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Great question! When you enable a source, we begin running a job on an interval for you that pulls the data from the source, applies some light normalizations a

Great question! When you enable a source, we begin running a job on an interval for you that pulls the data from the source, applies some light normalizations and transformations, and sends the data to our Object API (which is in charge of upserting the data into Segment and flushing it to your warehouse). In Salesforce's case, we issue bulk queries to pull the complete collection on the first run, then modify the queries thereafter to request only data that's changed since the last run. We don't do any aggregation of the data. We load it into a data warehouse (redshift or postgres) in its complete, raw form so that you can use SQL to aggregate/join to your heart's content. Here's an example: https://help.segment.com/hc/en-us/articles/208215583-Salesforce-Calculate-close-rates-for-qualified-deals-over-time https://help.segment.com/hc/en-us/articles/208215583-Salesfo...

npace12 11y ago
You should make this available for trial. No way I'm paying $449 just to try it. I set it up with the developer account, but when I try to connect the integration, it says it's not available for the developer plan. I was like "ok, fine, i'll pay 50 bucks to try it" but then it says salesforce is only available on the Growth plan, which is $449. Closed the tab, and moved on with my life.
- joshdick 11y ago
  This product has Salesforce replication, and it's free to try: https://rjmetrics.com/product/pipeline/ https://rjmetrics.com/product/pipeline/
- sperand_io 11y ago
  Sorry for the confusion there — our integration that sends data to Salesforce is on the integrations growth tier, but the pricing for data sources and warehouses is separate (and does indeed have a free trial :). Your point prompted us to add a callout in the UI to prevent this sort of confusion going forward (see here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yoc6a3nvsoupesa/Screenshot%202016-04-06%2013.44.39.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/yoc6a3nvsoupesa/Screenshot%202016-...)... and more generally we'll be working to make the distinction between data sources and data destinations clearer from a UX perspective in the near future.

npace12 11y ago

You should make this available for trial. No way I'm paying $449 just to try it. I set it up with the developer account, but when I try to connect the integration, it says it's not available for the developer plan. I was like "ok, fine, i'll pay 50 bucks to try it" but then it says salesforce is only available on the Growth plan, which is $449. Closed the tab, and moved on with my life.

joshdick 11y ago
This product has Salesforce replication, and it's free to try: https://rjmetrics.com/product/pipeline/ https://rjmetrics.com/product/pipeline/
sperand_io 11y ago
Sorry for the confusion there — our integration that sends data to Salesforce is on the integrations growth tier, but the pricing for data sources and warehouses is separate (and does indeed have a free trial :). Your point prompted us to add a callout in the UI to prevent this sort of confusion going forward (see here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yoc6a3nvsoupesa/Screenshot%202016-04-06%2013.44.39.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/yoc6a3nvsoupesa/Screenshot%202016-...)... and more generally we'll be working to make the distinction between data sources and data destinations clearer from a UX perspective in the near future.