Salesforce Overview

Enterprise CRM platform

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You can set up Salesforce as a source on the RudderStack dashboard in no time. Once successfully configured, RudderStack automatically ingests your specified events data from Salesforce. You can then send the data to your data warehouse or other preferred third-party destinations supported by RudderStack.

By adding Salesforce as a source in the RudderStack dashboard, you can:

  • Easily import all your historical data to your Salesforce data source.
  • Synchronize with your Salesforce data source based on the schedule and run frequency.
  • Securely ingest your customer event data and route it to your preferred destination platforms in the desired format.
  • Replicate new and updated rows to your destination incrementally.
Frequently Asked Questions

The Salesforce platform uses a bunch of open source tools. It is primarily written in Java and runs on Sun's JDK (which is open source). It also uses Java open source libraries (Guava, Gin, and Guice) during development. Salesforce also uses many Apache tools such as Apache Commons, Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, and more.

There are many reasons for Salesforce's popularity that make it a preferable option among CRM platforms. Salesforce offers unique features such as contact management, workflow creation, opportunity tracking, various collaboration tools, customer engagement tools, and much more. It also provides businesses the ability to scale from the ground up using its powerful implementations. Also, its performance does not vary for large or small businesses.

Salesforce customer data is stored on a primary database server with multiple active clusters for higher availability. It is also stored in highly redundant carrier-class disk storage and multiple data paths that ensure reliability, high availability, and performance.

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Salesforce is a popular CRM platform that helps companies to streamline their sales and marketing operations. It offers a rich suite of enterprise applications that offer marketing automation, customer engagement, application development, and analytics. Salesforce allows for easy collaboration between different teams within your organization and thus, reduces data silos.