Deltek Costpoint vs Salesforce

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Score 5 out of 10

Based on 30 reviews and ratings

Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 2715 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Deltek Costpoint

Salesforce

Pay calculation

Benefit plan administration

Direct deposit files

Salary revision and increment management

Reimbursement management

Deltek Costpoint

Salesforce

API for custom integration

Plug-ins

Custom fields

Custom objects

Scripting environment

Deltek Costpoint

Salesforce

Single sign-on capability

Role-based user permissions

Deltek Costpoint

Salesforce

Dashboards

Standard reports

Custom reports

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Salesforce

Accounts payable

Accounts receivable

Global Financial Support

Primary and Secondary Ledgers

Intercompany Accounting

Localizations

Journals and Reconciliations

Enterprise Accounting

Configurable Accounting

Centralized Rules Framework

Standardized Processes

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Salesforce

Inventory tracking

Automatic reordering

Location management

Manufacturing module

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Salesforce

Pricing

Order entry

Credit card processing

Cost of goods sold

Order Orchestration

End-to-end order visibility

Order exception Resolution

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Automated Invoice Processing

Shared Services Payments

Billings Management

Customer Receipt Applications

Customer Collections

Revenue Recognition

Cash Management

Asset Management

Travel & Expense Management

Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting

Period Close

Transactions Tax

Subledger Reconciliations

3rd Party Accounting Systems

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Salesforce

Budgeting and Forecasting

Project Costing

Cost Capture

Capital Project Management

Customer Invoicing

Customer Contract Compliance

Project Revenue Recognition

Project Financial Performance Analysis

Project Financials Dashboard

Real-time Financial Reporting

Embedded Business Intelligence

Project Planning Collaboration

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Salesforce

Project Planning and Scheduling

Project Manager Dashboard

Resource Manager Dashboard

Task Insight for Project Managers

Project Manager Mobile Functionality

Team Member Task Collaboration

Team Member Mobile Functionality

Project Candidate Search

Project Candidate Comparison and Analysis

Defineable Resource Pools

Talent Profiles

Real-Time Project Reporting

Absence Management

Product Lifecycle Management

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Salesforce

Award Lifecycle Management

Spending Control

Indirect Cost Management

Billing

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Sourcing Team Collaboration

Sourcing Analysis

Bids Analyzed and Compared

Catalog Shopping E-Commerce for Employees

Contract Authoring

Contract Compliance Management

Contract History

Contract Renewal Automation

Contract Repository

Contract Standardization and Enforcement

Electronic Signatures

Invoice Automated Matching

Purchasing Risk and Compliance Management

Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated

Spend Compliance Management

Supplier Assessment

Supplier Communication and Collaboration

Supplier Management

Supplier Portal

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Risk Repository

Control Management

Control Mapping

Control Efficiency Assessments

Automated Control Assessments

Assessment Capture

Issue Detection

Automatic Notification

Remediation and Certification

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Salesforce

Transportation Planning and Optimization

Transportation Sourcing Management

Transportation Process Integration

Transportation Execution Management

Freight Payment Automation

Trade Management

Trade Regulatory Compliance Management

Customs Entry Management

Customs Document Management

Customs Document Collaboration

Fulfillment Management

Inventory Visibility

Warehouse Workforce Management

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Salesforce

Production Process Design

Supply Chain Business Flows

Production Management

Contracted Manufacturing Management

Configuration Management

Work Definition

Work Execution

Advanced Fulfillment

Manufacturing Costs

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Salesforce

Forecasting

Inventory Planning

Multi-tier Supply Chain Planning

Performance Monitoring

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Salesforce

Ideation Management

Requirements Management

Proposal Management

Innovation Portfolio Management

Product Master Data Management

Vendor Portal

Project Portfolio Management

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Customer data management / contact management

Workflow management

Territory management

Opportunity management

Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)

Contract management

Quote & order management

Interaction tracking

Channel / partner relationship management

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Case management

Call center management

Help desk management

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Lead management

Email marketing

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Task management

Billing and invoicing management

Reporting

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Salesforce

Forecasting

Pipeline visualization

Customizable reports

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Social data

Social engagement

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Marketing automation

Compensation management

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Mobile access

Pros

I love how you can cut a check and it opens a PDF version so it can be saved for retention at a later date if needed.
I love how you can research vendor history different ways. It allows you to input a range or just enter one at a time.
I also love that there are tons of reports that can be run to help with any projects.

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Lakesha Lockett

Accounting Specialist IV

VT GroupDefense & Space, 501-1000 employees

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Tracking deals and amplifying winning performances of sales representatives to promote healthy competition.
Managing of customer experiences while on the go using the native mobile apps for iOS and Android.
Creation of a systematic pipeline through automation of the whole marketing process to generate quality leads.

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Daniel Cooper

Digital Marketing Specialist

SyscoFood & Beverages, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Customer Care - this is probably the one area that needs the most work.
Quality Control Testing - if this area had a higher level of detail prior to releasing updates, it might mitigate the number of patches required for customers.
Cloud Based Product doesn't work for every customer. Get multiple references before considering moving to the cloud offering.

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David McCallister

AA Info Systems Manager

NCTCOGGovernment Administration, 201-500 employees

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When you close SF and open it the next day it tends to open old cases (tabs). You'll end up with tab overload if you don't put time into closing old ones.
If you start a case and don't have all the required fields completed, you'll lose it all if you try saving it too soon.

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Ben Johnson

Services Manager

LXMedical Device, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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Salesforce 10.0

Based on 48 answers

While it's not perfect and can be overly complicated at times, there is not another solution out there that can do what it does. To get the same functionality you would need numerous disparate tools to match the amount of functionality Salesforce has. Having it all aggregated on one platform makes the complicated parts far more bearable

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John Cupoli

Account Manager

Camelot EnterprisesApparel & Fashion, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Deltek Costpoint 1.0

Based on 2 answers

It is the most unintuitive system I have ever used. No one understands it right off the bat and the documentation doesn't help much.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Salesforce 7.5

Based on 56 answers

While not the most robust software available for tracking and following up with leads, the UI is fairly straight forward and you know right away what you are getting and how to interact with it. While some initial training is required, it is still simple enough for most users to interact with it on a daily basis without feeling burdensome.

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Verified User

Employee in Marketing

Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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Salesforce 9.8

Based on 27 answers

Salesforce is always available securely from any internet-capable device anywhere in the world, UNLESS you choose to set security measures so that ONLY trusted IP ranges may access the system at certain times of the day. It's all about choice and flexibility with Salesforce products.

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Kyle Dugger

Salesforce.com Administrator

OPKO Diagnostics, LLCMedical Practice, 51-200 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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Salesforce 9.0

Based on 18 answers

Salesforce performance in general is excellent. "The cloud infrastructure beneath Force.com has been fine-tuned over the past 10 years. It powers nearly 100,000+ businesses running more than 185,000 applications that 3 million users count on every day."
Points per Salesforce -
1) Multitenant kernel - With a multitenant platform, each business that uses the app doesn’t have its own copy. Instead, all businesses share a single copy and then customize it for their specific needs.
2) ISO 27001 certified security - You can’t compromise when it comes to enterprise-level security. Force.com is road-tested and trusted by nearly 100,000+ companies, including many of the world’s most security-conscious organizations, such as banks and health care providers.
3) Proven reliability - All Force.com apps run on world-class data centers with backup, failover, and disaster-recovery facilities. Force.com has had a proven 99.9 percent uptime record for years.
4) Proven, real-time scalability - Force.com is used by many of the world's largest enterprises, including Cisco, Japan Post Network, and Symantec. Applications can automatically scale from a few users to millions of page views, as needed.
5) Real-time query optimizer - You need fast access to your data. The Force.com query optimizer delivers under 300ms response time, at a massive scale.
6) Real-time transparent system status - You can always see real-time system performance, availability, and security information at trust.salesforce.com.
7) Real-time upgrades - Unlike traditional software platforms, our upgrades never break your customizations, code, or integrations. We upgrade the platform for you 3 to 4 times each year. As a result, you’re always on the latest version, with access to the latest features, performance, and security enhancements.
8) Real-time sandbox environments - With a single click, you can create copies of your applications, configuration, and data in separate environments for development, testing, and training.
9) Three global production data centers and disaster recovery - Force.com runs on three geographically dispersed, mirrored data centers with built-in replication, disaster recovery, a redundant network backbone, and no single points of failure

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Rob Gottschalk

Corporate Controller / Director Sales

Solar WindsInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

Deltek Costpoint 2.0

Based on 1 answer

The software is so huge and clunky that I wouldn't know how to ask for support. Here is my example of support needed: "Hello, I'm filling out my timesheet like I have been doing every day for years, and suddenly this error message came up that says "Error: 6HX7: PLC not available". I just made that up as an example of the cryptic error messages, but what is that telling me?

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Eric Krantz

Instrumentation Engineer

RESPECCivil Engineering, 201-500 employees

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Salesforce 7.1

Based on 52 answers

I've used Salesforce in large sales organizations where there were people on staff who were trained in Salesforce, and I was instructed to contact them. They did know exactly what to do and how to resolve issues, but with a big Saleforce they were often very busy. I would have preferred to contact Salesforce's customer support, but I'm not sure if that is possible since each company's version of Salesforce can be customized so much.

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Jason Carlage

Account Executive

NewselaE-Learning, 201-500 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

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Salesforce 7.9

Based on 11 answers

I attended two training sessions. I would rate them a 4 as an advanced user. It was very basic – great for someone new – would give 8+ for new person.

I had 3 years of experience at the time. I skipped basic and went onto advanced and still not helpful. A lot of it was best practices that didn’t feel relevant for our business

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Verified User

Analyst in Sales

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

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Salesforce 9.1

Based on 15 answers

I have gone through multiple. The content that’s delivered is quite basic – I wish they had more advanced training.

We are grandfathered into premium support plus training. We get unlimited access to instructor led and online training for free. We have taken advantage of this

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Verified User

Program Manager in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Salesforce 9.4

Based on 16 answers

Just from an organizational standpoint - we standardized our data prior to moving to Salesforce. But we essentially standardized it wrong. That's created a big disgusting mess for us know that I'll have to deal with as the Admin. Be sure you think through use cases prior to doing something like that - seek outside opinions on how the data will work best, especially depending on what else you're going to integrate with Salesforce.

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Verified User

Employee in Marketing

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Deltek Costpoint was able to provide a few more dimensions than ADP and is better prepared for larger international integration.
DATABASICS can meet our dimension needs and provide the same services as Deltek Costpoint at a much lower cost.

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Verified User

Professional in Finance and Accounting

Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employees

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The biggest advantage with Salesforce is likely the biggest detractor as well. It is largely a blank slate. The system is not customized to any one business or industry out of the box. You have to design everything - which is great if you are looking for a highly customized system, but very difficult for small or even medium sized firms without help from a 3rd party. We developed everything 100% in house. It has been quite a learning curve, but ultimately we preferred this method to farming out the work.

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Jeff Fralick

Operations Manager

RESOLUT RECommercial Real Estate, 51-200 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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Salesforce 10.0

Based on 2 answers

I've worked with Salesforce since 2001 in companies ranging from 4 to hundreds of sales people and the system has been able to scale and perhaps more importantly expand (functionally) to the needs of larger organizations. In fact in my previous company, as a provider of a solution that integrated with Salesforce, we had customers that had thousands of sales people using Salesforce.

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Verified User

Consultant in Sales

Printing Company, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Costpoint has made it possible for our business to get our invoices paid quickly and on time
Costpoint has made it possible for our business to get a ISO audits cleared every year
Costpoint has made it possible for our business to always setup projects in a standardized manner that either meets or goes beyond the industry standards.

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Verified User

Manager in Finance and Accounting

Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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ROI is most noticeable when you are able to consolidate disparate legacy systems and move all of their data from a local data center up to the cloud. You end up saving a ton of money that no longer needs to be spent on hardware, software, maintenance, IT, etc.
The recurring licensing model is not ideal when it comes to ROI impact, as the long term expenditure will be significant. However, the hidden cost savings that it brings due to a smoother running business is not something that should be ignored.
One of the main benefits is collaboration. The platform represents a "single source of truth" that can greatly enhance collaboration and data consolidation. This will impact ROI in ways immeasurable but there can be no doubt that the effects are there.

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Verified User

Manager in Professional Services

Automotive Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

Deltek Costpoint Editions & Modules

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

Salesforce Editions & Modules

Edition

Essentials	$25.00¹
Professional	$100.00¹
Enterprise	$175.00¹

Per User Per Month

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Rating Summary

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Likelihood to Recommend