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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

    IBM Turbonomic

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    IBM Turbonomic, now part of the Concert platform, is a performance and cost optimization platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds used by cloud, infrastructure operations, and architecture to assure application performance while eliminating inefficiencies by dynamically resourcing applications through automated actions. One of the key features of IBM Turbonomic is its ability to continuously adjust…N/A
    Pricing
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceIBM Turbonomic
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $25.00
    Per User Per Month
    Plus
    $100.00
    Per User Per Month
    IBM® Turbonomic On-Prem
    Varies - Request a Quote
    per month IBM Turbonomic On-prem optimizes data center resources in real time, ensuring app performance at the lowest cost by aligning infrastructure supply with dynamic application demand.
    IBM® Turbonomic Cloud Standard
    Varies - Request a Quote
    per month For customers with more than USD 1.6 million in annual cloud spend or 50 Managed Virtual Servers (MVS) or greater
    IBM® Turbonomic Hybrid Standard
    Varies - Request a Quote
    per month Advanced hybrid cloud optimization capabilities for customers with 200 managed virtual servers (MVS) or more
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceIBM Turbonomic
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Volume discounting available.
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    Community Pulse
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceIBM Turbonomic
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    25 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    61 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    57 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    62 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    44 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    50 Answers
    Features
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceIBM Turbonomic
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    7.2
    30 Ratings
    7% below category average
    IBM Turbonomic
    -
    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
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Turbonomic
    8.0
    31 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Cloud Management Security00 Ratings7.522 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings8.732 Ratings
    Cost Management00 Ratings7.732 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings8.131 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance00 Ratings7.829 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.231 Ratings
    Systems Integration00 Ratings6.732 Ratings
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    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceIBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (36 ratings)
    8.5
    (163 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    7.7
    (21 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (18 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceIBM Turbonomic
    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.
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    IBM
    Datacenter Consolidation and Hardware Optimization: This scenario is relevant to you as a hardware manager. It applies when you have physical servers (like Power or System z) and want to maximize virtual machine density. Why it works: IBM Turbonomic analyzes the peak usage times of each VM. If VM "A" is active during the day and VM "B" at night, it places them on the same physical host. Ideal scenario: Data migration projects or when you're told, "[...], there's no budget for more servers this year, make everything fit on what we have." Consolidación de Datacenters y Optimización de Hardware,Este escenario te toca de cerca como encargado de Hardware. Cuando tienes servidores físicos (como los Power o System z) y quieres maximizar la densidad de máquinas virtuales.Por qué funciona: IBM Turbonomic analiza las horas pico de cada VM. Si la VM "A" es activa de día y la VM "B" de noche, las coloca en el mismo host físico.Escenario ideal: Proyectos de migración de datos o cuando te dicen: "[...], no hay presupuesto para más servidores este año, haz que quepa todo en lo que tenemos". This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
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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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    IBM
    • Presentation is nice. Its easy to understand what your looking at and the data that is being presented to you.
    • Properly identify resource utilization and recommendations for action on how VMs can be improved and resources can be better utilized.
    • It was also able to tell us the same information and analysis for cloud resources. I was not expecting that.
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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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    IBM
    • It would be nice if the UI included a break-down of features that are both licensed as well as un-licensed. That way, you could not only see what you have, but what you don't.
    • The right-sizing recommendations are great, but very little info is given about why the recommendation is being made. More info would not only increase understanding, but would also help drive decision-making.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    We are certainly happy with Turbonomic as a whole and have invested quite a bit of time and effort into learning the ins and outs of the product. We have our reporting setup the way we want it and have gained definite value from these features. I will say though that many products nowadays are offering more native monitoring, reporting, and alerting features which may eventually steer us away from this product
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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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    IBM
    Excellent approach to larger VM organizational management. They have an very clean integrated dashboard that allows us to see everything in our environment and what that is doing in real-time. It works on multiple hyper-visors really well and integrates capacity planning on my local site as well as my cloud locations.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    VMTurbo has not caused any outages by not doing what we expect it to do.
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    Performance
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    It allocates resources among applications by showing more on the cost breakdown by cloud service, with metrics on cloud provider information like Azure Management, Identity, Networking, Storage with costs per day, and total services costs. This then could facilitate and show the corresponding actions thereafter upon scaling.
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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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    IBM
    When I contact support I get a quick response and they are able to solve my problem quickly. I also get a sense that they want to make sure that we are getting value from the product and walk me through whatever steps are needed to accomplish my goals.
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    In-Person Training
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Alex (from VMTurbo) has worked with the product for years and helped develop the product. He was very knowledgeable and was able to provide our support team with details knowledge on how to get our deployment configured correctly as well as help with another VMTurbo POC within another customers environment.
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    Online Training
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    After buying VMTurbo Operations Manager, I was invited to an online user training event. I felt this training was effective and dug just deep enough to be informative yet still keep my attention. Additionally, the webinar was free.
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    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    The implementation was very simple. Just upload an OVA file and power on the VM. Once it comes up enter some networking information and you can then access the web interface. From there, just begin configuring the system for your environment by adding you license and the various virtual environments and storage through the inventory tab
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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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    IBM
    Ease of Deployment
    Turbonomic is straightforward to implement compared to other platforms that require complex configuration. This reduces time‑to‑value and accelerates adoption.Fast Visualization of Results
    The platform provides clear, real‑time dashboards and recommendations. Unlike competitors that may require manual report building, Turbonomic delivers immediate visibility into resource utilization and cost impacts.Native Kubernetes Integration
    Turbonomic integrates directly with Kubernetes, enabling automated scaling and resource optimization at the container level. This native capability is a differentiator, as many tools rely on external connectors or partial integrations.
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    Scalability
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    It’s very scalable.
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    Professional Services
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Professional services were always there to guide us in our transformation to the cloud. They understood our business model and then were able to provide guidance on what we needed from the tool.
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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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    IBM
    • Application performance has been a big one. With Turbonomic keeping everything running at top performance, it can make changes when extra resources are need, quicker than somebody being notified and then making the necessary changes.
    • Turbonomic has been a great cost savings for us on multiple occasions. We use it every time we are improving servers.
    • With the planning feature we get the best performance form new hardware purchases
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Turbonomic Screenshots

    Screenshot of IBM Turbonomic Action Center, where it shows the list of optimization actions across the global environment—on-prem and cloud—that should be taken to minimize cost while assuring performance.Screenshot of IBM Turbonomic Application, a view that shows the global environment across private and public infrastructure from the context of individual application components. Users can optimize one application at a time by viewing each app's pending actions. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities across applications and their interdependencies.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic Cloud Executive Dashboard, an out of the box dashboard that allow users to rapidly communicate value to executives. This view shows the cloud cost savings opportunities realized and not yet realized over any time period.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic On-prem Executive Dashboard, an out of the box dashboard that allow users to rapidly communicate value to executives. This view shows the savings opportunities realized and not yet realized over any time period.Screenshot of an IBM Turbonomic Cloud view, where the public cloud environment(s) and all of the pending actions required to bring them into an efficient, performant state. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities in the public cloud(s) and their interdependencies.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic On-Prem view that shows the user's private data center environment(s) and all of the pending actions required to bring them into an efficient, performant state. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities in data center(s) and the interdependencies between them.