Compare Heroku vs. Salesforce Platform
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros | |
"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS." "It's easy to push a change and to deploy new things." | "The most valuable features are quick customization, solid deployment processes, and excellent reliability." "We haven't had any issues with stability so far." "I'm not sure what the most valuable aspect of the solution is, but I can say that their finance and auditing systems are quite impressive. You can audit in different invoices right to procurement. It's all quite seamless." "Features they are integrating to the other services." "The most valuable feature is ease of use." "The product is pretty responsive." "The queue management of the solution is its most valuable aspect." "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." |
Cons | |
"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more." "Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure." | "The cost of data storage is an issue once the company grows." "I would like to have integration with Google." "The solution offers upgrades at a slower pace. The solution needs to keep up with competitors." "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" "The marketing automation needs improvement." "Better flexibility in editing emails created from templates would be great, and being able to add hyperlinks in emails for scheduling meetings would allow us to automate more." "If you have resellers or distributors, you just need to figure out a way to set up the system in the backend. Since every company is different, it takes a little bit of time to figure that out." "The initial setup is rather complex." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
Information Not Available | "It is an expensive program." "The licensing is per user per month, which we took out a contract on a long time back. It's really an okay price for what solutions are available and for how many features and what kind of functionality you get." |
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Questions from the Community | |
Ask a question Earn 20 points | Top Answer: Features they are integrating to the other services. Top Answer: The pricing of the solution is fine. The enterprise purchase was for our entire organization. Top Answer: If you compare it with Appian, there are business rules that you are dealing with. With less code, we are making a higher standard. So maybe, in the future, Salesforce can make it a more integral part… more » |
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Views 4,499 Comparisons 3,889 Reviews 2 Average Words per Review 385 Rating 9.0 | Views 6,611 Comparisons 5,606 Reviews 7 Average Words per Review 476 Rating 8.0 |
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Also Known As | |
| Salesforce1, Force.com, Salesforce App Cloud | |
Learn | |
| Heroku | Salesforce |
Overview | |
Established in 2007, Heroku is a cloud application platform providing a streamlined, efficient place for web app developers to create and deploy their applications. Heroku is designed to maximize developer productivity. With the entire web application development process available on the Herokucloud, creating and rolling out web apps has been made more efficient, convenient, and cost-effective than ever before. | The Salesforce1 Platform brings together Force.com, Heroku, and ExactTarget into one family of cloud services all built API first to help deliver apps that connect products, users, and next generation experiences. Designed for scale and speed, it provides a fast way to build apps with open APIs, back-end services, integration tools, starter templates as well as powerful developer environments; there's no limit to what you can build. |
Offer | |
Learn more about Heroku | Learn more about Salesforce Platform |
Sample Customers | |
| Facebook, UrbanDictionary, Code for America, Mailchimp, Rapportive, GitHub, TED, and Lyft. | ADP |
Top Industries | |
Computer Software Company33% Comms Service Provider29% Financial Services Firm6% Manufacturing Company6% | Computer Software Company25% Cloud Provider13% Recreational Facilities/Services Company13% Media Company13% Computer Software Company40% Comms Service Provider19% Media Company6% Government5% |
Company Size | |
Small Business84% Midsize Enterprise5% Large Enterprise11% | Small Business45% Midsize Enterprise27% Large Enterprise27% |
Find out what your peers are saying about Heroku vs. Salesforce Platform and other solutions. Updated: January 2021.
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Heroku is ranked 10th in PaaS Clouds with 2 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 9 reviews. Heroku is rated 9.0, while Salesforce Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Heroku writes "Very good for implementing new apps and pushing changes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Empowers our sales team with a common platform, but lacks a few niche integrations". Heroku is most compared with Microsoft Azure, OpenShift, Amazon Lightsail, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Oracle Cloud Platform, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Microsoft PowerApps, Appian and Google App Engine. See our Heroku vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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