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    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

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    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $25.00
    Per User Per Month
    Plus
    $100.00
    Per User Per Month
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    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
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    Salesforce
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    I've used SharePoint a lot. We've used a handful of other bespoke previous, like jula based clients for talking to customers, Jula based platform, some other open source ones, but most of the companies I work for already have a footprint in Salesforce, so it's usually the, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    This fits into the mold with the other Salesforce services. Once you get used to the suite and the nuances of each platform, things become easy. Just read any documentation first, as jumping in will only get you so far, and the more connections with the other apps, the more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    We have only used Salesforce CMS in our organizations as we already use Salesforce CRM for sales, marketing and other purposes
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Hubspot CSM is a bit easier to use, but not as strong for bigger markets like enterprise. Also, it's a bit annoying having to log into different platforms. Being able to do everything directly in Salesforce is pretty nice.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    This is really the first time we had a platform such as SF, so we have nothing to which to compare it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    We have always been a Salesforce shop, but have grown with the App Cloud platform as it's evolved. We eventually moved to lightning based on the streamlined interface and increased ease of use for our employees. So far we are happy with the results. Would definitely recommend …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Salesforce, while more expensive, provides faster support, higher scalability options, and an increased opportunity to change any details whether it's about user permissions management, custom field or object creation, or an integration of another application. What really sets …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    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. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    I think Salesforce has the most powerful developer engine - I have yet to need a module that I couldn't create (maybe with help). I probably could have made the others work but Salesforce, in my opinion, made it the easiest. Salesforce is reliable and established as well so …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    I would love to switch back to Service Cloud as it was much, much more intuitive and fast. I would even take Salesforce Classic over Lightning. It at least wasn't this slow.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    I used a program formerly known as "CP." I considered it somewhat outdated, and it does not have any of the modern features that the Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud) has. I consider the Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud) …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    I use both. SF is the constant through the organization and I receive leads into SF and pass on opportunities through SF.
    SL is better for internal processes within business dev.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Salesforce is the premeire product. Period. The others are cheaper and less capable, they may fulfill your organisation's needs but you will always be looking at Salesforce with wishful eyes. If you are a company that needs to bootstrap then spend the time to evaluate your …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Microsoft is pretty limited in functionality compared to Salesforce. Most folks coming into your organization are going to have some level of Salesforce experience but will most likely not have experience with Dynamics. Dynamics doesn't connect as well to other platforms.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    I believe the only reason we didn't choose monday.com is because we're just a bit bigger (company size- 75 people) than what monday.com handles. We also are in San Francisco, and Salesforce pretty much owns this entire city. I was also not part of the selection process of the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    There is a reason why the Salesforce Lightning Platform is the market leader for all things related to customer relationship management. While Close is somewhat user-friendly, it pales in comparison to all the features, bells, and whistles that the Salesforce Lightning Platform …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    We originally used spreadsheets when we first started. That worked fine until we started growing by over 100% year over year. We were able to upload all of our previous accounts in Salesforce Classic once it was called for. However, Salesforce Classic soon became redundant and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    We needed a product that would allow for easy and dynamic reports for potential and new clients. Account Managers use other products as well to monitor the client's success and Salesforce allows for seamless integration to other platforms. This serves as a one-stop-shop for all …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    We currently use the two together, along with HubSpot sales. Salesforce is our primary CRM and where we track and manage account and contact information.
    Salesforce is much more flexible and intuitive - everything is where you would expect it to be.
    HubSpot reporting is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    I think that the Lightning platform is not as clean and doesn't integrate that well. Whenever I was logged out, it was such a treck to have to log back in and I never actually knew if my activity was being saved or actually being tracked. Personally, Lightning is not my …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Close and Salesforce are two very different beasts. Close is much more user friendly but lacks the ability to serve complex infrastructures and hierarchies provided by Salesforce. Close is much simpler and faster--great for high volume but will not provide you with rich, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Salesforce App Cloud provides a very easy way for you to install apps as well as deploy your own apps. You are, however, limited to the Salesforce marketplace and the requirements that they have for apps to be published in their marketplace. Even so, it's still fairly easy to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    This is the only tool in this field we have any involvement/experience with.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    We haven't used anything exactly like Salesforce App Cloud, but in the end we decided to use our own development environment/process and deploy via Heroku. Therefore, I can't speak to how App Cloud compares to other more integrated solutions, but for our needs it was easier to …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    25 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    7.2
    30 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces7.030 Ratings
    Scalability8.028 Ratings
    Platform management overhead8.024 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability8.027 Ratings
    Platform access control7.028 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration7.028 Ratings
    Development environment creation7.025 Ratings
    Development environment replication6.023 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification7.026 Ratings
    Issue recovery6.025 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes8.028 Ratings
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    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (36 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    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
    • 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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    Usability
    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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    Support Rating
    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
    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
    • 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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