Options for replicating data
Enterprise customers often have legacy and/or external systems that are still being used or that they wish to phase out in the future. As such, they may have requirements to replicate aspects of the data stored in the Salesforce platform to another platform.
The following lists some platform and API facilities that can help you and/or your customers build solutions to replicate data:
- Replication API: This API exists in both the web service SOAP and Apex form. It allows you to develop a scheduled process to query the platform for any new, updated, or deleted records within a given time period for a specific object. The
getUpdatedandgetDeletedAPI methods return only the IDs of the records, requiring you to use the conventional Salesforce APIs to query the remaining data for the replication. The frequency at which this API is called is important in order to avoid gaps. Refer to the Salesforce documentation for more details. - Outbound...
