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October 2021

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What Is Data Integrity and Why Is It Important?

Oct 29, 2021 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
Your organization’s data is the source of opportunity for your innovation. However, 25 percent of executives surveyed by KPMG either distrust or have limited trust in their data. Without integrity, the information is essentially useless. So exactly what is data integrity? Let’s take a dive deeper into this topic and discuss why it is important for your organization.
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These Are the Top 5 Snowflake Database Features for Salesforce Users Everywhere

Oct 29, 2021 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
Confusingly, there are multiple Snowflakes in data management. A Snowflake database refers to a database (called a data warehouse) that integrates data from one or more sources for analytical purposes. Snowflake is the company that powers that database as a Software as a Service (SaaS). For this article, we're going to focus on the Snowflake database (sometimes stylized as SNOWFLAKE) and explain the features that best serve Salesforce users.
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Data Transformation: Explained

Oct 27, 2021 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
Raw data—like unrefined gold buried deep in a mine—is a precious resource for modern businesses. However, before you can benefit from raw data, the process of data transformation is a necessity. Data transformation is the process where you extract data, sift through data, understand the data, and then transform it into something you can analyze. That’s where ETL (extract, transform, load) pipelines come into play.
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5 Ways to Integrate Salesforce With Other Platforms

Oct 27, 2021 By Abe Dearmer In Integrate
Salesforce is the world’s leading CRM (customer relationship management) platform: More than 100,000 organizations use it worldwide. Thanks to its vast array of powerful features, it’s no surprise that Salesforce has become the most popular software as a service (SaaS) CRM, with an estimated 18 percent market share. Despite this functionality, Salesforce can’t do everything alone.
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The 11 Best Low-Code Development Platforms

Oct 26, 2021 By Mark Smallcombe In Integrate
When it comes to app development, low-code is the future. Many companies and organizations are already turning to low-code or no-code solutions for their business-related software needs. While low-code is changing the game when it comes to app development, is low-code really the way to go? And if low-code tools really are the right choice for your organization, how do you go about finding the right platform for your business goals? And what should you even be looking for in a low-code platform?
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Why Your Company Needs API Management

Oct 25, 2021 By Abe Dearmer In Integrate
When you need to get new features and products out the door fast, API management is the driving force to keeping everything on track. According to the "State of API Integration 2020" report by Cloud Elements, 83 percent of respondents say that API integration has become a critical part of their business strategy as they move forward on their digital transformation efforts. Leveraging integrations is what helps these companies agile and able to respond quickly to customer demands.
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How to Setup a Database Connection in Amazon RDS with Xplenty

Oct 22, 2021 By Integrate In Integrate
In this video, we will set up a database connection in Amazon RDS with Xplenty. AWS RDS is a feature-rich and mature offering that makes it easy for even less tech-savvy users to operate their own relational databases. Xplenty can help you gain the most benefit from your Amazon RDS deployment. Xplenty offers comprehensive data analysis and management and can integrate your Amazon RDS database with dozens of other services and products. In this way, you can use the technology stack that gives your business the greatest advantage.
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Top 9 Data Aggregation Tools

Oct 22, 2021 By Abe Dearmer In Integrate
With all the data that exists today, understanding how to aggregate data is more important than ever. However, before you can go about aggregating your data, you must understand more about it and learn what tools will best suit your needs in your pursuits. Read on to learn more about data aggregation and to pick up some tips on how to select the best aggregation software for your business.
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How API Management Works

Oct 21, 2021 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
According to Paolo Malinverno, research vice president at Gartner, “We already live in an API economy where CIOs must look beyond APIs as technology and instead build their company's business models, digital strategies, and ecosystems on them." Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) represent reusable code that forms the backbone of these digital transformation strategies. Understanding how API management works can help you determine how best to leverage your systems to gain the most value.
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How to Use Heroku Postgres to Migrate Data

Oct 21, 2021 By Mark Smallcombe In Integrate
Have you ever needed to move data from a local database to the cloud? Or even just between different databases? Heroku Postgres might be just the tool you need to help with all of your data migration needs. Read on to learn how you can utilize Heroku Connect to migrate data between Heroku Postgres and Salesforce.
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5 Secrets to Integrating Snowflake

Oct 20, 2021 By Mark Smallcombe In Integrate
Many companies are now strategically using their data assets as the core of their digital transformation efforts. Building a data pipeline can help companies combine information from all their systems to gain insights into their business. A recent study showed that 59.5% of corporations using advanced analytics saw measurable results. Using a warehouse such as Snowflake can help companies leverage this information to drive business strategy.
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5 Tips for Pushing Data from Your Warehouse to Salesforce

Oct 19, 2021 By Mark Smallcombe In Integrate
Salesforce is the most popular CRM (customer relationship management) platform in the world. As last count, the Salesforce CRM enjoyed a 20 percent market share, with more than 150,000 companies among its customers. One of Salesforce’s best features is its ability to run business intelligence (BI) and analytics workloads to identify hidden trends and insights and make smarter decisions for your sales, marketing, and customer support teams.
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Top 5 Informatica Alternatives

Oct 18, 2021 By Abe Dearmer In Integrate
Informatica Power Center blends four data engineering products into one system, making it one of the most feature-rich but complicated ETL/ELT platforms on the market. With data management, app integration, API gateway, and iPaaS features, smaller teams that struggle to tame this all-encompassing tool might seek out an Informatica alternative instead.
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The Complete Guide to Data Modeling Techniques

Oct 15, 2021 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
Every day, data analysts face the challenge of understanding and creating reports from their data warehouse. This difficulty may stem from the fact that data comes from multiple locations and often does not cohesively align. However, with a few tools at your disposal, you can efficiently create data modeling reports based on your organization's unique business needs. These techniques are some of the most effective data modeling techniques for data analytics teams everywhere.
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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Data Pipeline

Oct 14, 2021 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
Data is the new oil. Almost every industry is becoming more and more data-driven, and this trend will only continue to grow in the coming years. With so many organizations now relying on data for decision-making, they must easily access and analyze their information through data pipelines. This article will get you started on how to build your own data pipeline.
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AWS and CDC: A Dream Team for CDC

Oct 13, 2021 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
According to a study by Seagate, only 32% of data available to enterprises is put to work. The remaining 68% is unleveraged. One of the challenges noted is: making the different silos of collected data available. Using automation to bring together figures from disparate systems helps leaders make confident and reliable decisions backed by real-time information. This overview discusses how to use CDC Change Data Capture to enable real-time analysis.
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7 Tips for Building an API Management Strategy

Oct 13, 2021 By Abe Dearmer In Integrate
With tech constantly innovating, various tools and software need to be able to work simultaneously. API's are what makes this possible. The API provides software with a way to interact and communicate. This is how different applications connect, whether it's two internal apps or integrating an app into another company's platform. However, with APIs, as in any software integration, many challenges are likely to arise. To mitigate these challenges, an API management strategy should be in place.
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5 Tips for Pushing Data from Your Warehouse to Marketo

Oct 11, 2021 By Mark Smallcombe In Integrate
Nurturing your customer prospects is a crucial task to increase your conversion rates—so how can you make sure that valuable leads don’t fall through the cracks? That’s exactly where software like Marketo comes in. Marketo is a marketing automation tool to help standardize and automate your marketing funnel, helping push your prospects along the buyer’s journey from awareness to acquisition.
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How to Transfer Data from Postgres to Salesforce

Oct 8, 2021 By Abe Dearmer In Integrate
While Salesforce is an excellent tool for storing and managing information about your contacts, leads, accounts, and other metadata pieces, the power of the system lies in its ability to integrate with other applications. One particularly powerful integration comes from integrating data in a Postgres database into Salesforce. Read on to learn more about Heroku Postgres, Salesforce, and how to transfer data most efficiently.
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How Did You Detect and Handle Change Data Capture from The Source?

Oct 6, 2021 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
“Businesses that manage their data effectively derive unique insights from it and tend to move quicker and be leaders in their industries.” That’s according to Kim Stevenson, Senior Vice President and General Manager of NetApp Foundational Data Services However, that data is only helpful if you can find what you need when you need it and put it to good use. This guide discusses CDC Change Data Capture to provides up-to-date information for real-time analytics.
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5 Common API Management Tools and their Usage

Oct 5, 2021 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
Customers today expect feature-reach and user-friendly access to technology that makes their lives easier. They expect to use this technology to engage with companies anywhere, anytime, and with any device. Organizations must be able to not just meet, but exceed, these expectations. Failing to do so could result in lost revenue as customers move on to competitors.
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5 Tips for Pushing Data From Your Warehouse to Zendesk

Oct 4, 2021 By Abe Dearmer In Integrate
For decades, ETL (extract, transform, load) has been a mainstay of organizations’ data integration workflows, moving information from various sources to a centralized data warehouse. More recently, however, businesses have been shaking things up with reverse ETL, which flips the sources and targets by sending data from your warehouse to third-party systems like Zendesk.
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What Is a Citizen Integrator?

Oct 4, 2021 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
Organizations at the forefront of their field leverage speed and agility to maintain their competitive edge. The key factor driving this agility is collaboration, which can only be achieved by providing every department with access to the data they need to perform their jobs more efficiently. According to Gartner, digital optimization blurs the classic ownership and activity boundaries within and beyond IT.
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Xplenty Acquires FlyData, Adding Data Replication To Our Product Suite

Oct 4, 2021 By Tayler Jones In Integrate
We're excited to announce that Xplenty has acquired the fastest real-time data replication platform on the market, FlyData. This further expands our product suite and adds database replication to our customer offering. This was the highest requested feature from our customers, so we're happy to announce that we now have CDC (change data capture) capabilities.
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Everything You Need to Know About Netsuite and Salesforce Integration

Oct 1, 2021 By Abe Dearmer In Integrate
Netsuite and Salesforce are both prominent SaaS providers. The two cloud-based software companies are home to powerful marketing automation, sales automation, and customer service tools. While Netsuite and Salesforce are both powerful as standalone entities, their tools become even more useful to companies when they are used together. That’s why finding the perfect data integration system to connect Netsuite and Salesforce is essential to your business.
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