KingswaySoft's SSIS Integration Toolkit v3.0 to Utilize New Bulk Data API for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

For all the interest in the latest releases for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and CRM 2011 On Premise, the new bulk data API may have received less attention than it deserved.  But if your job description includes includes import or export of large CRM data sets, the bulk data API has the potential to offer serious performance improvements and enable better throughput.

KingswaySoft, makers of the integration and migration solution SSIS Integration Toolkit for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, have announced that version 3 of their product, which is going to be ready for release at the same time as Update Rollup 12, will be one of the very first data integration solutions in the market to support the new bulk API, both for CRM Online and for Dynamics CRM on premise.

SSIS Integration Toolkit utilizes Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) as the ETL platform and data load engine. The new version of SSIS Integration Toolkit is its third major release.

According Daniel Cai, the principle developer of KingswaySoft and a Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP, the SSIS Integration Toolkit represents something of a new chapter in his company's quest to find a better way to complete large scale CRM data migration and integration efforts.  And the new bulk data API offers a major opportunity to improve performance in version three of the toolkit.

"We see the bulk data API as a great technique to improve data load performance since CRM web service is slow, as any web service interface is ...