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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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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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.
