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Integrating CRM across your Organization for Business success

Integrating CRM across your Organization for Business success

By : Andrew Blackmore
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Integrating CRM Across Your Organization for Business Success
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Integrating CRM Across Your Organization for Business Success
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewer
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About the Reviewer
Preface
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Preface
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What is CRM Integration and Why is It Good for Your Business?
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What is CRM Integration and Why is It Good for Your Business?
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Different CRM applications
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Users, user roles, and teams
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How workflows are used in CRM
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Security in CRM
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Contact management
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Sales management
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Customer support
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Management information
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Summary
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How to Implement an Integration
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How to Implement an Integration
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Build or buy
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Building an integration
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Adding CRM reports or dashboards
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Summary
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How to Build a Contact Integration
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How to Build a Contact Integration
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Contact management integration scenario
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Designing the integration
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Step 1 – entity diagrams
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Step 2 – mapping the entity diagrams to each other
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Step 3 – defining the unique identifiers
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Step 4 – defining the fields and field mappings
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Step 5 – defining the CRUD rules
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Security
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CRM UI changes
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Summary
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How to Build a Sales Management Integration
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How to Build a Sales Management Integration
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Sales management integration use cases
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Integration workflows
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Step 1 – creating entity diagrams
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Step 2 – mapping the entity diagrams to each other
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Step 3 – defining the unique identifiers
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Step 4 – defining the fields and field mappings
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Step 5 – defining the CRUD rules
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Step 6 – designing the screen pops
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Security
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CRM UI changes
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Advanced workshop discussion
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Summary
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How to Build a Collections Management Integration
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How to Build a Collections Management Integration
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Collections management integration use cases
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Integration workflows
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Security
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CRM UI changes
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Reports/dashboard changes
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Advanced workshop checklist
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Summary
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How to Build a Vendor Management Integration
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How to Build a Vendor Management Integration
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Vendor management integration use cases
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Integration workflows
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Security
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CRM UI changes
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Reports/dashboard changes
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Advanced workshop checklist
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Summary
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How to Build a Support Management Integration
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How to Build a Support Management Integration
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Support management integration use cases
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Security
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CRM UI changes
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Advanced workshop checklist
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Summary
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How to Develop and Maintain Your Integration
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How to Develop and Maintain Your Integration
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Development plan
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Deployment
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Ongoing maintenance
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Summary
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Where Next for Integrations – the Cloud and Other Areas
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Where Next for Integrations – the Cloud and Other Areas
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The future of RideRight Bike Parts Company
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Moving CRM and ERP to the cloud
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Making mobile apps available to CRM users
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Customers running things themselves
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Summary of the chapter
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Conclusion

Summary

In this chapter, we have talked about the different challenges in implementing a CRM integration with ERP. The details of the solution will be different for every CRM and ERP application, but the high level challenges are always the same.

We broke the challenges into technical areas, to make it easier to explain, giving several solutions for each technical area, and weighing up the advantages and disadvantages of each solution. The challenges were divided into discussions of how to:

  • Extract the data from ERP

  • Transport the data between ERP and CRM

  • Store the data in CRM database

  • Display the data in the CRM UI

In the Extract the data from ERP section, we covered the different methods that can be used to read data from the ERP. Direct database access may be the simplest, but there are drawbacks because it bypasses the business logic. Using the business API, if there is one available, is the preferred option. We also introduced the concept of screen pops, which will be an important tool in...

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