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.
"The performance is good."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is the Area feature. Additionally, the SQL Server DB as a serverless pool is useful, storage-wide external tables are helpful, and PolyBase is very good at reading external data. The capacity of Synapse to analyze in analytics is very good and it supports a range of data."
"Provisioning a server is fast, taking only one or two minutes before it is ready."
"The integration with Databricks is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the Access Management and the PIN modules."
"The tool's most valuable features are SQL servers and Managed Instance databases."
"The automated connectors to some of our critical enterprise systems are an important feature. These are very large, critical, global HCM systems."
"What we like the most about it is the fact that it helps us track the record of our projects. It keeps everything on one interface, facilitating the operations and planning."
"It is a great platform. It's definitely an improvement from the GCP application that we were using previously."
"We used it for providing a 360 view of the customers from within Salesforce. So, a lot of data got presented there, for which we used Einstein Analytics. The Einstein Analytics dashboards were really great."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"I like the reports and the dashboards. Since I'm a managing partner, I use the reports and dashboards to understand my team's contact management, opportunity management, and account management activities. We use Pardot for marketing campaigns."
"It works beautifully. I haven't had any errors."
"The entire solution is very customizable and you are able to add many functionalities."
"The solution's stability is fine. There are no issues with Salesforce's stability."
"The solution should be more intuitive and provide better support. We often do not receive frequent updates or comprehensive support, even as partners."
"Technical support needs to be better."
"Could be more user friendly; initial setup is difficult to understand."
"The solution could use mutual segmentation for servers. It would be ideal if you could constitute something like five or 15 groups among the groups of different computers inside Azure."
"Dashboards and reporting could be improved."
"There are a number of services offered by AWS that are not yet available on Azure."
"Azure installation is complicated. When we first deployed Azure, it was challenging."
"Their backup strategy is a little complex which racks up the VM to other sole storage areas. This should be improved."
"The solution's UI is horrible."
"I would like to see the organizational details improved to make it less difficult to bring new clients on board."
"I have found it takes an exceedingly long time to put opportunities or clients in the system. If I have an opportunity that I need to put in the system it could take approximately 10 minutes. This is a lot of time when you have multiple opportunities to put in. There are other tasks to do that are required by supervisors, such as forecasts. What I have done to save time is I did not input as much detail as I could have because I knew it was going to take me an hour to get five leads in."
"The solution offers upgrades at a slower pace. The solution needs to keep up with competitors."
"Salesforce's mobile app could be better. Also, it could integrate more seamlessly with Gmail."
"The reporting functionality is not very intuitive."
"An improved UX may be helpful in the solution's next release."
"In Salesforce, every customer is unique and it's not possible to bundle them together effectively if they are from the same company or move companies, et cetera."
Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 8th in PaaS Clouds with 82 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), Alibaba Cloud and Linode, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Appian, ServiceNow and Google Cloud. See our Microsoft Azure vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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