Blogs

The ongoing Customer Q & A blog series highlights a wide range of Jitterbit customers to find out what business needs drove their integration requirements and what their reasons for selecting Jitterbit as their integration solution.

In this week's hot seat is Rick Proctor, VP of Information Technology at Thomas Nelson Publishers.

We were recently asked if Jitterbit Cloud Edition was a SaaS or Cloud integration solution. The answer: Yes.

The difference between SaaS and Cloud can be unclear. Using these terms in reference to integration adds another layer of confusion. Does “Cloud/SaaS integration” mean you integrate cloud/saas systems, that the solution lives in the cloud, or both?

Cloud vs. SaaS

We've got our heads in the cloud today, but there's nothing nebulous about what Jitterbit Cloud Edition offers you.

Last week we retweeted multiple tweets by Shawn Rogers at EMA all relating to one thought: The 5 Laws of Data Integration in the Cloud. Not ones to be confined by the 140 character limit we thought it a good idea to repost them here in a less fleeting environment. These laws deserve more posterity than twitter allows.

5 laws of Data Integration the Cloud:

1. Data is widely distributed

Unless you've been living under a rock you've heard about IBM's acquisition of Cast Iron. As analysts continue to sort through the meaning of this move, we thought we would throw in our two cents.

Jitterbit is excited about this news for a few reasons.

We attended SuiteCloud 2010 in San Francisco last week. The event focused on NetSuite partners - ISVs, VARs, and from the folks we met, a lot of system integrators. It was an exciting show as NetSuite made a number of announcements, including a partnership with Amazon, linking SuiteStorage to S3 for cloud-to-cloud storage. Amazon is a serious cloud player.

Today we announced our brand new Salesforce migration service offering. Data migration is something no one wants to do and even fewer want to talk about. In fact, as we've introduced this service the most common first question has been, "Why would you want to get into that?".

The answer is pretty simple - it's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it.

Salesforce.com will begin rolling out their Spring '10 release over the next two weeks with advanced features designed for its Sales Cloud 2 platform and Force.com sites. The biggest change you will notice is a totally revamped user interface, but there are also important changes going in under the hood -- and it's essential that your integration solution accounts for updates to the API.

Ilan Sehayek, our CTO, recently spoke to Loraine Lawson of ITBusinessEdge about some of the trends he sees for integration in 2010. From the rise of the business analyst to the continuing emergence of cloud applications, the interview is a great read.

Some choice excerpts include:

"An analyst giving requirements to a developer, the developer interpreting those requirements and then coming back and having the analyst verify by looking at various applications that the data came in correctly and things like that - that process has been too cumbersome."

TechTarget recently launched a new website named Healthcare Software Review, and one of their inaugural pieces is a great case study on one of our customers, AWPRx.

AWPRx is affiliated with 95 percent of the nation’s pharmacies to help workers compensation beneficiaries conveniently fill prescriptions and manage claims in a pure Web environment.