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Salesforce Experience Cloud vs. Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Salesforce Experience Cloud

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (formerly Salesforce Experience Cloud or Salesforce Community Cloud) is an online forum powered by Salesforce that enables businesses to connect with their employees, customers, partner organizations, and prospects. Designed to help facilitate communication and information sharing, customers can ask questions and request help, administrators can integrate data from third-party apps, and employees can collaborate across projects and…N/A

    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Salesforce Platform is designed for building and deploying scalable cloud applications with managed hardware provisioning and app stacks. Lightning Web Components are used by developers to build reusable UI components.

    $25

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    Salesforce Experience CloudSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $25.00
    Per User Per Month
    Plus
    $100.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce Experience CloudSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Salesforce Experience CloudSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    45 Answers
    89%
    Would buy again
    25 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    45 Answers
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    28 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Salesforce Experience CloudSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Salesforce Experience Cloud and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    7.2
    30 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.030 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings7.025 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings6.023 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.026 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings6.025 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce Experience CloudSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (71 ratings)
    8.9
    (36 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (15 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (18 ratings)
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce Experience CloudSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    For well-suited, this product is great for your external clientele groups that you would not necessarily want to have a high user fee rate for. So basically general public or a group that will be authorized to come in and just do a few things here and there, but you don't necessarily want them access to all of your systems and your data points for groups that it would not be a great use for. I'd say probably your high level internal staff, they're going to be using a lot of the backend functionality automations, evaluating data, managing data, and doing custom inputs. That's just not what's intended for.
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    Salesforce
    If you have a large customer base and a large amount of data on each of your customers, it is really strong in creating personalized content that your salespeople can use in their pitch meetings—and then setting up workflows for automated for lifecycle journey creations to automatically go out to customers.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Easy to use, just like Salesforce's other products. Many users can sit down and figure it out in no time, and with a little training become power users.
    • Fast and secure - Salesforce is a leader in the cloud world so you get consistently fast results and security that is top notch in the industry.
    • Accessible from anywhere - if you use cloud CMS already this is a no-brainer, but for those that do in-house CMS still, this is a major difference. Mobile access from anywhere on the planet without a VPN is something you just can't do without the cloud.
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    Salesforce
    • It has a very smooth integration with Salesforce and third-party tools, ensuring easy tracking of policies and assets.
    • It also has impressive security features like used-based permissions and encrypted data.
    • Everything can be managed from a centralized place which saves a lot of time.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • Unlike other CMS platforms like Wordpress and Adobe Experience Manager, Salesforce does not provide a fully featured editor with a drag-and-drop design tool.
    • Our content creators and marketing team often struggle with permissions and how to distribute content across different experience cloud sites.
    • Also, there is no side-to-side comparison view for content editors to update the content easily.
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    Salesforce
    • It takes a while before it recognizes bounced emails.
    • We get so many notifications from a single action. Not sure if this can be modified in the settings though.
    • Error messages are sometimes unclear which makes it hard for us to identify the problem.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    Renewal exercise is already underway. Platform is to ubiquitous to not leverage, especially at a Fortune 50 firm
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Salesforce
    Strengths: - Intuitive for Salesforce Users – If you’re already working within the Salesforce ecosystem, the Salesforce CMS is easy to navigate, with a clean UI, drag-and-drop content management, and reusable assets for quick updates. - Seamless Integration – Since it connects natively with Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and CRM, it allows for efficient multi-channel content distribution without needing extra third-party tools. - AI-Powered Personalization – The ability to deliver dynamic content based on user profiles and engagement data is a huge plus, making content delivery more relevant and impactful. Challenges: - Learning Curve for New Users – If you're not already familiar with Salesforce, the interface can feel overwhelming, requiring training to fully leverage all features. - Limited Customization & Workflow Automation – While it works well for structured content, advanced approval workflows and deep editorial customization are limited compared to enterprise CMS platforms like Adobe Experience Manager. - Media & Design Limitations – Salesforce CMS is not as robust for managing rich media-heavy content, which can be frustrating for teams needing more flexibility in multimedia presentation.
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    Salesforce
    It's very good, but it's still living in a little bit in an older design aspect, but I think a lot of it is about to come out, just hasn't quite gotten there yet. Still a little clunky from a you have to know it to know it or you know it to use it. It takes a little bit of training to get into it. It's not quite the, anybody can come in and start using it immediately, type feel.
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    Performance
    Salesforce
    Again, since we provide and recommend solutions, I can't speak to every client's individual experience, but can offer general reflections as to keep their collaborations private, that they are satisfied with the experience. We hear a lot about how this system helps to encourage collaborations between their own business partners, customers, and internal members, and enables quality integrations with other products that help drive revenue.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    Although support from Salesforce itself can be quite unresponsive sometimes, the community hub is incredibly helpful. The large user base of Salesforce products contribute to troubleshooting and the forums are a powerful tool for finding solutions and possible bugs and response times can be quite fast compared to your regular support channels.
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    Salesforce
    I am not an administrator so there may very well be outstanding Support and I am just not privy to it. On a user level it's hard to gauge the effectiveness and responsiveness of Support because nearly everything has to go through an administrator
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    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    Salesforce Experience Cloud was selected due to its tight integration with our existing Salesforce CRM platform. Customization of the portal was much, much simpler compared to Sharepoint - especially with role-based security parameters that are ultimately inherited based on attributes within the Salesforce CRM platform. Salesforce Experience Cloud was a natural fit for this customer-facing purpose.
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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
    Salesforce
    • Time savings for our customer success team - no need to continually follow up on tickets as customers have access to see status themselves
    • In the future, it will also allow us to create more impactful knowledge articles that will increase self-service over ticket creation
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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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