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Google Cloud vs Salesforce Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.9
ROI from Google Cloud emerges through faster deployment, cost-effective features, free services, and fair pricing, enhancing value.
Sentiment score
7.5
Salesforce Platform enhances efficiency, reduces information silos, boosts revenue growth, and cuts client data management time by up to 50%.
Salesforce saved about 40% to 50% of my time by allowing me to manage and maintain client data and account progress.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.7
Google Cloud support is efficient but variable, with some delays; reliability may reduce need, extra purchases are sometimes required.
Sentiment score
6.7
Salesforce Platform generally provides solid support, but response times vary, with users appreciating community resources and premium service benefits.
We have consulted Google support several times, and we received a quick response.
I consider them good partners when it comes to support.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Google Cloud offers high scalability, ease of integration, and flexible cost-effective solutions, making it superior to other providers.
Sentiment score
7.8
Salesforce Platform's scalability is highly rated for handling large user bases and offers flexibility in expansion and customization.
If I had to rate scalability from one to ten, I would rate it a nine as we have never faced any issues with scalability.
We are using it globally in thirty countries.
Salesforce's scalability was not a problem.
Salesforce Platform is absolutely scalable for us.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Google Cloud is highly rated for stability, with users appreciating its reliability and consistent performance despite minor issues.
Sentiment score
8.1
Salesforce Platform is stable and reliable, with minor issues and performance hitches being exceptions, ensuring high user satisfaction.
We have never had any problems with it.
On occasion, we had to log in and out frequently, open tickets with our IT team for account reconfiguration, or request permissions to access the system.
Sometimes the system is stuck when many users are using it.
 

Room For Improvement

Google Cloud needs improved user-friendliness, integration, analytics, UI, training, pricing, stability, security, language support, and customer tools.
Salesforce Platform needs improvements in pricing, reporting, integration, UI, automation, scalability, and support for better user experience.
Providing more hypervisors would be beneficial.
The logging could be improved; there's currently no intuitive way to filter logs on the Google console, especially for individuals who are not familiar with query languages.
The UI is not very intuitive or innovative.
Salesforce could improve by adding more capabilities to the dashboard, such as additional fields for more filters and more control over what I would like to see.
AI should pick up and send us a reminder from the notes.
 

Setup Cost

Google Cloud is cost-effective with flexible pricing, but users desire greater transparency and more flexible options.
Salesforce is costly but offers extensive features, flexibility, and benefits, making it worthwhile for large enterprises despite additional costs.
As far as I know, it is a little more expensive compared to other cloud options.
Salesforce Platform may be on the expensive side.
 

Valuable Features

Google Cloud offers scalable, reliable, and secure solutions with user-friendly design for developers, ideal for machine learning and data analytics.
Salesforce Platform offers customizable, scalable features with intuitive UI, aiding agile development and efficient automation for enhanced data management.
The most valuable features of Google Cloud for us are the integration with Kubernetes, IAM, Istio integration, and Terraform capabilities.
If customers use different technologies within their environment, GCP cannot offer a full performance analysis covering all the disclosures.
This integration allows us to manage customers from all aspects in one place, providing a clear view.
Salesforce Platform offers a complete combination of features, including dashboards and progress tracking.
Their reporting is also great, and the integration capability is very critical because you can integrate multiple different platforms into Salesforce.
 

Categories and Ranking

Google Cloud
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
75
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (6th)
Salesforce Platform
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
7th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
95
Ranking in other categories
Mobile Development Platforms (3rd), Rapid Application Development Software (5th), Low-Code Development Platforms (4th), No-Code Development Platforms (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Google Cloud is 6.5%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Salesforce Platform is 2.5%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
PaaS Clouds
 

Featured Reviews

Saurav Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration with Kubernetes and flexibility improve our application deployment process
The logging could be improved; there's currently no intuitive way to filter logs on the Google console, especially for individuals who are not familiar with query languages. Our non-technical users find it difficult to access logs. Additionally, the user interface could be more user-friendly and intuitive compared to our previous experience with AWS ( /products/amazon-aws-reviews ).
Yasser_Anter - PeerSpot reviewer
Has customization and integration capabilities which increase efficiency
Salesforce could improve by offering AI features or functionalities to help business decision-makers analyze business history, suggest forward strategies, and participate in events. The previous version had a complicated interface where multiple pages and data entries were required, which was not pleasant for sales teams or business users. Also, deploying Salesforce took a long time, about four to five months, which is not ideal for any business.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
44%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
5%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Government
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Google Cloud?
Google Cloud is perceived as a cost-effective and user-friendly option, especially compared to AWS. The current affordability and ease of use make it suitable for medium-sized companies. While the ...
What needs improvement with Google Cloud?
In terms of Google services, providing more hypervisors would be beneficial. Currently, in my region, they don't offer many services as they have just started. They have some local instances, yet i...
What is your primary use case for Google Cloud?
My platform offers a monitoring solution for the virtual machines hosted in GCP. GCP is one of the firms that I work with. For customers who use GCP as an infrastructure service, software as a serv...
How would you choose between Microsoft PowerApps and Salesforce Platform?
I think it depends on your use case. If your organization uses Microsoft Enterprise products, PowerApps will work better in your environment. Similarly, if you have a Salesforce integration in pla...
How does Salesforce Platform compare with Azure?
Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform is not easy or intuitive to deploy. The difficulty will be impacted by the type of application that you are trying to use the platform to build. Organizations tha...
Do you build applications using low-code or pro-code builders on Salesforce Platform?
At my organization, we have only used Salesforce Platform's low-code builder. The reason for this is not because we do not like the pro-code option, but because we do not see the need of using it, ...
 

Also Known As

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Salesforce1, Force.com, Salesforce App Cloud
 

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