Introduction to Plauti Cloud
Welcome to Plauti Cloud!
Plauti Cloud is a portal that offers cloud-based applications and services. At the moment it provides performance-enhancing services for Plauti Deduplicate for Salesforce and MS Dynamics, an import/export service for bulk importing data into Salesforce and MS Dynamics and bulk exporting from Salesforce, and an installer service to install Plauti apps on multiple orgs and environments at the same time. In the near future more features and services will be added.
The Plauti Cloud portal has some features of its own, such as Connections, Teams, and Notifications. You can create a Team to work on jobs together with colleagues, and set up Connections with one or more organizations and environments to process jobs. These features are explained in more detail in the Managing Plauti Cloud section.
Once you've connected to Plauti Cloud, you can take a quick tour of the app; just follow the guided tour steps.
Note that some services on Plauti Cloud, such as running jobs for Plauti Deduplicate, are paid.
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Data Security
Plauti Cloud is hosted on Azure. Every single job you run on it gets its own temporary, dedicated, and fenced-off server. Your temporary server is completely locked off from the outside world, even Plauti cannot enter it. Your server only communicates with Salesforce or Dynamics 365 to receive job details and return the results, encrypted using TLS 1.2 or higher (TLS 1.3 by default). It will inform Plauti Cloud about job statuses, but no other job data is shared. When the job is finished, the server is terminated.
The Plauti Apps
Plauti Cloud started out as a Cloud variety of Plauti Desktop. It offers the same features as Plauti Desktop and Plauti Server, but has some advantages over those as well. For example, Plauti Cloud can run several parallel jobs at the same time. Another plus is that Plauti Cloud only runs a server when it’s needed, so it's more environmentally friendly than Plauti Server.
On the other hand, Plauti Desktop offers the convenience of keeping all activity on-site on your local machine, or with Plauti Server on your own server.
All apps offer secure data transmissions, and remarkable speed compared to executing actions within Salesforce or MS Dynamics. Utilizing all apps instead of just picking one, depending on your use cases, is also possible of course. In that case, do keep on eye on which app processes what.
Note that some services, such as running deduplication jobs on Plauti Cloud, or using Plauti Server, are paid. Others, like running deduplication jobs on Plauti Desktop, or importing/exporting data, can be utilized at no extra cost.
| Plauti Cloud | Plauti Desktop | Plauti Server |
|---|---|---|
| Hosted in a secure cloud by Plauti | Local machine installation | Local server installation |
| No need to update | Quickly updated | Quickly updated |
| Run multiple jobs in parallel | Run one job at a time | Run one job at a time |
| Job performance based on job size, infinite scaling | Job performance based on local machine capacity | Job performance based on local server capacity |
| Data processed on fenced-off dedicated server | Data processed on local machine | Data processed on local server |
| Configure how to collaborate with colleagues, several Teams | Single user | Configure how to collaborate with colleagues in one Team |
| Auto start jobs fully automated | Auto start jobs only when the app is running | Auto start jobs fully automated |
| Scheduled jobs | No scheduled jobs | Scheduled jobs |
| Only runs when needed | Only runs when needed | Always running when server is running |
| Connect with multiple Salesforce Orgs and MS Dynamics Environments, no need to switch | Connect with multiple Salesforce Orgs and MS Dynamics Environments, no need to switch | Connect with multiple Salesforce Orgs and MS Dynamics Environments, no need to switch |
| Manage Plauti Solutions licenses and Salesforce sandboxes | Manage Salesforce sandboxes via separate webpage | Manage Salesforce sandboxes via separate webpage |
| Run export data flows and result export jobs (Salesforce only for now) | Run export data flows and result export jobs (Salesforce only for now) | Run export data flows (Salesforce only for now). No result export jobs. |