In this post I will describe how you can integrate your Salesforce.com org with a relational database, like Oracle in real time, or better 'near' real time!
Many times I come across the requirement of quickly propagating changes from cloud platforms like Salesforce.com to on-premise data stores. You can do this with webservices, but that is not middleware and it requires coding.
How about doing with a data integration tool?
+Informatica Corporation's Informatica PowerCenter can achieve this by using the CDC (Change Data Capture) feature of the Informatica PowerCenter Salesforce connector, when Salesforce is the source in a mapping.
The configuration is simple. All you really have to set up is 2 properties in the Mapping Tab of a Session Task in Informatica Workflow Manager.
These are the properties:
CDC Time Limit
Time period (in seconds) that the Integration Service reads changed Salesforce data. When you set the CDC Time Limit to a non-zero value, the Integration Service performs a full initial read of the source data and then captures changes to the Salesforce data for the time period you specify. Set the value to -1 to capture changed data for an infinite period of time. Default is 0.
Flush Interval
Interval (in seconds) at which the Integration Service captures changed Salesforce data. Default is 300. If you set the CDC Time Limit to a non-zero value, the Integration Service captures changed data from the source every 300 seconds. Otherwise, the Integration Service ignores this value.
That's it, you don't have to configure anything else!
Once you set up these properties in the mapping tab of a session, save and restart the task in the workflow, the task will run continuously, non stop. The connector will poll the Salesforce org continuously and propagate any changes you do in Salesforce, downstream to the premise database system, including INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE operations.
Enjoy!
More reading:
SFDC CDC implementation in Informatica PowerCenter
Many times I come across the requirement of quickly propagating changes from cloud platforms like Salesforce.com to on-premise data stores. You can do this with webservices, but that is not middleware and it requires coding.
How about doing with a data integration tool?
+Informatica Corporation's Informatica PowerCenter can achieve this by using the CDC (Change Data Capture) feature of the Informatica PowerCenter Salesforce connector, when Salesforce is the source in a mapping.
The configuration is simple. All you really have to set up is 2 properties in the Mapping Tab of a Session Task in Informatica Workflow Manager.
These are the properties:
- Time Limit property to -1
- Flush interval property to 60 seconds (minimum 60 seconds)
And here is what these two settings mean from the PowerCenter PowerExchange for Salesforce.com User Guide:
Time period (in seconds) that the Integration Service reads changed Salesforce data. When you set the CDC Time Limit to a non-zero value, the Integration Service performs a full initial read of the source data and then captures changes to the Salesforce data for the time period you specify. Set the value to -1 to capture changed data for an infinite period of time. Default is 0.
Flush Interval
Interval (in seconds) at which the Integration Service captures changed Salesforce data. Default is 300. If you set the CDC Time Limit to a non-zero value, the Integration Service captures changed data from the source every 300 seconds. Otherwise, the Integration Service ignores this value.
That's it, you don't have to configure anything else!
Once you set up these properties in the mapping tab of a session, save and restart the task in the workflow, the task will run continuously, non stop. The connector will poll the Salesforce org continuously and propagate any changes you do in Salesforce, downstream to the premise database system, including INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE operations.
Enjoy!
More reading:
SFDC CDC implementation in Informatica PowerCenter
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