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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Fuel Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive Analytics with Integration
Data-forward businesses use analytics to drive their decision making. The meaning behind those analytics requires teams to look at the past, the present, and the future. That’s where descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics models come into play. Each of these analytics types serves a different purpose and is informed through integration. Let’s look at how we can fuel descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics with integration for streamlined and simplified decision making.
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How Sales Leaders Capture More Accurate Reports with StarfishETL
Intelligent reporting helps teams build the most informed approach to their sales strategy. Forecasts, year-over-year sales histories, MQL to SQL conversions, and customer retention rates are just a few of the
report types that educate sales executives on what’s working and what isn’t. Data-centric
businesses use integration strategies to unlock hidden trends and help teams expand those reporting functions. The number of integrations and types of applications you combine are…
5 Ways to Reduce Data Integration Costs
Businesses looking to create these connected processes and streamline automation often integrate, but costs can rack up if the project has poor planning. In this post, we’ll highlight five ways to reduce data integration costs for more thoughtful and successful projects.
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How To Prepare For ERP Integration
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a tool used by businesses to increase efficiency and reach their full potential. It allows companies to automate business functions around supply chains, accounting, human resources, and inventory. The ability to manage these business aspects within a single application lets businesses create a streamlined, standardized view of processes. Companies adopt ERP to gain better pipeline visualization, reduce errors, and manage data in one spot. However, even…
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4 Tips for Preserving Data Integrity During Integration
Integrated systems use shared data to fuel analytics, improve big data and AI initiatives, and inform machine learning algorithms. But imagine making major decisions on marketing budgets, sales processes, and customer service programs using completely inaccurate data.
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2 Quick Tips to Prepare for HubSpot CRM Integration
Integrating HubSpot CRM is a smart business move. One of HubSpot’s greatest strengths is the diverse swaths of data it makes reportable for smart sales decisions. All of this data is accessed on a user-friendly platform that is easy to learn and capitalize on. When we connect that power to other business systems, we’re furthering the extent of our analytical capabilities and our understanding of our business processes.
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How Much Does Data Integration Cost?
If you’ve never performed a data integration before you may be wondering, “How much is this going to cost me?”. Well, that depends. You see, integrations have a lot of moving parts, and each project has its own unique requirements. In addition, where your solution lives and which integration company you work with can also affect the costs. If your solutions are on-premise for example, you must account for the cost of hardware and data backups in addition to your other costs.
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How to Discuss Your Integration with Non-Technical Stakeholders
Communicating about integration can sometimes be more difficult than the integration itself. As the integration expert, your job is to make that communication as clear and accessible as possible. Recognize that perspectives are different based on job roles. Barriers to communication exist because you and your stakeholders are viewing the integration through different lenses, not because one of you is smarter or more skilled than the other.
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What Every CFO Needs to Know About Integration
Think that a CFO isn’t a major player in an integration? Think again.Companies integrate with the intention of optimizing processes: connecting sales and marketing data to enhance targeting, combining financial systems and CRMs to streamline invoice and payment histories, feeding emails into CRMs to keep accurate data for customer service reps, and more. The CFO plays a role in each of these departments. Digital optimization will trickle down throughout the entire company, and therefore affect…
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How iPaaS Speeds Up Integrations for Better Outcomes
Everybody wants to enjoy the benefits of integration as soon as possible. The whole point of the process is to squeeze the most value out of data spread across systems. However, integration projects aren’t always as smooth and speedy as everybody would like. Because every business has unique processes and technology stacks, there’s often a deeper level of complexity to the project. This is where an iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) makes the difference. The capabilities of an iPaaS give…
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HR Integration: Benefits, Challenges, and Types
HR teams are expert jugglers. However, as companies expand and HR responsibilities become more complex, the standard capabilities of the HR solution aren’t always enough. Teams need increased functionality, smarter reporting options, and easier access to data. Integrating your HR system is a natural step towards these goals. Let’s look at the benefits and challenges of HR integration and the types of HR integrations to consider.
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Maintaining Data Governance During Your Integration
Data governance is a multi-level, multi-departmental effort. It’s defined by how data is ingested into systems, how data is retained and stored throughout systems, how it’s shared, how it’s archived and backed-up, recovered, and deleted. Data integration ingests and shares data between solutions and is therefore important to the overall data governance strategy of any business. So, how can we maintain data governance during integration?
5 Ways Integrations Can be Used to Boost Sales Automation
Sales software like CRM enables this automation to some extent, but integration with other applications is what really supports fully automated experiences. As an iPaaS integrator, we’ve seen businesses connect all kinds of varying tools in an effort to put more intelligent automation practices in place. Here are five ways integrations can be used to boost sales automation.
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4 Use Cases for Pipedrive and QuickBooks Integration
Pipedrive and QuickBooks integration is one of the most popular application connection requests we get. Why might that be so? Any time a company can unite their front and back office operations, it’s a win for the sales and invoicing process. Here are the four use cases we see most for Pipedrive and QuickBooks integration.
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Asking the Right Questions to Prepare for eCommerce ERP Integration
Many businesses integrate eCommerce ERP to merge their online store with backend operations. This integration gives transparency to real-time financials and inventory that boost productivity and streamline business efficiency. So, if you’re looking to start an eCommerce and ERP integration, what should you be thinking about?
