Business Problem

• Migrating from Siebel to salesforce.com
• Integrate salesforce.com with ERP & data warehouse applications
• No Web Services/SOA familiarity
• Custom Code does not scale to handle myriad formats: SQL, Web Services, Flat-files, FTP

Competing Technologies

• Rejected Custom Code – did not meet project needs
• Rejected IBM MQ Series after bakeoff with Cast Iron

Solution

• Cast Iron connects salesforce.com with Lawson & data warehouse in real time
• One-click configuration of pre-built salesforce.com connectors
• No Coding to complete entire project

Results

• Entire project completed in 5 days
  • 160 hours of coding now replaced by 8 hours of configuration
• TCO reduced by $500K
• $513K in labor savings