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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DigitalOcean

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.

    $5

    Starting Price Per Month

    Agentforce Commerce

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Agentforce Commerce (formerly Commerce Cloud, and Demandware before that) is a cloud-based eCommerce solution for enterprises with merchandising tools, such as sorting, filtering, and image zooming, allowing customers to browse products.

    $4

    per month

    Pricing
    DigitalOceanAgentforce Commerce
    Editions & Modules
    1GB-16GB
    $5.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    8GB-160GB
    $60.00
    Starting Price Per Month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DigitalOceanAgentforce Commerce
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—B2B Commerce: Starter - $4 price/order Growth - $6 price/order Plus - $8 price/order B2C Commerce: Starter - 1% Gross Merchandise Value Growth - 2% Gross Merchandise Value Plus - 3% Gross Merchandise Value B2B2C Commerce: 1% Gross Merchandise Value
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    Community Pulse
    DigitalOceanAgentforce Commerce
    Considered Both Products
    DigitalOcean
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    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    DigitalOceanAgentforce Commerce
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of DigitalOcean and Salesforce Agentforce Commerce
    Feature
    DigitalOcean
    9.2
    36 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Commerce
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.931 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.932 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.723 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.733 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support9.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls8.632 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation6.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of DigitalOcean and Salesforce Agentforce Commerce
    Feature
    DigitalOcean
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Commerce
    8.9
    44 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Product catalog & listings00 Ratings9.339 Ratings
    Product management00 Ratings9.339 Ratings
    Bulk product upload00 Ratings8.138 Ratings
    Branding00 Ratings9.139 Ratings
    Mobile storefront00 Ratings9.335 Ratings
    Product variations00 Ratings9.341 Ratings
    Website integration00 Ratings8.639 Ratings
    Visual customization00 Ratings8.040 Ratings
    CMS00 Ratings9.437 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of DigitalOcean and Salesforce Agentforce Commerce
    Feature
    DigitalOcean
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Commerce
    9.1
    34 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings8.928 Ratings
    Checkout user experience00 Ratings9.234 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of DigitalOcean and Salesforce Agentforce Commerce
    Feature
    DigitalOcean
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Commerce
    9.5
    33 Ratings
    13% above category average
    eCommerce security00 Ratings9.533 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of DigitalOcean and Salesforce Agentforce Commerce
    Feature
    DigitalOcean
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Commerce
    8.3
    38 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Promotions & discounts00 Ratings8.736 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations00 Ratings8.138 Ratings
    SEO00 Ratings8.133 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of DigitalOcean and Salesforce Agentforce Commerce
    Feature
    DigitalOcean
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Commerce
    9.2
    41 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Multi-site management00 Ratings9.235 Ratings
    Order processing00 Ratings8.938 Ratings
    Inventory management00 Ratings9.237 Ratings
    Shipping00 Ratings9.530 Ratings
    Custom functionality00 Ratings9.338 Ratings
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    DigitalOceanAgentforce Commerce
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DigitalOceanAgentforce Commerce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (36 ratings)
    8.7
    (55 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.8
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    9.2
    (11 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DigitalOceanAgentforce Commerce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is perfect for hosting client websites, running marketing tools, and managing media storage with Spaces and CDN. The use of Droplets to quickly launch landing pages or WordPress sites for campaigns is a Godsend. It’s great for fast, cheap, and scalable solutions. But for complex microservices or projects needing strict compliance (like HIPAA), DigitalOcean may not always be the best fit, but that depends heavily on your project.
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    Salesforce
    Global Sites; larger commerce organizations but not too large where the % rev-share would affect its feasibility in a feature comparison. Salesforce is rock solid in infrastructure and rarely has outages or issues; it scaled appropriately for holiday peak and was able to accomplish anything we put our minds to as long as we staffed development appropriately. The latter, however, is not to be overlooked. Developers are necessary and expensive.
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    Pros
    DigitalOcean
    • DigitalOcean provides some of the best cost-to-value services available
    • The DigitalOcean cloud console is very intuitive and easy to navigate
    • DigitalOcean has great support for Docker and other dev ops tools like Terraform.
    • DigitalOcean iterates quickly and provides cutting edge features for organizations that want to keep up with the latest and greatest dev ops tooling
    • DigitalOcean has a great developer community and numerous support docs/tutorials
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    Salesforce
    • Traffic - When we have sales, our traffic will increase exponentially and their cloud can handle the huge uptick in traffic we receive without overloading our servers.
    • Site updates - it continually monitors in the background for any upgrades or updates needed so we don't have to go in and do it ourselves. A real time saver!
    • Integration - outside plugins and add-ons are easy to install with Salesforce commerce cloud as it allows a seamless integration of extra plug ins onto our site.
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    Cons
    DigitalOcean
    • Some products/services available on other Cloud providers aren't available, but they seem to be catching up as they add new products like Managed SQL DBs.
    • While they have FreeBSD droplets (VMs), support for *BSD OSs is limited. I.e. the new monitoring agent only works on Linux.
    • There are no regions available on South America.
    • They don't seem to offer enterprise-level products, even basic ones as Windows Server, MS SQL Server, Oracle products, etc.
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    Salesforce
    • The UX within the Business Manager portion of Demandware, the primary interface for marketers, is generally a confusing, inconsistent mess. Particularly infuriating are the lack of consistency for search and sort behavior within the tool.
    • A number of useful features, such as the ability to set schedules or tie features to unique customer segments, have seemingly arbitrary limitations imposed.
    • Demandware's idea of leveraging the community to be a learning resource and a sounding board for new ideas and features is a nice theory, but in practice it doesn't work for businesses with a lot of customization. I'm left with the impression that individual support is not a priority.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    DigitalOcean
    I've been very happy with it for my purposes and I plan to continue to use DigitalOcean for the foreseeable future!
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    Salesforce
    A huge factor influencing our decision to remain on the Demandware platform is that our new parent company is standardizing all its luxury brands in the US on it. We are fortunate. However, even if we had remained an independent company, I believe we would continue on the Demandware platform for all the reasons outlined in this review. I appreciate the stability the platform has provided to our eCommerce site in the last three years as well as the continuous improvements and technological advances being rolled out that will allow us to keep the site fresh, engaging, modern and stable. I've heard many horror stories from colleagues on other platforms who struggle with the expense and complexity involved with making what should be minor and simple changes and updates to their sites.
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    Usability
    DigitalOcean
    I honestly can't think of an easier way to set up and maintain your own server. Being able to set up a server in minutes and have fully control is awesome. The UX is incredibly intuitive for first-time users as well so there's no reason to be intimidated when it comes to giving DigitalOcean a shot.
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    Salesforce
    The overall ease of using the system. Consolidation in location for our team members. Mobile application for on the go research, as many of our team members are constantly traveling to job sites or to meet clients. No more duplicate calls to current customers, since we have 12 different divisions that span the company. Mostly the ability to look at the database when our team members begin cultivating a new
    lead/prospect with a potential customer to see if anyone within the team has a
    relationship with that person or the company they work for.
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    Reliability and Availability
    DigitalOcean
    Have not found a single second of down time myself. Superior availability.
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    Salesforce
    We have only had one instance where the platform went down in the time we have been using it.
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    Performance
    DigitalOcean
    Very quick response and high performance, you have to fine tune configurations on your machines though.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    DigitalOcean
    They have always been fast, and the process has been straight-forward. I haven't had to use it enough to be frustrated with it, to be honest, and when I have an issue they fix it. As with all support, I wish it felt more human, but they are doing aces.
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    Salesforce
    They are very responsive and a support technician will be assigned quickly. Even if there is further clarification needed for the ticket, or a solution is not immediately available, you feel that someone is there and staying on top of the issue. Most common issues are resolved quickly and satisfactorily.
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    In-Person Training
    DigitalOcean
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    The in-person training was thorough. Trainer was pretty dry, but covered everything really well.
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    Implementation Rating
    DigitalOcean
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Implementation went fairly smoothly.
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    Alternatives Considered
    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is an inexpensive product as compared to other products available in the market. The UI is easy and the beginner can also understand the UI with the step by step guide. It provides a lot of custom features and the user needs to pay only for what they are using. Amazon has a complex UI and is on the expensive side. DigitalOcean is simple to use and is easily manageable and the servers can easily be set up without additional cost and such.
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    Salesforce
    When I think of Salesforce products, I sometimes think of them interchangeably as one big lump. It's hard not to be incredibly immersed in the ecosystem day in and day out and taking advantage of resources like Trailhead. While Microsoft Dynamics compares in quality and offerings, it doesn't offer the same engagement and resources as Salesforce in its communications, social, and marketing, which makes a difference in terms of relevance and help. Commerce Cloud comes with the support you need to succeed and the tools you need to grow. In a high demand consumer world, we need products like this to keep up and get ahead. The minute we catch up, we're behind. Salesforce helps you stay on pace and create the unique and personalized experiences customers everywhere expect.
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    Scalability
    DigitalOcean
    Great scalability, you can start with small plans and move up to premium features at a very good price.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    DigitalOcean
    • Positive - Elastic computer instances make it possible to pay for only for what you need.
    • Positive - Competitive pricing - some of the products that DigitalOcean offers are much cheaper than those offered by competitors.
    • Negative - Having to go to other cloud computing platforms for more specific, advanced services like Computer Vision optimized services, GPU cloud compute instances, etc...
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    Salesforce
    • In my experience I see most of the retailers see better sales after moving to Demandware.
    • Site performance is really good if the application built with best practices suggested by Demandware.
    • Service integrations have some limitations in terms of quota etc but still all are inside manageable grounds.
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