Hiver vs SAP Sales Cloud

Any work environment where more than one team member is able to address certain customer requests. We used to use Groups, but then it was confusing as to whether or not someone responded, and we needed more transparency between team members. Another example is a person emailing with a billing question. We used to reply and add the billing department's email address or forward the email to billing, but with Hiver, simply assigning it to the billing HIVER Inbox allows anyone to reply directly to the customer without the issue of either the customer or team member remembering to reply all or accidentally replying only to the team member forwarding the email.

When users engage with our website and request any information, it immediately notifies them. Large numbers of workloads and customer data can be stored in the secure database that is offered. The sales and marketing team can enhance and better understand customer difficulties thanks to data insights obtained from our marketing websites. When we encounter a difficulty, the SAP customer care team is there to support us and responds quickly when assistance is required.

• It's easy to set up, and manage ongoing.
• The customer service and support is amazing- I get check ins, quick responses to enquiries and extras from time to time.
• It knows what it's doing- it's here to take the issue of gmail not being the best when it comes to shared inboxes and it has provided the perfect solution!

• Easy to configure based on our business needs.
• Seamless Integrations with SAP ERP which makes it much more robust and powerful in managing all our marketing strategies.
• Periodic upgrade of features like sales advice, sales estimation, and sales facilitation, based on my organisation demands. Which makes this tool very effective and robust.
• Helps us to break down information silos to understand customers issues and discover new opportunities to nurture our customers relationship.

• There is currently no way to create a support ticket unless related to an email already received. It would be extremely beneficial to be able to take a call and create a support ticket within HIVER based on the call in the same manner that we can create a ticket from an inbound email.

• Their customer support is very difficult to reach out to - there needs to be a better option to chat with customer support than to constantly be transferred to different departments.
• The help pages could be more informational and user friendly.

I know what SAP CRM can do in the future. We are very happy with the product and think it is a great choice for both SAP ERP users and even those who do not use other SAP products. We have both Salesforce and SAP CRM, and we feel that Salesforce is a good product for a few years, but SAP CRM is a more fully-featured product and is a better choice for complex organizations capable of running installed software of this complexity. It is often just a question of budget.

Easy to use

In short, SAP CRM is a complete service that will help improve marketing strategy and productivity. It covers various topics, from big data analytics to resource management and housing sales data. SAP CRM has a long list of features and can do them all.

Product was mostly available. A couple accessibility issues did exist when sending API calls, and there was either no response, or a delayed response.

Support is there, can be slow at times.

SAP's customer service is quick and efficient, with a response time of fewer than some minutes. In either case, you'll get instant help from the vendor or online forums. In addition, the vendor provides excellent global support for this tool. Like Salesforce, SugarCRM, etc., it's probably fine as a standalone CRM option.

Training was mostly completed over a couple conference calls, and reading the API documentation. Our developers were able to implement quickly after reading the documentation.

The API documentation is good. Development team was able to implement in under two weeks, and normally we were told it was a 12-14 week process.

Hiver was the only option we looked at. There didn't appear to be many alternatives in the market

The main reason we decided to change the service is that the one we had previously had flaws in some of its functionalities such as sending email marketing and that is why we decided to make a change and adopt a new service to eliminate any persistent problems. Before acquiring "SAP CRM", we first evaluated all its functionalities and it seemed like a very good alternative since it has everything we need to address various job roles within our company.

The biggest plus point with SAP Sales cloud is that it is accessible irrespective of the geography and devices and other such complexities. One can monitor their processes from anywhere which makes it ideal for large organizations that are looking for innovative on cloud solutions. It certainly saves major costs and results in smooth transfer of information which gives agility to the entire process.

• Hiver has increased the efficiency by which we address emailed questions and concerns.
• Hiver increases transparency between team members.
• Information pertinent to one or more team members is searchable by all applicable team members making it easier to research a situation that otherwise could have been stored in details across separate member email histories.

• Fast user adoption due to easy of use web based user interface compared to traditional SAP transaction codes.
• Streamlining of business processing due to consolidation of functionality within SAP Sales Cloud screens.
• Lower cost of integration to SAP ERP ECC or S/4HANA using prebuilt seamless connectors.