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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Pega Platform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APega Platform is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform with advanced workforce analytics from Pegasystems.

    $0.45

    one-time fee per case**

    Agentforce Education

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce for Higher Ed combines the Salesforce Lightning Experience with HEDA (Higher Ed Data Architecture), providing a cloud platform supporting student management and engagement, admissions and academics, and other higher ed administrative support functions.N/A
    Pricing
    Pega PlatformAgentforce Education
    Editions & Modules
    Low-code Factory Edition
    $0.45
    one-time fee per case**
    Standard Edition
    $0.80
    one-time fee per case**
    Enterprise Edition
    Custom Quote
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Pega PlatformAgentforce Education
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details**350,000 cases / year minimum. Additional cases available in blocks of 150,000.—
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    Community Pulse
    Pega PlatformAgentforce Education
    Considered Both Products
    Pegasystems
    No answer on this topic
    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    78%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    Pega PlatformAgentforce Education
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Pega Platform and Salesforce Agentforce Education
    Feature
    Pega Platform
    5.3
    63 Ratings
    37% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Education
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    Ratings
    Dashboards4.062 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports6.062 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports6.061 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Pega Platform and Salesforce Agentforce Education
    Feature
    Pega Platform
    8.0
    66 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Education
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    Ratings
    Process designer9.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation7.957 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine10.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support7.151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player7.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages5.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder9.059 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution8.956 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Pega Platform and Salesforce Agentforce Education
    Feature
    Pega Platform
    9.0
    50 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Education
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    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools9.050 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Pega Platform and Salesforce Agentforce Education
    Feature
    Pega Platform
    4.4
    9 Ratings
    59% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Education
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    Ratings
    Content management4.49 Ratings00 Ratings
    Student and Faculty Administration
    Comparison of Student and Faculty Administration features of Pega Platform and Salesforce Agentforce Education
    Feature
    Pega Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Education
    7.9
    6 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Online Registration Management00 Ratings6.06 Ratings
    District Communications, such as messaging and alerting00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Roster Management00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
    Platform Customization00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Teacher Self-Service00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Student Data Security00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Community Support00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Class Scheduling00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    State and National-level Reporting00 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    Compliance Support00 Ratings4.05 Ratings
    Teacher and Parent Mobile Application00 Ratings8.43 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Pega PlatformAgentforce Education
    Small Businesses
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Schoolmint Hero
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
    Schoolmint Hero
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Pega PlatformAgentforce Education
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (74 ratings)
    6.4
    (14 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.9
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    6.2
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Pega PlatformAgentforce Education
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform has introduced the low code feature, using app studio seasonal and professional developer can develop application easily and quickly. The initial application can be build by Business analyst and product owner who has less knowledge of Pega Platform, further application can be enhanced/extended by professional developer. We can develop end to end application and promote to higher environment. Easily we can perform parallel development using branch.
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    Salesforce
    I would say it's suited for a higher ED or K through 12 use case. If you're tracking anyone who is a learner, I would say it's still applicable for non-degree learning experiences. So even if you don't have a four year degree granting institution, but if you're not doing education, that's probably where I would say it's not really for you. Right. There's other products, other verticals like nonprofit cloud or financial services cloud you'd want to look at.
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    Pros
    Pegasystems
    • Quick development time. Much of the Pega "rules" are easy to configure and implement.
    • Visually friendly and modern. Much of the UI/UX elements in the system are continuously supported and updated, giving a nice feel to the apps.
    • Many of the configurations and rules Pega gives to the developers can also be delegated to business users. The organization and structure of the client's business can easily be adapted in the Pega platform.
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    Salesforce
    • Great use of integrating across all aspects of enrollment.
    • Easy to create tasks for counselors to remember to call prospective students and keep up to date on goals.
    • Reporting is fabulous inside of Salesforce.
    • All of the Apps in the App Exchange.
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    Cons
    Pegasystems
    • Need more learning materials. For Beginners who have previous programming experience with another language takes more time to learn.
    • If the developer is met with an issue in pega platform , they have to rely on Pega supporting team to fix it.
    • Customization is available but is not encouraged. Pega does not support faults that occur in customized solutions.
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    Salesforce
    • I think the display of the cloud for students can seem a bit intimidating at first.
    • I do not know the depth in which some features could offer more, but organization is the most important in displaying the information for the user.
    • Other than the visual aspect I think Salesforce does an amazing job! I'd like to see this used more widely.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Pegasystems
    Pegasystems has continued to demonstrate a strong partnership with our organization and investment in their product that aligns with our overall vision and need. Pegasystems has engaged us at every level, with the assistance of minor defects to the overall roadmap planning and alignment of our goals
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform is enhancing its product and launching new features day by day which help to achieve customers needs. If I talk about the earlier version of Pega Platform (i.e. pega v5 and 6.3) there were many numbers of limitations in Pega Platform and if we need to do some customization then needed to write custom java and jave scripts to achieve the functionally. Now I can say Pega Platform is running with market trends and demand. Pega Platform is giving all the options which support the current technologies like decisioning capabilities, real time processing, mashup, process fabrics etc..
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    Salesforce
    It can be extremely user friendly and customizable - if you have the skills to do that. There are features - like records related opening in sub tabs - that make work more efficient. There is a definitely a steep learning curve when it comes to becoming a salesforce admin though.
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    Support Rating
    Pegasystems
    It’s very slow sometimes, but that may be our servers. Also the Knowledge Library needs some work - again, not sure if it’s our setup or what- but I’m unable to search the body of an article for content, so I have to be very intentional with tagging, but it’s not ideal.
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    Salesforce
    People will respond on time even though Salesforce is such a large organization. This also includes various methods of getting support beyond just calling - they have dedicated reps, chat, chatter, etc that all make the experience more pleasant.
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    Online Training
    Pegasystems
    The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Pegasystems
    Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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    Salesforce
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    Alternatives Considered
    Pegasystems
    We did evaluate multiple products offerings with Pega Platform capabilities and observed that Pega PRPC rules engine and case management capabilities are better over so many BPM Tools. We also conducted a detailed study with developers to identify the best products out of Suite of BPM products. It's observed that Rules engines integration is very streamlined with forms in Pega whereas other tools multiple have powerful data model capabilities but lacks the ease of creating business rules.
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce has many more options, functionality, and can provide real time dashboard reports from the homepage. Provides a quicker search functionality and merges all information for other areas of the company into a concise summary. Report functionality is very intuitive and with basic understanding, users can build their own graphs and dashboards to help visual important data.
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    Return on Investment
    Pegasystems
    • For one of the applications we worked on, we were able to reduce the processing time on a case from 2 days to 20 minutes by utilizing Pega
    • We were able to resolve the issue of the routing of cases to users based on a specific algorithm by use of Pega
    • Pega case management feature was extensively used in one of the application to establish a parent-child relationship which was very helpful for all the business users
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    Salesforce
    • Positive: Our entire company is more aligned because while still complying with FERPA, the right people have access to student records while also having the correct permissions.
    • Positive: we can integrate with our partners who also use Salesforce, while still complying with FERPA.
    • Negative: we've needed to hire a Salesforce Development team with multiple people to accurately customize the tool to work for us.
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