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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Salesforce Lightning Platform

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce 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.

    $25

    Per User Per Month

    SAP Business Technology Platform

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is the company's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, that brings together intelligent enterprise applications with database and data management, analytics, integration and extension capabilities into one platform for both cloud and hybrid environments, including hundreds of pre-built integrations for SAP and third-party applications.N/A
    Pricing
    Salesforce Lightning PlatformSAP Business Technology Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $25.00
    Per User Per Month
    Plus
    $100.00
    Per User Per Month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce Lightning PlatformSAP Business Technology Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Salesforce Lightning PlatformSAP Business Technology Platform
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    Salesforce
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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    549 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    388 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    545 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    284 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    16 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    412 Answers
    Features
    Salesforce Lightning PlatformSAP Business Technology Platform
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Salesforce Lightning Platform and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Salesforce Lightning Platform
    7.5
    39 Ratings
    6% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.4
    480 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces5.939 Ratings7.8459 Ratings
    Scalability8.837 Ratings7.8459 Ratings
    Platform management overhead7.133 Ratings7.1439 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability7.135 Ratings7.2393 Ratings
    Platform access control8.836 Ratings7.4443 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration9.036 Ratings7.8432 Ratings
    Development environment creation7.333 Ratings7.7429 Ratings
    Development environment replication7.531 Ratings7.3372 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification7.334 Ratings6.8419 Ratings
    Issue recovery6.331 Ratings6.9365 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes7.936 Ratings7.3402 Ratings
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    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce Lightning PlatformSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.7
    (39 ratings)
    8.3
    (488 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    7.7
    (477 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    7.5
    (312 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce Lightning PlatformSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    We use Salesforce Lightning Platform in everyday business as sales coordinators. By using this tool, we are able to send new requests to clients and communicate regarding pending proposals in real-time. This also tool holds many of our client accounts where we are able to monitor their sales and revenue.
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    SAP
    SAP Business Technology Platform offers to run the cloud application without worries about availability and accessibility. This is helping us to enable the services that are really suited for us. For example, We have Cloud Identity Services that offer the capability to manage identity directory and also Identity provisioning functionality. Both functionalities helped us to manage the SSO and also enabled the auto-provisioning.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Reporting and Dashboards are thorough and can show a wealth of important data to inform and scale processes. It's helpful in a high volume sales cycle to be able to quickly identify weak points in performance and productivity so that adjustments can be made.
    • Highly customizable. We are able to customize just about everything which allows us to track very specific things and in theory create better efficiency.
    • Parent/Child account hierarchy exists which is helpful.
    • Contact records can be associated with multiple accounts and opportunities. This, in theory, should minimize duplicates and mismanagement of contacts.
    • Console helps a lot with data nesting. Having a fairly comprehensive look at an account without searching through various tabs and sections speeds up an otherwise cumbersome platform.
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    SAP
    • Services are operated by SAP with outstanding support, always giving a helping hand even if it is custom code or solution provided on the platform
    • Services are easily connectable via standard approach to our backend SAP systems in SAP Rise/HEC
    • Secure access using identities from our existing identity management helping us to safeguard data security from within SAP systems up to custom frontend applications
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • Can be cumbersome: takes multiple clicks to get where you need to go
    • Lightning is slower than original Salesforce, and it is very noticeable
    • The UI change means sometimes I can't find what I need, so I have to switch back to the Classic version to find it
    Incentivized
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    SAP
    • Have specialized connectors for specific industry use case application
    • Have seamless integration with data platform to create data application on the fly this includes both SAP and non-SAP products
    • Create offline SDK and code editing studios to ease the development issues when working remotely
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Seamless integration with external system and dashboard to monitor the data flow and analysis are very essential for the business. The way the product is designed and modelled lead to minimum business disruptions. Adopting to the new and modern technology was easy. Keeping the central system as clean and adopting project bases development are advantages.
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    UI can be quite complex, but the more that is required will bring more complexity. Can handle complexity and variety very well, but makes ground-level views harder when not knowing full extent of functionality. Finding new functionalities can be difficult to pinpoint on some pages
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    SAP
    Overall, I feel it is build toward as an SAP centric platform. Which is very proper direction for SAP as it is their competitive advantage. However, as a customer, I like to see the cost of the services to come down with the advance of underlay hardware capabilities. Licensing model can be streamlined for easier budgeting and consumption.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    Salesforce's support is top-notch. They have subject-matter experts that are accessible at all times to address needs as they come up. They let you know in advance when there are system updates and enhancements so that you are prepared for upcoming changes. I've never had an issue that wasn't addressed immediately when reaching out for support.
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    SAP
    I give it 9/10 because its customer support team is responsive and knowledgeable, providing clear guidance on complex issues. We contacted them several times; I want to give one example. When we had a problem with third-party integration, we reached out to them about the issue, and they provided a tailored solution for this.
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    Online Training
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Training material in Developers Community or from Learning hub are really good... also most of the time we route through Discovery center... so materials provided by SAP is really good.
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    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    1. Sometimes the licensing doesn’t make sense, e.g., Difficult to understand the license for ABAP cloud runtime. 2. When SAP Business Technology Platform workflow cost is very high but process automation which offers more features has less cost.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    We were previously using an older version prior to it becoming Salesforce Lightning Platform so we were well adverse on the advantages of using a CRM, to begin with. It made sense to convert to Salesforce Lightning Platform after we were given a free trial of the platform. Certain reps were chosen to experiment with it and from there a decision was made to move forward. We've been customers ever since.
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    SAP
    SAP Concur allows our staff to book, reimburse and remain spend audit compliant. Our Concur system takes feed from Workday and interacts with Credit card vendor. It also makes posting to Accounting and does clearing. SAP Business Technology Platform helped in establishing connection with all these different tools in real time. It helps in getting paid to the card service provider through our Bank through interface, which is built on SAP Business Technology Platform.
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Better visibility of Accounts and Contacts interactions makes it easier to maintain during employee transitions.
    • Tracking of current jobs and relating them to past jobs is very useful.
    • More efficient use of Sales Reps time.
    • Sales Managers have good visibility into how their people are working.
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    SAP
    • Infusing Generative AI capabilities easily into our solutions with existing talent with minimal learning curve, has been very impactful. We have been able resolve several challenges for our clients with AI capabilities, that we could not, previously.
    • Integration Suite is quite extensive in capabilities for bringing together the IT landscape into a single ecosystem.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    SAP Business Technology Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of SAP Build Process Automation, an SAP BTP service