CRM deployment decision guide
Cloud vs Self-Hosted CRM: What Should Your Company Choose?
Deployment model can be a mandatory requirement rather than a preference. This guide shows what TechSelectAI has actually verified for the current CRM catalog and keeps unverified deployment claims visible instead of assuming support.
What should drive the decision?
- Internal infrastructure and operations capacity
- Data-residency or contractual hosting requirements
- Upgrade and patching ownership
- Customization and integration requirements
- Availability and disaster-recovery responsibility
- Security operating model
- Total implementation and lifecycle cost—not just subscription price
Evidence boundary: A recorded deployment status describes currently verified product evidence. It does not prove that a specific edition, country, contract or architecture will satisfy your organization’s exact hosting or regulatory requirements.
Verified CRM deployment options
Unknown means TechSelectAI has not yet verified the deployment claim; it does not mean unsupported.
| Product | Public SaaS | Self-hosted | On-premise | Private cloud | Hybrid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creatio Sales | Supported 95% confidence | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| Dynamics 365 Sales | Supported 95% confidence | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| Freshsales | Supported 95% confidence | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| HubSpot Sales Hub | Supported 95% confidence | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| Odoo CRM | Supported 95% confidence | Supported 90% confidence | Supported 90% confidence | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| Pipedrive | Supported 95% confidence | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| Salesforce Sales Cloud | Supported 95% confidence | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| SAP Sales Cloud | Supported 95% confidence | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| Sugar Sell | Supported 95% confidence | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| Zoho CRM | Supported 95% confidence | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
How to use this guide
Use this page to identify the questions worth validating. A real recommendation should then apply your mandatory capabilities, integrations, deployment, security/compliance, commercial, regional and implementation requirements through TechSelectAI’s deterministic scoring methodology.