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Azure Synapse Analytics to Folk CRM integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Azure Synapse Analytics and Folk CRM 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 Azure Synapse Analytics and Folk CRM

Sync Folk CRM into Azure Synapse Analytics continuously and push warehouse results back onto CRM records, one two-way connection instead of two pipelines.

The CRM feeds the warehouse and the warehouse should feed the CRM: relationship data flows one way, and computed scores, segments, and customer context flow back. Most teams build the first half as a batch pipeline and never quite get to the second.

Stacksync does both with one connection. Companies, Groups, Custom fields, Notes from Folk CRM land in Azure Synapse Analytics as live tables, updated within seconds, and columns computed in Azure Synapse Analytics write back to fields in Folk CRM. There is no separate ETL and reverse-ETL stack to stitch together and no jobs to babysit.

Common use cases

  • Sync folk people and companies with a marketing or outbound tool so outreach lists stay current.
  • Push enriched contact data from a data warehouse into folk custom fields.
  • Sync curated Synapse views into an operational Postgres or Azure SQL database that applications can query cheaply.
  • Consolidate SaaS data alongside lake data so analysts join both through one SQL surface.

Cleanup that sticks

Deduplication and normalization done in Azure Synapse Analytics can be written back, so warehouse-side cleanup actually fixes the CRM.

CRM analytics on live data

Accounts, contacts, and activity from Folk CRM are queryable in Azure Synapse Analytics moments after they change, so dashboards stop lagging the reality they describe.

Scores and segments back on the record

Lead scores, churn risk, or usage segments computed in Azure Synapse Analytics appear as fields in Folk CRM, where the people working accounts actually see them.

What you can sync between Azure Synapse Analytics and Folk CRM

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.

Azure Synapse Analytics objects Folk CRM objects
Schemas Namespaces that separate staging, integration, and presentation layers. Companies Organization records linked to people and kept aligned with billing or CS systems.
Materialized views Precomputed aggregates that speed reads of frequently synced result sets. Groups Shared workspaces that organize contacts; group membership is often the field integrations act on.
SQL pools Dedicated or serverless compute contexts that determine how and where queries run. Custom fields Group-scoped attributes that receive enriched or computed values from external systems.
Tables (dedicated SQL pool) Distributed warehouse tables that serve as sync destinations for analytics workloads. Notes Free-text context attached to people and companies, readable for reporting.
External tables Tables over files in the data lake, queried through serverless SQL and often read-only in syncs. Reminders Follow-up items that can be created from external triggers.
Views Curated projections used when downstream tools should not read base tables directly. People Contact records; the primary entity synced with outreach and enrichment tools.
What ships with Azure Synapse Analytics ⇄ Folk CRM

Connect Azure Synapse Analytics and Folk CRM for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Azure Synapse Analytics–Folk CRM connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Azure Synapse Analytics or Folk CRM instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Azure Synapse Analytics or Folk CRM 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 Azure Synapse Analytics or Folk CRM record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Azure Synapse Analytics ⇄ Folk CRM sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Azure Synapse Analytics and Folk CRM.

How the Azure Synapse Analytics and Folk CRM connectors work

Azure Synapse Analytics

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (TDS) with T-SQL for SQL pools; additional Spark and pipeline surfaces exist but syncs use the SQL endpoint
Authentication
SQL authentication or Microsoft Entra ID
Change detection
Polling on watermark columns; Synapse SQL pools do not expose log-based CDC for downstream consumers
Capabilities
read · write

Folk CRM

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key (Bearer token)
Change detection
Webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling of list endpoints as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits
How it works

How to connect Azure Synapse Analytics to Folk CRM — 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 Azure Synapse Analytics and Folk CRM 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
    Azure Synapse Analytics connected
    Folk CRM connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Azure Synapse Analytics and Folk CRM 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 · Azure Synapse Analytics ⇄ Folk CRM
    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
    Azure Synapse Analytics Folk CRM
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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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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