Engine Yard vs. Salesforce Lightning Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Engine Yard
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Engine Yard is a platform-as-a-service solution allowing developers to plan, build, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud. Engine Yard also provides services for deployment, managing AWS, supporting databases, and microservices & container development.
$800
Per Month Per Cluster
Salesforce Lightning Platform
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce Platform is designed for building and deploying scalable cloud applications with managed hardware provisioning and app stacks. It provides out-of-the-box tools and services to automate business processes, integrate with external apps, and provide responsive layouts and more.
$25
Per User Per Month
Pricing
Engine YardSalesforce Lightning Platform
Editions & Modules
Platform
$800.00
Per Month Per Cluster
Starter
$25.00
Per User Per Month
Plus
$100.00
Per User Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Engine YardSalesforce Lightning Platform
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Engine YardSalesforce Lightning Platform
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Engine YardSalesforce Lightning Platform
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Engine Yard
-
Ratings
Salesforce Lightning Platform
8.9
36 Ratings
8% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.836 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings9.734 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.230 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings9.232 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings9.633 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings9.333 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings9.130 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings9.328 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.831 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings7.829 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings9.633 Ratings
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Engine YardSalesforce Lightning Platform
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IBM Cloud Private
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Engine YardSalesforce Lightning Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.3
(36 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
5.5
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(15 ratings)
User Testimonials
Engine YardSalesforce Lightning Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
Engine Yard
It is best for rapidly getting your application to the cloud without worrying about standing up cloud infrastructure
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Salesforce
We use Salesforce Lightning Platform in everyday business as sales coordinators. By using this tool, we are able to send new requests to clients and communicate regarding pending proposals in real-time. This also tool holds many of our client accounts where we are able to monitor their sales and revenue.
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Pros
Engine Yard
  • Quick deployments
  • Easily integrate your code from GitHub
  • Ability to recover site quickly to different zone when AWS has a widespread outage
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Salesforce
  • 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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Cons
Engine Yard
  • Embracing new Amazon Web Servicess(AWS) features
  • Security groups need more granularity
  • Audit trails of what happens by who in environment, especially when VM is deleted
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Salesforce
  • Can be cumbersome: takes multiple clicks to get where you need to go
  • Lightning is slower than original Salesforce, and it is very noticeable
  • The UI change means sometimes I can't find what I need, so I have to switch back to the Classic version to find it
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Likelihood to Renew
Engine Yard
Ease of use
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Usability
Engine Yard
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
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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Support Rating
Engine Yard
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
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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Alternatives Considered
Engine Yard
More closely aligns to native AWS
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Salesforce
We were previously using an older version prior to it becoming Salesforce Lightning Platform so we were well adverse on the advantages of using a CRM, to begin with. It made sense to convert to Salesforce Lightning Platform after we were given a free trial of the platform. Certain reps were chosen to experiment with it and from there a decision was made to move forward. We've been customers ever since.
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Return on Investment
Engine Yard
  • Positive in the sense that we can deploy new applications quickly for MVP
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Salesforce
  • Better visibility of Accounts and Contacts interactions makes it easier to maintain during employee transitions.
  • Tracking of current jobs and relating them to past jobs is very useful.
  • More efficient use of Sales Reps time.
  • Sales Managers have good visibility into how their people are working.
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