Illuminated Cloud

What do you like best?

This tool makes modifying any metadata in a salesforce organization amazingly simple. Being able to use a great IDE like IntelliJ with salesforce development not only helps standardize what our developers work in, but just makes Salesforce development that much more simple.

What do you dislike?

I wish it used an easier authentication to the salesforce server like most applications, instead you need to reset your security token.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

They have a trial, I suggest giving it a try. Make sure to set your projects up correctly to avoid writing code to wrong environments. Naming is important.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Developings having to work in the Developer Console, and helped create a true development process for our company when using Salesforce.