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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Socialtext (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASocial Text was a tool that focused on social learning and includes Twitter-like microblogging capabilities. The product competed with MindTouch,Confluence, Jive Team Collaboration and other collaboration platforms. It was acquired by PeopleFluent in 2012 and is no longer available as a separate product, though similar capabilities are supplied by the PeopleFluent platform.

    $1

    Starting Price Per Month

    Pricing
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceSocialtext (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $25.00
    Per User Per Month
    Plus
    $100.00
    Per User Per Month
    Socialtext
    $1.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceSocialtext (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceSocialtext (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    25 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceSocialtext (discontinued)
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience and Socialtext (discontinued)
    Feature
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    7.2
    30 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Socialtext (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces7.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability8.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability8.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control7.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration7.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation7.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication6.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification7.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery6.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes8.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience and Socialtext (discontinued)
    Feature
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Socialtext (discontinued)
    7.6
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience and Socialtext (discontinued)
    Feature
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Socialtext (discontinued)
    7.2
    1 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Chat00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    IBM Cloud Foundry (discontinued)
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceSocialtext (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (36 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceSocialtext (discontinued)
    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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    Discontinued Products
    We use Social Text as a platform to air our issues with different departments. We voice our concerns and suggestions so we can help find a solution to the problems we incur on a daily basis. We need to have social text as an app so we can communicate in real time not only during work hours.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Version history - Always keeps the edited versions and one can revert back any time
    • Creating and Editing an article is very easy and intutive
    • Sharing the articles with peers
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Search needs a ton of improvements. It was very slow a year ago
    • Search result quality was also not that good
    • I know they have improved their UI recently but when i used it last year it did not really have any design elements which could be used to make the articles look more presentable. It was important for us as we used it for external communication as well.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    We have a lot of info in Socialtext already. It would be hard to get all that info out and port it to a different system
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    I frankly like Confluence better than socialtext because of the speed and the quality of search. They also have better design elements which can help make the articles pleasant to the eyes.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • We get solutions to concerns much faster
    • We promote interactions with the other depts
    • We listen and have discussions
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