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Jitterbit Customizes salesforce.com Data Integrations
Open Source Solution Provider Highlights Ease of Use and Affordability at Dreamforce
| Source: Jitterbit
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - November 3, 2008) - DREAMFORCE -- Jitterbit, the leading
provider of open source integration
software, today announced a series of successful salesforce.com
integrations, for customers including Tides, Logic Communications and
RentGrow. Jitterbit will showcase these solutions at Dreamforce,
salesforce.com's sixth annual user and developer conference held Nov. 2-5
at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Tides, a nonprofit agency promoting
healthy and just societal changes, is among the many customers leveraging
Jitterbit's robust and reliable open source platform to solve salesforce.com
integration challenges.
"Companies are increasingly recognizing the need to effectively link
salesforce.com with existing applications," said Sharam Sasson, Jitterbit
chairman and CEO. "Jitterbit's industry-leading open source integration
platform and easy-to-use graphical interface allows organizations of all
sizes to create custom, enterprise-class data and application
integrations for salesforce.com."
As Tides replaced their outdated, disparate, and highly customized CRM and
financial management applications with a unified platform, it was left with
the challenge of sharing data between the new financial applications and
the salesforce.com platform. If salesforce.com was to serve as Tides'
self-service portal for clients, it was necessary to integrate it with
other applications to provide a real-time view on financial, human
resources, and other relevant data in one convenient location.
"As an organization devoted to creating infrastructure for social change
nonprofits, we are concerned about the cost of technology, so finding a
low-cost and, ideally, open source solution were among our highest
priorities," said Erika Bjune, vice president of Information Technology at
Tides. "Since our financial system sits on SQL Server 2005, finding a
solution that supported Web services was also important. And finally, we
needed a solution that our small IT group could learn to extend and
maintain that did not require use of expensive third-party consultants.
Jitterbit was the ideal solution because it is an open source utility with
support options that included consulting services that could get us started
and trained on the tool and help to set up our initial connections at a
very reasonable cost."
Jitterbit facilitates both scheduled and real-time data delivery between
Tides' major information platforms, and makes possible one of the most
customized implementations among salesforce.com's nonprofit customer base.
"Jitterbit's graphical interface means our in-house database developer can
continue customizing data communications between our growing suite of new
enterprise applications moving forward," Bjune says. "Jitterbit has become
the final piece of every puzzle for us when moving data between systems and
connecting information in new and creative ways."
Learn more about Jitterbit's successful integration partners and customers
at booth 740 at Dreamforce, or by visiting www.jitterbit.com.
About Tides
Bringing together people, ideas and resources, Tides actively promotes
change toward a healthy and just society, one which is founded on the
principles of social justice, broadly shared economic opportunity, a robust
democratic process and a sustainable environment. Tides believes healthy
societies rely fundamentally on respect for human rights, the vitality of
communities, and a celebration of diversity.
Tides was established by Tides Foundation, Tides Center and Tides Shared
Spaces to collaborate on programmatic strategies and operations. Tides
strengthens the progressive movement through leading-edge thinking and
technology, and efficient infrastructural services. For more information,
visit http://www.tides.org.
About Jitterbit Inc.
Jitterbit delivers open source business integration solutions to address
the problems of cost and complexity associated with connecting
applications, data and partners. Jitterbit combines the power,
affordability and quality of Open Source with the support and services of a
professional organization. The company's mission is to help organizations
connect quickly, easily and effectively.
Privately held, Jitterbit is headquartered in Oakland, Calif. For more
information, visit http://www.jitterbit.com.