Alternatives to Salesforce
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If you're comparing Salesforce with other companies in AI Agents & Automation, Enterprise Applications and Data & Analytics, start here. These are the 47 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
The score is worked out the same way as “Most active” in the company directory; how we rank sets out the maths. Vendors can't pay to move up. Back to the Salesforce profile.
AI Agents & Automation: Salesforce's main category
19 companies sit alongside Salesforce here, busiest first.
- Amazon Web Services#5 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and…
- 190 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Data & Analytics
- Google Cloud#4 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google…
- 82 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Data & Analytics
- Zapier#14 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
Zapier is a US no-code automation company founded in 2011 in Columbia, Missouri, by Wade Foster, Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop, and headquartered in San Francisco as a remote-first…
- 70 stories in the last 90 days
- OpenAI#6 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and deployment company that develops the GPT family of large language models, reasoning models, image, video and speech models, and…
- 62 stories in the last 90 days
- SAP#11 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
SAP is a German enterprise software company, SAP SE, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, and founded in 1972. It sells enterprise resource planning software, notably SAP S/4HANA…
- 47 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Enterprise Applications and Data & Analytics
- LangChain#16 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
LangChain is a software company that develops open-source frameworks and commercial tooling for building applications and agents on large language models. Its products include the…
- 40 stories in the last 90 days
- Microsoft#3 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Enterprise Applications and Data & Analytics
- Sierra#15 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
Sierra is a US artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2023 by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor. It builds conversational AI agents that…
- 24 stories in the last 90 days
- Writer#19 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
Writer is a US enterprise generative AI company founded in 2020 by May Habib and Waseem AlShikh and headquartered in San Francisco. Its full-stack platform combines its own…
- 15 stories in the last 90 days
- ServiceNow#2 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
ServiceNow is a US enterprise software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2004 by Fred Luddy. Its ServiceNow AI Platform automates workflows across IT…
Evidence is still building for ServiceNow.
Also in Enterprise Applications
- Anthropic#7 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco. It develops the Claude family of large language models, offered through the…
Evidence is still building for Anthropic.
- Automation Anywhere#10 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
Automation Anywhere is a US intelligent automation company founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells a cloud-native Automation Success Platform combining…
Evidence is still building for Automation Anywhere.
- CrewAI#17 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
CrewAI is an AI agent company known for its open-source Python framework for orchestrating teams of collaborating AI agents, called crews, that take on defined roles and tasks…
Evidence is still building for CrewAI.
- Glean#18 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
Glean is a US enterprise AI company that provides a work AI platform combining enterprise search, an AI assistant and AI agents grounded in a company's own data and permissions…
Evidence is still building for Glean.
- IBM#8 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform…
Evidence is still building for IBM.
- Kore.ai#20 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
Kore.ai is an enterprise conversational and agentic AI company that provides a platform for building, deploying and managing AI agents and virtual assistants. Its offerings…
Evidence is still building for Kore.ai.
- Pegasystems#12 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
Pegasystems, known as Pega, is an enterprise software company whose Pega Platform provides low-code workflow automation, case management, decisioning and generative AI for large…
Evidence is still building for Pegasystems.
- UiPath#9 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
UiPath is an automation software company founded in 2005 in Bucharest, Romania, by Daniel Dines and Marius Tîrcă, and headquartered in New York City. Known for robotic process…
Evidence is still building for UiPath.
- Workday#13 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with Salesforce
Workday is a US enterprise cloud applications company founded in 2005 by Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri and headquartered in Pleasanton, California. It sells software for human…
Evidence is still building for Workday.
Also in Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Applications
15 companies sit alongside Salesforce here, busiest first. 4 others are listed in an earlier section.
- Zoho#12 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
Zoho is an Indian software company, Zoho Corporation, founded in 1996 as AdventNet by Sridhar Vembu and Tony Thomas and headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It sells a broad…
- 35 stories in the last 90 days
- Sage#14 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
Sage is a British software company, The Sage Group plc, headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and founded in 1981. It sells accounting, financial management, payroll and…
- 35 stories in the last 90 days
- Veeva Systems#17 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
Veeva Systems is a US cloud software company for the life sciences industry, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Its Veeva Development Cloud supports…
- 7 stories in the last 90 days
- IFS#9 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
IFS is a Swedish enterprise software company providing IFS Cloud, a single platform for enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM) and field service…
- 18 stories in the last 90 days
- HubSpot#11 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
HubSpot is a US software company that provides an AI-powered customer platform for marketing, sales, customer service, content and operations, built around a shared CRM. Its…
- 7 stories in the last 90 days
- Atlassian#20 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
Atlassian is a software company founded in Sydney, Australia, in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. It sells team collaboration and software development tools…
Evidence is still building for Atlassian.
- Adobe#7 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
Adobe is a US software company founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator…
Evidence is still building for Adobe.
- Coupa#16 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
Coupa is a business spend management software company founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. Its cloud platform covers procurement, invoicing, expense…
Evidence is still building for Coupa.
- Dayforce#15 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
Dayforce is a human capital management software company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its cloud platform, also named Dayforce, combines payroll, HR, workforce…
Evidence is still building for Dayforce.
- Epicor#10 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
Epicor is an enterprise software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, providing industry-specific ERP and business management software for manufacturing, distribution, retail…
Evidence is still building for Epicor.
- Freshworks#18 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
Freshworks is a SaaS company that provides customer service and IT service management software, including Freshdesk, Freshservice and Freshsales, with AI capabilities branded…
Evidence is still building for Freshworks.
- Infor#8 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
Infor is a US enterprise software company that provides industry-specific cloud ERP and business applications, sold as CloudSuites for sectors such as manufacturing, distribution…
Evidence is still building for Infor.
- Oracle#2 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It…
Evidence is still building for Oracle.
Also in Data & Analytics
- UKG#13 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
UKG is a US human capital management (HCM) and workforce management software company formed in 2020 by the merger of Ultimate Software and Kronos Incorporated, with headquarters…
Evidence is still building for UKG.
- Zendesk#19 leader in Enterprise ApplicationsCompare with Salesforce
Zendesk is a customer service software company founded in 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Mikkel Svane, Morten Primdahl and Alexander Aghassipour, and headquartered in San…
Evidence is still building for Zendesk.
Data & Analytics
13 companies sit alongside Salesforce here, busiest first. 5 others are listed in an earlier section.
- Databricks#2 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Salesforce
Databricks is a data and AI company founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark and headquartered in San Francisco. Its Data Intelligence Platform, built on a lakehouse…
- 65 stories in the last 90 days
- Snowflake#1 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Salesforce
Snowflake is a US cloud data platform company founded in 2012, with its principal executive office in Bozeman, Montana. Its AI Data Cloud runs on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google…
- 41 stories in the last 90 days
- Starburst#19 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Salesforce
Starburst is a US data analytics company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It sells a data lakehouse and query platform built on Trino, the open source…
- 26 stories in the last 90 days
- Fivetran#13 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Salesforce
Fivetran is a US data integration company that provides fully managed, automated ELT pipelines. Its platform offers hundreds of prebuilt connectors that replicate data from SaaS…
- 26 stories in the last 90 days
- ThoughtSpot#17 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Salesforce
ThoughtSpot is a US business intelligence and analytics software company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. Its AI-powered analytics platform lets…
- 14 stories in the last 90 days
- dbt Labs#14 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Salesforce
dbt Labs is the company behind dbt, a widely used tool for transforming data inside cloud data warehouses using SQL and software engineering practices such as version control and…
- 16 stories in the last 90 days
- 1 community thread
- Teradata#10 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Salesforce
Teradata is a US data analytics and data platform company founded in 1979 and headquartered in San Diego, California. Its flagship Teradata VantageCloud platform provides a…
- 9 stories in the last 90 days
- Confluent#15 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Salesforce
Confluent is a data streaming company founded in 2014 by Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede and Jun Rao, the original creators of Apache Kafka. Headquartered in Mountain View, California…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Alteryx#16 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Salesforce
Alteryx is a US analytics software company founded in 1997 and headquartered in Irvine, California. Its Alteryx One platform, including Alteryx Designer and cloud-based analytics…
Evidence is still building for Alteryx.
- Cloudera#11 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Salesforce
Cloudera is a US data platform company founded in 2008 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Its Cloudera Data Platform provides hybrid data management, data engineering…
Evidence is still building for Cloudera.
- Domo#18 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Salesforce
Domo is an American cloud business intelligence and data platform company founded in 2010 by Josh James and headquartered in American Fork, Utah. Its platform combines data…
Evidence is still building for Domo.
- Qlik#7 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Salesforce
Qlik is a data integration, analytics and AI company founded in Lund, Sweden, in 1993 and headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Its products include Qlik Sense and…
Evidence is still building for Qlik.
- SAS#20 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Salesforce
SAS, formally SAS Institute Inc., is a US analytics and AI software company headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, founded in 1976. Its flagship SAS Viya cloud-native platform…
Evidence is still building for SAS.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with Salesforce. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with Salesforce's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
Companies in the same group as Salesforce (Informatica) aren't listed as alternatives.
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