Product Comparison Matrix

Scenario	Snapshot	Eclipse	ANT	Change Sets
Primary Purpose	Change and Release Management	Apex Development	Release Management	Release Management
Designed for a Salesforce Administrator	Yes	No. Designed for a developer.	No. Designed for a developer.	Yes
Back up Org customizations	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Deploy Org customizations between related Orgs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Capture limited set of Org customizations for quick fixes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Preview or simulate customization deployment prior to actual deployment	Yes. SnapShot allows the user to run a simulation and returns success/ error messages as if they executed an actual deployment.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Deploy Org customizations between a Developer Edition instance and Production/ Sandbox instance	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Deploy Org customizations between unrelated Orgs	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Deploy metadata with a content repo as source to a salesforce Org	Yes. Snapshot can pull metadata from any content repo including Git Enterprise, Bibucket, SVN, TFS etc.	Yes	Yes	No
Delete unwanted Org customizations to reduce bloat	Yes. SnapShot provides a menu based scheme to identify and reduce bloat across various metadata types including email templates, groups, queues etc.	Yes	Yes	No
Ability to deploy customizations to Standard Objects (Account, Opportunity etc.)	Yes. SnapShot can capture and deploy Standard Object customizations (including new/ updated fields).	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ability to deploy Profile changes	Yes. SnapShot facilitates fine grain Profile metadata deployments (e.g. change Apex Class Access for Class A only for the Guest profile).	Yes. Entire profile needs to be migrated.	Yes. Entire profile needs to be migrated.	Yes. Metadata being secured has to be migrated along with Profile.
Ability to deploy assets in Unfiled Public folder	Yes. SnapShot facilities deploying report, dashboards, documents, email templates in Unfiled Public folders.	Yes	Yes	No
Ability to run unmanaged tests only as part of deployment	Yes. SnapShot can optionally run unmanaged and/ or managed tests as part of the migration.	No	Yes. Need to specify each test class individually.	Yes
Detect metadata changes between current and previous Org status	Yes. High level changes are displayed with drilldown capability to display XML differences.	Yes. XML diff only.	No	No
Match Profile references during deployment	Yes. SnapShot automatically matches references to Objects in the Job list and destination with the Profiles being pushed. This reduces Profile deployment errors.	No	No	No
Generate documentation on current state of Org. Usually, to satisfy audit regulations like SOX, FDIC or HIPAA	Yes. SnapShot can generate Data Dictionaries for Standard and Custom Objects and Fields, HTML and Plain Text Change Lists on an Org comparison, or just the captured XML depending on what the user wants.	No	No	No
Identify true security privilege by combining Profile and Permission Set	Yes. SnapShot can combine Profile and Permission Sets assigned to a user to display “true” security.	No	No	No
Track deployments and generate audit reports and dashboards	Yes. SnapShot deployments are logged natively to prepackaged, extensible objects. Standard salesforce reports and dashboards are supplied as part of the package and can be customized as needed.	No	No	No
Compare Orgs to generate change lists	Yes. SnapShot can display a high-level “delta” comparison of customizations with drill down capabilities. These comparison charts can be exported to user readable HTML or Plain Text.	No	No	No
Display asset relationships	Yes. SnapShot displays asset relationships with drilldown to traverse the relationship graph.	No	No	No
Automate Org state capture to ensure periodic backups of your Org	Yes. Scheduled automatic snapshots captures ensures that you are never left without a backup and a broken Org.	No	Yes. Needs an external tool like Cron or AT.	No
Edit metadata en masse rapidly	Yes. SnapShot Studio enabled editing profile and object metadata en masse using a single interface.	No	No	No
Identify Org bloat	Yes. SnapShot has metadata and data reports to help identify unused fields, picklist values, unreferenced assets etc.	No	No	No
Track asset change history	Yes. Snapshot has metadata change history reports to help with chain of custody reports.	No	No	No
Track user/ admin activity in your Org	Yes. Snapshot provides detailed reports to help track user and admin activity reports over predefined or customized dates using various salesforce technologies.	No	No	No