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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Grégoire Michel Jan 6, 2017 9:04 AM (in response to Erica Harris)1 of 1 people found this helpfulHI again Erica,
Copying here some of the comments I made on the other thread, and adding a couple:
- List price for EE is 2 times list price for PE.
- Yet, Salesforce cannot just cut this as they want. People have contracts, some of them multi-year contracts, and the products delivered cannot be changed at least until the contract is ended. So if someone can be hit by this in January, it's only those whose contract will be renewed now, or customers who just want to acquire the API now.
- I am investigating on my side of the ocean and I'll keep you posted, but here in France, no one has ever got the API on PE for free. It's being charged an additional 30% on top of the PE licence.
- Also, and that's my personal experience, when SFDC stops something, it only impacts new customers, not existing one. I, for instance benefit from the old FREE self service portal that has been discontinued 3 years ago, but since we have been renewing our contract for 7 years now, we still get it.
- The fact that Marketo is a competitive product to Pardot is really not a good argument: the API can be used for any third party product. It's documentation is completely public and SFDC cannot control what one is using the API for. Furthermore, legally, in the EU, you cannot refuse to sell the API to 1 customer and agree to sell it to another. So if SFDC wants to stop the product, they will have to do it for everyone. This means that simply interrupting the API for all PE customers would not just drive mad Marketo customers, but thousands of SFDC customers using the API for any other purpose, excepted Marketing automation. Not a very good move if you want my take. This would end up upgrading everyone to the EE for the price of the PE and opening a very large door to salesforce alternatives
So all this seems quite weird, even may be is it a personal initiative of a not so ethical sales person.
-Greg
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Erica Harris Jan 6, 2017 9:16 AM (in response to Grégoire Michel)1 of 1 people found this helpfulHi Grégoire Michel,
However, if we aren't actually paying for the API, then we haven't got API access. My understanding was they exposed the API to Marketo for PE customers and are now pulling this access. So it wasn't the customer that got API access, it was Marketo for their integration.
I know that there are other AppExchange integrations available with the Professional Edition that you don't (as the customer) have to have API access, that use this same mechanism. My understanding from the SFDC rep was that they were pulling this from Marketo, not from other partners. I may be wrong, but this is what the rep said when I asked if this was the same for all AppExchange products that integrated with the PE.
One of the reasons that I posted this was in the hope that other customers have had a more helpful response from SFDC and I could use this as leverage. I want to hear that what the rep said is not true - especially as 1-way API access sounds very suspect to me.
- Erica
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Grégoire Michel Jan 6, 2017 9:19 AM (in response to Grégoire Michel)2 of 2 people found this helpfulSecond though on this,
It might simply be a misunderstanding from the sales rep. The API on PE is not as complete as the one on EE. It is simply the external soap API that enables a third party app to connect to SFDC, and you do not get the APEX code that includes the capability for SFDC to connect to a third party app. In that sense, the SOAP API could be qualified as a one way API or lite API.
But this SOAP API does enable data to flow both ways and is just what Marketo connector needs, and PE customers are just OK with it.
-Greg
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Erica Harris Jan 6, 2017 10:01 AM (in response to Grégoire Michel)I really hope this is the case! I'll wait for Mike Reynolds to report back after his research.
Really appreciate your input -
- Erica
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Grégoire Michel Jan 6, 2017 10:03 AM (in response to Erica Harris)A agree with you, this 1-way thing is really suspect...
-Greg
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Arjun NairJan 6, 2017 10:16 AM (in response to Erica Harris)
1 of 1 people found this helpfulA clarification on the one-way/2-way thing. The Marketo integration with sf.com is bi-directional. But, we manage this bi-directional integration from the MKTO side. At a high level:
- We use the sf.com API (from Marketo to sf.com) to ask what has changed in sf.com and then update MKTO
- We use the sf.com API (also from Marketo to sf.com) to update/create sf.com records based on changes and workflow in MKTO
In both these cases, we use the API's into sf.com to manage the integration. We do not need to make any calls from sf.com into MKTO.
Please let us know if any clarification is needed.
Aj
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Grégoire Michel Jan 6, 2017 10:27 AM (in response to Arjun Nair)1 of 1 people found this helpfulWhat I wrote 1 hour ago
Obviously, the SFDC sales rep is a little zealous...
-Greg
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Mike ReynoldsJan 6, 2017 10:20 AM (in response to Erica Harris)
I've been getting more details and I was mistaken in the other thread. The Marketo > SFDC integration only needs one-way API calls. All of the data transferred through the standard integration goes through the API calls that are generated from Marketo. No API calls are generated by SFDC, so you do only need the one-way API calls.
-Mike
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Erica Harris Jan 6, 2017 10:56 AM (in response to Mike Reynolds)1 of 1 people found this helpfulBest news I've had today, just in time for the weekend! Thanks for following up on this, a huge relief.
Grégoire Michel you are so right!
Have a good weekend -
Erica
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
76f81e085c90fbf2cd8ca77e1a172e263320c0af Feb 10, 2017 1:03 PM (in response to Erica Harris)Thank you all for the clarification. I can confirm that the "you must upgrade to the Enterprise Edition" response received from Erica's Salesforce rep is exactly what I received. As of Jan 31st, midnight, our Marketo sync with Salesforce went down and has remained inoperable.
We had followed the instructions from Marketo and contacted Salesforce support last year about the potential for sync problems. We added the new fields and were told that there should be no sync issues.
When the sync stopped we naturally got on the horn with both Salesforce and Marketo and, after much back and forth, were told that a SF upgrade would be necessary to resume the integration. We're a small company with 13 SF users. My SF contract is up in July and I have no intention of paying what amounts to blackmail to upgrade.
Anyone gotten else having the same issues? Anyone found a work-around?
Thanks!
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Mike ReynoldsFeb 10, 2017 1:21 PM (in response to 76f81e085c90fbf2cd8ca77e1a172e263320c0af)
Hi Lynne,
Sorry to hear that you're having the problems here. I can't speak for Salesforce's sales team and what their sales reps want to say. However, that said, you don't need to upgrade to a newer version of Salesforce just to get SOAP API access. It should be available as an add-on that can be added to your existing Professional Edition version. Obviously they're going to charge for that add-on because it's a new addition to your service, but it should not require a full upgrade to Enterprise Edition. As long as the add-on you get is SOAP API access, there shouldn't be any need to upgrade unless Salesforce has changed their policies.
-Mike
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Erica Harris Feb 16, 2017 4:45 AM (in response to 76f81e085c90fbf2cd8ca77e1a172e263320c0af)1 of 1 people found this helpfulHi Lynne,
What Mike Reynolds says above is true. We added API access to our Professional Edition subscription and the sync has continued to work. The reps are over-enthusiastic (charitable interpretation) in their sales tactics.
Hope this helps,
- Erica (from a different account, as I work for a few Marketo clients)
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Bob Potock Mar 10, 2017 7:25 AM (in response to Erica Harris)Hi,
I am having the same problem and the Salesforce rep said I need to purchase a API Access license per user. And the numbers he quoted would be a 40% annual cost increase.
How may API Access licenses did you have to purchase and at what approximate cost?
Thanks.
Bob
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Grégoire Michel Mar 10, 2017 9:20 AM (in response to Bob Potock)Hi Bob,
Yes, the way they sell the API is per user and all you SFDC users will count.
But 40% seems to me a very high percentage. I remember we in Europe (who always had to buy it) would buy it 20% or 30%
-Greg
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Erica Harris Mar 10, 2017 9:40 AM (in response to Bob Potock)Hi Bob,
We had to purchased API licences for all users, they won't do it any other way. I don't know the cost increase (I'm not on the commercial side) but it was definitely a lot cheaper than upgrading to Enterprise for 31 users! The Salesforce salespeople appear to have huge target pressure because their sales tactics have been pretty borderline with us (not just with this issue, which was particularly bad).
- Erica
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Bob Potock Mar 10, 2017 10:37 AM (in response to Erica Harris)Thank you for the information.
The SF rep has been all over the place on what this is going to cost. One API license per user was one of the cost estimates. That is a significant cost increase for something that was free during the original purchase.
- Bob
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Re: SFDC Professional Edition customers - sync change alert - please read!
Erica Harris Mar 10, 2017 10:51 AM (in response to Bob Potock)Couldn't agree more!
- Erica
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