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
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SAP Sales Cloud (formerly SAP Cloud for Sales) is a cloud sales application with sales automation, enterprise resource planning (ERP) integration, and collaboration capabilities.
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Pricing
Pipeline CRM
SAP 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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Pricing Offerings
Pipeline CRM
SAP Sales Cloud
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Pipeline CRM
SAP Sales Cloud
Features
Pipeline CRM
SAP 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 management
8.00 Ratings
8.80 Ratings
Workflow management
8.00 Ratings
8.60 Ratings
Territory management
7.00 Ratings
7.20 Ratings
Opportunity management
8.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)
4.00 Ratings
7.90 Ratings
Contract management
5.00 Ratings
8.30 Ratings
Quote & order management
6.00 Ratings
8.30 Ratings
Interaction tracking
9.00 Ratings
8.50 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management
7.00 Ratings
8.60 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 management
7.00 Ratings
7.90 Ratings
Call center management
8.20 Ratings
8.60 Ratings
Help desk management
8.20 Ratings
8.00 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 management
8.00 Ratings
7.30 Ratings
Email marketing
2.00 Ratings
7.60 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 management
3.00 Ratings
8.10 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management
5.50 Ratings
8.10 Ratings
Reporting
5.00 Ratings
8.60 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
Forecasting
8.00 Ratings
8.30 Ratings
Pipeline visualization
5.00 Ratings
8.40 Ratings
Customizable reports
7.00 Ratings
8.50 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 fields
10.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Custom objects
10.00 Ratings
7.30 Ratings
Scripting environment
8.20 Ratings
7.70 Ratings
API for custom integration
10.00 Ratings
7.80 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 capability
6.00 Ratings
8.80 Ratings
Role-based user permissions
6.00 Ratings
8.30 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 data
8.10 Ratings
7.30 Ratings
Social engagement
8.20 Ratings
7.20 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 automation
2.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Compensation management
7.30 Ratings
7.40 Ratings
Platform
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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