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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)
    9.6
    96%
  • Services-enabled integration (33)
    9.3
    93%
  • Ease of building user interfaces (36)
    7.8
    78%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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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

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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.


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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 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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Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it for some of our custom development and deployment of code to our Salesforce organizations. As we are moving from the Ant Migration tool, this has allowed us to move some of our code solutions to a app based model and allows us to modularize our customization.
  • Works like an app environment
  • Allows us to use third-party apps alongside our custom apps
  • Allows us to share our apps with other organizations that we work with
  • There are limits to how the apps can be developed that require some creative thinking/workarounds
  • You are still constrained with standard Salesforce features
  • It can be slow to correct if you have issues with a release, as you have to wait and go through the SFDC lifecycle
If you are familiar with Salesforce then App Cloud is a great solution for you to install solutions that fit your needs or to build a custom solution. Salesforce App Cloud excels in the variety and the ease of installation of the apps that it has available to the majority of users.
Platform-as-a-Service (10)
57%
5.7
Ease of building user interfaces
70%
7.0
Platform management overhead
60%
6.0
Workflow engine capability
50%
5.0
Platform access control
50%
5.0
Services-enabled integration
50%
5.0
Development environment creation
60%
6.0
Development environment replication
50%
5.0
Issue monitoring and notification
50%
5.0
Issue recovery
50%
5.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
80%
8.0
  • Allows us to start modularizing and scaling out some of our business processes.
  • Required additional time for moving workloads to production.
  • It requires additional development to properly cover code.
Salesforce App Cloud is very usable but is dependent on the features that you are looking for. You will have to custom develop or find a third-party one that is trusted and meets your business requirements. There is luckily a large marketplace and this will allow you to find the apps you need.
Salesforce support depends on if you have an issue with an app or with Salesforce itself. If it is about the app, it will require a developer to provide you support. And, if it's your own app, you may need Salesforce to help with the troubleshooting the issue within the app itself.
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 get something or make something that meets your business needs.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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.
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.
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
  • Improved transparency while developing
  • Allows for excellent efficiencies to be created within Salesforce.
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.
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.
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