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Salesforce Signs Agreement to Acquire Griddable

By Sana Tarique

Salesforce signs definitive agreement to acquire Griddable. Rajeev Bharadwaj, Founder/VP at Griddable.io confirmed the news on the company’s official site. He stated,” Today we are excited to announce that Salesforce, the global CRM leader, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Griddable. We are excited to begin our next chapter as part of Salesforce and support the company’s commitment to delivering the most trusted enterprise cloud platform to its customers at scale.” Salesforce is yet to release the official statement about the acquisition. This is after Salesforce acquired roundCorner just over 2 weeks ago.

About Griddable

Griddable.io is a San Jose, CA based SaaS startup providing customers with the platform to synchronize enterprise data in the cloud. Having partnered with leading companies like VMWare, AWS, Microsoft, Xoriant and Nutanix as cloud partners further proves the efficacy of their products and offerings.

Features

  1. A Smart grid for Enterprise data

Griddata can move data from any type of the database platform on any cloud via their policy engine controlling data definition and transformation.

  1. A run-anywhere SaaS platform with on-boarding in minutes

Self-service platform available on AWS, Microsoft Azure, or VMware Cloud that connects to on-premise data. Easy and secure on-boarding using public cloud credentials, VPN, and out-of-the box templates

  1. Synchronize on-premise data to public clouds

The platform is also capable of migrating on-premise data to the cloud, and can further perform data refactoring to fit into cloud architecture before injecting it to the native cloud applications.

  1. Continuous synchronization between different database types

Users can choose multiple destination databases for each source or can convert to new relational database, cloud-native service, or big data platform.

  1. Multiple choices of topologies

The platform also enables deployment across a variety of topologies using templates.

  1. Customized selective data synchronization

Users can also filter, mask, encrypt or transform data at the schema, table, row or column data without disrupting the source data.

  1. Declarative policy language

The platform deploys JSON like language for defining topology, selective data, masking and transformations,

  1. Intuitive visual topology and policy designer

A graphical schema explorer equips the users with easy definitions and iterations of advanced policies.

Summary

With the acquisition of roundCorner earlier this month and now Griddable further confirms that Salesforce is driven to expand the platform offerings for its customers leveraging cutting edge technology. This is also instrumental in keeping Salesforce market leaders in the enterprise CRM space.

The Author

Sana Tarique

Sana is a 6x certified Salesforce Consultant working for TechAspect Solutions. CA.

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