Item: Salesforce Lightning Platform
Rating: 5
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We evaluated Salesforce App Cloud when beginning development of several mobile applications ~1 year ago. In the end, we decided not to use Salesforce although it was quite powerful. Our needs were not "enterprise" enough to justify the cost and overhead of Salesforce, so we moved on.

Pros and Cons

Integration with other Salesforce products
Powerful enterprise development platform for mobile and desktop
PaaS solution for deployment

Expensive
Hard to use
Overkill for non-enterprise use cases

Return on Investment

We decided not to go live with Salesforce App Cloud, but we were happy with the time we spent evaluating it

Alternatives Considered

Heroku and IntelliJ IDEA

We haven't used anything exactly like Salesforce App Cloud, but in the end we decided to use our own development environment/process and deploy via Heroku. Therefore, I can't speak to how App Cloud compares to other more integrated solutions, but for our needs it was easier to use a less integrated solution.

Likelihood to Recommend

For enterprise customers already using Salesforce, App Cloud is a viable solution to develop and deploy for both mobile and desktop. For non-enterprise customers with limited need for integrating multiple Salesforce solutions, App Cloud might be a bit too much. Ultimately, you can chat with a Salesforce expert to discuss your needs and you can probably evaluate App Cloud for free.

Powerful enterprise solution - Not for everyone

Overall Satisfaction with Salesforce Lightning Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Return on Investment

Alternatives Considered

Likelihood to Recommend

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