Jitterbit 2.0: Open Source Meets Enterprise Integration
Posted by: Ilan Sehayek, CTO, August 18th 2008
Jitterbit 2.0 has arrived and it feels great to finally get this latest version out there for everyone to use. Many of our customers participated in our beta program and the initial reaction all around was incredibly positive. I could be accused of some level of bias, but I say without hesitation that Jitterbit 2.0 truly is the next level of open source integration whether your challenge is SOA, SaaS integration, ETL or Business Process fusion. If you’ve used previous versions of Jitterbit you’ll find this readily apparent from the moment you install it. For those of you starting your integration experience with the 2.0 version, it’s a great time to jump in!
The development team has entered over 10,000 revisions since 1.3 which should give you a pretty good idea about the depth of changes in 2.0. We’ve highlighted the 4 features we think are most important over on our “What’s New in Jitterbit 2.0?” page. I won’t rehash everything we’ve said there, but I can tell you that the development of these features, as with the general development of Jitterbit, was never done in a vacuum. These are features that were requested by our users and customers. In many cases our customers acted as co-designers on many features, helping us test and refine them into the product you see today. Whether its parallel processing large chunks of data or using Jitterbit’s Host web services for SOA, the result is an integration platform not just built for the enterprise, but built by the enterprise.
The most readily apparent change in Jitterbit 2.0 is obviously the new Integration Process designer, which is a sleek way of building, connecting, and managing all your integration processes. As a daily Jitterbit user this is my favorite new feature, not only because it just plain looks cool, but it has saved me countless hours and made my work dramatically more efficient.
Speaking of efficient, over the next few weeks I’ll post some tips and tricks for getting the most out of Jitterbit. Stay tuned.