Sage CRM vs. Salesforce - What's the difference?
Finding the right CRM is imperative to a successful relationship with your clients, and prospects. Ensure your sales and marketing teams have access to important tools such as lead tracking and campaign management that will help turn opportunities into sales with a detailed breakdown of your existing and potential clients.
With the control that a CRM system provides, you can remain competitive as you navigate through your customer database with ease.
No matter the size or needs of your business, our CRM consultants have the expertise to provide a solution that will work for you. With over 20 years’ experience we know how important it is to have a CRM that supports both the aspirations of your business and the users who will be working with the system on a day to day basis, everybody needs to see value!
We understand the importance and responsibility when migrating to a new system, our consultants will ensure you get the best functionality and support within your budget restrictions.
Why is a CRM system so important to your Sales team?
A positive buying experience is now more important than ever. A CRM system provides you with the tools to create a truly exceptional and unique experience for your potential clients making them more likely to not only purchase from you, but also to become a loyal customer. Your team can ensure the process is easy, accessible and personalised, making your customers feel valued. Your customers want to feel understood, this can be accomplished with consultative interactions across different channels from sales representatives, account managers and your marketing team.
Implementing the right CRM system for your business can have a dramatic effect on your team – increased sales and efficiency, better opportunities for cross-selling and upselling – all while improving your customers experience.
Salesforce
Salesforce is the world’s leading cloud-based CRM system that will help you put customers at the centre of your business processes all while carefully managing interactions.
It will allow your sales team to focus more on clients’ needs and less on monotonous administration duties helping you focus on business growth. With Salesforce, you will be provided with the tools to ensure you understand your customers, allowing you to tailor sales interactions.
You will gain the ability to empower your service, sales and marketing teams with real-time client information. With collaboration at the centre of this platform colleagues and stakeholders can share insights, documents, dashboards, updates and messages in real time with dynamic cloud-based technology, delivering critical data.
The platform is also updated regularly, so you always have access to new features.
Salesforce is suitable for a range of businesses, be that small, medium or larger organisations.
Read about one of our customer success stories, Kilo Ltd, and how they implemented Salesforce.
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Getting started with Salesforce
As a Salesforce Certified Consulting Partner we have the knowledge and ability to create a package enabling you to get up and running quickly. After all, organisations who adopt Sales Cloud functionality in a shorted time, experience an accelerated ROI.
Our “Quick Start” package is designed to get you up and running in just a few weeks. We will help your business embrace core Sales Cloud features and help you to understand the tools provided and easily manage leads, campaigns and opportunities.
Sage CRM
As a Salesforce Certified Consulting Partner we have the knowledge and ability to create a package enabling you to get up and running quickly. After all, organisations who adopt Sales Cloud functionality in a shorted time, experience an accelerated ROI.
Our “Quick Start” package is designed to get you up and running in just a few weeks. We will help your business embrace core Sales Cloud features and help you to understand the tools provided and easily manage leads, campaigns and opportunities.
With Sage CRM, you'll have the ability to
The main differences
| Salesforce | Sage CRM |
|---|---|
| World’s Leading number 1 CRM solution | Leading CRM for SME businesses in the UK |
| Cloud based | On-Premise or Cloud Hosted Options available |
| Endless options to support a mobile workforce | Simple mobile apps available to provide users with visibility to data on mobile devices |
| Thousands of ‘apps’ introduce limitless capability to support your processes and integrate with other business-critical tools that you rely on | Integrates with Sage 50 or Sage 200 |
| Typical Implementation Time 5 – 20 days | Typical Implementation Time 5 – 10 days |
If you are interesting in our other blogs comparing products, check out our blogs on Sage 200 vs. Sage Intacct and Xero vs. Sage Intacct.
CRM Training
We also offer training for both of these CRM systems. Get your whole team up to speed and getting the most from your CRM system.
Our experienced trainers can give you overviews of every aspect of the CRM software, or get tailored training to your business needs.
How can Solutions for Accounting & CRM help?
As the UK’s leading business management software solutions provider, we’re CRM specialists. We can help you successfully migrate to this more advanced platform and tailor it to your business needs.
So, if you’re considering migrating to a new CRM system and want to be sure you’re making the right decision, get in touch today to see how we can help.
