ELMO Software vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ELMO Software
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
ELMO Software (ASX:ELO) is a cloud-based solution that helps thousands of organisations across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom to manage their people, process and pay. ELMO solutions span the entire employee lifecycle from ‘hire to retire’. They can be used together or stand-alone, and are configurable according to an organisation’s unique processes and workflows.N/A
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce Sales Cloud is a platform for sales with a community of Sellers, Sales Leaders, and Sales Operations, who use the solution to grow sales and increase productivity. The AI CRM for Sales features data built right in, so that companies can sell faster, sell smarter and sell efficiently. Salesforce Sales Cloud is used for, and supports: Buyer Engagement Sales Engagement Enablement Sales AI Sales Analytics Team…
$25
per month
Pricing
ELMO SoftwareSalesforce Sales Cloud
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Starter
$25.00
per month per user
Professional
$80.00
per month per user
Enterprise
$165.00
per month per user
Unlimited
$330.00
per month per user
Agentforce 1 Sales
$550
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ELMO SoftwareSalesforce Sales Cloud
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
ELMO SoftwareSalesforce Sales Cloud
Considered Both Products
ELMO Software
Chose ELMO Software
Workday is another really useful tool but there are some features in ELMO that make it stand out. ELMO is also much easier to use.
Salesforce Sales Cloud

No answer on this topic

Features
ELMO SoftwareSalesforce Sales Cloud
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
7.9
11 Ratings
3% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Employee demographic data8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.78 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.27 Ratings00 Ratings
Organizational charting8.38 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management7.88 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)8.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
8.1
5 Ratings
0% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Pay calculation8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.83 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
8.5
3 Ratings
4% above category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Approval workflow8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
7.9
10 Ratings
4% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information8.010 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation8.26 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee recognition7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
7.7
6 Ratings
2% above category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Report builder7.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-built reports7.76 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
7.8
7 Ratings
2% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
New hire portal8.26 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.44 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
7.8
8 Ratings
3% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Individual goal setting8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance tracking7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
7.6
10 Ratings
4% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Performance plans7.710 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance improvement plans7.710 Ratings00 Ratings
Review status tracking6.78 Ratings00 Ratings
Review reminders7.79 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency8.29 Ratings00 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
7.4
7 Ratings
5% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Create succession plans/pools7.96 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate ranking7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate search6.45 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate development7.96 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
7.5
5 Ratings
2% below category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Job Requisition Management7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting6.82 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.82 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking7.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.2
269 Ratings
6% above category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings8.9269 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings8.4258 Ratings
Territory management00 Ratings7.7211 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings8.8259 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings8.0244 Ratings
Contract management00 Ratings7.8215 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings7.7198 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings8.6229 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings8.0190 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.8
104 Ratings
2% above category average
Case management00 Ratings8.2102 Ratings
Call center management00 Ratings7.782 Ratings
Help desk management00 Ratings7.486 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.1
244 Ratings
5% above category average
Lead management00 Ratings8.2239 Ratings
Email marketing00 Ratings8.1206 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.0
248 Ratings
5% above category average
Task management00 Ratings8.2236 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings7.478 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings8.5201 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.3
260 Ratings
9% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings7.9228 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings8.2247 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings8.6257 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.6
252 Ratings
12% above category average
Custom fields00 Ratings9.0249 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings8.8239 Ratings
Scripting environment00 Ratings8.2176 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings8.6209 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
9.0
253 Ratings
7% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.0221 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.9225 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.2
160 Ratings
10% above category average
Social data00 Ratings8.3158 Ratings
Social engagement00 Ratings8.0156 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.1
217 Ratings
9% above category average
Marketing automation00 Ratings8.2213 Ratings
Compensation management00 Ratings8.1146 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
ELMO Software
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.7
232 Ratings
2% above category average
Mobile access00 Ratings7.7232 Ratings
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
ELMO SoftwareSalesforce Sales Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(14 ratings)
9.0
(425 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(1 ratings)
10.0
(58 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(15 ratings)
8.4
(135 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.8
(27 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(18 ratings)
Support Rating
7.6
(8 ratings)
8.8
(92 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(11 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(15 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
2.1
(18 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(9 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(83 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
ELMO SoftwareSalesforce Sales Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
ELMO Software
The performance review process is clear and easy to complete, for both employee and manager. I have experienced this in both roles, with my own staff, and undergoing my own review with my manager. I haven't experienced scenarios where it is less appropriate, I think our HR department customised the software well to our needs.
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Salesforce
Obviously, for any business, there are two main areas to focus on — the sales path and the service path. Sales Cloud wouldn’t be suited for a company that’s primarily into support services. For those kinds of companies, Salesforce has a different product — Service Cloud. So, for anyone in the support or service space, Sales Cloud isn’t the right fit.
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Pros
ELMO Software
  • Has extensive courses library (theory and video library).
  • Very responsive, resourceful and efficient support team.
  • Stuff survey - great range of available templates.
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Salesforce
  • The customizations - We have an organization that operates differently from most companies, so we’ve had to implement quite a few customizations — and Salesforce allows us to do that quite quickly. Most of the time, delays come from dependencies on other internal parties rather than the system itself.
  • From my perspective as a consultant, one of the biggest advantages is that everything is in Salesforce — all the details, all in one place. The ability to customize it easily is a big plus; there’s really a lot you can do with it.
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Cons
ELMO Software
  • Help seems unavailable.
  • A guide or how-to would be extremely appreciated - I haven't found any, at least for user level.
  • User interface could follow a more standard/familiar approach.
  • Some panes should be collapsible (e.g. the right "Work Flow" area, which gives very little help).
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Salesforce
  • We still need to include the production part. We started using Salesforce to sell the seeds — our inventory is in SAP — and from there we handle sales and track the process of planting, harvesting, selling, and then collecting payments. But we don’t yet manage the earlier production processes, like production planning. We handle allocation, but not full production planning, and that’s an area where we still have room for improvement.
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Likelihood to Renew
ELMO Software
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
There are days when I wish we hadn't switched, but I know that if we put in the time, we will get to where we want to be with the software and that it has many more capabilities than anything else we looked at. However, the amount of time and onboarding we need to do is also far greater than we realized/were told when we originally bought the product. They told us we should hire onboarding support, but at the end, after we had already reached our budget maximum for this, so it's been slower than we had hoped.
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Usability
ELMO Software
Once I learned the specific way of doing things, the software became very logical and ergonomic. It is easy to use and is an excellent resource for many of the specific tasks required for my role, especially in relation to staff onboarding and management. It is also excellent as a resource for my own personal HR information.
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Salesforce
Because I think it could be easier. We have different standards today since we’re used to interacting with consumer apps like Starbucks, where all you do is scan your card. Then, when you use Sales Cloud, there are still a lot of manual inputs. So my mission with AI is really about figuring out how to make that easier.
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Reliability and Availability
ELMO Software
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
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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Performance
ELMO Software
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
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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Support Rating
ELMO Software
I am not sure whether you are asking how the learning & development team rates ELMO Software or how ELMO supports our team when issues arise with the software? It is not my decision to purchase the software nor am I involved with the maintenance of the software.
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Salesforce
The overall support has been good. More and more features are being released quite frequently. Very small features are also making big difference in how the tool can be adapted and used better. If there is anything we need or are stuck, the support team sets up a call and helps in resolving the issue/provides workarounds.
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In-Person Training
ELMO Software
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
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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Online Training
ELMO Software
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
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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Implementation Rating
ELMO Software
I was not involved
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Salesforce
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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Alternatives Considered
ELMO Software
Aspen is more straightforward in creating a course of personal development recognized by our industry, but your ELMO Software is generally easier to use. As the workforce in our company is very often built by the majority of people with basic academic background education, IE they often have only just completed year 10... it is very important your element of making it easy to understand, using simple words and clear explained multiple choices in the final quiz
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Salesforce
So I've evaluated, implemented Microsoft Dynamics in the past. I've used Oracle CRM solutions. I've used Daylight, which is a very niche CRM system the last couple of years. And I've evaluated a variety from Legacy Microsoft Ones to Zoho and Sugar when making implementation decisions at other companies. But usually I've gone with Salesforce. I'd say it's better than most. The only one that I generally prefer, and last time I chose an implementation from scratch, I did Microsoft Dynamics. And the reason is for small mid-size organization, Microsoft Dynamics, if you already have Microsoft Office products, it's much better integrated to all of the Excel, Word, OneNote, Outlook email than what you get from Salesforce. And so that's the only one that if someone's a Microsoft organization and small sized company, it'll save a lot of integration things, a lot of security, a lot of login and access and IT management by just sticking within the Microsoft ecosystem. But outside of that, if you don't use Microsoft or if you're a large organization or have other needs that you want, Salesforce I'd say is better than all of the other CRM offerings out there. It's the easiest to use and the most robust and the most vendors and products for the ecosystem.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
ELMO Software
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Salesforce is the most widely used CRM system. Professionalism tends to increase when things go wrong for market leaders. Salesforce considers us as users because they own the market. Having all of our data in one place and all of our teams working within Salesforce. Anyone who uses Salesforce is impacted by it, even if they don't.
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Scalability
ELMO Software
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
It's very scalable as it has a ton of features (but you do need an admin who understands how to leverage these features). Because of the various features, we've also needed to host onboarding sessions with our users so that they can familiarize themselves with the platform, which isn't always super user-friendly or intuitive.
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Professional Services
ELMO Software
Did not use
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Salesforce
Using Salesforce.com has made my daily routines more efficient and simplified the manual tasks I had to perform independently. I can now access data from any device, online or offline, and provide better guidance to my team about the forecasts provided by the built-in artificial intelligence (AI). A chat with a Salesforce support specialist would be great. The knowledge base has a community forum where Salesforce users can ask questions and learn more about the product.
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Return on Investment
ELMO Software
  • It has been helpful
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Salesforce
  • It is easy for the sales team to track how well the dealers in their region are selling products.
  • It is easy to generate reports and see how well sales are each month compared to past months.
  • Quicker time to get products shipped to customers.
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