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Oracle Siebel CRM vs Salesforce Sales Cloud

Oracle Siebel CRM and Salesforce Sales Cloud are both CRM software. Oracle Siebel CRM is a commercial product from Oracle Corporation. Salesforce Sales Cloud is a commercial product from Salesforce, Inc.

Which to pick

Pick Oracle Siebel CRM when
You already run Siebel and need to keep it supported while planning a migration.
Pick Salesforce Sales Cloud when
A sales organisation needs a CRM that will scale to hundreds of reps and complex processes and has an admin to run it.

Side by side

What it does

Oracle's long-standing on-premise enterprise CRM for sales, service and marketing, still maintained for existing customers.

The Salesforce CRM for leads, accounts, opportunities, forecasting and sales automation, extensible through AppExchange and custom objects.

Watch out

It is legacy software; new projects should look at Oracle CX or other cloud CRMs.

Costs rise steeply with editions and add-ons, and it needs a dedicated admin to stay usable.

Ready for

Production-ready (both)

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Cloud service and mobile app

Built with

Not published

Apex

Source code

Closed source, sold by Oracle Corporation

Closed source, sold by Salesforce, Inc.

What the license allows

Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)

How widely known

No Wikipedia article of its own (both)

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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.