Zendesk Sell is the sales CRM product from Zendesk, Inc. — a San Francisco-based customer experience platform founded in Copenhagen in 2007. Originally acquired as Base CRM in 2018 for ~$50M and rebranded, Sell offers sales force automation including lead tracking, pipeline management, built-in calling/email, and AI-powered prospecting. It integrates natively with Zendesk Support to give sales and service teams a unified customer view. Zendesk itself was taken private in 2022 by Hellman & Friedman and Permira for $10.2B, and in September 2025 announced Sell will be retired on August 31, 2027 as the company pivots fully toward AI-powered customer service.
SAP CRM, now branded as SAP Customer Experience (SAP CX), is the customer relationship management portfolio of SAP SE — Germany's largest software company and the world's leading enterprise application vendor. Founded in 1972, SAP CRM has evolved from an on-premise suite launched in 2000 into a comprehensive cloud-native platform encompassing Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud (Emarsys), Commerce Cloud, and Customer Data solutions. Serving 98 of the world's top 100 companies and over 425,000 customers globally, SAP CX differentiates itself through deep native integration with SAP ERP/S4HANA and AI capabilities via its Joule copilot, enabling end-to-end business process automation from back-office operations to customer-facing interactions.