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HPE Helion vs Salesforce Platform comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Helion
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
25th
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Salesforce Platform
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
97
Ranking in other categories
Mobile Development Platforms (3rd), Rapid Application Development Software (8th), Low-Code Development Platforms (7th), No-Code Development Platforms (2nd), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of HPE Helion is 1.4%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Salesforce Platform is 3.7%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
PaaS Clouds Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Salesforce Platform3.7%
HPE Helion1.4%
Other94.9%
PaaS Clouds
 

Featured Reviews

it_user568056 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Indra
It provides access to private and public clouds. I would like to be able to select the best private cloud.
I would like to be able to select the best private cloud to use in terms of service and cost. If I need to put an application on the cloud, I would like to know which provider to use. I would like to know the best option for this application.
Sunny Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect And Senior Consultant at Keysight Technologies
Automated weekly analytics have improved case tracking and boosted research productivity
In terms of customization and requesting features that need to be enabled, the process is longer than ideal. As a user, I have very limited access rights to Salesforce Platform, which limits my capability. If a user were granted access to consume more features from Salesforce Platform and the system could show exactly who needs to grant that particular access, that would be a very good improvement. If I need to gain access to a specific feature within Salesforce Platform, it should point me to who in my organization manages it. If the system is able to tell me who exactly is managing it, I can get in touch with that particular user to understand whether I can gain access. This particular feature seems to be lacking, not only in Salesforce Platform, but in any CRM application.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Helion Being backed by a vendor (HPE) rather than vanilla openstack gives us a little more confidence that the product is now at a level of maturity where we are happy to start consuming open technologies."
"We have many more services, including self-service, and we don't have to call IT and wait for weeks or months for service, which is the biggest benefit for our business."
"HPE Helion provides access to world-class personnel and skill sets, and their ability to perform repeatedly at a high standard provides a positive experience."
"The most valuable feature is our access to private and public clouds."
"It's improved the delivery of services to our clients, and I believe my clients get new business and better performance."
"I like using the reports feature, but also the fact that we are able to have a smooth process when it comes to leads and opportunities."
"The solution is highly scalable, as a company can easily scale if they need to and it effectively expands to meet your needs."
"It was a great add-on to our digital landscape."
"You can put your clients' names in there along with their contacts and the opportunity for sales with them."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the unit coordination between sales and marketing when it comes to lead management."
"Salesforce Platform is very good at what it does."
"We like that the technology is very agile and flexible in the sense that there's a large partner ecosystem within Salesforce Platform. This enables us to choose from many different partners with different advantages, and all of it can be done in a plug-and-play kind of way."
"Any issues it may have for example with integration are all minor when you compare it with the performance, scalability, and ease of use."
 

Cons

"With a lot of the services we use, we need a single dashboard that could do more."
"Some improvements I think are needed are greater stability and more up to date packages."
"We need improvements for more hybrid use. Right now, the system is very focused on pay-as-you-go cloud services, and our customers are looking for more a hybrid use."
"I would like to be able to select the best private cloud to use in terms of service and cost."
"If they could reduce the cost, that would be good as there is much competition, and many companies and organizations are looking to reduce costs."
"Salesforce Platform has a cumbersome interface when creating reports, dashboards, and those types of things. They could be a little bit more simple. The administration has to be an aficionado to do any sort of administration and maintenance, for example, setting up the way you want to modify the lead tracks or functions. These systems tend to be quite cumbersome."
"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."
"The customer service team at Salesforce get the job done but they are not fast. The technical support could be improved."
"There is always room for improvement. It can be hard to learn, but when you have somebody who is experienced in this, it is like anything else. It is like Excel, you'll never know everything about Excel, but there's somebody who would possibly know. I'm sure I don't know all of the ins and outs of Salesforce."
"Salesforce Platform may be on the expensive side. However, getting value for money depends on how it's used."
"I would like Salesforce to recommend related opportunities within the organization that have been taken to closure, so we can fast track new opportunities based on past experiences."
"Its documentation and price should be better."
"There's a learning curve. It was a bit hard to understand the logical way of working with it, just at the beginning."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Salesforce does a user capacity analysis on a regular basis. For example, if you're not using certain areas, you may lose access. If you don't go in and quote and edit quotes, all of a sudden you may lose your rights to quote."
"The licensing is per user per month, which we took out a contract on a long time back. It's really an okay price for what solutions are available and for how many features and what kind of functionality you get."
"Pricing and license differ and depend on how much license you are purchasing from them."
"Costly, but it is the top product in SaaS/PaaS. Pricing is more for large to enterprise level companies."
"The solution is fairly priced."
"For the number of people that are using Salesforce Platform in my organization, I feel the price is reasonable."
"It is expensive."
"It is a fair price for what it's offering, in comparison with other solutions that are available on the market."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Construction Company
12%
Performing Arts
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise25
Large Enterprise44
 

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Also Known As

HPE Helion Cloud, HP Helion
Salesforce1, Force.com, Salesforce App Cloud
 

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Sample Customers

ACA Fashion Software, myLoc, Mendix, Comline AG, Nava Solutions, 20th Century Fox, Zhejiang University, iService Global, Okinawa Cross Head, Creative Photo Cloud, Zuora, Ormuco, Ecad, MyCloud, Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS)
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