One of main use cases with Salesforce that MuleSoft customers use involves uploading records that are stored in CSV format to Salesforce. MuleSoft has provided various ways to fulfill this use case. We have dataloader.io, the most popular Data Loader for Salesforce on Salesforce AppExchange, and also have Anypoint Platform’s Salesforce Connector with various operations.

We added another option to help you easily accomplish the above use case.

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We are introducing new features and lots of improvements in Mule 4. In support of Mule 4, we are also focusing on improving user experience of the Salesforce Connector, one of the most popular SaaS applications. In this blog post, I will showcase a demo that provides insight into the new capabilities in the Salesforce Connector.

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Salesforce introduced Platform Events with its Summer ‘17 release (API v40). While the Anypoint Connector for Salesforce has supported Streaming API Events, the following description from Salesforce might be helpful to understand the difference between Platform Events and Streaming API Events.

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IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS) is a transaction server that runs primarily on IBM mainframe systems under z/OS and z/VSE. According to IBM CICS Report 2015, 92 of the top 100 banks use the mainframe to provide at-your-fingertip banking services to their customers. And nine out of the top 10 global life and health insurance providers process their high-volume transactions on a System z mainframe.

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A recent report by Rightscale, which surveyed 1,002 technical professionals, revealed that respondents run 41% of their workload in public clouds. A number of market research firms estimate that the public cloud market value will reach between $195B and $236B by 2020. Within this public market, Amazon continues to maintain its leadership position. 

To serve our customers needs, we have introduced a number of Amazon connectors in the past – including  S3, SNS, and SQS – in order to enable our customers to easily connect to Amazon Web Services.

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Neo4J is a leading, open source graph database designed to leverage data relationships as first-class entities. It was initially developed in 2000, and became an open source project in 2007. Since then, it has been adopted by over thousands of organizations including Walmart, Marriott, UBS, Cisco, HP, and eBay.

As the most popular graph database rated by DB Engines, the common use cases for Neo4J vary from real-time recommendations and master data management to fraud detection and identity and access management.

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Check out Anypoint Connector for Cassandra in Exchange.

Apache Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across commodity hardware. Cassandra was initially developed at Facebook to power the Facebook inbox search feature, and became an Apache project in 2009. Since then, it has been adopted by more than 1,500 companies including Walmart, Netflix, Sony, Macy’s and UBS.

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RosettaNet is a subsidiary of GS1 US, formerly the Uniform Code Council, Inc. (UCC), aimed at establishing standard processes for the sharing of business information (B2B). The RosettaNet standard is based on XML and defines message guidelines, interfaces for business processes, and implementation frameworks for interactions between companies. The standard is widely spread in the global semiconductor industry, but also in electronic components, consumer electronics, telecommunication and logistics.

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Twilio is a cloud communications platform which allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls and send and receive text messages using its APIs. More than 28,000 companies including Salesforce, Netflix, Coca-Cola Enterprise, Airbnb, Intuit, and Uber integrate Twilio in their products or business processes.

MuleSoft customers also use Twilio in various use cases. A customer uses Twilio to send internal notifications based on the contact information in Salesforce.

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Zuora has been offering three different types of API: REST API, SOAP API and AQuA API. It is believed that majority of Zuora customers use the SOAP API to integrate with Zuora because of the breadth of its API. (MuleSoft is using the SOAP API internally!) While MuleSoft offered the Zuora Connector based on SOAP API, we started to hear from customers that some tasks could be done easily with AQuA API and Zuora is starting to recommend that customers use the AQuA API instead.

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