Business intelligence

Integrate CRM and Business Intelligence

Turn data into insight

Integrating your CRM with BI tools enables deeper analysis than the built-in CRM reports. Combine sales data with finance, marketing and operations for the complete picture.

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Problems without integration

Limited CRM reports

Standard CRM reports are not enough for complex analysis. No cross-system insights.

Spreadsheet hell

For real analysis, data is exported by hand and merged in spreadsheets.

Data silos

Sales data in the CRM, finance in the ERP, marketing separately, and no overall picture.

Outdated snapshots

Manual reports are outdated as soon as they are finished. No real time insight.

Integration options

Power BI

Native connectors for HubSpot, Zoho, Pipedrive. Connects directly to common CRMs.

Tableau

Enterprise BI with broad CRM support. Strong visualizations.

Data warehouse

Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift as the central data source for all systems.

ETL tools

Fivetran, Stitch or Airbyte sync CRM data into the warehouse automatically.

Typical use cases

1

Sales performance dashboard

Revenue, pipeline, win rate and cycle time, all in one interactive dashboard.

2

Revenue attribution

Track marketing touchpoints through to the close. Calculate ROI per channel.

3

Customer 360

CRM plus support plus product usage plus finance equals the complete customer picture.

4

Forecasting

Use historical data for more precise revenue forecasts.

5

Cohort analysis

Compare customer groups over time. Analyze retention and lifetime value.

Best practices

Data quality first

Garbage in, garbage out. CRM data has to be clean before BI makes sense.

Standardize definitions

What is a "lead"? What counts as "revenue"? Clear definitions across the company.

Real time versus daily

Not everything has to be live. Daily synchronization is often enough and saves cost.

Enable self-service

Build dashboards so that users can filter and drill down themselves.

Recommended tools & software

Power BI

Power BI

Microsoft BI tool with strong CRM integration

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Tableau

Tableau

Enterprise BI with excellent visualization

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Looker

Looker

Google Cloud BI platform

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Fivetran

Fivetran

ETL tool for automatic data synchronization

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Snowflake

Snowflake

Cloud data warehouse as the central data source

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