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Affinity to InterSystems IRIS integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Affinity and InterSystems IRIS in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Affinity and InterSystems IRIS

Treat Affinity like part of your database: its records live in InterSystems IRIS as real tables, and writes in either place sync to the other in seconds.

Product and engineering teams constantly need CRM data, and the CRM API is a poor way to get it: rate limits, pagination, custom objects, and integration code that breaks when an admin renames a field. What they actually want is the data in InterSystems IRIS, where it can be queried and joined like everything else.

Stacksync mirrors Field Values, Notes, Interactions, Reminders from Affinity into Schemas, Persistent Classes, Globals, Namespaces in InterSystems IRIS with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in Affinity with validation intact. Go-to-market teams keep working in the CRM, engineers keep working in the database, and neither has to think about the other.

Common use cases

  • 01 Push enrichment data computed elsewhere into Affinity field values on list entries.
  • 02 Keep introductions and relationship data from Affinity aligned with outreach tools used by the team.
  • 03 Write enriched or corrected records from SaaS apps back into IRIS tables for on-platform processing
  • 04 Replicate IRIS tables to Postgres so application teams can build against a familiar database

Common sync patterns

Query the CRM like a database

Accounts, contacts, and custom objects from Affinity become tables in InterSystems IRIS you can join with application data directly.

Product events onto CRM records

Signup, usage, or lifecycle changes written to InterSystems IRIS sync onto the matching records in Affinity, giving go-to-market teams live product context.

Internal tools without API code

Back-office apps read and write the synced tables; Stacksync handles the Affinity API, limits, and retries.

What you can sync between Affinity and InterSystems IRIS

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Affinity objects InterSystems IRIS objects How this pairing syncs
Reminders Follow-up tasks associated with people and organizations. Views SQL views expose curated slices of data for outbound replication. Reminders is specific to Affinity and Views to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Lists Pipelines (deal flow, fundraising, portfolio) that structure most Affinity data; syncs usually target a specific list. Schemas Schema organization scopes which tables a sync connection can see. Lists is specific to Affinity and Schemas to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
List Entries The membership of a person, organization, or opportunity on a list, carrying its list-specific fields. Persistent Classes Object-model classes project to tables, so class data is reachable through SQL. List Entries is specific to Affinity and Persistent Classes to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Persons Contact records enriched with relationship intelligence, synced with CRMs and outreach tools. Globals The underlying multidimensional storage; typically accessed indirectly via SQL or objects in syncs. Persons is specific to Affinity and Globals to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Organizations Company records matched to accounts in other systems by domain. Namespaces Namespaces partition databases and determine the connection context for integrations. Organizations is specific to Affinity and Namespaces to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Opportunities Deal records tracked on lists and synced with pipeline reporting. Stored Procedures Server-side logic callable over SQL supports controlled writes and transformations. Opportunities is specific to Affinity and Stored Procedures to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Affinity and InterSystems IRIS

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Affinity InterSystems IRIS Sub-second propagation

DetectionAffinity notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhook subscriptions for record events, supplemented by polling.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to InterSystems IRIS as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

InterSystems IRIS Affinity Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls InterSystems IRIS for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling (timestamp or query-based).

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Affinity through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Affinity: Subject to the platform's published API rate limits.
  • InterSystems IRIS: Constrained by database resources rather than published API rate limits.
What ships with Affinity ⇄ InterSystems IRIS

Connect Affinity and InterSystems IRIS for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Affinity–InterSystems IRIS connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Affinity or InterSystems IRIS instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Affinity or InterSystems IRIS data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Affinity or InterSystems IRIS record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Affinity ⇄ InterSystems IRIS sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Affinity and InterSystems IRIS.

How the Affinity and InterSystems IRIS connectors work

Affinity

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key
Change detection
Webhook subscriptions for record events, supplemented by polling
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's published API rate limits

InterSystems IRIS

Integration surface
SQL over JDBC/ODBC, plus object and REST access layers
Authentication
Database credentials
Change detection
Polling (timestamp or query-based); no standard webhook surface
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Constrained by database resources rather than published API rate limits
How it works

How to connect Affinity to InterSystems IRIS — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Affinity and InterSystems IRIS with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Affinity connected
    InterSystems IRIS connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Affinity and InterSystems IRIS objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Affinity ⇄ InterSystems IRIS
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Affinity InterSystems IRIS
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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