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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Salesforce Experience Cloud

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (formerly Salesforce Experience Cloud or Salesforce Community Cloud) is an online forum powered by Salesforce that enables businesses to connect with their employees, customers, partner organizations, and prospects. Designed to help facilitate communication and information sharing, customers can ask questions and request help, administrators can integrate data from third-party apps, and employees can collaborate across projects and…N/A

    SAP CPQ

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ASAP CPQ (replacing the former CallidusCloud CPQ solution) has been built to be independent of any CRM. The vendor says that this makes their solution more flexible. The vendor also says their solution provides businesses the flexibility to customize and enhance the solution without the constraints of CRM code. Pricing and product catalog changes can also be made by the users without having to rely on a CRM administrator.N/A
    Pricing
    Salesforce Experience CloudSAP CPQ
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce Experience CloudSAP CPQ
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Salesforce Experience CloudSAP CPQ
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    45 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    45 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    28 Answers
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    Salesforce Experience CloudSAP CPQ
    CPQ
    Comparison of CPQ features of Salesforce Experience Cloud and SAP CPQ
    Feature
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    SAP CPQ
    8.4
    10 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Quote sharing/sending00 Ratings9.210 Ratings
    Product configuration00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Configuration options00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Pricing rules00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Price adjustment00 Ratings8.59 Ratings
    Purchase history and open contracts00 Ratings8.58 Ratings
    Guided selling/Sales portal00 Ratings7.17 Ratings
    CPQ reporting & analytics00 Ratings8.27 Ratings
    CPQ-CRM integration00 Ratings8.18 Ratings
    Attachments to quotes00 Ratings8.78 Ratings
    Order capturing00 Ratings8.58 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce Experience CloudSAP CPQ
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (71 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (15 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (18 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce Experience CloudSAP CPQ
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    For well-suited, this product is great for your external clientele groups that you would not necessarily want to have a high user fee rate for. So basically general public or a group that will be authorized to come in and just do a few things here and there, but you don't necessarily want them access to all of your systems and your data points for groups that it would not be a great use for. I'd say probably your high level internal staff, they're going to be using a lot of the backend functionality automations, evaluating data, managing data, and doing custom inputs. That's just not what's intended for.
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    SAP
    Helps our sales team configure complex products accurately, calculate prices automatically, and create professional quotes. Integration with third-party CRM or ERP systems is very complicated and expensive
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Easy to use, just like Salesforce's other products. Many users can sit down and figure it out in no time, and with a little training become power users.
    • Fast and secure - Salesforce is a leader in the cloud world so you get consistently fast results and security that is top notch in the industry.
    • Accessible from anywhere - if you use cloud CMS already this is a no-brainer, but for those that do in-house CMS still, this is a major difference. Mobile access from anywhere on the planet without a VPN is something you just can't do without the cloud.
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    SAP
    • Simple order entry
    • Fast order entry
    • Quick contracts creations and pricings
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • Unlike other CMS platforms like Wordpress and Adobe Experience Manager, Salesforce does not provide a fully featured editor with a drag-and-drop design tool.
    • Our content creators and marketing team often struggle with permissions and how to distribute content across different experience cloud sites.
    • Also, there is no side-to-side comparison view for content editors to update the content easily.
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    SAP
    • It is a complex solution and could do better on ease of use
    • Perhaps give mini explainer tutorials as you begin using it
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    Renewal exercise is already underway. Platform is to ubiquitous to not leverage, especially at a Fortune 50 firm
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    SAP
    We definitely want to renew based on the functionality and the use we give to it. However you never know 100% so that's why it is not a 10. Let's imagine if pricing changed significantly or they made sudden changes to the product which we considered negative... Then we would move elsewhere. This is highly unlikely though
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    Strengths: - Intuitive for Salesforce Users – If you’re already working within the Salesforce ecosystem, the Salesforce CMS is easy to navigate, with a clean UI, drag-and-drop content management, and reusable assets for quick updates. - Seamless Integration – Since it connects natively with Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and CRM, it allows for efficient multi-channel content distribution without needing extra third-party tools. - AI-Powered Personalization – The ability to deliver dynamic content based on user profiles and engagement data is a huge plus, making content delivery more relevant and impactful. Challenges: - Learning Curve for New Users – If you're not already familiar with Salesforce, the interface can feel overwhelming, requiring training to fully leverage all features. - Limited Customization & Workflow Automation – While it works well for structured content, advanced approval workflows and deep editorial customization are limited compared to enterprise CMS platforms like Adobe Experience Manager. - Media & Design Limitations – Salesforce CMS is not as robust for managing rich media-heavy content, which can be frustrating for teams needing more flexibility in multimedia presentation.
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    SAP
    I give it this rating because SAP CPQ is very powerful and flexible. It saves time reduces mistakes and keeps everything organized.
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    Performance
    Salesforce
    Again, since we provide and recommend solutions, I can't speak to every client's individual experience, but can offer general reflections as to keep their collaborations private, that they are satisfied with the experience. We hear a lot about how this system helps to encourage collaborations between their own business partners, customers, and internal members, and enables quality integrations with other products that help drive revenue.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    Although support from Salesforce itself can be quite unresponsive sometimes, the community hub is incredibly helpful. The large user base of Salesforce products contribute to troubleshooting and the forums are a powerful tool for finding solutions and possible bugs and response times can be quite fast compared to your regular support channels.
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    SAP
    Not used
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    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    Salesforce Experience Cloud was selected due to its tight integration with our existing Salesforce CRM platform. Customization of the portal was much, much simpler compared to Sharepoint - especially with role-based security parameters that are ultimately inherited based on attributes within the Salesforce CRM platform. Salesforce Experience Cloud was a natural fit for this customer-facing purpose.
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    SAP
    The most common way of creating product catalogues for most ERP systems is using some sort of a document database hosted on a cloud. However, this requires a lot of development effort and And later a lot of effort towards maintenance. In addition to this, SAP. CPQ helps in creating product quotes, which on itself is a huge task to build from scratch. and last, but not the least it’s ease of integration with SAP cloud makes it ideal over most other alternative options
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Time savings for our customer success team - no need to continually follow up on tickets as customers have access to see status themselves
    • In the future, it will also allow us to create more impactful knowledge articles that will increase self-service over ticket creation
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    SAP
    • without SAP CPQ, pricing and quoting we did it by custom coding which is very difficult to manage and difficult to understand, but with SAP CPQ things become very easy
    • we are able to control the discount and get new customer able to verify customer discount code easily
    • with this SAP CPQ, we are able to verify and approve only the right discount
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    ScreenShots

    SAP CPQ Screenshots

    Screenshot of CPQ Catalog - configurable to support multiple catalogs, graphics, and easy to follow guides.Screenshot of CPQ Configurator - guides users through configuration, indicating when a valid configuration is met, and showing commissions in real-time.Screenshot of CPQ Margin Health Indicator - sliding scale to make pricing easy while protecting margins.Screenshot of CPQ and Salesforce integration is seamless. Users never need to leave Salesforce to create a quote.