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ActiveCampaign vs Microsoft Dynamics CRM comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

ActiveCampaign
Ranking in CRM
47th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Ranking in CRM
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
80
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (1st), Local Government CRM (1st), Marketing Management (2nd), Sales Force Automation (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the CRM category, the mindshare of ActiveCampaign is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Dynamics CRM is 3.2%, down from 3.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CRM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM3.2%
ActiveCampaign0.6%
Other96.2%
CRM
 

Featured Reviews

Laura Oosterbroek - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Markting at Vanderkamp
Easy to use, efficient marketing automation and CRM tool
AI is upcoming, so for reporting and dashboarding, it would be nice to have some AI integrated into the system. Overall, some AI features can be added. For example, I can ask, like, we have imported conversion rates, and you can ask like, "What is the trend of the conversion of the last half year?" So, more on a reporting side you can get those kinds of AI skills. Not that you have to download an Excel and put it into another AI system to do the analysis, but that it would be possible to do it on its own.
Muhammad Sohaib Abbasi - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Systems Limited
Unified customer journeys have boosted analytics-driven sales and simplified global implementations
Analytics features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM are good. When we are implementing chatbot and Co-pilot with Microsoft Dynamics CRM on their Omni-channels where we have to analyze all the incoming data coming from different multiple social media platforms, WhatsApp, Facebook, or anything else, and then create proper reporting on the dashboard with proper analytical reports using analytics. It is good, but sometimes it is laggy or crashy or just hangs. Sometimes it does lag and is a little bit buggy. But it works most of the time very fine, but sometimes it gets laggy. I think that might be an issue of the API link being down or something like that, but sometimes it takes time to get the graphs ready. However, it is a very good option where I personally design dashboards using mostly pie charts and bar charts for the client side. I can give a proper generic report to the clients and for pre-sales in multiple projects that I have done. It is a very good selling point for the clients. We can know how many clients we are having and how much data flow we are having. We can explain to them from which channel and where they are getting the higher footsteps into their business, whether it is their social media accounts, their website, or their walk-in customers. The analytics part is a very good helpful part as well because this is the main thing that interests mostly the top tier management of any company. The management can see the complete sales, what the profit is, what the quarterly profit is, what the investment is, what the stock left is, and all those things that we can manage here. Specifically we were working on a Telco project for Malaysia for a Telco company. We created them a complete product catalog on Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The product catalog was handling it very well as we were creating multiple small configurations of the business rules such as this promotion going on for the airtime and this promotion going on for products. The management was able to see that a certain age group of people were interested and what age group wanted what type of cellular products. It is a very helpful tool as well.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"ActiveCampaign is for medium-sized companies is the better solution because it’s way less complex than the other solutions."
"Licenses are cheap if you are a Microsoft shop, easy to to customize."
"Microsoft Dynamics CRM used to be four versions behind Salesforce, but now it has really caught up."
"The Outlook calendar has been very helpful for us."
"The control that we have of a process and the ability to have everything recorded from the beginning to the end of the process have been the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature in Microsoft Dynamics CRM is funneling."
"The CRM is very fast, with customization and integration options, and easy migration."
"Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a stable solution; we never had any problems, it was always running well."
"The integration with the Microsoft suite, such as Office 365 and SharePoint, offers significant benefits for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, as ninety percent of organizations are already on the Microsoft suite, leading to quick integration and system setup."
 

Cons

"AI is upcoming, so for reporting and dashboarding, it would be nice to have some AI integrated into the system."
"Better integration would be an improvement."
"The solution's interface has room for improvement."
"The initial setup is not straightforward. It took a year to configure Dynamics because it's not very intuitive."
"Microsoft Dynamics could have better note-taking capabilities. It should have more preset options where you enter notes by clicking a box instead of writing them out."
"The mobile side of the product doesn't look that great right now."
"They should work on improving the solution's scalability."
"Microsoft Dynamics CRM is not that customizable, you can customize it, but a lot of it is still pre-built in a way that you have a lot of details in there that you don't need."
"One area for improvement in Microsoft Dynamics CRM is its end user feedback. It's still not that great compared to Salesforce. They also need to improve on the look and feel of the solution, because those are still slightly better on Salesforce."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The development costs are lower because you don’t have to have consultants changing and all that stuff."
"There is a license required to use Microsoft Dynamics CRM."
"The price of the solution is good but could be cheaper."
"I rate the solution's pricing as a seven out of ten."
"Pricing for this software could be cheaper."
"It's kind of pricey. It's about $50 or $60 per user."
"Microsoft Dynamics CRM's price is too high."
"The annual license for Microsoft Dynamics CRM could be reduced, it is expensive."
"We have deployed the cloud-based version and it is a subscription and the price is based on the number of users using it."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business43
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise21
 

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