Heap vs. Salesforce Data 360

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Heap
Score 8.2 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Heap is a web analytics platform captures every user interaction on web iOS with no extra code. The tool allows you to track events and set up funnels to understand user flow and dropoff. It also provides visualization tools to track trends over time.
$0
per month
Salesforce Data 360
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce 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
HeapSalesforce Data 360
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Up to 10k sessions/month
Growth
Starting at $3,600 annually
Up to 300k sessions/year
Pro
Contact Heap Sales
Custom sessions per month and unlimited projects
Premier
Contact Heap Sales
Custom sessions per month
Data Cloud for Marketing
$108000
per year per org
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HeapSalesforce Data 360
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsHeap pricing is based on session volume. A session is a period of activity from a single user on your app or website. It can include many pageviews or events.
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Community Pulse
HeapSalesforce Data 360
Features
HeapSalesforce Data 360
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Heap
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data 360
7.7
9 Ratings
7% below category average
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings7.99 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings7.66 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Heap
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data 360
7.7
10 Ratings
5% below category average
Simple transformations00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings6.910 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Heap
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data 360
7.8
10 Ratings
0% below category average
Data model creation00 Ratings8.210 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings7.99 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings7.610 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings7.410 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Heap
-
Ratings
Salesforce Data 360
6.9
10 Ratings
14% below category average
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings7.410 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings6.48 Ratings
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User Ratings
HeapSalesforce Data 360
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(233 ratings)
8.3
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.3
(9 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(65 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.4
(61 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HeapSalesforce Data 360
Likelihood to Recommend
Heap
Scenarios when Heap was well suited: It is when a user claims that he encountered a bug without giving us the details of the error message. Scenarios where it is less appropriate: Its when we try to capture user interaction in our mobile app
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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
Heap
  • Realtime interactions which are captured automatically is a unique feature which no other product offers.
  • Low code implementation is a big plus for marketing teams, as there is less dependency on engineering
  • Detailed customer behaviours can be studied with captured replay sessions
  • Due to all the above points - it helped to improve customer experience
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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
Heap
  • I think Heap can improve its onboarding; I would love to see some info that is helpful for someone who isn't in Heap every single day.
  • Sharing dashboards can be tricky, it feels like a huge learning curve that I already have forgotten how to do.
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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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Likelihood to Renew
Heap
It's a great platform. I'm glad that one of our product managers introduced it because it has allowed us to create all kinds of new functionality. We're not only able to create a better product experience from our communications because of Heap, but we're also able to generate all kinds of helpful analysis.
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Usability
Heap
On a scale from 1-10, I find Heap to be incredibly user-friendly and easy to use. I enjoyed the training videos available and was quickly able to pick up how to create events and reports to track user interactions on our product. I would recommend Heap for its usability first and foremost.
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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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Reliability and Availability
Heap
I've never run into any issues with Heap's availability, Heap is always there when I need it. I haven't run into any issues like application errors or unplanned outages during my 2+ years of using Heap. Each and every time I log in to Heap I have a completely functional experience
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Performance
Heap
Heap doesn't affect page load times considerably nor has a large impact [on] our overall score, as far as page loading times inside of the tool its pretty reliable to retrieve data as much as "instant" that it can be the delay seems to be on data getting tracked into the servers to be read but it's not significant.
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Heap
Heap support has allowed us to troubleshoot and test a lot of different items. Their support team is always helpful and friendly, even when we come to them with the most complicated questions. I think this greatly improves the value proposition of the product because their support team is knowledgable and friendly.
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Heap
The implementation was smooth and easy. The Heap team helped us with implementation and it went great! Within a few weeks, we were fully up and running and utilizing the platform to its full capability. This is an additional thing that has made this platform so great and we couldn't recommend it enough.
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Heap
Heap offers a ton of functionality on a single platform.It also has an smart data science layer to offers suggestions for next steps in the analysis, allowing us to explore alternative paths we may not think to take. The low-code option for updating data is appealing, and there is a lot of automation with minimal engineering effort.
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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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Scalability
Heap
The most challenging part of using Heap in a growing organization is the naming and structure in which reports and dashboards are organized. I work within the marketing department and our Heap leader internally works within the IT/Product department, which makes it challenging because we often don't speak the same language, so the learning curve has been steep without any specific use-case examples to leverage online.
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Heap
  • It has helped us make decisions on what products to scope for our MVP based on the usage data.
  • It's allowed us to measure success with our beta product.
  • It's helped us view our conversion rates in an easy and usable manner.
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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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ScreenShots

Heap Screenshots

Screenshot of Dashboard in Heap (Use to get Product or User Behavior Insights)Screenshot of Effort Analysis provides the first-ever quantitative measurement of user friction, capturing the difficulty users face when moving through every step of every user flow across the digital experience.Screenshot of Heap Illuminate looks for the most common events between two steps in a funnel and generates a Top Events table that displays how well paths including different events convert to the next step so you can understand how that behavior is helping or hurting conversion.Screenshot of From Top Events you can choose an event and use Path Comparison to fork your funnel and see how the selected behavior impacts conversion downstream.