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.
"Microsoft offers free courses and an exam on their products. Many of my colleagues who use Microsoft Azure take advantage of those free courses to help them learn about the solution in depth."
"The solution is user-friendly and compatible."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the enhancements are continually being updated."
"The solution has high stability."
"Microsoft Azure has a large scope, it can do many things."
"The solution is useful for handling large amounts of data."
"One of the most valuable features of Azure is that it's a very integrated solution. You have to learn how to use it properly, but it's not that hard, and you can define your whole scrum process and deploy it from one place. It was a really nice surprise to see how easily integrated this tool is."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure is the compatibility with all of our Windows applications and other Microsoft technologies"
"A fully integrated solution that provides a seamless experience."
"The product is pretty responsive."
"Checking out or extracting a report is just a click away."
"The keyword search helps me in finding stuff quickly. So, I don't have to click around a lot."
"The reporting tools are very solid."
"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."
"The scalability of the Salesforce Platform is good."
"The entire solution is very customizable and you are able to add many functionalities."
"Scalability is definitely in need of improvement. Azure is a very good solution but it still lacks the performance of other cloud platforms."
"Overall, the solution is good but there are some minor technical issues that can be resolved."
"I would like to see better policy-based management and everything related to security management could have been better integrated."
"In my opinion, what could be improved is making the actual costs more predictable. It is very difficult to estimate the cost or the budget you are going to need to run your environment in Azure Cloud. You have to be a specialist to understand how you will be charged, which constantly changes."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"Because it has a lot of features, a person just coming into Microsoft Azure might feel that it is a bit complex."
"Security could be better. Once there was an attack, and we couldn't get to the cloud to see the reports for about five hours."
"A problem with Azure is that the architecture that they have is not really compliant — not really connecting with the endpoint Cloud."
"They should provide access to data quality tips and tricks to make it better."
"An improved UX may be helpful in the solution's next release."
"Its documentation and price should be better."
"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"
"Salesforce is a pretty cumbersome product. It's a product that you need to spend quite a bit of time customizing to your unique business model. Unless you have somebody in house that knows it really well, you're better off spending money with a consultant to get what you need."
"The pricing of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement since, right now, I am not sure if Salesforce Platform has any plans for start-ups or small businesses."
"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."
"I have found it takes an exceedingly long time to put opportunities or clients in the system. If I have an opportunity that I need to put in the system it could take approximately 10 minutes. This is a lot of time when you have multiple opportunities to put in. There are other tasks to do that are required by supervisors, such as forecasts. What I have done to save time is I did not input as much detail as I could have because I knew it was going to take me an hour to get five leads in."
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, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Google App Engine, 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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