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Microsoft Azure vs Salesforce Lightning Platform
March 09, 2025 | Author: Michael Stromann
21★
Microsoft Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any alternative language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.
2★
Salesforce Lightning Platform is the proven cloud platform to automate and extend your business and deliver the social enterprise. Salesforce Lightning Platform is an extremely powerful, scalable and secure cloud platform, delivering a complete technology stack covering the ground from database and security to workflow and user interface. Build the social, mobile apps you need to power your Social Enterprise.
See also:
Top 10 Public Cloud Platforms
Top 10 Public Cloud Platforms
Microsoft Azure and Salesforce Lightning Platform are, in many ways, like two intergalactic civilizations that have discovered the joys of cloud computing. Both allow mere mortals (and the occasional hyper-intelligent AI) to develop and deploy applications without needing to sacrifice small animals to ancient servers. They provide automation, security and integration with third-party lifeforms, ensuring that your business runs smoothly—at least until the sales team finds a way to break everything. And, most crucially, they both promise to make app development so easy that even a Vogon could do it.
Microsoft Azure, having crash-landed onto Earth in 2010 courtesy of the mysterious entity known as Microsoft, is a sprawling, all-encompassing cloud behemoth. It doesn’t just stop at applications—it also wants to run your entire infrastructure, manage your AI overlords and ensure your hybrid cloud strategy doesn't accidentally open a wormhole to an alternate dimension. Designed for developers, enterprises and those who enjoy debugging code at 3 AM, it supports a dizzying array of programming languages, because why settle for one when you can have all of them?
Meanwhile, Salesforce Lightning Platform, which materialized in 2015 like a bright, glowing button promising business enlightenment, takes a far more civilized approach. Rather than conquer the entire IT universe, it prefers to focus on customer relationship management, offering a low-code wonderland where sales teams and business users can build apps without knowing the difference between Java and a cup of coffee. Deeply embedded in the Salesforce ecosystem, it speaks mostly in Apex and JavaScript, though it kindly tolerates the occasional integration with outside technologies, much like a posh dinner guest reluctantly accepting supermarket wine.
See also: Top 10 Public Cloud Platforms
Microsoft Azure, having crash-landed onto Earth in 2010 courtesy of the mysterious entity known as Microsoft, is a sprawling, all-encompassing cloud behemoth. It doesn’t just stop at applications—it also wants to run your entire infrastructure, manage your AI overlords and ensure your hybrid cloud strategy doesn't accidentally open a wormhole to an alternate dimension. Designed for developers, enterprises and those who enjoy debugging code at 3 AM, it supports a dizzying array of programming languages, because why settle for one when you can have all of them?
Meanwhile, Salesforce Lightning Platform, which materialized in 2015 like a bright, glowing button promising business enlightenment, takes a far more civilized approach. Rather than conquer the entire IT universe, it prefers to focus on customer relationship management, offering a low-code wonderland where sales teams and business users can build apps without knowing the difference between Java and a cup of coffee. Deeply embedded in the Salesforce ecosystem, it speaks mostly in Apex and JavaScript, though it kindly tolerates the occasional integration with outside technologies, much like a posh dinner guest reluctantly accepting supermarket wine.
See also: Top 10 Public Cloud Platforms
