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.
"There are several products within Azure."
"I have not had a problem with the stability. It is reliable."
"One advantage of using Azure is that clients can start with a low-cost entry in terms of hardware and scale as their business and user base grows. They don't need to allocate a large budget for infrastructure upfront."
"The data factory feature."
"Microsoft Azure has thousands of services and products."
"The most valuable features are the interface and customizability."
"Microsoft Azure has been easy to use in my experience."
"Microsoft Azure has a large scope, it can do many things."
"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."
"They are already beginning to implement generative AI."
"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."
"The solution is very robust and easy to develop in."
"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."
"It is a fairly useful and user-friendly tool for salespersons. It is very extensive and flexible. You can customize it for your needs, and you can use whatever you want. I like Salesforce."
"The scalability of the Salesforce Platform is good."
"It's an easy platform for salespeople to quickly and efficiently be able to track an opportunity."
"It would be beneficial if Microsoft could enhance the free version to allow for more exploration and development. That's my only suggestion regarding Azure."
"I have found Microsoft Azure has many components to use and it's very difficult to understand every component."
"It is constantly updating. There are weekly releases, sometimes daily releases, and there should be fewer that are consolidated into one."
"It would be helpful if Azure provided more information on the various add-ons to give people an understanding of what they are used for, and how they're applied by other companies or businesses."
"The documentation can be outdated and is not as clear in Microsoft Azure as it is in AWS or Google."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
"With Microsoft, our only concern is exchange rates because we're paying in dollars. It's very expensive for us because of the exchange rates. It would help if they partnered with someone locally so we can pay in our local currency."
"The permissions and controls in the product are not easy to use."
"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."
"The reporting functionality is not very intuitive."
"We have a lot of strategic accounts and large accounts that are tied with all the growth and acquisitions across North America, being able to tag parent-child accounts in an easier fashion would be better. This is the biggest pain point is associating parent to child and being able to align and manage it better. Overall a better parent-child relationship between accounts would be a benefit."
"Salesforce also did not integrate well with some of the other systems that we had."
"When it switched to lightning, it threw me for a loop. When they changed the look and feel, I had a hard time finding things and doing what I used to do."
"I want more analytics in the platform and the addition of AI-based models, for example, predictive feedback. The Salesforce Platform needs to be more intelligent and intuitive to make it a great solution."
"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."
"Simplification is something it needs. Every time you get the engineers involved, they make things a little too complicated. It might be more beneficial to simplify everything for quick and easy reference."
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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