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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Data Factory

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Data Factory is a service built for all data integration needs and skill levels. It is designed to allow the user to easily construct ETL and ELT processes code-free within the intuitive visual environment, or write one's own code. Visually integrate data sources using more than 80 natively built and maintenance-free connectors at no added cost. Focus on data—the serverless integration service does the rest.N/A

    Salesforce Data 360

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Data 360 (formerly Salesforce Data Cloud, or Salesforce Genie) is a solution to put data to work for customers. It is deeply embedded in the Einstein 1 Platform, which means any external data lake or warehouse can now drive actions and workflows inside of the Salesforce CRM.

    $108,000

    per year per org

    Pricing
    Azure Data FactorySalesforce Data 360
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    Data Cloud for Marketing
    $108000
    per year per org
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    Azure Data FactorySalesforce Data 360
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Azure Data FactorySalesforce Data 360
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Azure Data FactorySalesforce Data 360
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Azure Data Factory and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Azure Data Factory
    8.5
    10 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Connect to traditional data sources9.010 Ratings8.19 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL8.110 Ratings7.86 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Azure Data Factory and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Azure Data Factory
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Simple transformations8.710 Ratings8.810 Ratings
    Complex transformations7.010 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Azure Data Factory and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Azure Data Factory
    6.2
    10 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Data model creation4.37 Ratings8.310 Ratings
    Metadata management5.48 Ratings7.89 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow5.910 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Collaboration6.99 Ratings7.710 Ratings
    Testing and debugging6.410 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Azure Data Factory and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Azure Data Factory
    5.6
    10 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.0
    10 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Integration with data quality tools4.210 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools7.09 Ratings6.48 Ratings
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    Azure Data FactorySalesforce Data 360
    Small Businesses
    Skyvia
    Score10 out of 10
    Skyvia
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Score10 out of 10
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Task Factory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    SolarWinds Task Factory
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure Data FactorySalesforce Data 360
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (10 ratings)
    8.2
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (3 ratings)
    8.2
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Azure Data FactorySalesforce Data 360
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Best scenario is for ETL process. The flexibility and connectivity is outstanding. For our environment, SAP data connectivity with Azure Data Factory offers very limited features compared to SAP Data Sphere. Due to the limited modelling capacity of the tool, we use Databricks for data modelling and cleaning. Usage of multiple tools could have been avoided if adf has modelling capabilities.
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    Salesforce
    Great tool for client management, sales tracking, cases studies. Using is as the source of truth for all client communication. Allowing more integration options for cc and ACH payments. Right now the options are limited and only integrate with strict processing capabilities that are not always in the businesses best interest.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Data Ingestion - it works very well with numerous data sources.
    • Data pipeline orchestration: It is a generic, popular tool for orchestrating data pipelines.
    • Works well in Azure ecosystem, Azure services and data platforms like Databricks.
    • It is a serverless and scalable solution for cloud data integration.
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    Salesforce
    • Allows use to bring external data into Salesforce as zero-copy
    • Is able to present data using standard Salesforce reports familiar to our users
    • Allows us to establish multiple relationships between our CRM data and the external data to contextualize the imported data.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Granularity of Errors: Sometimes, Azure Data Factory provides error messages that are too generic or vague for us, making it challenging to pinpoint the exact cause of a pipeline failure. Enhanced error messages with more actionable details would greatly assist us as users in debugging their pipelines.
    • Pipeline Design UI: In my experience, the visual interface for designing pipelines, especially when dealing with complex workflows or numerous activities, can become cluttered. I think a more intuitive and scalable design interface would improve usability. In my opinion, features like zoom, better alignment tools, or grouping capabilities could make managing intricate designs more manageable.
    • Native Support: While Azure Data Factory does support incremental data loads, in my experience, the setup can be somewhat manual and complex. I think native and more straightforward support for Change Data Capture, especially from popular databases, would simplify the process of capturing and processing only the changed data, making regular data updates more efficient
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    Salesforce
    • pricing or costing visibilty, we can't estimate what would be consumption this month and suddenly we get surprised
    • CI/CD can be improved, that looks a difficult and hard
    • Also sandbox comes with many limitation so very hard to replicate production like environment to test
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    So far product has performed as expected. We were noticing some performance issues, but they were largely Synapse related. This has led to a shift from Synapse to Databricks. Overall this has delayed our analytic platform. Once databricks becomes fully operational, Azure Data Factory will be critical to our environment and future success.
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    Salesforce
    Most of the daily use features, are very usr friendly, intuitive, every end user can learn how to manage and operate basic activities such as enter information, send an email, send a campaign, create an email marketing template, run a report on the renewals for the month, open and close a support case, create new account or a new contact, etc
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    We have not had need to engage with Microsoft much on Azure Data Factory, but they have been responsive and helpful when needed. This being said, we have not had a major emergency or outage requiring their intervention. The score of seven is a representation that they have done well for now, but have not proved out their support for a significant issue
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Azure Data Factory helps us automate to schedule jobs as per customer demands to make ETL triggers when the need arises. Anyone can define the workflow with the Azure Data Factory UI designer tool and easily test the systems. It helped us automate the same workflow with programming languages like Python or automation tools like ansible. Numerous options for connectivity be it a database or storage account helps us move data transfer to the cloud or on-premise systems.
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    Salesforce
    we have evaluated Snowflake, adobe rt-cdp as well. They also offer a very strong capabilities but the Data 360 is more suitable for us because of the same Salesforce ecosystem. The main key factor is without any custom code we were able to include it into our automations. And ofcourse with agentforce already in plans, we had to pick Data 360
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Facilitate better decision-making and improve business processes.
    • Optimize business process outcomes by increasing internal efficiency and operational effectiveness.
    • Boosts revenue growth while improving business process agility.
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    Salesforce
    • Salesforce Data Cloud has a positive impact on me as a realtor because it is easy to generate reports on customer data and see what is needed to be bumped to the next level. We have to earn a certain commission by the end of the year and it makes it easy to see how close you are
    • It has a positive impact on keeping track of customers because it is nice to have it all in one place which is a nice time saver
    • I like that you can even see customer info from other agents making it nice to compare and try and pass others
    • Makes the customers journey smooth sailing because everything is in one place
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