Dokku vs Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have your own in-house servers or have a cloud server with the freedom to configure any PaaS that you want, then Dokku is for you. So far, I have never run into a scenario where Dokku was not able to fit my needs, after deploying many different types of applications with varying frameworks, languages, and connected services. If you already have a PaaS available, however, Dokku may not be for you.

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Employee in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employees

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Well suited / Poorly suited - really two sides of the same coin

Company has management that will be willing to work in the system. Sometimes people are reluctant to learn something new.
In house IT with developer skills. This is critical unless you either want to change your business to match Salesforce, or pay consultants a lot of money.
Existing systems can be integrated, but you need that knowledge and access as well. Running Salesforce with connecting it will create a need for double data entry, If you have a locked down legacy system, you will have difficulty sharing data.

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Joseph Lemos

Director of Information Technology

Rulon InternationalArchitecture & Planning, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Dokku

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

Ease of building user interfaces

Pros

Dockerfile deployments are an incredibly simple and straightforward way to spin up applications.
The docker-options plugin allows endless direct configuration of options passed to different docker lifecycle stages.

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Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employees

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Reporting and Dashboards are thorough and can show a wealth of important data to inform and scale processes. It's helpful in a high volume sales cycle to be able to quickly identify weak points in performance and productivity so that adjustments can be made.
Highly customizable. We are able to customize just about everything which allows us to track very specific things and in theory create better efficiency.
Parent/Child account hierarchy exists which is helpful.
Contact records can be associated with multiple accounts and opportunities. This, in theory, should minimize duplicates and mismanagement of contacts.
Console helps a lot with data nesting. Having a fairly comprehensive look at an account without searching through various tabs and sections speeds up an otherwise cumbersome platform.

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Rhiannon Thompson

Customer Success Specialist

UntappdFood & Beverages, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Dokku might overreach on its assumptions about how you want to host your app, using its own VHOSTS plugin by default. This may be a pro or a con depending on what you want.
Proxy port configuration can be somewhat difficult, with Dokku resetting any pre-deployment configuration to "smart" defaults on the first deployment.

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Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employees

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It can be a bit buggy at times, like randomly not letting you save or making you refresh the page or do the same action, and then it will save.
Bugs really are the main issue here. Otherwise it's great with reporting!

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Alexa Terry

Account Executive

TalkableMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Usability

No score

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Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud) 6.7

Based on 3 answers

This builds off a number of things I have already mentioned. This question completely depends on the competence of the developer. This makes the user friendliness of the UI 50/50. However if you have the ability I would say it is quite UI friendly.

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Representative in Sales

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

Dokku 5.0

Based on 2 answers

Dokku is incredibly well documented and also takes advantage of the documentation and community of Heroku, being essentially the same thing, but in the case that you encounter an actual bug or issue, it can take time for a fix to make it into a new version. Since you manage Dokku yourself, there is no support team to call for help.

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Employee in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employees

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Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud) 7.9

Based on 21 answers

Salesforce's support is top-notch. They have subject-matter experts that are accessible at all times to address needs as they come up. They let you know in advance when there are system updates and enhancements so that you are prepared for upcoming changes. I've never had an issue that wasn't addressed immediately when reaching out for support.

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Shanna Kostopulos

Paralegal/Supervisor

Summit ConversionsLegal Services, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Dokku is essentially the same thing as Heroku, except maintained by you on the platform of your choice. If you have any experience using Heroku, then you will feel right at home using Dokku. Dokku is an entirely free to use PaaS, requiring only that you have a platform to deploy it on, making it far more versatile than Heroku in my opinion.

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Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employees

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Salesforce is the premeire product. Period. The others are cheaper and less capable, they may fulfill your organisation's needs but you will always be looking at Salesforce with wishful eyes. If you are a company that needs to bootstrap then spend the time to evaluate your options. If you are a growing company with plenty of funding it is best to provide your sales team with the best platform you can afford because switching out CRM's is second in complexity to swapping out an ERP.

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Jonathan Justin Lewis

IT Operations Manager

harmon.ieComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Since there's no investment besides a little time to set up, the return has been overwhelmingly positive.
Deploying a new app is incredibly quick and easy.

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Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employees

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This has been a huge time waster for our team.
Load times are at least 3 times as long as they used to be.
Our workflows can not be as efficient as they used to be so we spend more time doing manual tasks.
More things have to be pushed through our ops team instead of being able to do them ourselves, which creates significant roadblocks.

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Jacob LaBruzzo

Customer Success Outreach Manager

ProcoreComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Dokku Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud) Editions & Modules

Edition

Starter	$25.00¹
Plus	$100.00¹

Per User Per Month

Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

Dokku

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Dokku

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Dokku

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Dokku

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Likelihood to Recommend

Dokku

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Feature Rating Comparison

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

Ease of building user interfaces

Pros

Dokku

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Cons

Dokku

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Usability

Dokku

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Support Rating

Dokku

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Alternatives Considered

Dokku

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Return on Investment

Dokku

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Dokku Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud) Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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