Comparison of CRM systems
This article is a comparison of notable CRM systems.
ERP systems are considered a superset of CRM systems.
General
Only stable releases are mentioned.
Systems
|
Creator
|
Last Stable Version
|
Release Date
|
License
|
Implementation language(s)
|
AI
|
Server Operating System
|
Database backend
|
First Release Date
|
Act! CRM
|
Pat Sullivan and Mike Muhney
|
22.1
|
June 2020
|
Proprietary or SaaS
|
C#, .NET
|
yes
|
Windows, Web, iOS, Android
|
MS SQL
|
1987
|
Adempiere
|
Jorg Janke
|
3.9.3
|
December 2019
|
GPLv2
|
Java
|
no
|
Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac
|
|
2006
|
Base CRM/Zendesk
|
Base CRM
|
2016
|
2009
|
SaaS
|
Ruby on Rails, Python
|
yes
|
Cloud Computing, iOS, Android, Windows Phone
|
MySQL
|
2009
|
Capsule (CRM)
|
Zestia Ltd.
|
2019
|
2009
|
SaaS
|
Java, Scala and JavaScript
|
yes
|
Web, iOS, Android
|
MySQL
|
2009
|
CiviCRM
|
Dave Greenberg, Donald Lobo, Michal Mach
|
5.57[1]
|
January 2023[1]
|
AGPLv3
|
PHP 7.2+
|
yes
|
Cross-platform
|
MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.0+
|
2004
|
Dolibarr
|
Rodolphe Quiedeville, Laurent Destailleur
|
13.0.3
|
June 2021
|
GPLv3 or SaaS
|
PHP 5.6.x, 7.x
|
yes
|
Cross-platform
|
MySQL or PostgreSQL
|
2003
|
Dynamics CRM
|
Microsoft
|
Dynamics 365 9.1
|
July 2019
|
Proprietary or SaaS
|
.NET, ASP.NET
|
yes
|
Windows
|
MS SQL
|
2003
|
GNU Enterprise
|
FSF
|
|
|
GPLv3
|
Python
|
no, this project has been decommissioned
|
Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows
|
Firebird/Interbase, MySQL, MaxDB, MS ADO (MS SQL-Server/MS Access), Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQLite3, CSV files,DBF files (DBase, XBase etc.), INI style configuration files
|
2003
|
Group-Office
|
Intermesh BV
|
6.4.178
|
October 2020
|
AGPLv3, SaaS and proprietary
|
PHP/JavaScript
|
no
|
Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS
|
MySQL
|
2003
|
HubSpot CRM Free
|
HubSpot
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
SaaS[2]
|
Java [3]
|
yes
|
Cloud computing
|
HBase
|
2014[4]
|
Neolane
|
Adobe
|
v6
|
2012
|
Proprietary or SaaS
|
C++, JavaScript
|
yes
|
Windows, Linux
|
MS SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL
|
2001
|
Nutshell CRM
|
Nutshell CRM
|
2017
|
2017
|
SaaS
|
PHP
|
yes
|
Web, iOS, Android
|
MySQL
|
2010
|
Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX)
|
Oracle Corporation
|
2021
|
Sept 2021
|
Proprietary or SaaS
|
Java, PL/SQL, C/C++, Python
|
yes
|
Cloud computing
|
Oracle Database
|
2011
|
Pega CRM[5]
|
Chordiant
|
?
|
?
|
Proprietary
|
?
|
yes
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, web browser
|
?
|
?
|
Pipedrive
|
Pipedrive
|
2018
|
2018
|
SaaS
|
JavaScript, PHP
|
yes
|
Web, iOS, Android
|
MySQL
|
2011
|
Pivotal CRM / Aptean CRM
|
Aptean
|
6.6
|
January 2019
|
Proprietary
|
.NET
|
yes
|
Windows
|
MS SQL, Oracle
|
1996
|
Really Simple Systems / Spotler CRM
|
Really Simple Systems
|
2016
|
2006
|
SaaS
|
VBScript, JavaScript, ASP
|
yes
|
Cloud Computing
|
MySQL
|
2006
|
SageCRM
|
Sage Group
|
Sage CRM 2019 R1
|
February 2019
|
Proprietary or SaaS
|
ASP.NET, ASP
|
yes
|
Windows
|
MS SQL, ORACLE, DB2
|
1981
|
Salesbox CRM
|
Salesbox CRM
|
2019
|
2019
|
SaaS
|
JS, React
|
yes
|
Web, iOS, Android
|
PostgreSQL
|
2014
|
Salesforce.com
|
Marc Benioff
|
Winter '21
|
June 2019
|
Proprietary
|
APEX (Proprietary Language Java-like)
|
yes
|
Cloud Computing
|
Proprietary
|
1999
|
SAP CRM
|
SAP SE
|
7.0 EHP4 SP11
|
2018
|
Proprietary
|
ABAP
|
yes
|
Windows, Linux, Unix
|
SAP HANA, MS SQL, Oracle
|
2000
|
SAP Cloud for Customer
|
SAP SE
|
1811
|
2018
|
Proprietary
|
ABAP
|
yes
|
Linux
|
SAP HANA
|
2009
|
Snapforce CRM
|
Snapforce CRM
|
2016
|
2013
|
SaaS
|
PHP
|
no
|
Cloud Computing
|
MySQL
|
2011
|
Streak
|
Aleem Mawani, Omar Ismail
|
|
|
Proprietary
|
Java
|
yes
|
Windows, Mac
|
Google App Engine
|
2012
|
SugarCRM
|
John Roberts, Clint Oram, Jacob Taylor
|
9.0.1[6]
|
June 2019
|
Proprietary or SaaS
|
PHP
|
yes
|
Cross-platform
|
MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, and Oracle (IBM DB2 and Oracle only available for Sugar Enterprise edition)
|
2004
|
SuiteCRM
|
SalesAgility
|
8.0.4
|
March 2022
|
AGPLv3
|
PHP
|
yes
|
Cross-platform
|
MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server
|
2013
|
SuperOffice CRM
|
SuperOffice
|
7.5
|
2014
|
Proprietary
|
C++,C# and ASP.NET
|
yes
|
Windows
|
SQL Server
|
1990
|
OnlyOffice
|
Ascensio System SIA
|
10.5.1
|
December 2019
|
GPLv3, SaaS
|
ASP.NET
|
yes
|
Windows
|
Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Server
|
2010
|
Tryton
|
Tryton
|
5.6
|
May 2020
|
GPLv3
|
Python, JavaScript
|
no
|
Cross-platform
|
PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite
|
2008
|
WORKetc
|
Daniel Barnett
|
v4.0
|
2013
|
SaaS
|
C#, .NET
|
no
|
Windows
|
Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Server
|
2009
|
Zoho CRM
|
Zoho CRM
|
Zoho CRM 2018
|
2018
|
SaaS
|
Java
|
yes
|
Cloud Computing, Cross Platform
|
Proprietary
|
1999
|
Features
System
|
Office Integration
|
Multi Lingual
|
Languages Supported
|
Web-Based
|
Time Tracking
|
Attaching Emails to Business Objects
|
Desktop Environment
|
Global Search
|
LDAP Support
|
Act! CRM
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
en, de, fr
|
Yes
|
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Adempiere
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
Base CRM
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
de, en, es, fr, nl, pl, pt
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Capsule (CRM)
|
Gmail G Suite
|
No
|
en
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
?
|
CiviCRM
|
?
|
Yes
|
Yes Over 40
|
Yes Integrated with Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla! or Backdrop
|
Yes through Agiliway's Time Tracker or CiviMobile
|
Yes (when email is sent from software)
|
?
|
Yes
|
?
|
Dolibarr
|
A module google is available for customer and agenda sync
|
Yes
|
Over 30
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes (when email is sent from software)
|
?
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Microsoft Dynamics CRM
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes over 40
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes with ADFS
|
GNU Enterprise
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
Group-Office
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Over 20 languages
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
HubSpot CRM Free
|
Gmail, G Suite, Outlook, Office 365 for Windows[7]
|
Yes
|
en, fr, jp, de, pt, es[8]
|
Yes[7]
|
No
|
Yes[9]
|
Yes[10]
|
Yes
|
No
|
Neolane
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
Nutshell CRM
|
Google Apps, Microsoft Exchange
|
No
|
(in English)
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
?
|
Yes
|
?
|
OnlyOffice
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
en, de, fr, es, it, ru, lat
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX)
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
26 languages
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Pega CRM[5]
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
Maybe[11]
|
Yes[12]
|
Pipedrive
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
de, en, es, et, fi, fr, it, no, nl, pl, pt, ru, tr, ko, ja
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Pivotal CRM
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Web/Windows
|
?
|
Yes
|
?
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Really Simple Systems
|
Yes
|
No
|
en
|
Yes
|
No
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
SageCRM
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
?
|
Salesbox CRM
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
de, en, es, fr, nl, pt, se, no, fi, tr, ro, ru, jp, ch, ko, hu
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Salesforce.com[13]
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
en, fi, fr, de, es, it, ja, ko, pt-br, ru, sv, th, zh-cn, zh-tw, da, nl-nl
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Siebel
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
?
|
?
|
Yes
|
SAP CRM
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Snapforce CRM
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
de, en, es, et, fi, fr, it, nl, pl, pt, tr, ko, ja, ru
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
?
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Streak
|
via Google Docs
|
Yes
|
de, en, es, fr, it, nl, pl, pt, pt-br, ru, zh-cn
|
Yes
|
No
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
SugarCRM
|
Yes - Outlook, Excel, Word Plugins[1]
|
Yes
|
sq_AL, ar_SA, bg_BG, ca_ES, zh_CN, hr_HR, cs_CZ, da_DK, nl_NL, en_UK, en_us, et_EE, fi_FI, fr_FR, de_DE, el_EL, he_IL, hu_HU, it_it, ja_JP, ko_KR, lv_LV, lt_LT, nb_NO, pl_PL, pt_PT, pt_BR, ro_RO, ru_RU, sr_RS, sk_SK, es_ES, es_LA, sv_SE, th_TH, zh_TW, tr_TR, uk_UA
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
?
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
SuiteCRM
|
Via Plugin
|
Yes
|
20 languages
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
SuperOfficeCRM
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
cn, de, dk, en, es, fi, fr, it, jp, nl, no, ru, se, zh
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
Tryton
|
?
|
Yes
|
bg, ca, cs, de, en, es-ar, es-co, es-es, fr, nl, ru, sl
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WORKetc
|
Outlook Addon and Google Docs
|
Yes
|
de, en, es, fr, it, nl
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
?
|
Yes
|
?
|
Zoho CRM
|
Outlook & MS Office
|
Yes
|
en, fi, fr, de, es, it, ja, ko, pt-br, ru, sv, th, zh-cn, zh-tw, da, nl-nl, pl
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
?
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
See also
References
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- ^ a b The Forrester Wave: CRM Suites For Enterprise Organizations, Q4 2016, Forrester, November 21, 2016, retrieved September 13, 2017
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