Salesforce integration with all other business critical applications in your organization is an essential component to a successful cloud strategy. You just purchased salesforce.com and need to synchronize your master list of customers, products, prices, previous order histories, and other business critical data, with your other key applications. The challenge is to accomplish this necessary integration without embarking on a lengthy, costly and complex project cycle requiring specialized skill-sets and multiple moving-parts to install and maintain.

IBM created a fast and simple solution specifically for integrating salesforce.com with all other applications. WebSphere® Cast Iron® Cloud Integration uses a "configuration, not coding" approach, enabling salesforce.com customers to complete their data migration, consolidation and integration projects in just days. This user-friendly, template-based approach dramatically simplifies integration projects for salesforce.com, eliminating the need for specialized skill-sets and empowering your organization to leverage repeatable best-practices based on successful integration projects.

Most salesforce.com customers need to rapidly synchronize sales data - such as leads, accounts, opportunities and forecasts - with a variety of internal systems, including ERP, CRM and custom applications. Just as the “No Software” experience of salesforce.com has simplified sales automation, WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration provides full functionality as well as flexible deployment options to completely map to your organization’s IT strategy.

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WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration for salesforce.com provides IT Departments with the agility and flexibility to rapidly respond to your organization’s business needs. The product has been specifically engineered for salesforce.com and contains everything needed to complete integration projects in days.

Fastest time to market:

• Native connectivity to all leading applications
• Graphical configuration, not coding approach
• On demand library of pre-built Template Integration Processes (TIPs) for the most common integration scenarios

Lowest costs:

• Low monthly subscription pricing
• Up to 80% lower maintenance costs vs. software-based alternatives
• No need to maintain multiple components including hardware, web servers, databases, integration brokers, etc.

Simplest monitoring and management:

• 100% remote management and administration
• Proactive alerting of data and connectivity errors
• Monitor from anywhere, anytime

Most rapid, efficient development:

• Unmatched flexibility — can be deployed via an on-premise or virtual Integration Appliance or completely in the multi-tenant integration-as-a-service Cloud offering WebSphere Cast Iron Live
• 100% standards-based; no reliance on native application architectures, coding language or niche middleware skills
• Pre-built and pre-optimized connector for salesforce.com
• Pre-built connectors for major ERP applications, all major databases, flat-files, Web Services, messaging systems, and more

WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration for salesforce.com is self-contained and provides everything needed to integrate salesforce.com with other applications and endpoints. This Cloud integration product is AppExchange certified and provides the following features to simplify and accelerate data migration and integration with salesforce.com:

Migration and data quality:

• Data profiling: Assess the quality of your data before commencing data migrations
• Intelligent data cleansing:
  • Duplicate removal (de-duplication): Combine data from various different sources and remove duplicate values
  • Fuzzy lookup: Configure sophisticated rules to highlight errors and fix them
• Data enrichment: Perform lookups with third-party providers to enrich your data

Integration and extraction

• Connectivity: Configurable connectivity to hundreds of applications and end-points
• Transformation: Drag-and-drop UI for data transformations
• Workflow: Visual interface for designing workflow rules
• Management: Easy manageability through single web-based console

Accelerate your projects with template integration processes (TIPs)

With thousands of successful salesforce.com customer integrations, WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration leverages a wealth of integration experience to provide a comprehensive set of TIPs. Offered for the most common integration scenarios between salesforce.com and a number of enterprise applications like NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, etc., these TIPs eliminate the need to build your integrations from scratch. You can simply log in via your browser, select the template that best suits your requirements and enjoy proven, supported and certified processes. The TIPs can also be further customized to meet your specific needs using a simple configuration wizard.