Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs. Salesforce Platform Comparison

Pivotal Cloud Foundry

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Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Read 4 Pivotal Cloud Foundry reviews.

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Empowers our sales team with a common platform, but lacks a few niche integrations

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Pros
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good.""Stability is not a concern with this product.""The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier.""PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime." More Pivotal Cloud Foundry Pros »	"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." More Salesforce Platform Pros »
Cons
"In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience.""The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it.""In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools.""It is not straightforward to setup." More Pivotal Cloud Foundry Cons »	"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." More Salesforce Platform Cons »

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"Licensing is on a monthly basis and right now we pay $24/month. There are no other costs over and above that." More Pivotal Cloud Foundry Pricing and Cost Advice »	"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." More Salesforce Platform Pricing and Cost Advice »

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Questions from the Community
What do you like most about Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Top Answer: Stability is not a concern with this product. Read all 2 answers What needs improvement with Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Top Answer: The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it. They can refer to the documentation and YouTube videos, but the navigation is still a concern. It… more » Read all 2 answers What is your primary use case for Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Top Answer: We are a solution provider the Pivotal Cloud Foundry is one of the products that we implement for our clients. We help our clients choose solutions that fit their requirements and then we assist with… more » Read all 2 answers	What do you like most about Salesforce App Cloud? Top Answer: Features they are integrating to the other services. Read all 4 answers What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Salesforce App Cloud? Top Answer: The pricing of the solution is fine. The enterprise purchase was for our entire organization. Read all 2 answers What needs improvement with Salesforce App Cloud? 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 » Read all 4 answers
Ranking
9th out of 31 in PaaS Clouds Views 12,770 Comparisons 10,631 Reviews 4 Average Words per Review 324 Rating 8.0	7th out of 31 in PaaS Clouds Views 6,611 Comparisons 5,606 Reviews 7 Average Words per Review 476 Rating 8.0
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Also Known As
PCF, Pivotal Application Service (PAS), Pivotal Container Service (PKS), Pivotal Function Service (PFS)	Salesforce1, Force.com, Salesforce App Cloud
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VMware	Salesforce
Overview
Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is the leading enterprise PaaS, powered by Cloud Foundry. PCF provides a cloud-native application platform that allows you to continuously deliver any app to every major private and public cloud with a single platform. PCF is proven to accelerate feature delivery with higher developer productivity and a 200:1 developer to operator ratio. PCF's built-in security and self-healing capabilities reduce risk in your app portfolio while maintaining high-availability at scale to keep customer facing systems online even in the most challenging circumstances. pivotal.io	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.
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Sample Customers
Humana, Citibank, Mercedes Benz, Liberty Mutual, The Home Depot, GE, West Corp, Merrill Corporation, CoreLogic, Orange, Dish Network, Comcast, Bloomberg, Internal Revenue Service, Ford Motor Company, Garmin, Volkswagen, Solera, Allstate, US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, ScotiaBank	ADP
Top Industries
VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company32% Financial Services Firm15% Comms Service Provider11% Manufacturing Company7%	REVIEWERS Computer Software Company25% Cloud Provider13% Recreational Facilities/Services Company13% Media Company13% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company40% Comms Service Provider19% Media Company6% Energy/Utilities Company5%
Company Size
No Data Available	REVIEWERS Small Business45% Midsize Enterprise27% Large Enterprise27%

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 9th in PaaS Clouds with 4 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 9 reviews. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 8.0, while Salesforce Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Open-source makes it cost-effective, but the interface needs to be improved". 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". Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, OpenShift, VMware Tanzu Application Service and Mendix, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Microsoft PowerApps, Appian and Bizagi. See our Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs. Salesforce Platform report.

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