

The Salesforce to Salesforce product is reaching its end of life.In this guide, anywhere MuleSoft Anypoint is recommended, consider whether your existing ESB/ETL solution will suffice. Because these tools are purpose-built to help support data migration and transformation, they often have powerful capabilities that enable you to reuse integrations across the enterprise, maintain stronger governance, and centralize management of integrations. If MuleSoft or another Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) or Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) solution is part of your existing landscape, you should use it where possible.Instead, have the external system access the data via the Salesforce APIs. If your data already resides in Salesforce and you need it in an external system, avoid copying it to an external system unless absolutely necessary. More data in your organization ultimately leads to larger data volumes, which can adversely affect performance and add technical debt. Unless the data absolutely needs to reside in Salesforce, consider data virtualization with Salesforce Connect instead. Prefer approaches that avoid unnecessary data replication.Lastly, it’s important to note that many of the tools and approaches covered in this guide are also capable of solving integration challenges across the wider enterprise - but such uses are beyond the scope of this guide. We know that these are only a subset of the integration challenges that Salesforce Architects face, so we will be following up this piece with additional decision guides focused on event-driven integration, building effective customer- or employee-facing workflows using process integration, and more. Salesforce organization to Salesforce organization.Specifically, it covers the following data integration use cases: This decision guide focuses on data-level integrations involving Salesforce.

It also offers recommendations for the tools (or combinations of tools) that are most appropriate given a particular use case, as well as guidance on tools to avoid for specific scenarios. This guide walks through the landscape of data integration tools available from Salesforce. But not every tool is right for your particular project. There are a multitude of ways to access, synchronize, and share data between Salesforce and external systems. Our forward-looking statement applies to any roadmap projections. Roadmap corresponds to October 2023 (Winter '24) projections.
