Data Integration
Full Service Integration
Integrating solutions can be a time consuming and detail-oriented process. Without a dedicated team, many organizations face project slow downs and missteps. Full-service integration simplifies your project by handling all the prep work, data mapping, testing, and customizing that your integration requires. Let the professionals of StarfishETL handle your project and ensure a successful outcome.
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ETL Data Integration: What to Look for
Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) has many practical uses, chief among them are its capabilities for data integration. Although data integration is one of the most common ways businesses choose to use ETL, ETL also has uses in loading data warehouses, augmenting data for profiling, and data migration. So, why do ETL procedures have a hand in so many types of data processes? Why is ETL beneficial for integration? What should a business be looking for in an ETL data integration tool?
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What is iPaaS?
Originally coined by Gartner, the term iPaaS refers to cloud-based integration platforms that are able to connect various applications, systems, and technologies. The versatility and power of iPaaS solutions serves the digital well-being of businesses by allowing them to not only connect applications easier, but also standardize how those applications are added to their organization and where, whether the application is on-premise or within the Cloud.
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You Should Be Integrating QuickBooks with Your CRM. Here’s Why.
Your business, like any other, requires some sort of financial software to keep track of customer purchases, billing data, payroll data, etc. QuickBooks is a market leader in accounting software, so it makes sense that it’s a top choice for small and medium sized businesses that want to keep thorough and accurate accounting records.
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4 Considerations to Prepare for ERP Integration
The benefits of ERP integration are numerous. It improves order and inventory management, reduces errors and duplicate data entries, increases productivity, and much more. ERP integration adds value to company data, but the process can become overly complex without thoughtful planning. In this post, we’ll discuss four necessary considerations to prepare for proper ERP integration.
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3 Must-Have Infor CRM Integrations
In this post, we’ll highlight three must-have Infor CRM integrations based on our knowledge of the solutions and the experiences of our customers. If you’re not sure which solutions you need to add to your library, or which Infor-compatible connections you should prioritize first, this post will offer some points for consideration.
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HubSpot Salesforce Integration: Avoid These 5 Pitfalls
Integrating HubSpot and Salesforce is a no-brainer for sales and marketing alignment. Combine HubSpot’s deep marketing metrics with Salesforce’s insightful sales data and you can have yourself an analytics field day! To do this successfully though, you must be prepared for the potential pitfalls of integrating these two solutions and know how you want your data to move between them.
Using Agile Principles for Your Next Integration
When most people think of agile principles, they imagine its uses for software development. Agile relies on dividing tasks into short work phases and frequently reassessing and adapting plans throughout. This approach works well for software development, which is probably why its uses have grown exponentially in recent years. In fact, more than 71% of respondents in a recent survey said they were using agile more frequently than ever before.
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Data Quality: It’s More Important Than you Think
Data quality is too often overlooked, but it’s far too important to ignore. Every year, 25-30% of data becomes inaccurate, negatively impacting the capabilities of sales and marketing to create effective strategies. Identifying, cleaning, enriching, and protecting your data for the long-term will help create the ideal environment for intelligent reporting, analytics, and most importantly business growth.
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Should I Integrate Using Code, Low Code, or No Code?
Before you decide on an integration solution, it’s crucial to understand just how complex your project is going to be. If your integration needs are basic, cloud-based, already compatible, and do not include any custom fields or functions, a no code integration could work just fine. As a reminder, you would still need an individual with SOME technical database and business process knowledge to get the job done correctly.
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5 Tips for Managing System Integration Over Time
Although we’d like to “set it and forget it”, the fluidity of integration is ever changing. It cannot fulfill its greatest potential without some thoughtful follow through. To maximize the value of your integration, you must analyze how well it’s working and plan for its future. This way, if a need arises, you can pivot with ease and make changes faster. So how does one manage an integration after the initial launch? I’ll explain with these 5 tips for managing system integration.
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5 Tips for Integration Success, and 3 Mistakes You Should Avoid
More and more businesses use large data sets to analyze trends and predict future events, so every company should be considering strategies for increasing data accessibility and visibility. If you’re planning to integrate systems in 2020, here are a few tips for success – and a few mistakes you should avoid.
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How Much Integration is Enough Integration?
Why do businesses integrate software systems? There are many underlying reasons, but it always boils down to one goal: maximizing transparency and data usability across departments while minimizing the time investment and cost of managing data.
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Determining the ROI of Your Software Integration
Although it’s important to justify the tangible ROI of an integration, it’s also crucial not to lose sight of the intangible value it adds to the organization. The long-term benefits to the corporate image, the intellectual capital gained, the destruction of data silos, and the improved agility are all part of the case for integration.
Integration 101: What’s Your Role?
They coordinate resources, track budget, line up expert help if needed, coordinate testing, ensure use cases and user stories are complete, and resolve any problems that come along the way. In many cases, an integration may have multiple project managers fulfilling different aspects of these roles. Your integration partner may provide a Project Manager for you, but you may also need to assign an internal Project Manager. Discuss your options with your integration partner.
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Integration 101: Why Do Integration Projects Fail?
Why do integration projects fail? That’s like asking “What is time?” or “Where does space end?”. There are many potential answers. Various factors contribute to successful integration projects, but it only takes a few missteps to botch up the whole thing. While the reasons behind integration failure can stem from multiple issues, most businesses encounter some “repeat offenders.” Let’s explore the most common reasons why integration projects fail.
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