IBM Cloud Foundry vs Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

• Keeps things more standardized, ring fenced and thus easier for the end user to use
• Open source, allowing for a wide group for education, auto and support
• Developing at pace to keep up with the ever changing needs of the industry from on / off premise, public and private

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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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• Sometimes the API Connect GUIs don't cleanly disengage after attaching models or updating schema and it is hard to know what has been written successfully and which (if any) models or tables were missed. I shouldn't have to manually check through a list of 377 models to find the ones in and out of a list on either models, folder or database tables. Printing a summary even in logs which did a "diff" sort of thing between 'task-set' and 'task-completed' (referring to attaching models or updating schema as tasks here as 'tasks').
• Provide access to Postgres Database in Sydney datacentre for Australia.
• Clearer documentation around setting up a secure (referring to SSL and certificate setup here) server on eg, chubby1.au-sydney.mybluemix.net.
• Allow a ramp in pricing onto the Blockchains. We will not be able to afford it until quite a few years into production, even if we launch successfully.

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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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• Bluemix has allowed me to effectively serve the App industry more recently, especially with the new visual design implemented recently.
• BlueMix offers a lot more customization of the Platform, rather than Infrastructure, giving me a big edge over other companies offering only AWS or Azure cloud services, and brings a lot more apparent value to my business.
• The additional features, especially the Watson service subset offers a HUGE range of new and innovative technologies, especially in the realm of AI, that encourages my clients to test out new potential features, which leads to more sales as they increase there platform size and capability.

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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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