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.
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The initial setup is simple."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Some months ago, we started using Power BI embedded, which helped optimize the number of licenses for our company."
"The product is rather stable. We haven't had any issues with it in that sense."
"It is a reliable solution that is easy to set up."
"Azure is very flexible."
"The most valuable feature is the interface."
"The scalability of the Salesforce Platform is good."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the unit coordination between sales and marketing when it comes to lead management."
"Salesforce is a phenomenal application. It's very diverse."
"The product is pretty responsive."
"The solution is very robust and easy to develop in."
"It's an easy platform for salespeople to quickly and efficiently be able to track an opportunity."
"Intuitive to work with and the overall fundamental of the platform is very strong."
"There is very good documentation available and Salesforce offers good communication with its clients. It's very user-friendly and has a system that is easy to learn."
"I would like to see better policy-based management and everything related to security management could have been better integrated."
"It would be ideal if they could reduce costs a bit. Right now, we find the product to be expensive."
"I would like to see all of the cloud providers be more compatible with each other."
"There were also a lot of constraints with the serverless parts."
"Technical support needs to be better."
"The solution should be more intuitive and provide better support. We often do not receive frequent updates or comprehensive support, even as partners."
"The solution could be easier to use. However, when comparing it to AWS it is a bit easier."
"You eventually end up with a large collection of 'bits' all working together, I find it hard to be able to create a logical 'box' and put all the 'bits' that need to be in that box / application into the one place."
"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."
"Some business functionalities could be improved."
"It may be slow, but that is relative. When compared to Siebel CRM, which was large, clunky, and extremely slow, Salesforce seemed fast to me."
"Instead of creating our own template, if we had some nice templates that we could pick up - if there were some Microsoft Word templates or Microsoft Excel templates in a repository in Salesforce, that would be great."
"In Salesforce, every customer is unique and it's not possible to bundle them together effectively if they are from the same company or move companies, et cetera."
"Its documentation and price should be better."
"The reporting needs improvement and the dashboard could have more components added."
"I would like to have integration with Google."
Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 8th in PaaS Clouds with 81 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, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Linode, 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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