We performed a comparison between GeneXus, Salesforce Platform, and Xamarin Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OutSystems, Mendix, Salesforce and others in Mobile Development Platforms."I like that it's very compatible with other tools. The most important feature is getting the developer to focus on the project's business case. It's not about focusing on how I can command this or how I can develop a front end, or how I can work with the advantages. The developer should focus on the business case of the project. No need to focus on connecting the database to the server or connecting the server and the front end. The developer can concentrate on the views."
"I find the implementation process of GeneXus to be easy."
"GeneXus evolves with technology."
"I like the testing models, which allow me to create unit or interface tests of my programs. It helps us avoid missed deadlines because we can detect all the errors before deploying the new versions of the solution. And I also like the integration with coding managers like DevOps or Jenkins. It enables us to do versioning."
"With the solution, I can work a normal day. I can plan my work and any other activities for days ahead."
"The integration module is the most valuable feature of this solution for our business, as it allows our clients to create new systems based on their outdated databases, across all API's."
"With GeneXus, we can create logical representations of transactions in the form of objects."
"The front-end features are the most valuable."
"A great platform to import, manage and save customer data."
"Its stability, performance, and usability are most valuable."
"The scalability of the Salesforce Platform is good."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the CRM. Salesforce Platform comes with out-of-the-box capabilities."
"They are already beginning to implement generative AI."
"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 was pretty easy to deploy."
"One can do almost everything using Salesforce's OOTB functionality without much investment."
"Cross-platform development saves time and provides consistencies."
"You can create one solution in C Sharp."
"It is a true native solution, and we can use the cross-platform framework."
"Plugins like MvvmCross make a developer’s life easy."
"The cross platform ability is a great asset."
"My favorite feature of Xamarin platform is the Xamarin.Essentials package. I also like the changes seen in Xamarin's upgrade from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI, because in the older Xamarin Platform, Xamarin.Forms gave you multiple libraries of a particular level for a single platform, whereas .NET MAUI comprises a single, organized library that contains everything needed for both Android and iOS."
"The platform is easy to learn as many tutorials are available on YouTube."
"I like Renderers in Xamarin. They allow us to use native-platform controls easily."
"It's expensive for a company."
"GeneXus's user interface has room for improvement."
"There are issues in integrating it with other solutions."
"The tool needs to be tuned before being used. You need some experience to get the best out of the tool."
"I told them to add something about Angular. They're already working on adding it."
"Documentation is always an issue. In order to develop with GeneXus, there is very little documentation. The documentation is not clear enough in order to develop a great tool."
"We would like to see more extensions and more user controls added to the front-end of this solution, in order to help developers manage the website."
"It would be better if GeneXus had a wiki. The developer needs some experience to work with the tools. It would be better if they could improve the community. If we have some problem, I open a ticket that takes us to a board, and I have to describe my issue in detail. If the tools have a general community for us to explore with some videos or some articles, I think that that may help the developer."
"The management of Salesforce could be quite a task. Old and unusable contacts can add up over time. If I could wave a magic wand, it would be to initiate a self-cleaning feature."
"An improved UX may be helpful in the solution's next release."
"Instead of creating our own template, if we had some nice templates that we could pick up - if there were some Microsoft Word templates or Microsoft Excel templates in a repository in Salesforce, that would be great."
"Simplification is something it needs. Every time you get the engineers involved, they make things a little too complicated. It might be more beneficial to simplify everything for quick and easy reference."
"There needs to be more documentation."
"A company needs to carefully consider how they set up Salesforce in order to ensure it benefits them."
"Technical support could be a bit faster."
"Salesforce is incredibly slow. It was difficult to run live sales calls and leveraging Salesforce at the same time."
"The solution struggles a little bit with binding libraries."
"They need to improve performance, especially for the Android platform. Also, some controls are missing in the Xamarin framework when compared to native controls; for example, the checkbox control."
"The android application compilation time needs to be reduced."
"From time to time, it is a bit harder to code some specific scenarios compared to the native approach."
"Needs to improve the customization of its screens."
"We'd like to have some chat support functionality."
"There is room for increasing the scale a little bit further with the designer in the Visual Studio, more specifically, Xamarin.Android Designer in Visual Studio."
"The performance needs improvement, especially the dev tools, and also the ultimate output of the mobile applications."
