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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Integration 101: Build it or Buy it?
In the next post of our Integration 101 series, we’ll explore the tradeoffs of doing an integration yourself versus purchasing a preconfigured software. Deciding whether to build or buy an integration solution can be challenging. Companies with tighter deadlines and lower budgets may feel more inclined to build their own integration system if they have the IT staff to accomplish it.
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Integration 101: Introduction & Best Practices
The Internet of Things (IoT), the Cloud, AI, data lakes, automation, and every other 2019 IT buzzword all stem from the same belief: connected data is more powerful. The more transparency between your systems, the easier it is for your teams to collaborate, plan, analyze, and deliver. Integration is the lifeline that makes these initiatives a reality.
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Accelerate Capability Maturity Model with Integration
A Capability Maturity Model (CMM) measures the existing capabilities of a company to streamline process improvement, foster productivity, and decrease software risks. Once a business understands the guidelines to improve these processes, they can create an integrated approach to solve those issues, long-term. The idea is that, by optimizing the relationship to software, businesses can improve customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and overall company performance.
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Integrate ERP Through Your Firewall with the StarfishETL Ray
Many companies want full Cloud adoption, but simply aren’t “there” yet, so they must strike a balance between their locally hosted systems and the Cloud software. However, when it’s time to integrate the two, things can get complicated. Your only options to integrate ERP through a firewall are to either work locally or expose the software over the firewall – neither of which are desirable approaches.
Expert Integration Tips: StarfishETL Error Handling
Try as we may, many of us still run into unexpected errors when executing integrations. In the world of unpredictable data, these errors are inevitable. They can occur from human miscalculations, incorrect information, malfunctioning systems, or any other number of random events.
Expert Integration Tips: Setting Up Your Origin
Starting an integration project in StarfishETL? We have some tips to ensure your project runs with maximum effectiveness. In the first post of our Expert Integration Tips series, we'll talk about the various approaches you can use to set up your Origin connection.
What Every CMO Needs to Know About Marketing Integration
The customer journey is a constant back and forth between sales and marketing. Every touch point is an opportunity and every interaction alters the next move. Connecting the two departments with CRM and marketing integration is a logical step to align goals and facilitate collaboration.
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The Dangers of Siloed Data and How to Avoid Them
In farming, silos are structures that keep grain separate from the elements. The same concept can be applied in the business world when we think about siloed data. There are different types of siloed data, but the overarching theme is data that is isolated from the entirety of your system, whether it’s restricted to one department’s uses or just not connected to other systems in your business. For instance, if you have siloed data and your marketing department wants to see how its data on MQLs…
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