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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Salesforce CRM Analytics

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau CRM) is a cloud-based business intelligence solutions and analytics software. It provides users with automated data discovery, CRM-connected analytics, top-down views of data, augmented analytics, predictive insights, and customizable data visualization tools.

    $125

    per month

    Visual Studio

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AVisual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.

    $45

    per month

    Pricing
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsVisual Studio
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Professional
    $45.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    $250.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsVisual Studio
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsVisual Studio
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
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    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    73%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    Features
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsVisual Studio
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.8
    48 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports7.541 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.548 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.546 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.8
    49 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.548 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.548 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.537 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.546 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.1
    47 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web9.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.543 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.540 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.534 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.4
    45 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.540 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    9.0
    48 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.046 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.546 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.541 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    6.7
    45 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
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    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.543 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.539 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.2
    33 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    REST API8.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API8.529 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames8.525 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API8.528 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.528 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.527 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsVisual Studio
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    IntelliJ IDEA
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    PyCharm
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    WebStorm
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (51 ratings)
    9.1
    (118 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    9.2
    (15 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (6 ratings)
    8.8
    (15 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.1
    (41 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.7
    (41 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    For us it really comes down to that book management and next best contact for our advisors. When we're thinking about a book of business that may range, depending on the advisor, from 400 clients to a thousand clients, how do they really optimize their time? Who do they call next? Who do they work with to make sure not only they're keeping those clients engaged, they're not leaving the firm going to other advisors who they haven't talked to in a while who might need their attention. That's really where that CRM analytics is really proven pretty powerful for us.
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    Microsoft
    When working with base C# code for desktop and web projects, then Microsoft Visual Studio is ideal as it provides the libraries and interfaces needed to quickly create, test and deploy solutions. It is when slightly more complex scenarios are required that issues can arise. The built-in integration for things like PowerBI Paginated Reports and dashboards is far from ideal.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Interactive Dashboards, it [consists] of wide variety of charts
    • Data from different sources can be easily integrated with it
    • Security, it provides easy way to secure and share the information with the users
    • Support actions like opening hyperlink etc
    • Almost everything can be done from configuration
    • Data can easily be managed from dataflow.
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    • I like how the tabs and panels are organized; everything is gathered together so you can find what you're looking for quickly.
    • If you can't find something, there's a thorough search engine that searches all of Visual Studio's features.
    • The Team Foundation Server feature is fantastic since it allows us to easily deploy and roll back changes on the server.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • Implementation takes time and resources. It is a heavy lift to implement and at first, it can take a little bit of time to understand what you are looking at. But once it's implemented it's easy to get started.
    • Without any BI expertise or resources available to your organization, the implementation of this is difficult. If you aren't used to BI tools and don't have an expert in house, the terminology can be difficult to understand at first.
    • Their support is not on hand to help you if you encounter any issues, at least not on all the plans or the basic plans. Real-time support service is an add-on, so you'll need to be patient if you require help or pay extra money.
    • More functionality for the tool is needed to compete with other heavyweights in the arena like Tableau, Qlik, and Microstrategy. Still lacks the robustness, functionality, and flexibility other competing products possess.
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    Microsoft
    • Would be great if there was a better way to save and restore open tabs.
    • The built-in test runner can be improved, for example, by adding the ability to save a set of commonly run tests, etc.
    • Better integration for Microsoft SQL server would be great.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    VS is the best and is required for building Microsoft applications. The quality and usefulness of the product far out-weight the licensing costs associated with it.
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    For someone who don't have coding background, this could be a useful tool and fairly easy to learn and use given the good support. However, if you know other open source tools, it would be much easier to use the other tools and the knowledge is more transferable in the future.
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    Microsoft
    I love the overall usability of Microsoft Visual Studio. I’ve been using this IDE for more than 20 years, and I’ve seen it evolve by leaps and bounds. Today, with AI and code-suggestion/completion features, developers no longer need to remember countless libraries, methods, or language syntax, or invest a huge amount of programming effort to complete a project. It truly offers everything a developer needs to program, debug, test, and deploy in a single IDE.
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    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    I was not able to be in interaction much with Salesforce support team since every feature works the way it should be working. So far I have not experienced any bug or major glitches that would delay the result of my work and performance. There is also a hotline in our company for Salesforce issue but so far I have not used it.
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    Microsoft
    There are many resources available supporting Visual Studio IDE. Microsoft whitepapers, forum posts, and online Visual Studio documentation. There are countless demonstration videos available, as well. If users are having issues, they can call Microsoft Support, but depending on the company's agreement with Microsoft, the number of included support calls will vary from organization to organization. I've found that Microsoft support calls can be hit or miss depending on who you get, but they can usually get you with the right support person for your issue.
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    In-Person Training
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    IT is very complicated to understand all the functions that the environment has if you are not familiar with this type of development environments. It is important to select a good in-person training to achieve to understand all the possibilities and the capacity of the application. In this case, you will be able to develop a lot type of different applications.
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    Online Training
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    If you are not accustomed to develop in this type of development environments it would be complicated to follow all the parts of the course because if the course does not include a great tour with all the concepts to develop you will not have the option to understand all the functions.
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    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    An implementation partner would certainly result in greater output in a more efficient amount of time. However, I have found implementation partners to be extremely expensive for the output received (at least working for a non-profit company they are frequently unaffordable). Internal implementation does help with usable output though since internal knowledge would better know the data architecture and business processes
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    Tableau is the absolute top of the class when it comes to business intelligence, but it doesn't make sense for every business case. In our case, we needed a simple data visualization platform for our CRM platform and sales pipeline. Salesforce Analytics, while nowhere near as robust, did the job we needed it to do perfectly in a significantly more cost-effective manner.
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    Microsoft
    I personally feel Visual Studio IDE has [a] better interface and [is more] user friendly than other IDEs. It has better code maintainability and intellisense. Its inbuilt team foundation server help coders to check on their code then and go. Better nugget package management, quality testing and gives features to extract TRX file as result of testing which includes all the summary of each test case.
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • I would say it's been positive just because as a company, anyone that has access to it can go in there and pull any company information and we're very up to date then on all of our client base. So I would say it's been a very positive impact.
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    Microsoft
    • Using the integration between Visual Studio and our source control service, the cost of re-work and losing code is drastically reduced.
    • Paid versions of Visual Studio enable developers to be so much more productive than hacked-together open source solutions that it's hard to imagine developing in Windows without it.
    • When combined with support subscriptions and the vast array of free online help options available, Visual Studio saves our developers time by keeping them coding and testing, not wasting their time trying to guess their way out of problems or spend endless hours online hoping to find answers.
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