Front vs. SAP Service Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Front
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Front is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.
$29
per month per user
SAP Service Cloud
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
SAP Service Cloud helps deliver customer value and protect the brand with intelligent customer service. It enables the user to engage with customers at their convenience, connect service with the value chain and deliver greater profitability.N/A
Pricing
FrontSAP Service Cloud
Editions & Modules
Starter
$29
per month per user
Growth
$79
per month per user
Scale
$99
per month (billed annually) per user
Premier
$229
per month (billed annually) per seat (50 seat minimum)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FrontSAP Service Cloud
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.
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Community Pulse
FrontSAP Service Cloud
Considered Both Products
Front
Chose Front
Front is cleaner from an email communication standpoint. Less details are sometimes better. Hubspot is more of a CRM and that focus is key. While Front is more of a communication channel.
Chose Front
Front was easier to have shared inbox. It also gave us more flexibility in tagging, both tagging users and tagging the emails to triage. It was also quick to set up and get users on boarded and trained. We found it was just a more intuitive and flexible system for us.
Chose Front
We switched to Front because of how simple it looked, then we realized we could tailor it to the type of business we have. I don't see us using any other tool to manage emails besides Front.

Chose Front
I have only used Gmail in the past and Front is any day better than Gmail in terms of the interface and ease of usage. The ability to send scheduling links and comments between the email threads makes it better than Gmail. The shared inbox also makes it easier for the entire …
Chose Front
Front's UX/UI is more intuitive. The work seems to flow better in their app.
Chose Front
A few features are very good in Front that are not in Outlook, like sharing draft content with teammates, commenting, read receipts, etc., which made us choose Front.
Chose Front
The tagging feature stands out. Their tagging can be quite deep and effective if it's set up properly. For example, I can pull out all the clients who [have] an issue with billing. Or better yet valued clients who [have] a specific MRR that has an issue with billing that needed …
Chose Front
Front is honestly an amazing blend of an email server and slack, as it allows for nimble, efficient, and immediate communication between team members without needing to forward a single email back-and-forth before finally responding to a client. Front also saves time when …
Chose Front
This is something I am not familiar but it seems like it is [available] in Gmail. Thus I cannot give any feedback about it. What I am sure about is Front works for our team and I see Zoom using the service in the Customer Success Organization in a long run.
Chose Front
Thanks to Front, it has allowed us to have smooth and effective internal communication between departments, attaching projects, problems, and endless files without any problem. It is allowing us to have practical and soft customer support.
Chose Front
Front is better than any other tool. It is a great app to use also because of its multipurpose features. Anyone can also use this app for your customized business needs and manage your work accordingly. I feel that Front is easy to use and it is also very user-friendly due to …
Chose Front
I love how scalable the software is. Also, Front comprises many good features that are needed for helping teams work efficiently and effectively for sales and support.
Chose Front
Front has been simple to implement and operate on our team. It is not possible to lose an email; it is impressive how it adapts better while being used daily. We can have excellent communication between colleagues, the percentage of evaluations, and changes in planned tasks …
Chose Front
Front is always getting the newest capabilities of the industry [and] is never behind. Instead, it provides you with features that [you] would not even think exist. Also, it is faster than other apps [and] takes just a moment for you to get started in your daily tasks.
Chose Front
Front was not designed as a ticketing system and doesn't have great reporting tools, but the commenting and draft features were important and other platforms' versions of these features were weak or unintuitive.

It should be noted that we ended up developing our own messaging …
Chose Front
It offered newer features and more ways to control user communication inflow, as well as team roster management. The Front app also had a presence on the app, mobile web, and web, which was helpful for on-the-go email queue management. In short, at the time we made this …
Chose Front
We have used Yesware. It's a really good lead prospecting tool, but doesn't have the shared inbox, or collaborative capabilities of Front.
Chose Front
Zendesk is by far the market leader here and offers a tremendous solution. It is, of course, very expensive -- especially if you require multi-brand support. Many of the other solutions (except Groove) offer some flavor of multi-brand support but they are not as good as …
Chose Front
We had all our leads going to a gmail account before front. Front solved so many problems that Gmail had. It was much more user friendly for somethings and it was a much more flexible software that we were able to use to meet our needs. It also has a reporting feature that …
Chose Front
Front is a flexible and quickly growing tool that integrates with almost every system we use. Front have been our go-to support system since we started and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
SAP Service Cloud
Chose SAP Service Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud, Zendesk Suite and ServiceNow Customer Service Management
Chose SAP Service Cloud
We evaluated Oracle Service Cloud before using SAP Service Cloud. Oracle was strong in handling structured service processes and an enterprise-grade support environment. But the company had long-standing relations with SAP, which made our choice easy because the integration was …
Chose SAP Service Cloud
Salesforce has more efforts on development side and SAP Service Cloud does not have too much development. Also, salesforce required more administration and the cost is also very high in comparison to SAP Service Cloud. If I talk about zendesk, it is very lightweight that it is …
Chose SAP Service Cloud
SAP CPQ, SAP Sales Cloud and SAP Build
Chose SAP Service Cloud
because it has lots of features, superb customer support and large user community.
Chose SAP Service Cloud
All in solution within SAP CX suite. Integrates better.
Chose SAP Service Cloud
Integration with other SAP solutions as it is connect natively with other applications and this simply allows unified data to cross departments to check and vary. Due to its real time dashboard and reporting helps business to take future decision easily. Also, as per the …
Chose SAP Service Cloud
It had better backed integration with SAP S/4HANA and had less overall cost of ownership and standard and less cost invite involved for integration
Chose SAP Service Cloud
Zoho Desk is the ultimate software for clear communication, but when we compared these two according to our needs, we found out that SAP Service Cloud is the best option for us. Since it provides everything in one location, Zoho Desk is somewhat lacking in this area. That was …
Chose SAP Service Cloud
SAP C4C was selected to reduce the cost that they had with Salesforce.
Chose SAP Service Cloud
Implementation costs and support costs are very less compared to sales force
Chose SAP Service Cloud
customizations for zendesk are complicated and its expensive as compared to the features they are providing.
Chose SAP Service Cloud
After analyzing several business intelligence solutions, we conclude that SAP Service Cloud is the winner. Our analysts can predict potential defaults with unprecedented accuracy, so there is a proactive approach to financial risk management.
Chose SAP Service Cloud
the user interface is much better, but most importantly the ability to integrate the tool with sap 4 hana easily
Chose SAP Service Cloud
SAP Service Cloud came out cheaper and tied in a lot better with out other SAP products. It was well established and the logic within the product made it a consistent and well structured solution compared to Salesforce.
Salesforce did offer easy flexibility in customisation and …
Chose SAP Service Cloud
I've also used Odoo, but SAP Services Cloud has allowed me to more effectively serve clients with diverse pre- and post-sales needs.Los correos electrónicos se envían con muchos menos errores, hay menos riesgo de spam y la plataforma en sí es muy intuitiva.
Chose SAP Service Cloud
Service cloud is faster than Salesforce. Smooth configuration.
Chose SAP Service Cloud
Since we already had SAP sales cloud V1, it was logical for us to enable service capabilities in the same tenant. (no additional effort for the integration and change management for the users).
Chose SAP Service Cloud
During evaluation , we found sap service cloud is better in all aspects especially ease to use.
Chose SAP Service Cloud
Freshdesk is a lightweight service system that allows a small team to start handling service interactions quickly, in a professional manner. However, our observation was that it does not scale to Enterprise-level and does not have the same level of integration, customisability, …
Features
FrontSAP Service Cloud
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Front
7.7
Ratings
6% below category average
SAP Service Cloud
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Front
7.1
Ratings
12% below category average
SAP Service Cloud
-
Ratings
External knowledge base7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Front
8.8
Ratings
10% above category average
SAP Service Cloud
-
Ratings
Customer portal8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
FrontSAP Service Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
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8.5
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(0 ratings)
7.7
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(0 ratings)
5.5
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
FrontSAP Service Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Front is very useful for every company with multiple teams working together on different emails from clients. Not so useful if a lot of different teams need to work on a request at the same time, because when an email is sitting in multiple shared inboxes things can get messy. Also would not recommend for teams that work is individualized, as team work is the main point of Front.
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SAP Service Cloud is well suited with its omni-channel capabilities giving the possibility to collect service requests from different channels like phone, e-mail or CTI telephony. It also has nice User Interface (when it comes to desktop version). On the other hand SAP Service Cloud needs to be definitiely improved in terms of mobile app, which is horrible and it has limited development possibilities.
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Pros
  • I call them "sticky notes" but Front calls them Comments. It's a way to collaboratively make comments on messages sent to joint inboxes for folks to coordinate a response before it goes back to the sender.
  • When exchanging with someone using the Comments feature, someone can create a draft reply and then share it before it goes out. It also includes the typing indicator letting you know they are not just replying, but specifically working on a draft reply. These things are really great for individuals, or teams, that don't sit next to each other.
  • Tagging. It's a fairly simple concept, but very useful for classifying notes and being able to manage, what could be, a messy inbox. Additionally, the ability to have your own personal tags really allows the user to manage their own messages in a way that works best for them.
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  • First is It is highly effective when we consider Customer Relation Engagement.
  • Good User Interface by which anyone can get used to it quickly.
  • It is providing infinite opportunity of integration with other SAP solutions.
  • Affordable Solutions with effective features.
  • It has prebuilt charts which helps us to define customer journey with ease of efforts.
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Cons
  • Zoom Meeting Integration as there are some clients who want to have a call immediately.
  • Tagging can be improved - looks scattered.
  • Calendly Integration, they have their own calendar appointment but it would be good if I don't need to leave the front to set up [calendar] appointments.
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  • Integrating SAP Service Cloud with non-SAP systems can be challenging, i faced some hurdles when my IT team took 3 months to integrate the billing data from some other vendor and the system would run slow if you try to pull billing data
  • Slow loading of the pages as compared to other consumer tech softwares we use
  • Implementation costs and complexity of implementation makes it an option only for large enterprises with huge IT teams (and it can take a few months to implement)
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Likelihood to Renew
We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
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SAP Service Cloud offers sturdy competencies for case control, workflow automation, and purchaser engagement. However, since our organization continues to be within the early assessment section, we have not but experienced its complete potential. Once fully applied and custom designed to our desires, the score can also increase as we investigate usability and integration with other SAP solutions.
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Usability
It's very easy to understand and use by new customer support agents as well. Be it a technology, product, or marketing person, we have trained most of the company folks to read and respond to customer conversations in their free time with the help of the Front app. It is also easy to set up for an admin and manage his/her team with communication rules.
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Support Rating
The support is good, and it's definitely prompt, but still lags when it comes to technical requirements, as I guess they are slow in developing newer features fast. So no complaints in terms of responsiveness, but yeah, at times it's not very helpful when you need certain features or are blocked on things which can't be unblocked.
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I have found that sometimes issues reported to the SAP takes more time also they lack system support with respect to the priority . Also we don't see RCA for the issues raised. Also turn around time for the issues is not fixed as the support is global sometimes the issues float here and there.
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Alternatives Considered
This is something I am not familiar but it seems like it is [available] in Gmail. Thus I cannot give any feedback about it. What I am sure about is Front works for our team and I see Zoom using the service in the Customer Success Organization in a long run.
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We evaluated oracle service cloud before using SAP Service Cloud. Oracle was strong in handling structured service processes and an enterprise-grade support environment. But the company had long-standing relations with SAP, which made our choice easy because the integration was straightforward with existing tools, and our teams were familiar with other SAP tools. So we decided to go with it.
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Return on Investment
  • Quality- with all the benefits given, in just matter of time, all your organization will find it familiar and less effort is needed when composing emails.
  • Effectiveness- no one wants to miss an email, or never respond to a possible customer. Front will help you that. If you do not want to send that email now, you can set a timer and Front will send it for you later on.
  • Simplicity- Front is not the most difficult app to handle, indeed, it is too easy to learn. From the first moment you will have a guided tour and will learn all the good things that it has for you.
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  • After implementing SAP Service Cloud, we've noticed a noticeable drop in the average time it takes to resolve customer queries. Centralized communication and an efficient ticketing system enable our team to respond faster and more effectively.
  • Our customer feedback scores have improved since using the platform. The integrated knowledge base has particularly empowered our team to provide immediate solutions to common queries, elevating the overall customer experience.
  • The platform has streamlined our operations and reduced manual interventions, leading to decreased operational costs related to customer service. Automation features and AI integrations minimize repetitive tasks, allowing our team to tackle more complex customer concerns.
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