We performed a comparison between Google Compute Engine and Salesforce Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."It's the most engineer-friendly product compared to Amazon AWS or Azure."
"The solution helps to direct SSH into the machine at the click of a button. It also helps to deploy container images right from the UI. There is no need to manage the containers on the machine. I also like the tool’s Spot provision model."
"The initial setup is reasonably straightforward. It's a handful of networks and a handful of computers."
"Everything is simple and useful. The initial setup is not challenging."
"The support for ephemeral instances has been particularly valuable for me. It allows me to significantly reduce costs for temporary virtual machines by automatically destroying them once they are no longer needed, which can result in cost savings of up to 90 percent. Additionally, the solution is easy to use."
"From a feature perspective, I find API integration, automation capabilities, and features like preemptive and Spot instances valuable. Migration tools have also been useful."
"The most valuable feature is auto-scaling."
"The main motive for choosing Google Compute Engine is pricing."
"I love the report building that is available."
"We also use Salesforce to find trends to make informed decisions in terms of events and marketing campaigns."
"It is a great platform. It's definitely an improvement from the GCP application that we were using previously."
"The solution is used to track our customers."
"The entire solution is very customizable and you are able to add many functionalities."
"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."
"The stability has been great."
"It is very user-friendly, and intuitive, it will lead you and take you to the next steps."
"There have been instances when a customer has tried to deploy a certain number of VMs inside a project, and they come across quota issues."
"The licensing process is not a very straightforward process."
"It has some limitations. For example, you don't get through layer two connectivity. So I've had some difficulty deploying custom VMs. For example, you can't deploy a KVM file to file directly on GCP."
"It would be better if there was an option to change the background. Like in Gmail, there's an option to change your theme."
"It is not very user-friendly for non-experienced users"
"I rate the product's stability around five to six out of ten."
"I would like to improve the solution’s UI while deploying a container. It is sometimes hard to figure out the container’s details and format that you want to deploy. The tool does not give you a guide to find out the error and why the container is not starting up which could be because you have configured it wrong. This is always a hit on the setup."
"Google Compute Engine does not have many options at a lower tier level. If they had more options it will be better. For example, Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, have more options and different types of instances, of VMs we can select."
"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."
"Reporting could be better. Reporting is Excel-based, and it has sucked since the inception of the company. That's why I was excited about the fact of them bringing MuleSoft into the fold and Tableau."
"I would like to have integration with Google."
"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."
"The marketing automation needs improvement."
"We have a lot of strategic accounts and large accounts that are tied with all the growth and acquisitions across North America, being able to tag parent-child accounts in an easier fashion would be better. This is the biggest pain point is associating parent to child and being able to align and manage it better. Overall a better parent-child relationship between accounts would be a benefit."
"Salesforce Platform has a cumbersome interface when creating reports, dashboards, and those types of things. They could be a little bit more simple. The administration has to be an aficionado to do any sort of administration and maintenance, for example, setting up the way you want to modify the lead tracks or functions. These systems tend to be quite cumbersome."
"I want more analytics in the platform and the addition of AI-based models, for example, predictive feedback. The Salesforce Platform needs to be more intelligent and intuitive to make it a great solution."
Google Compute Engine is ranked 11th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 13 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 8th in PaaS Clouds with 80 reviews. Google Compute Engine is rated 8.8, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Google Compute Engine writes "A cost-effective and quite an elastic solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". Google Compute Engine is most compared with Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, IBM Public Cloud, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Azure, Appian and ServiceNow.
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