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Apatar Provides Connectivity to Force.com Sandbox

July 30, 2008, Chicopee, MA – The Apatar Team announced connectivity to Force.com Sandbox, which is a separate on-demand application environment where developers can build, test, and deploy Salesforce-related applications. The team confirmed that Apatar Data Integration can now successfully process Sandbox’s data using the connector for Salesforce.com.

Sandbox is commonly used by Salesforce.com customers for testing new customizations or features before rolling them out to users, trying out applications from the AppExchange directory, creating a development environment for building applications, and providing a training environment for employees. For more, please visit: http://www.salesforce.com/platform/application-development/development-and-test-enviorment/

Apatar Open Source Data Integration features and benefits:

- No coding! Visual job designer and mapping enable non-developers to design and perform transformations, shortening implementation time
- Distributed under an open source model, reducing integration and maintenance costs
- Connectivity to Salesforce.com, SugarCRM, MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, GoldMine, DB2, Sybase, PostgreSQL, dBase, EnterpriseDB, vTiger, InnoDB, Openbravo ERP, Compiere ERP, .CSV, XML, RSS, ATOM, HTTP queries, POP3, LDAP, FTP, WebDav, Autodesk Buzzsaw, any JDBC data sources, Amazon S3, Flickr, StrikeIron and CDYNE data quality Web services, and more
- Job scheduler and synchronization automate the data integration process
- Improves data quality with a variety of verification, filtration, and validation features
- Users have the ability to create, share, and re-use pre-built data transformations and publish data integration output as a custom RSS feed to ApatarForge, the online Apatar community
- Platform-independent, runs from Windows, Linux, and Mac OS

About Apatar

Apatar is the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market. With powerful Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) capabilities, Apatar enables its users to easily link information between databases (such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle), applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM), and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3). Apatar provides support, training, and consulting services for its integration solutions.… Read more…

July 23, 2008, Chicopee, MA – Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID), a Johannesburg-based company that delivers high-performance business intelligence, data warehousing, data integration, and data management solutions, has concluded a system integrator partnership agreement with U.S.-headquartered Apatar to distribute its open source data integration suite in South Africa. KID will use, consult, train, and offer support services for the Apatar integration package that offers a single interface into all integration projects across Mac OS, Windows, and Linux using an open source architecture and modular applications that deliver flexible deployment options.

The growing need for data integration across corporate South Africa

“South Africa is a quickly developing region and it is very important for us to fill the open source data integration niche,” says Sergei Lobanov, Alliance Enabler at Apatar. “With its presence in the South African market, KID, with the help of Apatar, will be able to satisfy customer requirements to integrate legacy and modern systems, applications, and databases through a proven track record of data quality services.”

Apatar already has in excess of 100 users in South Africa and expects KID to rapidly expand its penetration of the local market. KID is Apatar’s first South African partner, opening new opportunities and advantages for both parties. The companies reveal their main target is small and mid-sized companies in South Africa that have a need for a free, easy-to-use extract, transform, and load (ETL) tool.

“The growing need for data integration across corporate South Africa, from the smallest to the largest companies, necessitates an open source tool that operates in a number of environments and offers customers the greatest flexibility,” said Julian Field, Business Development Director at KID. “Apatar is at the forefront of the open source wave with an impressive international track record and a number of successful and highly recommended implementations.”

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