An honest, feature-first comparison for teams that need Salesforce data living in their own database or warehouse. TL;DRThe best Salesforce replication tool depends on your goal. DBSync Cloud Replication leads for teams that need a queryable, bidirectional copy of Salesforce inside their own database for reporting, backup, and disaster recovery. Fivetran and Skyvia suit warehouse-only […]
Salesforce ELT: Extract, Load & Transform Salesforce Data
What is Salesforce ELT? Salesforce ELT is the process of pulling data out of Salesforce (Extract), writing it into a destination in something close to its raw form (Load), and only then reshaping it into its final structure (Transform) using the compute power of the destination system itself, rather than a separate transformation engine sitting […]
Salesforce Data Pipeline: How to Build a Scalable Data Integration Pipeline
What is a Salesforce data pipeline ? A Salesforce data pipeline is the set of processes that move records into, out of, and between Salesforce and the other systems your business runs on ERPs, data warehouses, marketing platforms, support desks. At small volumes, people handle this with reports and manual exports. Once you’re pushing tens […]
Building a Salesforce to PostgreSQL ETL Pipeline That Survives Contact With Production
Pulling Accounts out of Salesforce and into Postgres is a two-day job. Most engineers who’ve done it once will tell you the same thing: the two days were never the problem. The problem was month eleven, when someone in RevOps added a custom field on a Tuesday afternoon and nobody noticed the pipeline had been […]
Complete Guide to Salesforce Shopify Integration for eCommerce
Salesforce was built to track relationships, while Shopify tracks transactions. However, it seems like neither was built to talk to the other. Most ecommerce teams end up either manually bridging the two or working with incomplete data on both sides. Salesforce Shopify integration for eCommerce solves that by automating the flow of customer, order, product, […]
Helping FCNY Give an Exceptional Flute Buying Experience to Their Customers
In this conversation, we speak with one of the leading innovators amongst flute companies, flutist Julian Rose, Chief Executive Officer of the Flute Center of New York (FCNY). For 40 years, the Flute Center of New York (FCNY) has been the largest seller of new and used flutes in North America, recognized for their expert […]
Salesforce Backup Best Practices
Learn how to leverage native and third-party apps to meet your compliance, operational, and business continuity goals Like all platforms, your Salesforce instance is not immune to data loss. Many SaaS providers do not provide data recovery services. Currently, Salesforce falls into that group but has indicated that it will reintroduce a service during the […]




