We performed a comparison between Google App Engine 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."The initial setup is okay. It's not too complex. Deployment took about one day."
"The solution is serverless, so we don't have to operate it."
"The WhatApp feature is the most valuable."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward, considering that there is good documentation explaining the implementation part of it."
"Google App Engine's most valuable feature is self-management. You do not have to manage the infrastructure underneath where all the functions are happening, such as load balancing deployment and version management, they are managed by the system itself."
"Seurity features - unauthorized individuals are unable to access certain applications."
"The product's setup and deployment phases are easy."
"Administering App Engine is simple; it has intuitive UIs and a very scalable app engine."
"Marketing and Sales Lead, Forecasting, Campaign management."
"They are already beginning to implement generative AI."
"Intuitive to work with and the overall fundamental of the platform is very strong."
"The solution can scale."
"The stability has been great."
"It is a platform that allows you to get applications quickly to the end user in a secure way."
"I'm not sure what the most valuable aspect of the solution is, but I can say that their finance and auditing systems are quite impressive. You can audit in different invoices right to procurement. It's all quite seamless."
"We used it for providing a 360 view of the customers from within Salesforce. So, a lot of data got presented there, for which we used Einstein Analytics. The Einstein Analytics dashboards were really great."
"I think there's still a lot that can be done with Google Meet and the video conferencing part of it. It could be more dynamic in terms of what can be done with it."
"I am limited to sending a photo to five people. I want to be able to send a photo to many people, not just five."
"Some features of runtime don't work well in App Engine."
"The support for the Indian region is not as good as compared to the support that is offered to the regions in Europe."
"Difficult to assess how pricing is managed."
"I would like a simpler deployment tool on laptops. It is a bit complicated at the moment. We know how to do it, but it could be easier to deploy it on laptops."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There needs to be more directions in terms of how to use the solution."
"Instead of creating our own template, if we had some nice templates that we could pick up - if there were some Microsoft Word templates or Microsoft Excel templates in a repository in Salesforce, that would be great."
"I don't have any notes for improvement. It serves us well."
"Simplification is something it needs. Every time you get the engineers involved, they make things a little too complicated. It might be more beneficial to simplify everything for quick and easy reference."
"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"
"Although the platform is already set up for you, there's a lot of customization that needs to be done, especially for any new component we start using. For whatever solution we wanted, we had to think for ourselves and design it all on our own. And, unfortunately, there were some components that were not really mature in the beginning, like Tableau for example."
"I think that Salesforce can improve lead management when it comes to B2C. I would like to have more features specifically related to the B2C segment. The current process where you create a lead that's in the B2C segment and it creates an account makes no sense."
"There's a learning curve. It was a bit hard to understand the logical way of working with it, just at the beginning."
"The biggest challenge we had was the cost and the licensing."
Google App Engine is ranked 11th in PaaS Clouds with 23 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 8th in PaaS Clouds with 82 reviews. Google App Engine is rated 8.2, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Google App Engine writes "Simplifies app development process for businesses". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". Google App Engine is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Heroku, IBM Cloud Private and Red Hat OpenShift, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Azure, Appian and ServiceNow. See our Google App Engine vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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