We performed a comparison between IBM Public Cloud 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 is a scalable product. You can scale it up and down."
"The initial setup was very easy. It's quite straightforward. Deployment took about fifteen minutes. Everything is well organized."
"This product is very good because it is accessible in remote locations, and anyone can deploy from any place."
"For non-complex applications, the IBM Cloud works fine and the price is much lower than the competitors."
"What I like most in IBM Public Cloud is how easy it is to create serverless functions. They are called IBM functions, but in AWS, they are called Lambda functions. Those are pretty standard, and another thing I like the most is that you have fewer restrictions on the amount of data you can transfer across those functions. IBM Public Cloud is way more flexible than AWS. I also like that IBM Public Cloud is pretty straightforward to integrate. As long as you have all the tools IBM provides you, getting everything up and running is straightforward."
"This is a predictable and dependable service."
"An advantage of IBM Public Cloud is the bare metal server. We can take the bare metal server. It's not shared with anyone. We can deploy our applications without sharing them with anyone. That is an advantage of IBM Public Cloud."
"The beauty of cloud service providers, especially public cloud service providers, is that they are scalable every time when you need them because their payment model is pay-as-you-go."
"The process and the workflows are amazing."
"The keyword search helps me in finding stuff quickly. So, I don't have to click around a lot."
"The solution is very robust and easy to develop in."
"Intuitive to work with and the overall fundamental of the platform is very strong."
"The scalability of the Salesforce Platform is good."
"The solution provides a preferred method of backing up data."
"he solution has improved over the years and the inputting of opportunity information is done a lot better and the GUI is good. The ability to customize dashboards and other elements was useful, we were able to move things around, for example, the forecasts. Most of the cells and input places were set, but we can customize the view and what we were looking at, such as on a daily, or weekly basis."
"When compared to Siebel, the Salesforce Platform is easier to use."
"It could be more secure."
"It will be challenging to implement if you do not have any experience."
"The deployment can be a bit of a pain. There are a lot of packages and a lot of options and it can require complex configuration to get it right."
"The solution needs to be more autonomous. It should let the DL go to allow for more jobs on the cloud. It could have a better interface as well."
"While they have about 99% of what we need, the only exception, perhaps, was the push notification feature that was discontinued. They delayed the replacement product."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly deployment process in the next release of this solution."
"The initial setup and the pricing are areas that need improvement."
"There is not a lot of support for this solution, which is something that needs to be improved."
"Salesforce needs to be re-platformed, or re-architected, making it lighter."
"It does need very specific resources to help deploy it and buy in from the users. It's one of those items it's pretty disruptive and if it's not deployed properly and if it doesn't get utilized efficiently, it won't be effective."
"I would like to have integration with Google."
"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."
"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"
"Although the platform is already set up for you, there's a lot of customization that needs to be done, especially for any new component we start using. For whatever solution we wanted, we had to think for ourselves and design it all on our own. And, unfortunately, there were some components that were not really mature in the beginning, like Tableau for example."
"Some business functionalities could be improved."
"Pricing is the biggest factor. The cost right now is too high and I've had a lot of clients leave."
IBM Public Cloud is ranked 9th in PaaS Clouds with 6 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 8th in PaaS Clouds with 29 reviews. IBM Public Cloud is rated 8.0, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Public Cloud writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and has helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Offers out-of-the-box features and provides a wide range of capabilities under what they call "No code," "Low code," and "Pro code" options". IBM Public Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Platform, Google Cloud and OpenShift, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Azure, Appian and ServiceNow. See our IBM Public Cloud vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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