GrowthDot CRM and Deals vs. Oracle Siebel Enterprise Marketing Suite (discontinued)

It is well suited when the business needs to send out communication to customers and it is fast and convenient and easy to use. It is very easy to find open tickets that the business needs to attend to. CRM and Deals for Zendesk makes it easy for day to day business communication.

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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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• Enhance customer interactions
• Track Sales opportunities
• Manage leads effectively

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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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• Customers should be able to rate tickets
• A feature to add alternative email address
• Add notification to manager when there is a ticket with bad rating

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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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I would likely recommend the organization to renew my use of CRM and Deals for Zendesk because it is very user friendly; it's is easy to understand and its also makes its easy communicate with customers and to keep track of all the customer interactions. CRM and Deals for Zendesk is a great tool for communication because its also allows you to personalize interactions.

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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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I am giving CRM and Deals a rating of 9 because of the benefits it has given us in terms of how they supported our customer support operations. While there are improvements that are identified and need to be worked on, overall it was a great tool for us at customer support.

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CRM and Deals for Zendesk have more features that can support various businesses compared to Assembled. Whilst Assembled is more suited for workforce management and forecasting, it lacks the features that are needed in addressing customer support requirements and integration, which CRM and Deals for Zendesk can definitely provide. I can say Deals and CRM are more advanced compared to Assembled.

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

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• Its positive impact is that you can create micros which saves the agents time
• It easy to browse for tickets
• It easy to add internal notes for other agents to have an understanding what has been done on that particular ticket

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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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