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Salesforce Lightning Platform

Salesforce Lightning Platform
Formerly Salesforce App Cloud

Overview

What is Salesforce Lightning Platform?

Salesforce Platform is designed for building and deploying scalable cloud applications with managed hardware provisioning and app stacks. It provides out-of-the-box tools and services to automate business processes, integrate with external apps, and provide responsive layouts and more.

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Recent Reviews

Life changing!

10 out of 10
May 14, 2022
Incentivized
Salesforce is one of the important and major tools we use everyday in our job. Salesforce ia very useful to us This tool makes our life …
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Money Back Guaranteed!

10 out of 10
May 10, 2022
Salesforce Lightning Platform is our main tool as a sales coordinator. We use it for many things such as communicating with our clients …
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Salesforce Lightning Review!

9 out of 10
June 15, 2021
Incentivized
We use the Salesforce Lightning Platform as a sales organization. It is only the sales department that uses this platform today. We use it …
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Lightning in a bottle!

10 out of 10
May 02, 2021
Incentivized
It was originally used by our sales department but we integrated it with other systems via an ETL and now it is used company-wide. We are …
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Popular Features

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  • Scalability (34)
    9.7
    97%
  • Platform access control (33)
    9.7
    97%
  • Services-enabled integration (33)
    9.3
    93%
  • Ease of building user interfaces (36)
    7.8
    78%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Verified User
Contributor in Sales
Information Technology & Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
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Pricing

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Starter

$25.00

Cloud
Per User Per Month

Plus

$100.00

Cloud
Per User Per Month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Salesforce Lightning Platform Overview Demo

YouTube
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Features

Platform-as-a-Service

Platform as a Service is the set of tools and services designed to make coding and deploying applications much more efficient

8.9
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

What is Salesforce Lightning Platform?

Salesforce Platform is designed for building and deploying scalable cloud applications with managed hardware provisioning and app stacks. It provides out-of-the-box tools and services to automate business processes, integrate with external apps, and provide responsive layouts and more.

With the Salesforce Platform and Heroku users can deploy, run, and manage apps written in open languages like Ruby, Java, PHP and more. Deploy code via git and Salesforce Platform automatically builds and runs the application so developers can focus on delivering engaging apps for their own users. In addition, Heroku Enterprise provides collaboration functionality, additional control features, and enterprise grade support.

With Lightning on the Salesforce Platform, developers can also quickly deliver innovative apps with an interactive UX by using reusable building blocks including maps, calendars, buttons, and number entry forms. And, with the Salesforce Lightning Design System, every developer has a how-to guide and code for building beautiful apps.

The Salesforce AppExchange is a proven ecosystem of apps, with millions of installs and thousands of customer reviews to help Salesforce users find the best match for their business. Whether developers are looking for applications to accelerate internal implementations or looking to grow their business by selling apps or components to other customers, the AppExchange can assist with that.


Salesforce Lightning Platform Integrations

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Salesforce Lightning Platform Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Salesforce Platform is designed for building and deploying scalable cloud applications with managed hardware provisioning and app stacks. It provides out-of-the-box tools and services to automate business processes, integrate with external apps, and provide responsive layouts and more.

Quickbase are common alternatives for Salesforce Lightning Platform.

Reviewers rate Scalability and Platform access control and Upgrades and platform fixes highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of Salesforce Lightning Platform are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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June 14, 2021

Salesforce Lightning Platform Review

Verified User
Account Manager in Sales
Publishing Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Salesforce Lightening Platform is used across our company by all departments to keep track of all communication in once place, that typically get lost in floods of emails. The sales department specifically uses it to track all RFPS, wins/losses, campaign statuses, revenue for our pipelines, as well as allows us to assign specific tasks to different departments through the various campaign steps.
Pros and Cons
  • Keeps all communication for campaigns in one place.
  • Minimizes the floods of emails, where communication tends to get lost.
  • Efficient tracking for RFP statuses from pre to post sale.
  • The learning curve can be challenging.
  • Design and interface often vary from company to company.
  • Pricey.
Likelihood to Recommend
Salesforce Lightening Platform helps keep all communication for RFPS from pre to post sale all in one place, allowing for easy tracking across all departments. It's very good for large businesses that have very high volume and easily allow you to assign tasks and milestones to various departments at different stages of the campaign.
Salesforce Lightning Platform Feature Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service (11)
78.18181818181819%
7.8
Ease of building user interfaces
70%
7.0
Scalability
80%
8.0
Platform management overhead
80%
8.0
Workflow engine capability
80%
8.0
Platform access control
80%
8.0
Services-enabled integration
80%
8.0
Development environment creation
80%
8.0
Development environment replication
80%
8.0
Issue monitoring and notification
70%
7.0
Issue recovery
70%
7.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
90%
9.0
Return on Investment
  • Efficient tracking and forecasting of accurate revenue.
  • Minimizes the flooding of emails in your inbox.
  • Less likely to lose trails of communication so that you can ensure all stages of the campaign are set-up for launch.
Alternatives Considered
It offers way more functionalities and the interface/design can be fully customized to best support your companies needs.
Other Software Used
January 15, 2020

My Salesforce Lightning Platform - All In One CRM and MORE!

Verified User
Project Manager in Product Management
Marketing & Advertising Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Salesforce Lightning has been a tool covering a lot of problems. The highest of those priorities is tracking sales opportunities from the first time we engage to if we win the opportunity as a new client or not. This includes many attributes such as possible revenue, needed resources, etc. The second part of the tool we use the most is a repository of sorts, everything from the contract to meeting notes, to passwords and more.
Pros and Cons
  • Contract repository
  • Meeting notes and action items
  • Mobile version is lacking a tad
  • Slight learning curve
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're an agency and need an all in one CRM that will track all sales, contacts and the results of those this is a great choice. Not only can it do all that and more, it can help support those wins after the sale on a day to day basis.
Salesforce Lightning Platform Feature Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service (11)
90.90909090909092%
9.1
Ease of building user interfaces
90%
9.0
Scalability
100%
10.0
Platform management overhead
80%
8.0
Workflow engine capability
100%
10.0
Platform access control
100%
10.0
Services-enabled integration
80%
8.0
Development environment creation
90%
9.0
Development environment replication
90%
9.0
Issue monitoring and notification
80%
8.0
Issue recovery
90%
9.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • Better outlook on our sales process
  • Forecasting has increased in accuracy
Support Rating
10
We've only had a few issues with Salesforce Lightning but those few issues have been tackled immediately by a personally assigned support representative.
Other Software Used
August 19, 2019

Salesforce App Cloud as seen from Sales

Verified User
Representative in Sales
Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Salesforce App Cloud is used primarily to allow our developers the ability to build a solution easily when primary application users find a need. It's primarily used by in-house development/product teams in synergy with certain members of sales in order to roll out new applications. The primary issue it addresses is providing the base framework needed for developers to do just that...develop.
Pros and Cons
  • Opens communication/Transparency
  • Provides framework for development
  • Connects dots between mobile and web based application
  • Some features are quite difficult to use. Need additional resources to manage.
  • Very pricey, as are all things Salesforce. Hard for startups/emerging companies to justify.
  • Playing off the first con, support can be hard to come by from Salesforce.
Likelihood to Recommend
Salesforce App Cloud is well suited to larger companies with a solid development team. If you are a smaller company with less skilled developers the learning curve or potential that can be realized from using this product may be wasted. Innovation. If this word describes your business and the above points are not an issue this is for you.
Salesforce Lightning Platform Feature Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service (11)
70%
7.0
Ease of building user interfaces
60%
6.0
Scalability
80%
8.0
Platform management overhead
60%
6.0
Workflow engine capability
70%
7.0
Platform access control
70%
7.0
Services-enabled integration
80%
8.0
Development environment creation
70%
7.0
Development environment replication
70%
7.0
Issue monitoring and notification
80%
8.0
Issue recovery
60%
6.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
70%
7.0
Return on Investment
  • Improved transparency while developing
  • Allows for excellent efficiencies to be created within Salesforce.
Usability
5
This builds off a number of things I have already mentioned. This question completely depends on the competence of the developer. This makes the user friendliness of the UI 50/50. However if you have the ability I would say it is quite UI friendly.
Support Rating
7
From my experience overall support has been good. Although there has not been a large need for it. I have heard in speaking with others that this can be a point of contention. This makes sense as the UI can be challenging and if snags were being run into continuously a lot of support would be required.
Other Software Used
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