Connectors for Data Integration -Unlock External Data to Build Connected Experiences

Learning Objectives 

In the wake of finishing this unit, you’ll have the option to:

Recognize the part of the AnyPoint Platform and API-drove Connectivity.

Plan an answer design for external data utilizing combination connectors.

Layers of Integration with APIs

Inside any joining arrangement, there is normally data that is imported from numerous administrations outside of Salesforce. Preferably, each assistance is satisfying explicit assignments. These assignments and, thusly, the entirety of the data, should be coordinated. This is the place where API-drove network sparkles.

Programming interface drove network ranges across three layers—System APIs, Process APIs, and Experience APIs. Every one of the layers is decoupled from the other. In any case, together they make the reason for an agreeable joining scene that is adaptable through the predictable use of APIs.

Salesforce, Heroku Connect, Salesforce Connect, External Services, and Platform Events are inherent answers for expand center data with snaps or code. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform™ sends data through Salesforce APIs. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform recommends that reconciliation usefulness is isolated into three sections, experiences, cycles, and frameworks, making API-drove availability across any framework, client, and gadget.

The framework layer is straightforwardly associated with external frameworks, for example, the database, inheritance frameworks, or SaaS applications. Associating with external frameworks is the solitary occupation of this layer. There’s no business rationale that is composed there. This gives the security in realizing that if changes are made at the framework layer, it will not affect your application. This additionally makes System APIs reusable resources that can be used in different applications that you make.

The interaction layer peruses the data from the framework layer. This is the place where the business rationale and organizations are contained. Data from the framework layer is converged to make a bound together business measure perspective on the basic frameworks. Recollect each layer is decoupled, so there’s no worry over conditions between the cycle and the framework layer.

The experience layer is the place where the end-user interfaces with the data and cycles. Now, the user can adjust the data and tailor it for their target group. Containing the UI in its own layer gives adaptability, and it tends to be sectioned into various classes. For example, you could isolate these APIs in three different ways to support online business, portable applications, or work area interfaces.

Think about this style of API engineering like microservices intended to support little separated set-ups of administrations. Rather than making your API in a solid manner, make microservices to alleviate any conditions. This detachment likewise makes investigating a breeze. In the case of something breaks, you will promptly know whether it’s wrecked in the framework layer, the cycle layer, or the experience layer.

Leveraging MuleSoft Connectors

Regardless of whether you need to build onto your inheritance frameworks, or you need to build another experience, you can do it on Salesforce or Heroku. Yet, you may track down there’s some hard work included in the event that you carry out those apparatuses autonomously. With this sort of execution, it’s additionally difficult to reuse resources, particularly when you’re prepared to stretch out your application to use external frameworks.

Utilizing the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform makes it simpler when you’re prepared to pull data externally. The Anypoint Platform offers prepared to-use connectors that go about as the center ground to decouple frameworks, keep away from highlight point reconciliations, and make moving data simple and quick. MuleSoft is magnificent at conveying a start-to-finish insight by uncovering APIs in a manner that can make them reusable.

Anypoint Exchange

Inside mixes, in some cases tracking down the specific connector pairings prepackaged like associating data from Salesforce to Workday is troublesome because the connector would have to run in one application or the other. Be that as it may, discovering a related connector is just about as simple as looking in the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform Exchange or AppExchange.

See some use cases, and perceive how to use the MuleSoft connectors to import external data.

Use Case: External Data Consolidation into Salesforce

Flowchart of MuleSoft Integration to merge external data into the CRM.

MuleSoft Integration to merge external data includes different highlights of Salesforce. The REST API moves data to and fro from the CRM. The OData connector uncovered the external items and the APIKit to virtualize the data from the request framework into MuleSoft. The Workday Connector associates the monetary data. The AWS Connector assembles the stock data. The entirety of the data that is brought together in MuleSoft is shipped off Salesforce. These associations structure MuleSoft to the CRM are bidirectional because MuleSoft has the ability to total data to and fro on a case by case basis.

A) Which MuleSoft API-led connectivity layer exposes part of a database without business logic?

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B) A customer hopes to build connections to multiple legacy on-prem apps that aren’t natively connected to Salesforce. Before data is sent to Salesforce, the customer must add logic to modify the data. Which integration is best suited for this scenario?

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