SnapLogic has done some interesting work in their latest release being announced this week at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Their focus is on providing a simple approach to integration that is not unlike using RSS for data. It's a cool concept and one worth looking into. There's also a growing number of snaplogic components and connectors (they call them pipelines) available at www.snaplogic.org. For example, there are pre-built components for integrating Salesforce.com, SugarCRM, Quickbooks and Excel. It's a good start and it will be interesting to see what else SnapLogic and its community create.

Of course, Snaplogic isn't along in offering open source solutions for integration. There are plenty of different approaches to this problem, ranging from MuleSource and Iona's Artix to JackBe and other mashup tools. But if you're looking for ease of use and visual tools for data integration, SnapLogic is worth investigating.

Posted by Zack Urlocker on April 23, 2008 09:20 PM