Excellent in customer management, lacking in product configurations
August 13, 2019
Excellent in customer management, lacking in product configurations
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle CRM
Oracle CRM is being used to capture leads, create product configurations, manage customer data, order data, and include a basic workflow that also very importantly configures the products and services using a product configurator included as a standard Siebel module. Solutions then hand over the case to other business logic components (ESB and one specialized app) and collect results of the orchestrated tasks in one place. It also connects to the call center IS Avaya, and cooperates with a custom-developed mobile app, serving as a customer self-service tool.
- Managing customer information, campaign information and interconnection with call center IS.
- Good user interfaces out of the box, which can be heavily modified so this point does not hold in all installations.
- Automatic updates do not require a full system restart.
- Very slow product configurator, which can cause degrading performance if product definitions are not optimally configured or too complex.
- Although recently improved, the current built-in BI and reporting capabilities are not on par with MS Power BI and similar.
- Until a certain point in time, the solution was responsive and provided support for productive work. With more integrations and a growing product base, the application started to be barely usable due to delays (excessive response times) and prolonged the product configuration tasks.
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly Microsoft Dynamics CRM)
MS Dynamics was easy to integrate to MS Power BI. This BI and reporting aspect is a clear strong point for Microsoft. MS solutions seem easier to integrate and learn, but this depends on the IT landscape and the complexity of integrations in a respective company.