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Brooke_Bartos1
Level 4
January 18, 2018
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Connector to bring data from SQL to Marketo?

  • January 18, 2018
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Hello,

Our team is looking to add a secondary data source for information we don't want cluttering our CRM, but which will be valuable to our marketing team. Has anyone used a connector to bring data from a secondary source such as SQL into Marketo for usability? The first group we talked to could only push from Marketo to SQL, not vice-versa.

Thanks in advance!

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Josh_Hill13
Level 10
January 18, 2018

You can use the API to do this with any database you choose. There isn't necessarily a connector, but tools like Boomi, Talend, Zapier, etc. can be middleware if needed.

SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
January 18, 2018

The typical way to enrich leads with outside, non-CRM information (whether that be from an in-house database or commercial service) is by using webhooks, which are Marketo's outbound API.

By running leads through a webhook periodically or in response to some other action, you can update any custom fields on the lead. A commercial service might update a lead w/firmographic data; your own webhook-compatible service could send back anything it wants (and keyed on any Marketo field, in case you don't have email addresses in the external DB).

However, webhooks can't update custom objects on the lead (if that's what you were thinking) so that would have to be done via inbound REST API, as Josh mentions.