We performed a comparison between OpenShift and Salesforce Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Key features are WildFly, because it standardizes infrastructure and the git repository and docker. Git is essential for source code and Docker for infrastructure."
"There is a quick deployment of the application, and we can scale out efficiently."
"The most valuable feature is the auto scalers for all microservices. The feature allows us to place request limits and it is much cheaper than AWS."
"What I like best about OpenShift is that it can reduce some of the costs of having multiple applications because you can just move them into small container applications. For example, applications don't need to run for twenty days, only to be used up by Monday. Through OpenShift, you can move some of the small applications into any cloud. I also find the design of OpenShift good."
"We have found the cluster management function to be very good with this product."
"The company had a product called device financing, where the company worked as a partner with Google. It allowed customers to take mobile phones on loan or via credit. When we migrated those services to OpenShift in February last year, we were able to sell over 100,000 devices in a single day, which was very good."
"Security is also an important part of this solution. By default, things are running with limited privileges and securely confined to their own resources. This way, different users and projects can all use the same infrastructure."
"Overall, the solution's security throughout the stack and software supply chain is excellent."
"The Salesforce Platform's most valuable features are everything in one place, perfect reporting, highly customizable, and easy to receive information you need."
"I found the ease of use most valuable in the Salesforce Platform. I also found the platform pretty light."
"The standard sales and marketing tools that Salesforce provides on the platform are the most valuable."
"They are already beginning to implement generative AI."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Most of the apps allow you to try out the product before buying it. The trial period depends on the product and varies from a week to 30 days."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the CRM. Salesforce Platform comes with out-of-the-box capabilities."
"Marketing and Sales Lead, Forecasting, Campaign management."
"The operators need a lot of improvement, with better integrations."
"This solution could be improved by offering best practices on standardization and additional guidance on how to use this solution."
"OpenShift can improve monitoring. Sometimes there are issues. Additionally, the solution could benefit from protective tools if something was to happen in our network."
"It could use auto-scaling based on criteria such as transaction volume, queue backlog, etc. Currently, it is limited to CPU and memory."
"There is no orchestration platform in OpenShift."
"The product’s integration with Windows containers and other third-party products needs improvement."
"One glaring flaw is how OpenShift handles operators. Sometimes operators are forced to go into a particular namespace. When you do that, OpenShift creates an installation plan for everything in that namespace. These operators may be completely separate from each other and have nothing to do with each other, but now they are tied at the hip. You can't upgrade one without upgrading all of them. That's a huge mistake and highly problematic."
"Autoscaling is a very unique feature, but it could be useful to have more options based on traffic statistics, for example, via Prometheus. So, there should be more ready solutions to autoscale based on specific applications."
"Salesforce introduces a lot of products and sometimes rebrands them, causing confusion. They acquire products like W and retain their names, creating confusion in the market. This confusion isn't related to the product's functionality but rather its positioning and rebranding. For instance, what was once known as Community Cloud is now referred to as Experience Cloud. This can be confusing for business leaders."
"The back end really isn't user-friendly at all."
"Pricing is the biggest factor. The cost right now is too high and I've had a lot of clients leave."
"Integration needs improvement."
"Salesforce also did not integrate well with some of the other systems that we had."
"When we're documenting information such as notes, and so forth, if we were to go back to the same case all notes go missing."
"A company needs to carefully consider how they set up Salesforce in order to ensure it benefits them."
"An expensive solution requiring a lot of configuration."
OpenShift is ranked 4th in PaaS Clouds with 53 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 8th in PaaS Clouds with 81 reviews. OpenShift is rated 8.4, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of OpenShift writes "Provides us with the flexibility and efficiency of cloud-native stacks while enabling us to meet regulatory constraints". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". OpenShift is most compared with Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Microsoft Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Dell ECS, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Azure, Appian and Salesforce Sales Cloud. See our OpenShift vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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