Comparing the Jitterbit Salesforce Data Loader – how does it look?
Jitterbit has just released a free data loader for Salesforce, so we thought we should check it out.
Here’s our brief analysis of the tool as compared to the Salesforce Data Loader:
| Description | Jitterbit Data Loader | Salesforce Data Loader |
| Define Connectivity | Supports creating multiple Salesforce connections and ability to save the connection | Requires a login for every operation session (Insert, Update, Extract, etc.) |
| Define Operations | Each operation (upsert, insert, extract, etc.) can be saved and re-used for future execution | Not able to re-use previously executed operations |
| Supported File Formats | Supports other flat file formats during insert, upsert or update operations | Supports only CSV for insert, upsert or update operations |
| Scheduling | Has a scheduling feature | No scheduling feature |
| Retrieving or Loading Records | Supports storing or loading flat files (or records) from various sources (i.e. local folder, shared folder, FTP, DB) | Supports csv files from a local folder |
Summary
For basic file uploads that do not require a database lookup this is a good tool.The pros for this tool are the scheduler and the monitor. A good option for basic information uploads to Salesforce for sure.