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Cast Iron Integration for Salesforce.com

Cast Iron Systems created an appliance-based solution specifically for migrating and integrating salesforce.com with other applications. The Cast Iron Integration Appliance™ uses a "configuration, not coding" approach to enable salesforce.com customers to complete their integration projects in days.

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Connect Salesforce.com with Your Enterprise

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, Cast Iron’s No Software approach has dramatically simplified application integration for salesforce.com customers.

Why Choose the Cast Iron Integration Appliance?

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance for salesforce.com enables IT Departments to be nimble and responsive to the needs of the business. This Integration Appliance has been specifically engineered for salesforce.com and contains everything needed to complete integration projects in days.

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Fastest Time to Market:

Rapid Integration
  • No software to install. Up-and-running in minutes!
  • Graphical configuration, not coding
  • Rack-mountable, production-ready
  • On demand library of Template Integration Processes (TIPs) for the most common integration scenarios

Lowest Costs:

Lowest cost
  • No software to license or deploy and nothing else to buy
  • No need to maintain multiple components including hardware, web servers, databases, integration brokers, etc.
  • Low monthly subscription pricing
  • Used by systems analysts, not middleware experts
  • Up to 80% lower operating costs vs. software-based alternatives

Simplest Monitoring and Management:

Simplest monitoring and management
  • Complete visibility into transactions
  • Proactive alerting of data and connectivity errors
  • Monitor from anywhere, anytime
  • Remote setup, upgrades and monitoring

Most Rapid, Efficient Development:

Most rapid, efficient development
  • 100% standards-based: no reliance on 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, and messaging systems
  • Unmatched flexibility — can be deployed on-premise or hosted in the Cloud

What Problems Does the Cast Iron Integration Appliance Solve?

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance for salesforce.com rapidly solves a variety of migration and integration problems that involve both internal and external applications. Problems that need synchronization, either real time or batch, between salesforce.com and other systems are easily solved with the Integration Appliance. Companies in industries ranging from manufacturing, retail and consumer goods to energy, transportation and logistics, use Cast Iron's solution for salesforce.com to solve problems like these:

Synchronize data in real time between salesforce.com and other systems:

  • Accounts and Contacts with ERP customer master
  • Opportunities with Order management systems
  • Forecasts with other CRM systems
  • Quote requests with Order management systems
  • Leads and Campaigns with marketing automation systems
  • Activity history with external reporting systems
  • Invoices with Billing systems
  • Case data with Customer Support systems
  • Pricing and product catalog data with PLM systems
  • Data migration from other CRM systems
  • And many more...

Connect salesforce.com with:

  • ERP including Lawson, Oracle, JD Edwards, SAP, Great Plains, PeopleSoft, BAAN, QAD, etc.
  • CRM including Oracle/Siebel, Clarify, Remedy (for migration), etc.
  • Customer support systems
  • Clarity/NIKU
  • All major databases including Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Informix and Sybase
  • Middleware
  • Flat-files using FTP, HTTP(S), E-mail
  • Web Services/XML
  • Custom applications
  • And many other applications...
  • Custom applications
  • And many other applications…

How does salesforce.com Integration Work?

The Cast Iron solution provides the following key features to simplify and accelerate data migration and integration with salesforce.com:

Cast Iron Capabilities

Data Quality and Migration:

  • Data Profiling: Assess the quality of your data before commencing data migrations — e.g. identify the unique state and country codes present in your address data
  • Intelligent Data Cleansing:
    • Duplicate Removal (de-duplication): Combine data from various different data sources and remove duplicate values — e.g. remove the same lead scanned multiple times
    • Fuzzy Lookup: Configure sophisticated rules to highlight errors and fix them — e.g. common misspellings, abbreviations, etc.
  • Data Enrichment: Perform lookups with third-party providers to enrich your data — e.g. DUNS number from Dun & Bradstreet services, etc.

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance simplifies salesforce.com integration in just four easy steps:

1. Connectivity 2. Transformation 3. Workflow 4. Management

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance connects salesforce.com to a wide variety of enterprise applications, databases, flat-files, and on-demand applications. Using a "configuration, not coding" approach for connecting applications not only enables rapid implementations, but also eliminates the need to touch the endpoints. The appliance provides a graphical UI to transform data between source and target applications, and provides automatic completeness checks. A workflow process can be defined using drag-and-drop logical functions. And, a single web-based console provides complete visibility to data flowing through the appliance and enables complete management of the integrations.

Components

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance provides three components to configure, deploy and manage your application integration projects.

Cast Iron Studio™

Cast Iron Studioô Cast Iron Studio (Studio) is at the heart of the easy-to-use design experience offered by Cast Iron's Integration Appliances. Studio provides a graphical environment for you to configure integration data flows called workflows or orchestrations. Studio allows you to create these workflows by dragging and dropping activities into a design window. Once designed, these workflows can be published to the appliance with a single click.

Run-time Appliance

Cast Iron Integration Appiance Combining ease-of-use with robust functionality, the purpose-built Run-time Appliance brings high performance and reliability to your integration solution. With easy scalability and complete security, the appliance is self-contained and has everything needed to complete your integrations.

Web Management Console

Cast Iron Web Management Console (WMC) The Web Management Console (WMC) is a simple-to-use environment where you deploy integration projects, and then securely monitor and manage these integrations. The Web Management Console also manages all deployment assets related to the integration for you. These assets could include the WSDL definition for a web service to invoke your integration or database scripts to send database events to the Cast Iron Integration Appliance.

Getting Started

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Cast Iron Appliances

  • iA2000-SF

    The iA2000-SF is the entry-level integration appliance from Cast Iron. It allows customers to get their first integration project between salesforce.com and one other named application up and running quickly and cost effectively. This is an attractive alternative to custom code and a good fit for simpler projects.

  • iA2500-SF

    Entry-level enterprise class appliance for integrating salesforce.com and one other named application for multiple projects. Useful for companies that seek a point-to-point integration solution with and easy upgrade path to a standards-based integration platform. This is an attractive alternative to custom code.

  • iA4000-SF

    Enterprise class flagship solution solves integration problems between multiple applications. Useful for companies that seek a standards-based platform for their application integration needs and find software-based integration solutions too complex.

  • iA4000HA-SF

    High Availability solution for mission-critical applications. Comprised of a pair of iA4000-SF appliances, the HA solution provides failover capability. Useful for companies that need a hot-standby option in addition to high-availability requirements.