Released on: October 29, 2008, 6:07 am

Press Release Author: Apatar, Inc.

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: New pre-built data integration solution from Apatar enables
GoldMine to Salesforce CRM migration of customer activity history, prevents data
loss, and ensures customer data quality, cutting development and maintenance costs.


Press Release Body: October 29, 2008, Chicopee, MA - Apatar, Inc., a provider of
open source tools for data integration, today announced the GoldMine to Salesforce
History Migration solution, which migrates client activity history between GoldMine
and Salesforce CRM. This pre-build solution allows Apatar users to integrate
e-mails, calendar events, invitations, and other history activities from the MS SQL
instances of GoldMine to Salesforce CRM, linking each to the right contact. Apatar
customers can also save time and avoid loss of data by setting the solution to
preserve correct links between activities and the users to which they are assigned.
Implementing this solution lowers development and maintenance workload up to a
factor of five compared to manual programming.

Most data migrations fail to meet expectations or never get built

According to Standish Group, 30% of data migration projects fail, while Bloor
Research study found 84% of data migrations fail to meet expectations. The problem
often lies in making source data comply with target formats and standards, which
requires a lot of time and efforts on the developer’s side. That is why, to
enable migration of GoldMine's History to Salesforce CRM, Apatar came up with a
pre-built solution that automatically matches fields and tables between the two
systems. By connecting records based on GoldMine contact IDs, Apatar preserves links
between tables, eliminates errors, and prevents data loss during migration.

“Avoiding manual coding, this solution will be of particular interest to
corporate users of CRM systems,” said Renat Khasanshyn, founder and CEO of
Apatar. “Migrating contact data or integrating customer history may take
months of coding, lead to huge data losses, or simply fail. That’s where this
pre-built solution comes into place, as, according to Gartner, 75 percent of leading
companies are incapable of creating a unified view of the customer."

Solution’s features and benefits:

- No coding! Pre-built mapping automatically matches fields and tables.
- Ability to change mapping and transformation rules visually through a
drag-and-drop interface
- Avoid duplicated customer information by transferring only the primary e-mails of
contacts
- Custom SQL queries support within MS SQL-based GoldMine connectors
- Reusable pre-built components non-intrusive to Salesforce CRM implementation lower
maintenance costs.
- Decrease development and maintenance workload up to a factor of five over manual
programming
- Reduce implementation costs

Solution pricing and package

The distributed package consists of a custom Apatar data integration application
containing MS SQL and Salesforce conectors with pre-built fields/tables mapping. It
will be distributed at the price of $995.00 per solution. There is also a promo
offering of $499.00 per solution valid until November 30, 2008. Five hours of free
support are included. Additional support can be purchased at the rate of $80 per
hour. The package also includes a free detailed user guide.

Related links

Solution overview:
http://www.apatar.com/GoldMine_to_SFDC_History_Migration.html

Web demo:
http://apatar.com/demo/Apatar-GoldMine-to-Salesforce-History-Migration/Apatar_GoldMine_to_Salesforce_History_Migration.htm


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. Headquartered in Western
Massachusetts, Apatar operates a development center in Minsk, Belarus. Apatar is
currently used by 5700+ organizations and individuals worldwide. For more on Apatar,
please visit www.apatar.com and www.apatarforge.org.



Web Site: http://www.apatar.com

Contact Details: Alex Khizhnyak
Chief Evangelist
Apatar, Inc.
(413) 306 4120
alexey.kh@apatar.com