Business integration software today is delivered in different forms; on-premises (OP), hosted, or as a service (SaaS). Many vendors would passionately argue one delivery model over the other, making valid arguments about why one may work better than the others.

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Most software companies that have sold a single byte of code have a smart, slick, thought-up-on-Madison-Avenue slogan that tries to convince you they are the right choice. After hearing thousands of these slogans I have realized they are all saying the same thing. From Microsoft talking about your potential and their passion, to Oracle bragging about powering the internet, to Saleforce.com touting the lack of software, they are all transmitting a consistent message: "Let us sell you software because we can deliver it with less pain than the other guys." Notice I did not say "no pain", but "less pain".

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Wow! Now we have two, count them, one - two, packaged ready to run integration solutions for Saleforce.com users.Pervasive DataSynch for use with QuickBooks and Salesforce continues to be a hit with small to medium sized businesses. I was recently at lunch with two Salesforce sales professionals that commented how much this product has helped their customers complete the business picture by integrating their accounting and CRM applications, in this case QuickBooks and Salesforce.

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We have officially launched our second product here at Pervasive DataSolutions, a data replication tool for your Salesforce.com data.  Many of you with IT departments probably know exactly why a replication tool like ours is so valuable, especially at the price point offered.  However, some of the smaller companies may not be aware of the benefit because you are too busy running your business.

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Pervasive DataSolutions DataRep Product is a one-way replication of Salesforce data. You determine how often or how little your Salesforce account is replicated to your local Oracle, SQL or MySQL database. You decide what data you think is necessary to back up, whether it's a few of your most important tabs or your entire account. Our tool allows you to build the architecture of your database to suit your needs and configure the specific details of the data replication.Learn more here

It's here!  On Monday December 17th our developers and QE team completed work on what is now called Pervasive DataSynch for use with QuickBooks and Salesforce V2.  Among other things it provides increased performance, easier extensibility and better user management.All new customers moving forward will receive the new version.  Customers already running version 1 are given the option to upgrade to the new version at no charge.Please contact Pervasive DataSolutions sales at 512-231-6054 for more information....

Whenever you make a purchase for your business, you need to figure out whether the ROI is high enough for that purchase to make sense. Some businesses ask why our product costs so much while others don't blink an eye. That kind of behavior is perfectly understandable if you think about the following scenarios:

Company A sells a product that costs $10k in which they average 10 sales a month. Company B sells a product that costs $2k in which they make 50 sales a month. Finally, Company C sells a product that costs $1k at 100 sales a month.

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Integration between business applications has always been an important topic.

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Version 1.x of DataSynch for use with QuickBooks and Salesforce when installed runs as a service in the Windows environment.  What that means to the business user is On-Demand type transactions; transactions sent for immediate synchronization, are indeed synchronized when the request is made.  This is called continuous operation.  However, while Version 1.x is continuous, it does not have queued delivery.  What that means is just because a transaction is submitted does not mean DataSynch for use with QuickBooks and Salesforce will return with a successful response.  In fact the transactio

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Saleforce.com is an indispensable tool that allows you to manage your customer base in a simple yet flexible way.  The only complaint I ever hear comes from new users.  Using a new piece of software is like walking into a ghost town, there is no content available to get the full functionality of your investment.  Then the tedious task of entering all of your existing information begins.

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Today DataSynch for Use with QuickBooks and Salesforce uses a very simple scheduler routine. Basically the integration job is called by a MS Windows event at the top of each hour. This works just fine for the simple schedules, but what if a customer wants to adjust the schedule of have the integration run only once a day.

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Next week we will begin to roll out to selected customers a new build of DataSynch for use with QuickBooks and Salesforce. The functionality will basically be the same, but the way the software accomplishes the tasks will be quite different.

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