We performed a comparison between Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Salesforce Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier."
"The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good."
"The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line interface has the ability to push instances to the cloud easily."
"It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well."
"We find its stability and scalability valuable."
"It is a scalable product...We are not facing any particular issues since most of the applications in our company are written in Java and .NET."
"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."
"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 solution provides a preferred method of backing up data."
"The keyword search helps me in finding stuff quickly. So, I don't have to click around a lot."
"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."
"The scalability of the Salesforce Platform is good."
"When compared to Siebel, the Salesforce Platform is easier to use."
"Features they are integrating to the other services."
"It works beautifully. I haven't had any errors."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."
"It is not straightforward to setup."
"Regarding the setup phase, every step is a hurdle. With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, I won't get any proper resources for that. Even if I Google it, there is no proper solution for Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
"It should offer more security features."
"I'd like to see a larger service offering."
"There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features."
"The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology it is a bit complex."
"The integration of Salesforce with other solutions could be improved."
"Integration needs improvement."
"The reporting functionality is not very intuitive."
"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."
"The biggest challenge we had was the cost and the licensing."
"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."
"An expensive solution requiring a lot of configuration."
"They have some limitations as a cloud solution."
Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 15 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 8th in PaaS Clouds with 81 reviews. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 7.6, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and IBM Cloud Private, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Azure, Appian and ServiceNow. See our Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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