The basic question: Is Jitterbit Data Loader for Salesforce a better data loader than Apex Data Loader?

The deciding factors for us would be performance, stability, ease of configuration, and vendor support

I am looking for insight from someone who has used both and would like to get your opinion about which one you prefer and why

This is how we use Apex Data Loader today...
- Bulk Load .csv files into the cloud
- Insert, Update, Upsert, Delete, Export
- Called via Shell script from SSIS

A key feature of the Apex data Loader that makes it work for us today is this:
The ability to edit the "config.properties" file

For example...
We have found it necessary to tweak the following settings on an object by object, operation by operation basis to achieve the required level of performance and still stay within Salesforce API usage metering limits:
dataAccess.writeBatchSize
dataAccess.readBatchSize
sfdc.loadBatchSize
sfdc.extractionRequestSize

Does Jitterbit allow for this same level of configuration?

Thank you in advance for any insight you can offer!

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to get the word out that as part of our certification on the Appexchange we will be doing a webinar this coming Tuesday that covers Real-time integration to salesforce with Jitterbit Hosted Web Services.

This session is designed for Salesforce.com customers or partners who need to integrate data from Salesforce.com in "Real-Time" with their internal applications.

The webinar wiil show how to:

• Define an Outbound Salesforce.com Message
• Associate the message with a Salesforce Workflow Event
• Create a Hosted Web Service Operation in Jitterbit to process the incoming request from

Salesforce.com

• Configure Jitterbit to process messages from Salesforce.com securely
• Setup error handling routines and monitor the system to ensure that messages are not lost

Who: Ilan Sehayek, CTO and Founder, Jitterbit.
What: "Using Jitterbit Hosted Web Services for Real-time Integration with Salesforce.com"
When: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 - 10:00 a.m. PDT, 1:00 p.m EDT, 17:00 GMT
(the presentation will be approximately 60 minutes long followed by Q&A)

If you're interested in attending you can sign up for the session at: http://www.jitterbit.com/events

The basic question: Is Jitterbit Data Loader for Salesforce a better data loader than Apex Data Loader?

The deciding factors for us would be performance, stability, ease of configuration, and vendor support

I am looking for insight from someone who has used both and would like to get your opinion about which one you prefer and why

This is how we use Apex Data Loader today...
- Bulk Load .csv files into the cloud
- Insert, Update, Upsert, Delete, Export
- Called via Shell script from SSIS

A key feature of the Apex data Loader that makes it work for us today is this:
The ability to edit the "config.properties" file

For example...
We have found it necessary to tweak the following settings on an object by object, operation by operation basis to achieve the required level of performance and still stay within Salesforce API usage metering limits:
dataAccess.writeBatchSize
dataAccess.readBatchSize
sfdc.loadBatchSize
sfdc.extractionRequestSize

Does Jitterbit allow for this same level of configuration?

Thank you in advance for any insight you can offer!

Hi..We are performing integration to Sales Force from our legacy applications where we were going to use our Siebel Web Service. In our discovery we found that SalesForce  does not support RPC encoded service  but  only supports document/literal wrapped services. Is there any work around or 3rd party tool that you know of that could be used to help us in this area so we don’t have to re-write those services.

 

I heard Cast Iron is a pretty decent tool for integration. Could anyone let me know how good this tool fits my issue discussed above and any inputs before I recommend this to my organization..?? Please advise. Thanks.

Hello-

 

Been trying to configure Jitterbit, and have successfully logged in to SF, gotten the SessionID and URL I need, but when I go back to the API to run my operation (in this case an upsert()), I get a SOAP error back from Salesforce:

 

The web service returned a SOAP Fault: Code: soapenv:Client Message: '' is not a valid value for the enum 'ExecutionLogType' The server returned the following headers: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Server: Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 332

 

 

Despite my best efforts, I can't seem to find any information on ExecutionLogType, either in the WSDL, or in Salesforces API documentation (nor Jitterbit's for that matter).  Any thoughts on what could be causing this?

 

Thanks!