a quick start without having to dive too deep into Salesforce’s API and.

While a graphical ETL tool brings the benefits of

Our customers often used a complex ETL tool like Talend Open Studio for Data Integration for the purpose of Salesforce Integration. They do not consider more maintainable and durable approaches like realtime integration using messaging and APIs.

They voluntarily buy into all the pitfalls that go with it. When integrating with the Salesforce platform, companies often choose a batch data integration approach for its simplicity. Update : I added a section about going with wine and completely avoid any dependencies on a Windows system. I started investigating and wrote a second blog article about using the Salesforce Data Loader GUI on Linux. After writing this article, I have been asked by other Salesforce users if I got the UI elements to work under Linux as well. Update : This article only cares about the command line utilities delivered with the Salesforce Data Loader. You can run its command line tools on Linux without trouble.

Salesforce says it’s Windows and MacOS only. Salesforce Data Loader is a tool for bulk import and export of data into applications running on the Salesforce platform.

How to use Salesforce Data Loader on Linux.

Using wine if no Windows installation is available.

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