A year ago, I worked on a small project to help us improve our data driven funnel. I learned what I called “Snowflake to Salesforce analytics sync” had a more buzzworthy term called “Reverse ETL.” This article shares some of the lessons learned along the way and some thoughts about where reverse ETL is headed.
Low Level of Effort Solution
All of the data and metrics were already available and calculated in Snowflake for reporting, so the process to push those measurements back into a Salesforce object using Azure Data Factory was quite simple.
The transformation work was prepared using Datameer on top of Snowflake which I had previously written about: Slice Through your Snowflake Data like a Buzzsaw with Datameer
