SSW Update - Do you use CRM Plug-ins for data synchronization?
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Many businesses are moving to CRM4 today. During the transition period you need both the old and new systems to see the same data. So how do you achieve this data synchronization?

A plug-in is most useful for the following:

  1. Record auditing
  2. Business process automation (WorkFlow)
  3. Data integration with other applications

CRM 3.0 exposed Callouts for interacting with CRM and developing custom code to attach to events at the CRM platform layer, however with CRM 4.0 this architecture has been completely redesigned.

Now we can create Plug-ins that make use of Synchronous and Asynchronous operations. They give improvements in development time, deployment, administration and reliability.

We recommend using CRM Plug-ins for data synchronization instead of a Workflow because:

  • Workflows are asynchronous, while plug-ins can be either synchronous or asynchronous and we want to synchronize the data immediately so we need to use plug-ins
  • Workflows also cannot be cancelled. This is probably necessary due to the following:
    • You might have business logic that depends on your external data sink, and you want to cancel an operation
    • Your destination data sink might want to accept user entries
    • Your external data sink might have other required fields other than the CRM database

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