How to load data from Insightly to BigQuery

Learn how to use Airbyte to synchronize your Insightly data into BigQuery within minutes.

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Set up a Insightly connector in Airbyte

Connect to Insightly or one of 400+ pre-built or 10,000+ custom connectors through simple account authentication.

Set up BigQuery for your extracted Insightly data

Select BigQuery where you want to import data from your Insightly source to. You can also choose other cloud data warehouses, databases, data lakes, vector databases, or any other supported Airbyte destinations.

Configure the Insightly to BigQuery in Airbyte

This includes selecting the data you want to extract - streams and columns -, the sync frequency, where in the destination you want that data to be loaded.

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How to Sync Insightly to BigQuery Manually

Begin by exporting your data from Insightly. Log in to your Insightly account, navigate to the data section you want to export (such as contacts, leads, etc.), and use the export feature to download the data in CSV format. Ensure you have the necessary permissions to perform data export.

Once you've exported the data, review the CSV files to ensure they are correctly formatted for import into BigQuery. Check for any inconsistencies or errors in the data, such as incorrect data types or missing values, and clean the data as needed.

If you haven't already, create a Google Cloud Project. Go to the Google Cloud Console, sign in with your Google account, and create a new project. This project will be used to manage your BigQuery resources.

Within your Google Cloud Project, navigate to BigQuery. Create a new dataset where your Insightly data will be stored. Ensure you specify the location and other settings according to your requirements.

Define the schema for your BigQuery table based on the structure of your CSV files. In BigQuery, each column needs a name and data type. You can define the schema manually or use a schema auto-detection feature when loading data.

Before loading data into BigQuery, upload your CSV files to Google Cloud Storage (GCS). Access the GCS section in the Google Cloud Console, create a bucket, and upload your CSV files. Make sure the files are accessible to your BigQuery project.

Finally, load the data from Google Cloud Storage into BigQuery. Use the BigQuery Console or the bq command-line tool to execute a load job. Specify the source data (GCS file paths), the destination table (in your dataset), and the schema. Once the load job completes, verify the data in BigQuery to ensure it matches the exported data from Insightly.

By following these steps, you can effectively transfer data from Insightly to BigQuery without relying on third-party connectors.

How to Sync Insightly to BigQuery Manually - Method 2:

FAQs

ETL, an acronym for Extract, Transform, Load, is a vital data integration process. It involves extracting data from diverse sources, transforming it into a usable format, and loading it into a database, data warehouse or data lake. This process enables meaningful data analysis, enhancing business intelligence.

Insightly is a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software that helps businesses manage their sales, marketing, and customer service activities. It provides a centralized platform for managing customer interactions, tracking leads and opportunities, and automating workflows. Insightly also offers project management tools, allowing teams to collaborate on tasks and projects, and track progress in real-time. The software integrates with popular business applications such as Google Apps, Office 365, and Mailchimp, making it easy to streamline workflows and improve productivity. With Insightly, businesses can gain valuable insights into their customers and improve their overall customer experience.

Insightly's API provides access to a wide range of data related to customer relationship management (CRM) and project management. The following are the categories of data that can be accessed through Insightly's API:

1. Contacts: This includes information about individuals or organizations that are associated with a company, such as their name, email address, phone number, and job title.

2. Organizations: This includes information about companies or other types of organizations, such as their name, address, and industry.

3. Opportunities: This includes information about potential sales opportunities, such as the name of the opportunity, the expected revenue, and the stage of the sales process.

4. Projects: This includes information about ongoing projects, such as the project name, description, and status.

5. Tasks: This includes information about tasks that need to be completed as part of a project, such as the task name, due date, and status.

6. Events: This includes information about events that are scheduled, such as the event name, date, and location.

7. Notes: This includes information about notes that have been added to a contact, organization, opportunity, project, or task.

8. Emails: This includes information about emails that have been sent or received by a contact or organization.

This can be done by building a data pipeline manually, usually a Python script (you can leverage a tool as Apache Airflow for this). This process can take more than a full week of development. Or it can be done in minutes on Airbyte in three easy steps: 
1. Set up Insightly to BigQuery as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
2. Choose a destination (more than 50 available destination databases, data warehouses or lakes) to sync data too and set it up as a destination connector
3. Define which data you want to transfer from Insightly to BigQuery and how frequently
You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud. 

ELT, standing for Extract, Load, Transform, is a modern take on the traditional ETL data integration process. In ELT, data is first extracted from various sources, loaded directly into a data warehouse, and then transformed. This approach enhances data processing speed, analytical flexibility and autonomy.

ETL and ELT are critical data integration strategies with key differences. ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) transforms data before loading, ideal for structured data. In contrast, ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) loads data before transformation, perfect for processing large, diverse data sets in modern data warehouses. ELT is becoming the new standard as it offers a lot more flexibility and autonomy to data analysts.

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