
32% below category average
SAP Sales Cloud
8.6
Ratings
3% above category average
Single sign-on capability6.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Role-based user permissions6.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Pipeline CRM
8.1
Ratings
10% above category average
SAP Sales Cloud
7.2
Ratings
2% below category average
Social data8.10 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Social engagement8.20 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
Pipeline CRM
4.6
Ratings
46% below category average
SAP Sales Cloud
7.7
Ratings
5% above category average
Marketing automation2.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Compensation management7.30 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Pipeline CRM
8.0
Ratings
9% above category average
SAP Sales Cloud
7.5
Ratings
2% above category average
Mobile access8.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
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User Ratings
Pipeline CRMSAP Sales Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(0 ratings)
8.6
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
6.7
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.8
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Pipeline CRMSAP Sales Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
It is great for managing multiple sales people and the ability to see where the company is in sales cycles. Great for our forecasting. The ability to track email opens has helped us with next steps as well.
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1. Better understanding of customer choice and sales insights. 2. High chance that we can convert the lead into sales as SAP analyzes the customer's need and behavior. 3. As it analyzes the data behind the scenes, a better price deal closing is possible, as it gives that level of insight.
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Pros
  • Flexibility: It provides the flexibility to set it up how you want to use it. Customization is beyond what you probably want or need.
  • Reporting: We were able to setup all types of reporting and tracking.
  • Ease of Use: While the platform was powerful, it was always easy to use.
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  • Help sales teams decide based on relevant data
  • Provide a framework to guide sales teams on activities such as status updates, customer success, sales qualification, etc
  • Reduce manual work by predictive analysis, that is, by understanding when a template can be helpful, updating a manager on a finished task, etc
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Cons
  • I wouldn't say no areas for improvement exist, but I will say that PipelineDeals takes customer input, shared product roadmap, and supports what they have very nicely. What they provide works out-of-the-box. Improvements can always be made with respect to pre-packaged integration with 3rd party services/solutions, and with extended attributes, but you also want to avoid something that attempts to boil the ocean.
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  • One area of concern is the many data silos that are present within SAP sales cloud
  • While creating filters for accessing sales lead reports, the accuracy is missing sometimes.
  • The product is quite vast and a lot more learning material and knowledge base documents are required.
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Likelihood to Renew
If we can integrate and easily export and clean all of our data such that it can be used for multiple purposes, i.e. outreach to guests, sending out newsletters to subscribers, doing research and tracking progress, we will definitely renew
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I know what SAP CRM can do in the future. We are very happy with the product and think it is a great choice for both SAP ERP users and even those who do not use other SAP products. We have both Salesforce and SAP CRM, and we feel that Salesforce is a good product for a few years, but SAP CRM is a more fully-featured product and is a better choice for complex organizations capable of running installed software of this complexity. It is often just a question of budget.
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Usability
The user interface is simple and easy to navigate. Anyone who is overwhelmed with some of the more complicated CRM systems will definitely enjoy the simplicity of what PipelineDeals has to offer
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In short, SAP CRM is a complete service that will help improve marketing strategy and productivity. It covers various topics, from big data analytics to resource management and housing sales data. SAP CRM has a long list of features and can do them all.
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Reliability and Availability
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Product was mostly available. A couple accessibility issues did exist when sending API calls, and there was either no response, or a delayed response.
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Support Rating
Any time I have had questions or issues that have come up I've always been able to get a quick response and a resolution to what I was needing.
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SAP's customer service is quick and efficient, with a response time of fewer than some minutes. In either case, you'll get instant help from the vendor or online forums. In addition, the vendor provides excellent global support for this tool. Like Salesforce, SugarCRM, etc., it's probably fine as a standalone CRM option.
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Online Training
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Training was mostly completed over a couple conference calls, and reading the API documentation. Our developers were able to implement quickly after reading the documentation.
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Implementation Rating
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I would rate the implementation a 7. While the process overall was successful, there were challenges related to data migration, integration with other systems, and initial user adoption. However, the support from SAP during the implementation phase was helpful, and we were able to resolve the major issues as the process progressed.
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Alternatives Considered
We are currently using HubSpot for one of our other companies and it has been great. The marketing integrations that come with it blow PipelineDeals out of the water. On top of that, it also has a ticketing system in it where you can tie customer issues to a customer in the CRM.
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One of the most outstanding features of SAP Sales Cloud is its easy integration with our existing SAP ecosystem. This was essential because we used SAS/4HANA in our operations. Its ability to have a single platform that easily integrates sales data with other company operations was a huge advantage for us. In contrast, some of the other systems we explored required significant changes or integration work, which would have raised our overall costs and level of complexity.
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Scalability
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I choose this rating because the sales and supply chain network has been strengthened by the use of this product. Sap Sales cloud has seamlessly unified the backend business processes into more transparent effective ones.The customer satisfaction have also increased with better customer collaboration and relationship.The vendor management process has also been significantly impacted and all for good
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Return on Investment
  • Visibility. Tracking and seeing our activity increased our productivity.
  • Encouraging. Seeing our progress made it more encouraging to keep going when things were hard.
  • Tracking ROI: Our ability to see our ROI on our marketing and sales efforts was powerful in adjusting our efforts as a company.
  • Followup Efficiency: Knowing who we need to reach out to and when is very helpful when managing multiple contacts and leads.
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  • Integration with additional sales tools, such as LinkedIn Sales Navigator, greatly improves the speed and efficiency of our entire process.
  • Standard templates facilitate easy and efficient lead interaction.
  • The time is reduced and representative job productivity increases when SAP Sales Cloud is used.
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ScreenShots

Pipeline CRM Screenshots

Screenshot of the Pipeline CRM main dashboardScreenshot of a Kanban viewScreenshot of a lead list viewScreenshot of the Pipeline CRM Help Center and Resources

SAP Sales Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of the SAP Sales Cloud dashboard, where users can can automate critical selling processes and give sellers AI-based recommendations. The dashboard features:
Cloud deployment
A unified view of customers
An optimised mobile selling experience
AI-driven insights, recommendations, and analytics
Embedded generative AI highlights and summarization