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Salesforce Lightning Platform

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4.4
Market Presence: Multiexperience Development Platforms, Application Platforms (Transitioning to Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms)

Overview

Product Information on Salesforce Lightning Platform

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Salesforce Lightning Platform?

Salesforce Lightning Platform is a software that enables organizations to develop, deploy, and manage custom business applications with integrated tools for automation, analytics, and user experience customization. The software supports the creation of apps through a drag and drop interface, offers prebuilt components, and allows for integration with external data sources. It addresses business needs such as workflow automation, reporting, and collaboration by providing features for secure data management, logic-driven process creation, and multi-device accessibility. The software is designed to facilitate app lifecycle management, scalability, and compliance with various industry standards, aiming to streamline development processes and improve organizational productivity.

Salesforce Lightning Platform Pricing

Salesforce Lightning Platform software uses a subscription-based pricing model with several tiers that vary based on features and user needs The software typically charges per user per month and offers additional options for customization and development integrations Prices may differ depending on the level of functionality and scale required

Overall experience with Salesforce Lightning Platform

Director of Customer Service and Support
250M - 500M USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“A staple suite for any sales & CS org”

5.0
Feb 18, 2026
I have used Salesforce Lightning for over 10 years and the main positive for me is how quick and reliable it is. Everything loads and updates instantly. Reporting is great and building dashboards have some really powerful features.
Associate
50M - 250M USD, Miscellaneous
CRITICAL

“Salesforce Lightning Platform Review ”

3.0
Oct 10, 2024
It is our main customer relationship management tool. We use it fot most all sales related purposes to track customers, sales, opportunities and even reports on other integrated systems. It allow us to keep track of the work done with our customers and the whole conversation is noted down for other users who get the same lead in future. Most annoying feature for me can be AI auto fill. This keeps coming and it is hard for us to keep editing. Easy computation of sales and revenue. However, the workflow can be challenging at times. With new update, good features and options are hard to find. It has the ability to create specific types of reports if required.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Salesforce is a company that integrates artificial intelligence with customer relationship management and data to create solutions for customer-related concerns. Salesforce's primary business problem is to enhance the interaction between businesses and their customers by leveraging technology.

Company Details

Updated 2nd November 2023
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1999
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
http://www.salesforce.com

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Salesforce Lightning Platform Likes & Dislikes

Like

The speed and reliability. I have to work pretty fast and I can rely on it for that.

Like

This product gives an extra boost to the sales and communication with customers. Third party apps connection is simple, easy tracking of customers, there activities, there interests and once the report is generated, all suitable products are shown or we pitch to customers. This is slightly more quicker than other products. Tagging, reporting and real time information is given.

Like

Flexibility to deploy and install custom solutions. Standardized UI and consistent through the years.

Dislike

It's a small point but only being able to create one row based formula is actually quite problematic when you are trying to do more complex reports which let's face it, is normally the requirement in true business use cases.

Dislike

Customisation is very, very tough. Fields can be messy and does not have a good user interface and is definitely not a beginner friendly product. At times, assigning workflows is difficult and time-eating.

Dislike

Governance of field creation and use should be more intuitive. We ended up creating too many custom objects and fields without clear use. Even though there's a view to see which fields are not being used, it's unclear whether it's due to incorrect implementation or due to incorrect use of the objects. Error messages could be clearer for end-users.

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Peer Discussions

Salesforce Lightning Platform Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(755 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
39%
4 Star
50%
3 Star
9%
2 Star
2%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.2

Integration & Deployment

4.3

Service & Support

4.3

Product Capabilities

4.5

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  • Director of Customer Service and Support
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    A staple suite for any sales & CS org

    5.0
    Feb 18, 2026
    I have used Salesforce Lightning for over 10 years and the main positive for me is how quick and reliable it is. Everything loads and updates instantly. Reporting is great and building dashboards have some really powerful features.
  • Data Analyst
    50M-1B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Standardized UI Persists Yet Field Management and Usability Issues Evident

    4.0
    Dec 30, 2025
    Platform is flexible enough to build completely custom solutions as well as install them, but the interface is cumbersome, both for developers and end-users.
  • PRODUCT MANAGER
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Platform’s Adaptability Requires Support and May Lead to Complicated Customizations

    4.0
    Oct 20, 2025
    Extremely flexible platform to a fault, strengths of platform are limited to your ability to support the changes
  • MANAGER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
    <50M USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Lightning Platform Offers Improved Visual Experience Compared To Previous Model

    4.0
    Sep 3, 2025
    We use the platform every day. We prefer the Lightning platform to the older model.
  • UX Designer
    50M-1B USD
    Travel and Hospitality
    Review Source

    Salesforce Lightning Enhances User Interface, But Lacks Out-of-Box Customization

    4.0
    May 10, 2025
    We have been rolling out a change of our CRM from one platform to Salesforce Lightning and the workflows possible, user friendly interface and huge number of features that we have been able to roll out to help customer retention and also for our consultants to track where they are in the sales process has been great.
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