salesforce for small company - worth it?

[petemurphy]

client of mine thinking of buying salesforce. they have 100+ customers and want to grow and use sage accounts.

is there a cost bar the cloud rental cost - ie is it easy to learn etc?

is salesforce best?

any tips / thoughts etc?

[petemurphy]

mattdaniels said:

No.
Expensive piece of crap. IMHO.

can u elaborate! thanks

[petemurphy]

clarkey said:

It's great. Why not try a 30 day evaluation of Sage CRM first? It's a lot cheaper than Salesforce.

the few reviews ive seen arent that positive for sage crm? does salesforce link with sage?

[petemurphy]

jammy_basturd said:

There are a tonne of CRM systems out there, my advice is just to try as many as possible to see which one suits best.

I'd also advise trying applications like Xero, Kashflow, Quickbooks and Freshbooks for accountancy - the game has really moved on since Sage.

agree i use clearbooks myself! must admit havent used sage for years are they still stuck in the past?