Oracle Siebel Enterprise Marketing Suite (discontinued) vs. SAP Marketing Cloud

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

SAP is not suited for new generation Marketers. It is very slow and do not have any essential features for dynamic marketing. Many things are manual. It is not very user friendly in my opinion which makes it very hard for the beginners to know all the important things.

Incentivized

• 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

• Great integration capabilities with SAP Cx suite
• Relatively easy to implement
• Great configurability

• 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

• User Interface Improvement
• Load time Improvement
• New Drag and Drop Features Need to be Added
• More Tutorials for beginners

Incentivized

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

Nothing there to give it a higher rating. They should enhance their UI/UX and improve the platform's speed. A new user would take days to learn and understand its functionality.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• Return of investment of our customers in traffic increase
• Better insight into customer preferences
• Increase in customer base