We performed a comparison between Appian and Salesforce Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Rapid Application Development Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is easy."
"There is a version coming out every six months with performance improvements."
"The product's most valuable feature is the low code aspect of development. We can develop an end-to-end VPN solution using a single platform."
"We appreciate the drag and drop functionality and the easy to access plug and play features."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The Application Designer is very user friendly. There are also lot of plug-ins that you can use and, for the most part, they are free."
"Write to Data Store Entity - Saving data in SQL databases is done easily using entities. Entities (CDTs in Appian terminology) define relationships and target schema tables via XSD files."
"Appian's most valuable feature is that we can create end-to-end process workflows with minimum turnaround."
"What I like about the Salesforce Platform, in particular, its enterprise edition is that apart from its many features, you can have a wider view of the customers, a 360-degree view. I also enjoy managing opportunities in the Salesforce Platform a lot because it's easier and gives you a wider view, compared to HubSpot."
"It was pretty easy to deploy."
"Salesforce is cloud-based, so there's no installation involved. You simply log in using the provided organization login. There's no need for installation."
"Salesforce's strongest feature is reporting especially. It's also a lot more usable than other platforms I've worked with. It has a great user experience, with the ability to filter and access information in real-time."
"One of the main features of the solution is it is flexible."
"The solution can scale."
"The activities, opportunities, follow-up of the opportunities, and business tracking are valuable features. It provides everything that we need. It works pretty well."
"It has definitely improved how we function."
"The solution could use some more tutorials to help brand new users figure out how to use the product effectively."
"One of the areas that Appian is working on is to improve its UI capabilities and give more flexibility to the UI."
"There is no UI customization possible."
"My only request is that they decrease the license costs."
"The reporting is not as good as in similar products. They could also improve the dashboards."
"If that had more DevOps capabilities, it would be an excellent product."
"The performance is pretty good, but the distortions need to be optimized in order for it to work well."
"We'd like improved functionality for testing new devices."
"The back end really isn't user-friendly at all."
"There's a learning curve. It was a bit hard to understand the logical way of working with it, just at the beginning."
"The reporting for Salesforce could be approved. It is a manual process and it would be useful to have a guide or videos on how to generate reports or any other cool things that you could do with the platform."
"The solution is a bit 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."
"Salesforce's mobile app could be better. Also, it could integrate more seamlessly with Gmail."
"I would like to see the organizational details improved to make it less difficult to bring new clients on board."
Appian is ranked 6th in Rapid Application Development Software with 58 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 9th in Rapid Application Development Software with 81 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and IBM BPM, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Azure, ServiceNow and Amazon AWS. See our Appian vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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