Salesforce Starter (formerly Salesforce Essentials) is a small business CRM that replaces the former SalesforceIQ product. It is priced at $35 per user, on a monthly basis, or at $25 per month for if billed annually ($300) and can be tried free for 14 days on a trial.
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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
Salesforce Starter
SAP Sales Cloud
Editions & Modules
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Pricing Offerings
Salesforce Starter
SAP Sales Cloud
Free Trial
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No
Free/Freemium Version
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No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Salesforce Starter
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Features
Salesforce Starter
SAP Sales Cloud
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
9.0
Ratings
15% above category average
SAP Sales Cloud
8.3
Ratings
7% above category average
Customer data management / contact management
9.00 Ratings
8.80 Ratings
Territory management
8.60 Ratings
7.20 Ratings
Opportunity management
9.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)
10.00 Ratings
7.90 Ratings
Quote & order management
9.00 Ratings
8.30 Ratings
Interaction tracking
7.80 Ratings
8.50 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management
9.40 Ratings
8.60 Ratings
Workflow management
00 Ratings
8.60 Ratings
Contract management
00 Ratings
8.30 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
8.8
Ratings
15% above category average
SAP Sales Cloud
7.5
Ratings
1% below category average
Lead management
8.80 Ratings
7.30 Ratings
Email marketing
00 Ratings
7.60 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
8.8
Ratings
15% above category average
SAP Sales Cloud
8.2
Ratings
8% above category average
Task management
9.00 Ratings
8.10 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management
8.00 Ratings
8.10 Ratings
Reporting
9.40 Ratings
8.60 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
9.0
Ratings
17% above category average
SAP Sales Cloud
8.4
Ratings
10% above category average
Forecasting
9.00 Ratings
8.30 Ratings
Pipeline visualization
8.60 Ratings
8.40 Ratings
Customizable reports
9.40 Ratings
8.50 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
8.9
Ratings
17% above category average
SAP Sales Cloud
7.7
Ratings
3% above category average
Custom fields
9.40 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Custom objects
9.40 Ratings
7.30 Ratings
Scripting environment
7.80 Ratings
7.70 Ratings
API for custom integration
8.80 Ratings
7.80 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
9.4
Ratings
12% above category average
SAP Sales Cloud
8.6
Ratings
3% above category average
Single sign-on capability
9.40 Ratings
8.80 Ratings
Role-based user permissions
9.40 Ratings
8.30 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
8.1
Ratings
10% above category average
SAP Sales Cloud
7.2
Ratings
2% below category average
Social engagement
8.10 Ratings
7.20 Ratings
Social data
00 Ratings
7.30 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
8.3
Ratings
12% above category average
SAP Sales Cloud
7.7
Ratings
5% above category average
Marketing automation
8.60 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Compensation management
8.10 Ratings
7.40 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
8.6
Ratings
16% above category average
SAP Sales Cloud
7.5
Ratings
2% above category average
Mobile access
8.60 Ratings
7.50 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
SalesforceIQ is a perfect CRM to start with and get your organization used to tracking customer contact. It was an easy setup and well adopted. It allowed us to rollout completely in just 30 days. We have seen a large increase in our ability to communicate. It may be lacking in some items if you already have a tracking method but was the perfect starting point for us.
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.
Sales CRM with built-in guidance and reminders to manage and track opportunities.
Self-service for customers and internal employee needs. Integrates forms and chatbots very easily into your existing website.
Guided setup with inherent flows to make transitioning from legacy systems to new age cloud-based technologies
Integrates with Outlook and Gmail extremely well. Includes the Salesforce Inbox mobile app to link records with calendar and email. Email reminders included automatically.
The Salesforce Mobile App comes with Starter, making it super easy to work on the go, even in remote areas.
Table views can be sorted by column. Filters can be applied, but only to one column. Multi-column filtering like Excel allows would be extremely useful and a big improvement.
The ability to quick copy data in a table view would also be helpful, like (ctrl ') in excel.
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.
easy to use, training is intuitive and can be peer taught if needed. Not overly complex so that users can get started within a very short period of time.
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.
Salesforce Starter is exactly what it says. It's specific to getting a small business up and running effectively, without unnecessary development or internal overhead required. It doesn't allow for a ton of customization, but it provides more than most other providers across sales, service, and integration/automating business processes. Some tools are more specific to organizations that want to focus on a specific area to grow or manage their business. That's where the other package types and integrations with specific tools come in
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