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Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience

Score8.5 out of 10

698 Reviews and Ratings

What is Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience?

The 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.

Top Performing Features

  • Scalability

    Ease of scaling up or down to meet demand

    Category average: 8.2

  • Platform management overhead

    Resources required to keep platform up and running

    Category average: 7.5

  • Workflow engine capability

    Process automation using rule-based engine

    Category average: 7.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Issue monitoring and notification

    Integrated monitoring and notification of issues and problems

    Category average: 7.3

  • Development environment replication

    Ease of replicating new development environments

    Category average: 7.8

  • Issue recovery

    Ease of recovery from problem state

    Category average: 7.1

Salesforce Lightning Platform Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We built a lot of employee facing applications to help them do their jobs, which is a lot of client relationship management, some financial advice, and we use it as a single pane of glass for most of those interactions.

Pros

  • Flexible fast development
  • Interaction with data
  • Making sure that you've got a complete 360 view of your client

Cons

  • Scalability, you have to go outside the product to deal with higher scale, so as soon as you move out of the small/medium business, you are reinventing and refactoring applications to use higher throughput, higher data storage, and a higher IO requirement solutions.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft SharePoint

Other Software Used

Avalara, Atlassian Jira, Workday Workforce Management, Atlassian Confluence

Salesforce Lightning Platform review from a QAs perceptive

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Managing student and parent information

database as well as salesforce user and prospect onboarding

Pros

  • Easy
  • Efficient
  • Less maintenance
  • Everything in one place

Cons

  • Test management
  • User friendly to track testing activities
  • Testing reports

Return on Investment

  • Users liked it
  • Business is easy to manage

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adept Agent Stack

Other Software Used

Agentforce, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Salesforce CMS - Content Management Tool for Salesforce Users

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Salesforce Content Management System (Salesforce CMS) has helped us to create manage and put content across channels with ease. It helps in tracking data, creating custom content type. It can be integrated with Salesforce Platform and all other Salesforce products. It provides unified view of customer's data The collaboration feature really helps to speed up the process of content creation as it provides real time collaboration among creators and editors.

Pros

  • Content delivery
  • Content creation
  • Content storage
  • Salesforce integration

Cons

  • Can be more collaborative
  • Sometimes the integrations have a bit lag
  • Cannot think of anything else

Return on Investment

  • If you don't have Salesforce, Salesforce CMS is something you should not go for
  • It is well integrated with Salesforce and hence companies using Salesforce must go for CMS for content publishing and sharing
  • Caters to individual customer specifications

Usability

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira, Python IDLE, JMP

Great product if you are already in the Salesforce Suite, Makes connecting assets easy.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to generate smaller pieces of content personalized to the customer and their business, as well as small landing style pages or emails personalized by the data they have filled in on forms that we have stored in the customer relationship manager system. This adds that little extra touch to the overall experience for the customer journey.

Pros

  • The workflow system connection from the CRM.
  • Building configurator is easy to use.
  • It only takes a small amount of time to train someone to use it.

Cons

  • I find that the more complex you make things it starts to hit load times quite hard.
  • Additional tracking and analytics for the pages/emails would be nice.
  • Version control with autosaves and regular saves so you can tell the difference with 15-minute intervals.

Return on Investment

  • Time to agreements has decreased.
  • Net promotions score has increased for customer satisfaction.
  • Has helped drive cross sells when you create an "also works with" section.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce Lightning Platform, Salesforce CRM Analytics and Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Other Software Used

HubSpot CMS Hub, HubSpot CRM, Optimizely Content Management System

Efficient but Needs More Flexibility

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Salesforce CMS is a great tool for doing the documentation and reports for further analysis. It also assists in streamlining the assets with coverage renewals and adhering compliance. Moreover, it has very smooth integration with Salesforce CMS and other third-party tools which makes it more valuable. It also has great content management capabilities which can also be delivered across departments with ease.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Customization features are very few which are increased in the latest update so the layouts can be tailored as per the requirement.
  • The user interface is a little complex and cluttered which could make it a steep learning curve for beginners.
  • The performance can be slow when working with large content data.

Return on Investment

  • It has a smooth integration with Salesforce CMS application which can make it a positive for enhanced performance.
  • It may require extensive training for new joiners and that can become costly for the organization.
  • It also has automation features that reduce the distribution time by a significant number.

Usability

Other Software Used

Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat Sign, Webex Connect