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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Dynamics 365

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Dynamics 365 is a CRM providing sales, marketing, and service functionality. It is offered as SaaS and on-premise. Dynamics 365 is part of the larger Dynamics suite of business intelligence and ERP products.

    $44

    per month

    Salesforce Data 360

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Data 360 (formerly Salesforce Data Cloud, or Salesforce Genie) is a solution to put data to work for customers. It is deeply embedded in the Einstein 1 Platform, which means any external data lake or warehouse can now drive actions and workflows inside of the Salesforce CRM.

    $108,000

    per year per org

    Pricing
    Microsoft Dynamics 365Salesforce Data 360
    Editions & Modules
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    Data Cloud for Marketing
    $108000
    per year per org
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Dynamics 365Salesforce Data 360
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Microsoft Dynamics 365Salesforce Data 360
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Dynamics 365
    Good customer support and business agility
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Dynamics 365
    I have also used some bespoke systems, which were much better than any of these. Microsoft Dynamics 365 was selected by senior management, against advice from technical experts. The products I could find in the list were also expensive and inefficient; Microsoft Dynamics …
    Incentivized
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft Dynamics 365Salesforce Data 360
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    7.7
    84 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    -
    Ratings
    Customer data management / contact management7.981 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management7.980 Ratings00 Ratings
    Territory management7.160 Ratings00 Ratings
    Opportunity management7.672 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)7.879 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract management7.961 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quote & order management7.258 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interaction tracking8.171 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management7.362 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    8.0
    68 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    -
    Ratings
    Case management7.863 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call center management7.950 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help desk management8.557 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    7.9
    78 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    -
    Ratings
    Lead management7.672 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email marketing8.171 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    8.0
    76 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    -
    Ratings
    Task management8.171 Ratings00 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management8.054 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting8.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    7.6
    77 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    -
    Ratings
    Forecasting7.667 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization7.773 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports7.476 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    7.7
    80 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    -
    Ratings
    Custom fields7.678 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom objects7.572 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scripting environment7.956 Ratings00 Ratings
    API for custom integration7.861 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    8.8
    75 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    -
    Ratings
    Single sign-on capability8.869 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.770 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    7.7
    44 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    -
    Ratings
    Social data7.843 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social engagement7.643 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    7.2
    65 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    -
    Ratings
    Marketing automation7.665 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compensation management6.834 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    6.8
    56 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile access6.856 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.9
    9 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings7.86 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings8.810 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings8.310 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings7.89 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings7.710 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Microsoft Dynamics 365
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.0
    10 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings6.48 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Dynamics 365Salesforce Data 360
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (104 ratings)
    8.2
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (20 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (34 ratings)
    8.2
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    3.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Dynamics 365Salesforce Data 360
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Provides our company access to manage and customize the folds tailored to our needs. We needed to have certain paragraphs on certain paperwork per customer. MD 365 has those options to customize where needed and remove when not. The system is easy to navigate, and training can be done in a matter of days, even without prior knowledge of the system or similar systems.
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    Salesforce
    Great tool for client management, sales tracking, cases studies. Using is as the source of truth for all client communication. Allowing more integration options for cc and ACH payments. Right now the options are limited and only integrate with strict processing capabilities that are not always in the businesses best interest.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Best to use for AP - like in our organization, there are plenty of AP bills, so with Dynamics, we can quickly enter the same into the Excel utility, which means CSV-based upload, and then we can easily upload the same to the software. It's a time saver.
    • Best for Bank reconciliation - MS Dynamics makes Bank reconciliation easy. Banks can easily sync with software and easily get reconciled.
    • Generating invoices to customers and directly sending them to their inbox is easy with this software.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • Allows use to bring external data into Salesforce as zero-copy
    • Is able to present data using standard Salesforce reports familiar to our users
    • Allows us to establish multiple relationships between our CRM data and the external data to contextualize the imported data.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Small learning curve, obviously. You won't figure this out in a day, a week, or even a month. But given time, you can learn to be an expert. Or you can always get a consultant or hire in somebody. But learning the tool isn't out of the questions by any means.
    • Licensing can be confusing at times and isn't cheap, but it is cheaper than Salesforce. Plus no additional fees for data calls to better integrate your D365 CE data with other systems.
    • The Classic user interface left a bit to be desired, but now with the much-improved Unified Interface, the web client and the mobile client look the same, much more modern, and have more flexibility and power behind them for customizers as well.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • pricing or costing visibilty, we can't estimate what would be consumption this month and suddenly we get surprised
    • CI/CD can be improved, that looks a difficult and hard
    • Also sandbox comes with many limitation so very hard to replicate production like environment to test
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    CRM has allowed us to keep all of our data in one place that is easy for all users within the company to view. I came into the company after they had been using CRM for about 4 years. They have all said that since we have used this it has helped us control work processes better, it has allowed us to be able to track things so much better, and has been something that has helped unite many processes that used to be all over the place. We are currently using CRM 4.0 and are planning on upgrading in the next 18 months to the 2011 version. Support for 4.0 is almost all but dried up. Understandably so. Some of the customization we have done, and a plugins we use, are now contained within the 2011 version so we are looking forward to that upgrade. We use an email marketing company as well, and they primarily support the 2011 version, but their product connects and is integrated within CRM. This is a great benefit as well so that all of our marketing information can be contained in one location.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Microsoft
    The usability is easily adopted for users familiar with other Microsoft products. Dynamics 365 has several interfaces that cross over browsers and tablets. These multiple interfaces will be phased out and updated to a single unified interface eventually to provide the same usability across all devices. The backend configurations is slowly improving with the introduction of PowerApps compared to pre-D365 Online versions
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    Salesforce
    Most of the daily use features, are very usr friendly, intuitive, every end user can learn how to manage and operate basic activities such as enter information, send an email, send a campaign, create an email marketing template, run a report on the renewals for the month, open and close a support case, create new account or a new contact, etc
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    Our partner, Ledgeview Partners has been FANTASTIC to work with. They are always timely in their response and have taken time to understand our business and our specific needs. We've made a lot of advanced customizations and they have been a great help in making those updates.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    We used a data warehouse to house our data, and our IT team and implementation vendor worked diligently ahead of time to construct idea implementation plans. Out of millions of records- we had less than a dozen errors, which is remarkable. My major insight is simply having a group of completely devoted individuals working towards your goal who fully understand the desired outcome. Focused resources for implementation season are critical to success.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Dynamics was part of a system overhaul for a local school, and we looked at many products. If we had used it for a company with low turnover, then it might have been more feasible. They needed something a new person could learn quickly, someone who might also be learning marketing terms at the same time - especially if there is nobody to train the individual now expected to know the system. Similar issues occurred with all of these programs (we called it being too big for their britches), and one of the bigger things we liked was that it is more compatible with MS Office products in both technical and visual appeal. If you have a steady employees who use a CRM consistently, low turnover, and those who are very familiar with Office products, Dynamics would be the smartest option for you. Unfortunately, this was just not true for the school environment
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    Salesforce
    we have evaluated Snowflake, adobe rt-cdp as well. They also offer a very strong capabilities but the Data 360 is more suitable for us because of the same Salesforce ecosystem. The main key factor is without any custom code we were able to include it into our automations. And ofcourse with agentforce already in plans, we had to pick Data 360
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Microsoft
    On our purchase, I'd been interrogated about our usage. Our needs are met by Microsoft Dynamics 365, which is simple to use. With so much data and information available, we must ensure that it is presented correctly to managers. Due to a lack of use, we don't have to spend as much money on Salesforce.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Microsoft
    My company's preferred program right now is Microsoft Dynamics 365. We use it to keep track of customers and important sales metrics in a streamlined manner. Anyone familiar with CRMs will find the tool extremely useful. Considering that we have a good turnover, this product will be used for its basic segments. As a result, there are few chances of error with Microsoft dynamics because it is so easy to use. Many options for recording data on these leads are available. It meets our needs and pays off.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • For those without a centralized, all in one solution for major HR, Finance and other departments, Microsoft Dynamics 365 has vastly improved employee time utilization and profit.
    • Migrating clients from on-premise to the cloud has reaped benefits including better security, no unscheduled downtime and frequent updates to functionality.
    • Those transferring from cheaper solutions have lost money in the aim to be better integrated with other Microsoft products and AI they don't really utilize.
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    Salesforce
    • Salesforce Data Cloud has a positive impact on me as a realtor because it is easy to generate reports on customer data and see what is needed to be bumped to the next level. We have to earn a certain commission by the end of the year and it makes it easy to see how close you are
    • It has a positive impact on keeping track of customers because it is nice to have it all in one place which is a nice time saver
    • I like that you can even see customer info from other agents making it nice to compare and try and pass others
    • Makes the customers journey smooth sailing because everything is in one place
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