We performed a comparison between Heroku 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."It's easy to push a change and to deploy new things."
"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites."
"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."
"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."
"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."
"Valuable for us was the fast deployment. This means the time to market is improved without pain for developers."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the auto maintenance of databases."
"One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application."
"I like using the reports feature, but also the fact that we are able to have a smooth process when it comes to leads and opportunities."
"Checking out or extracting a report is just a click away."
"Salesforce is the best one out there."
"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."
"It is a fairly useful and user-friendly tool for salespersons. It is very extensive and flexible. You can customize it for your needs, and you can use whatever you want. I like Salesforce."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the unit coordination between sales and marketing when it comes to lead management."
"A great platform to import, manage and save customer data."
"It was pretty easy to deploy."
"We have to do daily restarts of some processes, which is annoying, and the support for custom CI could be better."
"Heroku should increase its slug size limits."
"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time."
"I improved the application performance by monitoring and adjusting the cleaner configuration to help set better lightweight limits on containers that run the app instances."
"The tool's configuration is complex."
"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."
"We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert."
"Heroku had an authentication problem a few months ago, but they solved it."
"Salesforce's mobile app could be better. Also, it could integrate more seamlessly with Gmail."
"The solution is a bit expensive."
"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."
"Integration needs improvement."
"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"
"Sometimes what will happen is we work on it and then we move to a different tab and work on something else. After five minutes, when we come back, it automatically signs out."
"I would like to have integration with Google."
"The reporting needs improvement and the dashboard could have more components added."
Heroku is ranked 13th in PaaS Clouds with 28 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 8th in PaaS Clouds with 82 reviews. Heroku is rated 8.4, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Heroku writes "Used for server deployment and provides auto maintenance of databases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". Heroku is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Google App Engine, Red Hat OpenShift and AWS Fargate, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Azure, Appian and ServiceNow. See our Heroku vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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