We performed a comparison between Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Salesforce Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."
"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided."
"It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance."
"The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line interface has the ability to push instances to the cloud easily."
"The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"It works beautifully. I haven't had any errors."
"The presentation is clear and easy to comprehend."
"It has definitely improved how we function."
"It is a great platform. It's definitely an improvement from the GCP application that we were using previously."
"The standard sales and marketing tools that Salesforce provides on the platform are the most valuable."
"The most valuable features are quick customization, solid deployment processes, and excellent reliability."
"When compared to Siebel, the Salesforce Platform is easier to use."
"The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it."
"It is not straightforward to setup."
"It should offer more security features."
"Regarding the setup phase, every step is a hurdle. With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, I won't get any proper resources for that. Even if I Google it, there is no proper solution for Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
"Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve the documentation. They are good, but they could improve more. Additionally, it would be beneficial if there were more use case examples."
"In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience."
"Areas of improvement can be around Engagement of Customers feature and approvals of transactional records."
"The cost of data storage is an issue once the company grows."
"I have found it takes an exceedingly long time to put opportunities or clients in the system. If I have an opportunity that I need to put in the system it could take approximately 10 minutes. This is a lot of time when you have multiple opportunities to put in. There are other tasks to do that are required by supervisors, such as forecasts. What I have done to save time is I did not input as much detail as I could have because I knew it was going to take me an hour to get five leads in."
"The reporting needs improvement and the dashboard could have more components added."
"Salesforce Platform is a bit expensive compared to other CRM products, which is a drawback."
"They need an easy way of getting details and then adding to it and then being able to do it in a more simplified way"
"Salesforce Platform operates as a cloud system, and within our organization, numerous internal systems handle data processing. While real-time data retrieval is feasible through services, achieving real-time communication poses some challenges."
"The interface could be more user-friendly and offer more customization."
Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 15 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 8th in PaaS Clouds with 81 reviews. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 7.6, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and IBM Cloud Private, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Azure, Appian and ServiceNow. See our Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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