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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3 Must-Have Salesforce Integrations
Businesses strive to have great customer relationships and Salesforce can carry out that need. Salesforce gives businesses the tools to increase sales and grow customer loyalty with its dynamic tools. In this post, we’ll highlight three must-have Salesforce integrations to keep your business ahead of the game.
5 Early Warning Signs of Data Migration Disaster
The best way to solve any problem is to catch it early, and when you’re planning a data migration, the ideal is to avoid the problem altogether. As migrators/integrators, we see a lot of unique projects, but they all share a common theme: their success is dependent on the team’s understanding of their data and system limitations. If those are overlooked, migration disaster can ensue.
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4 Must-Have Creatio Integrations
One of the undisputed leaders in the field of low-code development is Creatio, whose flexible platform for development accompanied with their CRM has enabled all types and sizes of businesses to turn their employees into “citizen developers”. And appropriately, such a flexible platform offers up a host of possible software integrations for even more added functionality. Here are four of our favorite Creatio integrations here at StarfishETL.
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HubSpot & Creatio Integration Essentials
During this webinar, we highlight our Essentials integration for connecting HubSpot and Creatio. StarfishETL's Essentials integrations connect core fields out of the box to make integration faster and less stressful. In this presentation, we start by outlining some common challenges to integration and then explain how Essentials solves for those challenges. Check it out!
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CRM and ERP: The 7 Most Common Integration Use Cases
Talk to any integration expert and they’ll tell you: integration boosts productivity, collaboration, and analytical insights. However, integrating every field of data between a CRM and ERP is not a recommended best practice. Instead of creating more data transparency and simplifying data access, integrating too much information can create clutter and make it harder to spot important patterns.
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HubSpot & Infor Essentials
StarfishETL Essentials are pre-built integrations that provide all your standard connections upfront, so you can enjoy less integration hassle with faster results. In this webinar, our VP of Sales explains and demos Essentials for one of our most popular integrations, HubSpot Marketing Hub and Infor CRM.
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5 Use Cases for Infor Syteline Integration
In the past year, we’ve seen an explosion of Syteline integration requests. These projects range from more traditional connections like Syteline and CRM, to more unique ones, like connecting Syteline to the marketing automation solution. In this post, we’ll discuss the use cases for integrating Syteline with marketing automation, CRM, project management, email, and eCommerce as we’ve seen through our customers’ projects.
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13 Basic Integration Terms for Beginners
If you’re a CTO or you work in an IT department, you probably have a firm grasp on many of the terms associated with integration. However, sometimes department managers in marketing and sales roles are asked to spearhead integration projects. When the integration provider asks questions or explains common integration scenarios, it may sound like a foreign language. There are many nuances of integration, but for a start, let’s get familiar with some basic integration terms.
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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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