Jitterbit recently released their open source integration solution, targeted at small and medium sized businesses. Their focus is making integration, which is inherently complex, as simple as possible. They have all the ease of use features including dialog boxes, drag and drop, pointing to sources and targets etc., but also go one step beyond, by enabling the user to save the integration, export it into and XML document, and put the ntire integration project into Jitterpack which describes all aspects of an integration. Jitterpacks can be emailed or put on a website to be shared or sold.
A Jitterbit integration can be comprised of multiple point-to-point integrations that can span multiple systems, but no workflow capabilities are included. It is more geared toward point-to-point solutions.
You can download the client and server for free from their website. Jitterpacks are also free. Jitterbit also offers a fee version which includes support and consulting, for $10k per server per year. The company plans to seed the market by creating Jitterpacks, such as one that integrates Salesforce.com with QuickBooks and Great Plains, giving customers a fast and easy integration solution.
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