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Salesforce.com Inc

Salesforce Platform

8.7 /10

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What is Salesforce Platform?

The demand for apps has quickly outstripped the development capacity of many IT departments. Salesforce Platform is the fastest way to build and deploy apps for customers, employees, and partners. By streamlining the app-building process — including giving you the basic building blocks so you never have to start from scratch — Salesforce Platform gives you the agility to tackle your app backlog and take the lead in the app revolution.

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Awards & Recognition

Salesforce Platform won the following awards in the Low-Code Development Tools category

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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

Service Experience
Product Impact

Latest Award, 2024

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

5 Top Rated Capabilities

12 Top Rated Features

2023

Salesforce Platform Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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90 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Salesforce Platform?

2% Negative

3% Neutral

95% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Application Security

Collaboration

Cross-Platform Deployment

Cloud Deployment

Import and Export Capabilities

Role-Based Access Management

Audit Trail

End to End Lifecycle Management

Data and Entity Mapping

Application Inventory and Dashboard

Backend Coding and Scripting

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Ease of IT Administration

100

Quality of Features

100

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness

Salesforce Platform Reviews

Shivankur N.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2024

TRUST - Best platform to go with

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Salesforce Platform from other similar products?

The core values that company brings in when connected with their clients differentiate it from other similar products

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It's the best platform for any background whether it be IT or non IT. Anyone can start from scratch and Excel in this product implementation

What do you dislike most about this product?

There is nothing as such to dislike about

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would say anyone can go blindly with this product as their core value is Trust with which you can achieve greater heights in any sectors

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Enables Productivity

Tony Y.

Role: C-Level
Industry: Media
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2024

Nothing compares to the level of control you have!

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Salesforce Platform from other similar products?

Salesforce Platform stands out for its exceptional customization and seamless integration, offering a rich ecosystem through AppExchange and its APIs. It's constantly evolving, incorporating cutting-edge technologies like AI to enhance user experience and business processes.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The platform's ability to be tailored to precise business needs and its seamless integration capabilities are particularly valuable. This flexibility supports efficient workflows and improves customer engagement.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The steep learning curve and the complexity of setup and customization present challenges, often necessitating expert assistance. Additionally, the cost can be a major setback for smaller agencies.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Salesforce is a very good choice whether you are a small, medium or large sized company, the issues that you should consider are the price, and the complexity of creating any project (the design) then also you should consider that for sure the employees will require training sessions to know how use it.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Zachary Michelle M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2024

The product is extremely affordable.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Salesforce Platform from other similar products?

Limited connectors.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Affordable, coding flexibility, good options, ensure our security and availability.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I like Salesforce Platform, it guarantees our security and availability.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Coding flexibility and multiple affordable options.

Pros

Efficient Service
Effective Service
Saves Time
Helps Innovate

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Salesforce Platform Ratings

90 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Salesforce Platform?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Application Security Capability to build and enforce security mechanisms to ensure application confidentiality, privacy, integrity and availability.

Collaboration View all previous activities including any recent edits and user access.

Cross-Platform Deployment Ability to build applications that are functional and accessible on multiple user devices and platforms (e.g. mobile phones, tablets, websites).

Cloud Deployment Solution offers the capability to deploy applications in the platform to the cloud.

Import and Export Capabilities Import and convert legacy or applications built using other development tools into the tool and export development artifacts to other tools and archives.

Role-Based Access Management Ability to assign permissions around system and data access, platform configurations, and application releases based on defined user roles.

Audit Trail View all previous activity including any recent edits and user access.

End to End Lifecycle Management Solution provides workflows, versioning, recovery and rollback and other tooling and capabilities for managing the entire software lifecycle.

Data and Entity Mapping Ability to break down an application by form and entities, and see how their relationships will affect one another when specific actions are executed.

Application Inventory and Dashboard A list of applications built and deployed by the solution. Out-of-the-box and customizable KPIs and metrics measure the system performance, value and usage.

Backend Coding and Scripting The ability to write, modify and configure the source code or scripts of the application.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Salesforce Platform Reviews

Shivankur N.

TRUST - Best platform to go with

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Tony Y.

Nothing compares to the level of control you have!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Zachary Michelle M.

The product is extremely affordable.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Application Security

Collaboration

Cross-Platform Deployment

Cloud Deployment

Import and Export Capabilities

Role-Based Access Management

Audit Trail

End to End Lifecycle Management

Data and Entity Mapping

Application Inventory and Dashboard

Backend Coding and Scripting

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness