Salesforce.com Inc

Salesforce Lightning Flow

Composite Score

8.3 /10

CX Score

8.5 /10

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What is Salesforce Lightning Flow?

Lightning Flow is a new Lightning Platform service that empowers any business to create and extend the power of process automation to any customer or employee experience.

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Awards & Recognition

Salesforce Lightning Flow won the following awards in the Low-Code Business Process Management - Midmarket category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2024

3 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

1 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2023

Salesforce Lightning Flow Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

95 Plan to Renew

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+89 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Salesforce Lightning Flow?

3% Negative

1% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Respectful
Reliable
Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Low-Code Automation

Customizable Performance Dashboards

Process Automation Templates

In-App Automated Workflows

Process Workflow Designer

Permissions and Governance

Content Management

BPMN Compliance

Mobile Support

Collaboration

Real-time Process Analysis

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Salesforce Lightning Flow Reviews

Jonathan Justin L.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Aug 2021

Leader in CRMs, high cost but high functionality

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Salesforce Lightning Flow from other similar products?

Leader of the Pack!

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Command and control of the sales process

What do you dislike most about this product?

can get cumbersome quickly if you over customize

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The system is designed around a specific sales process , the further you leave that process and customize the more cumbersome it becomes

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

Pradeep B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2021

Works flawlessly, a bit costly but worthy

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Salesforce Lightning Flow from other similar products?

Salesforce Lightning Flow have much more new features to use which definitely makes you feel and like your activity to finish. The feasibility to building the flow for a business with its extensive utilities helps more. Automation flow is the key area most likely to have in your business process flows. There is less coding knowledge required as we have many features to integrate the functionalities like drag n drop.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Creates the automation process which contains the managing, building along with the running flow which suits for the business defined process which helps any organization to define the flow..

What do you dislike most about this product?

Haven't faced any feature which didn't liked much, but offfcourse its technology innovation and everyone have bit improvement which always the product keep ON. in my assignment, so for me, so far can't comment on products feature dislike.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would say keep your self updated with the upcoming technologies, to keep yourself in today's technology race which helps business continuous improvement. This is one of the best Salesforce service which definitely helps an organization which keep improving the business and the business process at its easiest for an end users to act smartly.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Igor M.

Role: C-Level
Industry: Biotechnology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2021

Salesforce is an amazing product.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Salesforce Lightning Flow from other similar products?

Salesforce has incredible automation tools, such as their Flow builder. This enables an admit to perform tasks that only a developer could in many other systems.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It is extremely customizable, all you need to do is use your imagination.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It's so customizable, that it's very easy to do the wrong thing. If there was more automated guidance, that would be amazing.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The tool itself, out of the box isn't that useful. Once you start customizing it, it becomes a powerhouse. You just need to have a good architect to understand what should and shouldn't be done.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Salesforce Lightning Flow

What is Salesforce Lightning Flow?

Company Details

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Salesforce Lightning Flow Ratings

90 Likeliness to Recommend

95 Plan to Renew

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+89 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Salesforce Lightning Flow?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Low-Code Automation Ability to automate business processes with little to no coding experience or technical skillsets via intuitive tools i.e. drag and drop.

Customizable Performance Dashboards View data points from the process analysis on dashboards that are ready for use out-of-the-box or customizable

Process Automation Templates Leverage pre-built templates for automating processes. Templates include sample workflows for common processes.

In-App Automated Workflows Ability to automate tasks and request triaging within the BPM application

Process Workflow Designer The ability to document processes in a visual manner. A common format is a workflow diagrams with swimlanes.

Permissions and Governance Approve user generated process automations, coupled with the ability to restrict access to specific processes.

Content Management Includes collaboration, check-in/check-out, and version control.

BPMN Compliance Process workflow design compliance with the latest Business Process Model and Notation standard.

Mobile Support The solution provides the ability to support multiple devices, OSes and platforms using mobile optimized, HTML-based web access and/or native applications.

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Real-time Process Analysis Analyze the performance of automated processes while they are being executed. Measure key metrics such as velocity, time, cost, resourcing, etc.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Salesforce Lightning Flow Reviews

Jonathan Justin L.

Leader in CRMs, high cost but high functionality

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Pradeep B.

Works flawlessly, a bit costly but worthy

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Igor M.

Salesforce is an amazing product.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Low-Code Automation

Customizable Performance Dashboards

Process Automation Templates

In-App Automated Workflows

Process Workflow Designer

Permissions and Governance

Content Management

BPMN Compliance

Mobile Support

Collaboration

Real-time Process Analysis

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Quality of Features

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Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

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Ease of IT Administration