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 most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the enhancements are continually being updated."
"Databricks is really nice because you have the power to process lots of data and you can create queries and provide big analysis for the business using a robust cluster."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable so far."
"The system is more secure, and this is valuable."
"The product scales extremely well."
"The management part of it is good. Its UI is simple to use. The cost management and billing part is also good. These are the top things that I like in Azure."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The reporting tools are very solid."
"Salesforce is a phenomenal application. It's very diverse."
"We like that the technology is very agile and flexible in the sense that there's a large partner ecosystem within Salesforce Platform. This enables us to choose from many different partners with different advantages, and all of it can be done in a plug-and-play kind of way."
"It's very flexible and offers tremendous features for customers."
"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."
"It is a great platform. It's definitely an improvement from the GCP application that we were using previously."
"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."
"Salesforce is the best one out there."
"Azure could be made more user-friendly."
"Navigating the frequent changes in the interface has been a challenge, requiring effort to keep up with updates. Options or features that were once located in one window may unexpectedly move to another, making it hard to stay current with the changes."
"We need more customization and support for doing so."
"Potential improvements to the price calculator tool"
"The response time and stability of Microsoft Azure need to be improved."
"You eventually end up with a large collection of 'bits' all working together, I find it hard to be able to create a logical 'box' and put all the 'bits' that need to be in that box / application into the one place."
"Maybe Azure could add an address code to create your analysis without SQL or Python because some business users don't want it to code. So it's good to have a service application that connects to the data lake to conduct analysis and simplify the business process."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by having the availability be 100%. Which is difficult, but not impossible."
"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."
"It is quite expensive. It has gotten to that point where it is a lot more pricey. It has kind of got its own proprietary language for development. It is probably never going to change, but if it had a more market language for development, it would be easier to find developers. They come at a premium cost, so it is expensive."
"Pricing is the biggest factor. The cost right now is too high and I've had a lot of clients leave."
"Some business functionalities could be improved."
"This platform is indeed on the expensive side."
"There's a learning curve. It was a bit hard to understand the logical way of working with it, just at the beginning."
"An expensive solution requiring a lot of configuration."
"The biggest challenge we had was the cost and the licensing."
Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 8th in PaaS Clouds with 80 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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