SAP Sales Cloud vs. Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SAP Sales Cloud
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
SAP Sales Cloud (formerly SAP Cloud for Sales) is a cloud sales application with sales automation, enterprise resource planning (ERP) integration, and collaboration capabilities.N/A
Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Sugar Sell from SugarCRM is a collaborative CRM, allowing users to track and monitor activities, map each customer’s journey. Sugar Sell replaces former editions of the SugarCRM product, including the SugarCRM Community Edition, the open source edition, which is discontinued.
$19
per month per user (3 users minimum, billed annually)
Pricing
SAP Sales CloudSugar Sell (SugarCRM)
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Essentials
$19
per month (billed annually) per user (3 user minimum, 9 user maximum)
Standard
$59
per month (billed annually) per user (10 User Minimum)
Advanced
$85
per month (billed annually) per user (10 user minimum)
Premier
$135
per month (billed annually) per user (10 user minimum)
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SAP Sales CloudSugar Sell (SugarCRM)
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
SAP Sales CloudSugar Sell (SugarCRM)
Considered Both Products
SAP Sales Cloud
Chose SAP Sales Cloud
The biggest advantage of choosing SAP is that it integrates well with other SAP applications and provides many more options as compared to others in terms of functionality. The SAP Sales Cloud solution also integrates external apps and services. This can be easily done with the …
Chose SAP Sales Cloud
I did not select SAP Sales Cloud.
Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)

No answer on this topic

Features
SAP Sales CloudSugar Sell (SugarCRM)
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
SAP Sales Cloud
8.4
148 Ratings
7% above category average
Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)
4.8
33 Ratings
48% below category average
Customer data management / contact management8.3141 Ratings5.032 Ratings
Workflow management8.6142 Ratings6.028 Ratings
Territory management8.0127 Ratings6.026 Ratings
Opportunity management8.8138 Ratings7.026 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)8.1134 Ratings7.029 Ratings
Contract management8.0131 Ratings3.026 Ratings
Quote & order management8.6131 Ratings4.024 Ratings
Interaction tracking8.7134 Ratings3.030 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management8.4128 Ratings2.025 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
SAP Sales Cloud
8.7
127 Ratings
12% above category average
Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)
2.3
24 Ratings
108% below category average
Case management8.5122 Ratings3.024 Ratings
Call center management9.0112 Ratings2.019 Ratings
Help desk management8.7113 Ratings2.017 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
SAP Sales Cloud
8.2
129 Ratings
6% above category average
Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)
5.5
25 Ratings
34% below category average
Lead management8.2128 Ratings6.022 Ratings
Email marketing8.1111 Ratings5.023 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Sales Cloud
8.2
140 Ratings
6% above category average
Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)
3.0
28 Ratings
88% below category average
Task management8.2132 Ratings4.026 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management8.3111 Ratings3.018 Ratings
Reporting8.2129 Ratings2.024 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
SAP Sales Cloud
8.3
138 Ratings
8% above category average
Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)
3.3
28 Ratings
80% below category average
Forecasting8.1128 Ratings3.024 Ratings
Pipeline visualization8.8129 Ratings2.025 Ratings
Customizable reports8.0133 Ratings5.027 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
SAP Sales Cloud
8.1
136 Ratings
5% above category average
Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)
5.5
29 Ratings
33% below category average
Custom fields7.9136 Ratings6.029 Ratings
Custom objects8.0129 Ratings5.026 Ratings
Scripting environment8.5112 Ratings6.019 Ratings
API for custom integration8.1121 Ratings5.025 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
SAP Sales Cloud
9.1
139 Ratings
8% above category average
Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)
5.5
27 Ratings
42% below category average
Single sign-on capability9.2133 Ratings5.021 Ratings
Role-based user permissions9.0133 Ratings6.026 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
SAP Sales Cloud
9.0
97 Ratings
19% above category average
Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)
3.0
19 Ratings
85% below category average
Social data8.797 Ratings3.019 Ratings
Social engagement9.293 Ratings3.016 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
SAP Sales Cloud
8.5
115 Ratings
13% above category average
Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)
4.5
19 Ratings
50% below category average
Marketing automation8.3111 Ratings5.019 Ratings
Compensation management8.692 Ratings4.013 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
SAP Sales Cloud
8.3
120 Ratings
9% above category average
Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)
4.0
20 Ratings
62% below category average
Mobile access8.3120 Ratings4.020 Ratings
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User Ratings
SAP Sales CloudSugar Sell (SugarCRM)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(147 ratings)
2.0
(59 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(14 ratings)
8.2
(26 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(9 ratings)
3.0
(10 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
6.0
(13 ratings)
9.1
(12 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(3 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.5
(110 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
SAP Sales CloudSugar Sell (SugarCRM)
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP
Well, I've been using SAP Sales Cloud for 6 months now so my conclusions are that if your employees are techy friendly then I would recommend It, but if they are quite not used to advanced CRM tools could be a bit overwhelming at first. Pricing it's okay thought, compares to other tools I've used previously.
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SugarCRM
Sugar CRM is a good tool, but it's complex to customize. It often requires expensive 3rd partners to implement more complex scenarios that SugarCRM struggles to support; coming back with explanations was usually time-consuming and unsupported. The back end is overly complex in terms of what it needs to be, with many redundant database tables and columns.
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Pros
SAP
  • I love its ability to automate the entire sales process for us.
  • Another thing I love is how it combines data from different touchpoints to provide a 360-degree view of the customer.
  • What I like best about SAP Sales Cloud is the real-time analytics it provides for my organization.
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SugarCRM
  • Great way to keep myself organized. I do not miss appointments with clients since within the system I can input my appointment time and also send out a reminder to my clients.
  • It has a nice layout [that] does not seem to be cluttered. I find it to be very user friendly.
  • It has customizable dashboards which I find beneficial
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Cons
SAP
  • One area of concern is the many data silos that are present within SAP sales cloud
  • While creating filters for accessing sales lead reports, the accuracy is missing sometimes.
  • The product is quite vast and a lot more learning material and knowledge base documents are required.
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SugarCRM
  • The back-end programming (logical hooks) for advanced customizations could benefit from a more user-friendly interface
  • General layout could be improved by the addition of modern templates to customize the standard look and feel
  • Support communities could be further improved with the addition of videos on how to do specific configuration, modules.
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Likelihood to Renew
SAP
SAP sales enables organizations to manage their sales activities, such as inquiries, quotations, orders, deliveries, billing, and payments. Also integrates with other SAP modules, such as finance, logistics, and marketing, to provide a comprehensive solution for managing the entire sales cycle. thats makes SAP a good choice
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SugarCRM
Our organization will continue to use Sugar as long as it remains cost effective and it addresses the majority of our needs. I will, however, recommend looking into other options once our needs increase and there is additional budget for some bigger named and more robust platform options. I feel if the application was friendlier to end users we would get better productivity as well.
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Usability
SAP
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.
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SugarCRM
There's a learning curve associated with Sugar. Right away, it's not as easy as an out-of-the-box CRM. Once you learn how to use Sugar, the system fits what your needs are. With any other CRM, you'd be trying to figure out how your company can best fit the CRM. You don't want to change your business cycle for your CRM, the CRM should fit your business cycle.
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Reliability and Availability
SAP
Product was mostly available. A couple accessibility issues did exist when sending API calls, and there was either no response, or a delayed response.
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SugarCRM
SugarCRM has never been down for us.
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Performance
SAP
No answers on this topic
SugarCRM
No response time issues ever. Very productive due to its ease of use.
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Support Rating
SAP
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.
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SugarCRM
The support overall at least for us has been phenomenal. Anytime that the system has any Issues at all IT gets in contact from someone from support to get the system back up and running. Have never gone more than 30 minutes with the system not working. So overall I will be definetely recommending this system in any other company that I may work for in the future.
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In-Person Training
SAP
No answers on this topic
SugarCRM
We feel clasroom training is essential to ensure user adoption and buy-in. Video and on-line training courses gave their place but being in a classroom setting enables the Team to make any potential CRM issues visble right up front.
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Online Training
SAP
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.
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SugarCRM
Only part of an implemementation as noted previously.
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Implementation Rating
SAP
I would rate the implementation a 7. While the process overall was successful, there were challenges related to data migration, integration with other systems, and initial user adoption. However, the support from SAP during the implementation phase was helpful, and we were able to resolve the major issues as the process progressed.
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SugarCRM
Study, study, and study. Be prepared to train everyday until all processes are flowing nicely. The CRM is the elephant and figuring out where to take the first bite can be a challenge. But there is only one way to eat this elephant, one bite at a time. Systematic planning is very important.
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Alternatives Considered
SAP
Sap sales cloud has boosted the supply chain network . Sap Sales cloud has seamlessly unified the backend business processes into more transparent effective ones.The customer satisfaction have also increased with better customer collaboration and relationship.The vendor management process has also been significantly impacted and all for good. Customers are really happy with it
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SugarCRM
SugarCRM is a lot better in many ways then LogicsCRM which I started using when I started as a sales rep at Community Tax. Yet there is still room for a lot of improvements to accommodate a steady workflow. They integration of old CRM files seems to have worked great from Logics to Sugar.
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Scalability
SAP
1. It much needed to the end-user like sales person and marketing team to read the real time analysis for better decision making and deal closing. 2. Cost calculation and tracking becomes easier on go. 3. HR department, sales and marketing teams are getting insights for further improvement of the process of sales and conversion rate. 4. Easier to know customer behavior and taste.
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SugarCRM
Works from 2-300 Users in our experience.
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Return on Investment
SAP
  • Integration with additional sales tools, such as LinkedIn Sales Navigator, greatly improves the speed and efficiency of our entire process.
  • Standard templates facilitate easy and efficient lead interaction.
  • The time is reduced and representative job productivity increases when SAP Sales Cloud is used.
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SugarCRM
  • Overall seems to be more expensive than other subscription based CRMs.
  • Has positively impact our sales team to make more efficient and accountability among sales teams. Also allows for high level aggregated reporting
  • Has been impactful for all teams, not only sales to track individual activity on a daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly basis
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ScreenShots

SAP Sales Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of the SAP Sales Cloud dashboard, where users can can automate critical selling processes and give sellers AI-based recommendations. The dashboard features:
Cloud deployment
A unified view of customers
An optimised mobile selling experience
AI-driven insights, recommendations, and analytics
Embedded generative AI highlights and summarization

Sugar Sell (SugarCRM) Screenshots

Screenshot of a view of Sugar Sell's contacts listScreenshot of Sugar Sell's analyticsScreenshot of a Sugar Sell dashboard