Oracle Siebel Enterprise Marketing Suite (discontinued) vs. Salesboom

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.

Incentivized

Make sure you give them a good idea about your sales process and discuss with them how your data will be imported.

• 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.

Incentivized

• As a customer of Salesboom we get a dedicated CRM consultant that helps out with customizations, data importing, etc.
• Customer support is great.
• The CRM gets updated quarterly without user intervention.

• 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.

Incentivized

• The billing and invoicing needs a bit of improvement.
• We would like to see more ERP-like features.
• The customer self service portal needs improvement.

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

Incentivized

We have a dedicated account manager and support. Whenever we need help we get it.

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

Incentivized

Salesboom worked with us from day one before purchasing our requirements. Once we rolled out the CRM implementation, their customer support is very helpful. The system is very user friendly, feature rich and the prices are very competitive.

Another Important advantage for Salesboom.com CRM is that they have a service level agreement, with an up time guarantee.

• It has increased the business tactics as we have added more clients who wish to use this technology.

Incentivized

• Less sales opportunities slip through the cracks.
• Reduces sales redundant tasks and saves time.
• Makes customers.