Amdocs CES vs. Oracle Siebel Enterprise Marketing Suite (discontinued)

Amdocs CES is well suited for organizations looking for robust and highly integrated CES tools, I would definitely recommend it for medium or large sized enterprises. Is less appropiate for small business that do not have a skilled team in place to operate it and doing maintenance.

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If you need a hosted rather than cloud based CRM, Siebel is a consideration. It's best suited to organizations with a large customer database. Given the complexity involved you need at least two full time marketing analysts.The email marketing functionality isn't core to the offering and most organizations would be much better served by cloud based email systems. Siebel offers a very comprehensive feature set and is powerful in the hands of a super user. However, given the costs involved in upgrading a hosted solution I would put serious effort into convincing your decision makers to go for a cloud based CRM instead.

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• Modern User Interface
• Improved User Experience and Intuitiveness
• Highly scalable plattform

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• Siebel EMS offered useful customer insight and more effective dialogue with recipients by delivering the right message to the right customer at the right time.
• Siebel EMS was very effective for loyalty lifecycle and retention by seamlessly integrating with marketing and CRM platforms.
• Siebel EMS was instrumental in aligning marketing, sales and analytics divisions.

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• Is a very robust service, but it could be more economically accessible
• It could have more features powered by AI, Auto-Typing, etc for data input into the platform
• Could improve Amdocs delivery center

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• Oracle Siebel Marketing Suite's processing time is not as fast as I would expect it to be. This is the major improvement I would like to see in it.
• It requires a very high level of training being given to the employees for configuring and implementing it in the business needs.
• Expert employees are needed in order to understand the functionality of Oracle Siebel Enterprise Marketing Suite, which is not easy to find.

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A very conservative data security policy limits the organization to a hosted solution. At particular issue is the tendency of cloud based CRMs to have data centres based in the US, a major issue for Canadian consumers. Once you have integrated a system of this size and complexity, and have the staff resources to utilize it effectively, it's hard to justify a move to an alternative. Consider Siebel if you are a conservatively run organization with a large database of customers and a big marketing team

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The most robust tool available on market, highly intuitive, scalable. But the process to start operations and customization is quite hard/complicated.

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Support is centralized in Israel, sometimes the time when we get answers are considered delayed compared with the price you are paying.

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Amdocs CES is more robust, scalable and powerful. Although the project delivery method and high customizations / development to reach the final problemas are points of attention

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Salesforce is easier to use and more open source and available for external integrations.

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• It has empowered our organization to handle our customer requests without services interruption.
• The customization required to put the service operational, at the beginning, delayed some processes.
• Amdocs CES has helped driving innovation and aligns with our digital transformation objectives.

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• It has increased the business tactics as we have added more clients who wish to use this technology.

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