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Salesforce drivers & connectors
for data integration
Connect to Salesforce data through easy-to-use, bi-directional drivers. Easily integrate Salesforce data with BI, reporting, analytics, ETL tools, and custom solutions.
Do more with Salesforce data
ETL/ELT
Integrate Salesforce data into any database or data warehouse
Reporting & Spreadsheets
Connect to live Salesforce data from your favorite Spreadsheet
ETL/ELT
Integrate Salesforce data into any database or data warehouse
SQL Server
Integrate Salesforce with SQL Integration Services
Command-Line Access
Automate Salesforce tasks form the command-line with PowerShell
Reporting & Spreadsheets
Connect to live Salesforce data from your favorite Spreadsheet
Semantic Layer
Access Salesforce through a unified logical data access layer
Cloud BI Tools
Integration with popular cloud-based tools like Looker, QuickSight, SAP Analytics Cloud, and more
Live Cloud Connectivity
Access real-time Workday data from SaaS/Cloud apps
Python Connectivity
Connect Salesforce with Python and Data Science projects
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Salesforce data integration
Access Salesforce data in all of the systems you use every day, including BI & analytics tools, databases, data warehouses, and custom apps. Customers commonly use CData's Salesforce connectivity to:
- Access a full range of Salesforce data and meta-data including custom entities, fields, and computed values.
- Create atomic and batch update operations that read, write, update, and delete Salesforce data.
- Perform actions like creating, retrieving, aborting, and deleting jobs, uploading and downloading attachments and documents, and more.
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The CData difference
Our standards-based approach to connectivity streamlines data access and insulates usrs from the complexities of integrating Salesforce data.
Unparalleled Salesforce Connectivity
Get full access to your Salesforce data wherever you need it. CData is the undisputed leader in Salesforce connectivity providing the most comprehensive access to live Salesforce data anywhere. Thousands of customers and hundreds of leading data ISVs rely on our connectivity to make the most of their data.
Fastest time to value
Reduce reducing development cycles and accelerating the overall time to market. Our pre-built, optimized connectors eliminate the need for complex custom development, allowing for fast, secure access to Workday data.
Unbeatable price-performance
By standardizing and streamlining how systems interact with Salesforce our products reduce development costs and timelines, slash architectural complexity.
Blazing data access
Our Salesforce connectivity is fast — really fast. In fact, over twice as fast as other solutions. Our engineers have optimized our drivers for maximum performance all the way down to the socket level, delivering truly exceptional data access.
Future-proof integration
We continuously test against changes in the Salesforce APIs & protocols used to connect, preventing downtime in your data and analytics processes.
Enterprise-class technical support
CData is dedicated to helping you find success with Salesforce. We work as an extension of your team to help solve your toughest data challenges. Thousands of customers and hundreds of ISVs rely on our services to make the most of their data.
Salesforce connectivity for BI & analytics
Live Salesforce access for analytics
Access Salesforce data in all of the systems you use every day, including BI & analytics tools, databases, data warehouses, and custom apps.
- Connect Salesforce (and any other data source) to your favorite analytics, automation, or data management app without moving data
- Bi-directional Salesforce connectivity through common data endpoints
- Enable Salesforce governability and data privacy with user-level permissioning at the source level.
Salesforce ETL, replication, & data warehousing
Automate Salesforce data replication
CData Sync automatically replicates data from hundreds of on-premises and cloud data sources — like Salesforce — to any modern database, data lake, or data warehouse.
- Create automated Salesforce data flows in minutes with point-and-click data replication
- Facilitate reporting, business intelligence, and analytics for decision support
- Archive data for disaster recovery
Consolidate Salesforce data management
Data management integration enables organizations to better manage their human resources data, optimize decision-making, and ensure compliance with data governance policies. Technologies like ODBC, JDBC, and ADO easily connect with all kinds of popular data management applications.
Connect Salesforce to data management systems to:
- Provide a single, accurate source of truth for employee and resource data.
- Ensure consistency, data quality, and integration across systems.
- Improve data discoverability, governance, and compliance, allowing for easy tracking, auditing, and efficient data use across the organization.
Connect to Salesforce with no-code
Salesforce is often at the center of a wide range of repetitive tasks. With low-code/no-code tools, users can automate these tasks reducing manual effort and errors.
- Customize Salesforce and integrate it with other systems (like CRM, HR, or accounting software) without writing complex code.
- Create custom dashboards, reports, or data visualizations by integrating Salesforce data with other systems.
Build fully-integrated custom applications
From custom AI and analytics to performance managemement and learning platforms, developers are leveraging our drivers to power all kinds of real-time integrations with Salesforce.
What is a Salesforce driver?
A Salesforce driver is a software library that enables applications to interact with Salesforce as though it were a traditional database. These drivers simplify communication by abstracting API complexities, presenting Salesforce data in a structured, database-like format.
What is a Salesforce connector?
A Salesforce connector is a tailored integration designed to allow proprietary applications or unique systems to seamlessly interact with Salesforce. Built on the same robust engine as our Salesforce drivers, these connectors provide effortless real-time access to Salesforce data for extended application functionality.
How is developing with a Salesforce driver different?
Drivers streamline integration by abstracting Salesforce APIs, allowing you to access its data through standard interfaces like SQL, making them perfect for data-focused applications.
- Pragmatic API Integration: from SDKs to Data Drivers
- Data APIs: Gateway to Data Driven Operation & Digital Transformation
Embedding CData Connectivity
Virtualize access to Salesforce data
Data virtualization tools helps organizations achieve better data access, more agile decision-making, and greater efficiency in managing data across diverse systems.
Integrating Salesforce with data virtualization tools allows organizations to combine this data with other sources like ERP systems, CRM platforms, or financial databases without physically moving or duplicating data. This unified access enables faster, more efficient decision-making.
Connect to live Salesforce data in spreadsheets
Work with live Salesforce data seamlessly in Excel and Google Sheets.
- Always work with live Salesforce data — no more downloading, copying, and pasting
- Filter and get just the attributes and data you actually need
- Refresh data with a click or set a schedule
- Update Salesforce records right from your spreadsheet
Frequently asked Salesforce integration questions
Common questions about Salesforce drivers & connectors for data and analytics integration
What is Salesforce?
Salesforce is a well-known cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform that helps organizations manage customer interactions, sales processes, marketing campaigns, and service support. It provides analytics, customization, integration with other applications, and mobile access features. Salesforce is utilized by a vast array of industries and organizations of all sizes, ranging from small businesses to multinational corporations. Its cloud-based nature enables users to access their CRM data from any location with an internet connection, enhancing collaboration and adaptability.
How does the Salesforce Driver work?
The Salesforce driver acts like a bridge that facilitates communication between various applications and Salesforce, allowing the application to read, write, and update data as if it were a relational database. The Salesforce driver abstracts the complexities of Salesforce APIs, authentication methods, and data types, making it simple for any application to connect to Salesforce data in real-time via standard SQL queries.
How is using the Salesforce Driver different than connecting to the Salesforce API?
Working with a Salesforce Driver is different than connecting with Salesforce through other means. Salesforce API integrations require technical experience from a software developer or IT resources. Additionally, due to the constant evolution of APIs and services, once you build your integration you have to constantly maintain Salesforce integration code moving forward.
By comparison, our Salesforce Drivers offer codeless access to live Salesforce data for both technical and non-technical users alike. Any user can install our drivers and begin working with live Salesforce data from any client application. Because our drivers conform to standard data interfaces like ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET etc. they offer a consistent, maintenance-free interface to Salesforce data. We manage all of the complexities of Salesforce integration within each driver and deploy updated drivers as systems evolve so your applications continue to run seamlessly.
If you need truly zero-maintenance integration, check out connectivity to Salesforce via CData Connect Cloud. With Connect Cloud you can configure all of your data connectivity in one place and connect to Salesforce from any of the available Cloud Drivers and Client Applications. Connectivity to Salesforce is managed in the cloud, and you never have to worry about installing new drivers when Salesforce is updated.
How is a Salesforce Driver different than a Salesforce connector?
Many organizations draw attention to their library of connectors. After all, data connectivity is a core capability needed for applications to maximize their business value. However, it is essential to understand exactly what you are getting when evaluating connectivity. Some vendors are happy to offer connectors that implement basic proof-of-concept level connectivity. These connectors may highlight the possibilities of working with Salesforce, but often only provide a fraction of capability. Finding real value from these connectors usually requires additional IT or development resources.
Unlike these POC-quality connectors, every CData Salesforce driver offers full-featured Salesforce data connectivity. The CData Salesforce drivers support extensive Salesforce integration, providing access to all of the Salesforce data and meta-data needed by enterprise integration or analytics projects. Each driver contains a powerful embedded SQL engine that offers applications easy and high-performance access to all Salesforce data. In addition, our drivers offer robust authentication and security capabilities, allowing users to connect securely across a wide range of enterprise configurations. Compare drivers and connectors to read more about some of the benefits of CData's driver connectivity.
Is Salesforce SQL based?
With our drivers and connectors, every data source is essentially SQL-based. The CData Salesforce driver contains a full SQL-92 compliant engine that translates standard SQL queries into Salesforce API calls dynamically. Queries are parsed and optimized for each data source, pushing down as much of the request to Salesforce as possible. Any logic that can not be pushed to Salesforce is handled transparently client-side by the driver/connector engine. Ultimately, this means that Salesforce looks and acts exactly like a database to any client application or tool. Users can integrate live Salesforce connectivity with ANY software solution that can talk to a standard database.
What data can I access with the Salesforce driver?
The Salesforce drivers and connectors offer comprehensive access to Salesforce data. Our Salesforce driver exposes static and dynamic data and metadata, providing universal access to Salesforce data for any enterprise analytics or data mangement use. To explore the Salesforce driver data model, please review the edition-specific Salesforce driver documentation.
What does Salesforce integrate with?
Using the CData Salesforce drivers and connectors, Salesforce can be easily integrated with almost any application. Any software or technology that can integrate with a database or connect with standards-based drivers like ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, etc., can use our drivers for live Salesforce data connectivity. Explore some of the more popular Salesforce data integrations online.
Additionally, since Salesforce supported by CData Connect Cloud, we enable all kinds of new Salesforce cloud integrations.
How can I enable Salesforce Analytics?
Salesforce Analytics and Salesforce Cloud BI integration is universally supported for BI and data science. In addition, CData provides native client connectors for popular analytics applications like Power BI, Tableau, and Excel that simplify Salesforce data integration. Additionally, native Python connectors are widely available for data science and data engineering projects that integrate seamlessly with popular tools like Pandas, SQLAlchemy, Dash, and Petl.
How can I support Salesforce Data Integration?
Salesforce data integration is typically enabled with CData Sync, a robust any-to-any data pipeline solution that is easy to set up, runs everywhere, and offers comprehensive enterprise-class features for data engineering. CData Sync makes it easy to replicate Salesforce data any database or data warehouse, and maintain parity between systems with automated incremental Salesforce replication. In addition, our Salesforce drivers and connectors can be easily embedded into a wide range of data integration tools to augment existing solutions.
Does Salesforce Integrate with Excel?
Absolutely. The best way to integrate Salesforce with Excel is by using the CData Connect Cloud Excel Add-In. The Salesforce Excel Add-In provides easy Salesforce integration directly from Microsoft Excel Desktop, Mac, or Web (Excel 365). Our integration offers live bi-directional access to Salesforce data directly from Excel. Simply configure your connection to Salesforce from the easy-to-use cloud interface, and access Salesforce just like you would another native Excel data source.
Using the Salesforce drivers
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- Salesforce Reporting and Star Schemas in OBIEE
- Extend Google Sheets with Salesforce
- Automated Continuous Salesforce Replication to MySQL
- Feed Salesforce into FineReport
- Visualize Live Salesforce in Power BI (via CData Connect Cloud)
- How to connect Amazon QuickSight to Salesforce
- Build Data Flows from SQL Server to Salesforce through SSIS
- Faster Reporting using the CData Provider for Salesforce
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