Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud: Which is Best?

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud: Which is Best?

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud Best Overall: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

In our comparison of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the best option with a higher overall Wheelhouse Score. Wheelhouse Score uses a combination of feature and pricing comparison data, average user ratings, and editorial reviews to score software vendors on a scale of 1-10.

Quick Info

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Quick Info
WH Score:
8.5
Pricing Score:
7.9
Feature Score:
8.4
Usability Score:
7.8
Company Size:All Sizes
Platforms:
Salesforce Sales Cloud Quick Info
WH Score:
8.5
Pricing Score:
7.9
Feature Score:
7.8
Usability Score:
7.9
Company Size:All Sizes
Platforms:

Pricing

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Pricing
Business Central Essentials
Free
per user / per month
Business Central Premium
Free
per user / per month
Salesforce Sales Cloud Pricing
Starter
$25
per user / per month
Professional
$75
per user / per month
Enterprise
$150
per user / per month
Unlimited
$300
per user / per month

Features

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Features
  • Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP)
  • Material Requirement Planning (MRP)
  • Bill of Materials (BOM)
  • Production Planning/Management
  • Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
  • Assembly Management
  • Shop Floor Control
  • Lead Generation
  • Lead Registration
  • Lead Distribution
  • Lead Aggregation
  • Lead Augmentation
  • Lead Nurturing
  • Item Tracking & Traceability
  • Procurement/Replenishment Optimization
Salesforce Sales Cloud Features
  • Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP)
  • Material Requirement Planning (MRP)
  • Bill of Materials (BOM)
  • Production Planning/Management
  • Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
  • Assembly Management
  • Shop Floor Control
  • Lead Generation
  • Lead Registration
  • Lead Distribution
  • Lead Aggregation
  • Lead Augmentation
  • Lead Nurturing
  • Item Tracking & Traceability
  • Procurement/Replenishment Optimization

Pros & Cons

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Pros & Cons
Pros
  • MS Dynamics offers an array of descriptive and simple to interpret data, views, and charts.
Cons
  • Horrible phone feature, and it frequently froze.
Salesforce Sales Cloud Pros & Cons
Pros
  • Customizable, available plug-ins and add-ons that can be fitted into your experience to make it very customized software for various organizations, client support staff have excellent tools ready that can offer you in-depth control, flawless incorporation with Pardot and the ability to save many hours of work as prospect/contact information can sync in almost in realtime based on set up rules, and the availability of an astounding onboarding team that operate with your designated admin employees to make the most use of the software package from almost any level of education of experience.
Cons
  • For non-professionals on Salesforce, you'll require a Salesforce admin or spend many hours on Salesforce for each query or alteration-it's installation process is complex.

Reviews

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Reviews
Top Favorable Review
M
Michael
Reviewed on Jul 2, 2021

Using Dynamics is always a joy.

MS Dynamics offers an array of descriptive and simple to interpret data, views, and charts

None.

Top Critical Review
N
Nancy
Reviewed on Jul 2, 2021

Operating is was fairly simple, its feature packed, and compared to other CRM systems, it was much simpler and easier.

Horrible phone feature, and it frequently froze

Salesforce Sales Cloud Reviews
Top Favorable Review
K
Kenneth
Reviewed on Jul 2, 2021

My present corporation has been using Constant Contact prior to my arrival and it wasn’t managed well due to certain reasons. I joined in during the onboarding process of Salesforce and there years later, we’ve managed to standardize our data, make it uniform and accessible with ease, all with very minimal effort. Emails are arranged to be disseminated once every week depending on the templates initially created by our onboarding process. Further, we’ve managed to move our marketing employees to greater analytical projects that have offered us the edge we required to be on course to make our profit-sharing bonus numbers for once in many years.

Customizable, available plug-ins and add-ons that can be fitted into your experience to make it very customized software for various organizations, client support staff have excellent tools ready that can offer you in-depth control, flawless incorporation with Pardot and the ability to save many hours of work as prospect/contact information can sync in almost in realtime based on set up rules, and the availability of an astounding onboarding team that operate with your designated admin employees to make the most use of the software package from almost any level of education of experience.

Pardot reporting has a few irritating restrictions and at times Salesforce incorporation with plug-ins can be quite hard if they weren’t installed during the original onboarding.

Top Critical Review
C
Charles
Reviewed on Jul 2, 2021

The ability to infer and configure every information you require.

Salesforce exposes everything, every sales information you require or you need can be traced and displayed, and you can arrange your leads and accounts to precisely how you need it.

For non-professionals on Salesforce, you'll require a Salesforce admin or spend many hours on Salesforce for each query or alteration-it's installation process is complex.

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud: Detailed Comparison

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud Top Ratings & Reviews: Salesforce Sales Cloud

In our rating and review comparison of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce Sales Cloud has 97 user reviews and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central has 505. The average star rating for Salesforce Sales Cloud is 4.52 while Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central has an average rating of 4.34. Salesforce Sales Cloud has more positive reviews than Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Comparing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud reviews, Salesforce Sales Cloud has stronger overall reviews.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud Best Features & Functionality: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud both offer a strong set of features and functionality including Manufacturing/Production Management, Inventory Management, Cash Flow Management, Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC), Customer Management, Project Management Features, Accounting Features, Employee Management, Asset Management, Campaign Management, Reporting & Analytics, Resource Management, Shipping & Logistics Management, Payroll Management, Workflow Automation, Drag-and-Drop Builders/Designers, File Management, Collaboration Tools, Portal Types, Appointments/Scheduling, Reminders/Alerts, Report Management, Data Management, Data Migration, Systems/Administrative, Sync/Refresh, Customizable Items, After-Sales Service, Campaign Types, Attendance Management. In our feature comparison of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central offers more of the most popular features and tools than Salesforce Sales Cloud.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud Best Pricing: Salesforce Sales Cloud

In our pricing comparison of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce Sales Cloud's pricing starts at $25/month and is more affordable compared to Salesforce Sales Cloud's starting cost of $25/month.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud Best Usability: Salesforce Sales Cloud

Our comparison of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud shows that Salesforce Sales Cloud scores higher in usability for learning curve, setup & support. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central scores higher in ease of use, meets requirements, quality of support, ease of admin, but Salesforce Sales Cloud has the best scores overall for system usability.

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