We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure vs. Salesforce Platform based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Salesforce Platform seems to be a superior solution. All other things being more or less equal, our reviewers found Microsoft Azure to be more difficult to deploy and far less flexible than Salesforce Platform.
"With the Azure solution, you can get more value from your cloud investment no matter what your future goals are. It depends on your level of familiarity with the cloud you are using or with your computing. Azure helps you with every stage of the cloud."
"This is a very stable product."
"The solution provides multiple well integrated services which happen to work together seamlessly and provide flexibility and scalability for use cases all around the industry."
"The tool’s stability is good."
"The feature that we like best is integration with Active Directory."
"It is a stable solution because it depends on the workload you expect. Based on that data, you can configure how many users it can handle."
"Reduces work for our IT teams and saves us a lot of time."
"It is stable and scalable."
"They are already beginning to implement generative AI."
"The product is pretty responsive."
"The reporting tools are very solid."
"It's an easy platform for salespeople to quickly and efficiently be able to track an opportunity."
"Intuitive to work with and the overall fundamental of the platform is very strong."
"What functions we don't get out of Salesforce, we typically receive from third-party applications that extend the capabilities. We integrate a lot of different products with Salesforce."
"We also use Salesforce to find trends to make informed decisions in terms of events and marketing campaigns."
"It is very user-friendly, and intuitive, it will lead you and take you to the next steps."
"It can be cheaper, which might simplify things a bit."
"The initial setup can be improved."
"From a security perspective, it could be improved."
"The price could be improved as well as the interface speed, and technical support."
"Use of the solution could be easier."
"I think Azure Active Directory and also the backup solutions provided in Azure need to be improved by Microsoft. The backup solution is not a very enterprise solution, and it is very simple. I think in comparison with other backup solutions like Nakivo and Veeam Backup, it can be improved to have a lot of options."
"I would like to see Internet content filtering included."
"It would be nice to have faster support."
"Although the platform is already set up for you, there's a lot of customization that needs to be done, especially for any new component we start using. For whatever solution we wanted, we had to think for ourselves and design it all on our own. And, unfortunately, there were some components that were not really mature in the beginning, like Tableau for example."
"UI needs to be more intuitive and user friendly."
"They need an easy way of getting details and then adding to it and then being able to do it in a more simplified way"
"There's a learning curve. It was a bit hard to understand the logical way of working with it, just at the beginning."
"I would like to have integration with Google."
"Salesforce Platform operates as a cloud system, and within our organization, numerous internal systems handle data processing. While real-time data retrieval is feasible through services, achieving real-time communication poses some challenges."
"Areas of improvement can be around Engagement of Customers feature and approvals of transactional records."
"Getting reports in Salesforce is sometimes a little bit difficult. You need to do a lot of things to get detailed reports. This feature can be improved. Its price can also be improved. It is currently expensive."
Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 8th in PaaS Clouds with 81 reviews. Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Linode, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Appian, ServiceNow and Amazon AWS. See our Microsoft Azure vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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