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How to load data from Intercom to Oracle

Learn how to use Airbyte to synchronize your Intercom data into Oracle within minutes.

TL;DR

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 Intercom as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
  2. set up Oracle as a destination connector
  3. define which data you want to transfer and how frequently

You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud.

This tutorial’s purpose is to show you how.

What is Intercom

Intercom is a customer messaging platform that helps businesses communicate with their customers in a personalized and efficient way. It offers a suite of tools that enable businesses to engage with their customers through targeted messaging, live chat, and email campaigns. Intercom also provides customer data and analytics to help businesses understand their customers better and make informed decisions. The platform is designed to help businesses build strong relationships with their customers, increase customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive growth. Intercom is used by thousands of businesses worldwide, including Shopify, Atlassian, and New Relic.

What is Oracle

An integrated cloud application and platform service, Oracle offers an array of enterprise information technology solutions. Other company offerings include software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS, and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides companies the convenience of the public cloud combined with the security and control of on-premises infrastructure. Oracle Cloud Applications help companies streamline their business processes, increase productivity and reduce costs with software applications such as Project Portfolio Management, ERP Financials, Procurement, and more.

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Prerequisites

  1. A Intercom account to transfer your customer data automatically from.
  2. A Oracle account.
  3. An active Airbyte Cloud account, or you can also choose to use Airbyte Open Source locally. You can follow the instructions to set up Airbyte on your system using docker-compose.

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that consolidates and streamlines the process of extracting and loading data from multiple data sources to data warehouses. It offers pre-built connectors, including Intercom and Oracle, for seamless data migration.

When using Airbyte to move data from Intercom to Oracle, it extracts data from Intercom using the source connector, converts it into a format Oracle can ingest using the provided schema, and then loads it into Oracle via the destination connector. This allows businesses to leverage their Intercom data for advanced analytics and insights within Oracle, simplifying the ETL process and saving significant time and resources.

Step 1: Set up Intercom as a source connector

1. First, navigate to the Intercom source connector page on Airbyte.com.
2. Click on the "Create new connection" button.
3. Enter a name for your connection and click "Next".
4. Enter your Intercom credentials, including your Access Token and App ID.
5. Click "Test" to ensure that your credentials are correct and that Airbyte can connect to your Intercom account.
6. Once the test is successful, click "Next".
7. Select the data you want to replicate from Intercom, including conversations, users, and companies.
8. Choose the replication frequency and the destination where you want to send the data.
9. Click "Create connection" to finalize the setup.
10. Your Intercom source connector is now connected to Airbyte, and you can start replicating your data to your desired destination.

Step 2: Set up Oracle as a destination connector

1. First, ensure that you have the necessary credentials to access your Oracle DB. This includes the hostname, port number, database name, username, and password.
2. Open the Airbyte platform and navigate to the "Destinations" tab on the left-hand side of the screen.
3. Scroll down until you find the "Oracle DB" destination connector and click on it.
4. Click on the "Create new connection" button to begin setting up your Oracle DB destination.
5. Enter a name for your connection and fill in the required fields with your Oracle DB credentials.
6. Test the connection to ensure that Airbyte can successfully connect to your Oracle DB.
7. Once the connection is successful, you can configure the settings for your Oracle DB destination. This includes selecting the tables you want to sync, setting up any transformations or mappings, and scheduling the sync frequency.
8. Save your settings and start the sync process. Airbyte will begin pulling data from your source and pushing it to your Oracle DB destination.
9. Monitor the sync process to ensure that it is running smoothly and troubleshoot any issues that may arise.
10. Once the sync is complete, you can access your data in your Oracle DB and use it for analysis, reporting, or any other purposes.

Step 3: Set up a connection to sync your Intercom data to Oracle

Once you've successfully connected Intercom as a data source and Oracle as a destination in Airbyte, you can set up a data pipeline between them with the following steps:

  1. Create a new connection: On the Airbyte dashboard, navigate to the 'Connections' tab and click the '+ New Connection' button.
  2. Choose your source: Select Intercom from the dropdown list of your configured sources.
  3. Select your destination: Choose Oracle from the dropdown list of your configured destinations.
  4. Configure your sync: Define the frequency of your data syncs based on your business needs. Airbyte allows both manual and automatic scheduling for your data refreshes.
  5. Select the data to sync: Choose the specific Intercom objects you want to import data from towards Oracle. You can sync all data or select specific tables and fields.
  6. Select the sync mode for your streams: Choose between full refreshes or incremental syncs (with deduplication if you want), and this for all streams or at the stream level. Incremental is only available for streams that have a primary cursor.
  7. Test your connection: Click the 'Test Connection' button to make sure that your setup works. If the connection test is successful, save your configuration.
  8. Start the sync: If the test passes, click 'Set Up Connection'. Airbyte will start moving data from Intercom to Oracle according to your settings.

Remember, Airbyte keeps your data in sync at the frequency you determine, ensuring your Oracle data warehouse is always up-to-date with your Intercom data.

Use Cases to transfer your Intercom data to Oracle

Integrating data from Intercom to Oracle provides several benefits. Here are a few use cases:

  1. Advanced Analytics: Oracle’s powerful data processing capabilities enable you to perform complex queries and data analysis on your Intercom data, extracting insights that wouldn't be possible within Intercom alone.
  2. Data Consolidation: If you're using multiple other sources along with Intercom, syncing to Oracle allows you to centralize your data for a holistic view of your operations, and to set up a change data capture process so you never have any discrepancies in your data again.
  3. Historical Data Analysis: Intercom has limits on historical data. Syncing data to Oracle allows for long-term data retention and analysis of historical trends over time.
  4. Data Security and Compliance: Oracle provides robust data security features. Syncing Intercom data to Oracle ensures your data is secured and allows for advanced data governance and compliance management.
  5. Scalability: Oracle can handle large volumes of data without affecting performance, providing an ideal solution for growing businesses with expanding Intercom data.
  6. Data Science and Machine Learning: By having Intercom data in Oracle, you can apply machine learning models to your data for predictive analytics, customer segmentation, and more.
  7. Reporting and Visualization: While Intercom provides reporting tools, data visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Looker (Google Data Studio) can connect to Oracle, providing more advanced business intelligence options. If you have a Intercom table that needs to be converted to a Oracle table, Airbyte can do that automatically.

Wrapping Up

To summarize, this tutorial has shown you how to:

  1. Configure a Intercom account as an Airbyte data source connector.
  2. Configure Oracle as a data destination connector.
  3. Create an Airbyte data pipeline that will automatically be moving data directly from Intercom to Oracle after you set a schedule

With Airbyte, creating data pipelines take minutes, and the data integration possibilities are endless. Airbyte supports the largest catalog of API tools, databases, and files, among other sources. Airbyte's connectors are open-source, so you can add any custom objects to the connector, or even build a new connector from scratch without any local dev environment or any data engineer within 10 minutes with the no-code connector builder.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What data can you extract from Intercom?

Intercom's API provides access to a wide range of data related to customer communication and engagement. The following are the categories of data that can be accessed through Intercom's API:

1. Users: Information about individual users, including their name, email address, and user ID.
2. Conversations: Data related to customer conversations, including the conversation ID, message content, and conversation status.
3. Companies: Information about companies that use Intercom, including company name, ID, and size.
4. Tags: Data related to tags assigned to users and conversations, including tag name and ID.
5. Segments: Information about user segments, including segment name, ID, and criteria.
6. Events: Data related to user events, including event name, ID, and timestamp.
7. Custom attributes: Information about custom attributes assigned to users, including attribute name, value, and type.
8. Teammates: Data related to Intercom team members, including name, email address, and role.

Overall, Intercom's API provides a comprehensive set of data that can be used to analyze customer behavior, improve communication strategies, and enhance overall customer engagement.

What data can you transfer to Oracle?

You can transfer a wide variety of data to Oracle. This usually includes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data like transaction records, log files, JSON data, CSV files, and more, allowing robust, scalable data integration and analysis.

What are top ETL tools to transfer data from Intercom to Oracle?

The most prominent ETL tools to transfer data from Intercom to Oracle include:

  • Airbyte
  • Fivetran
  • Stitch
  • Matillion
  • Talend Data Integration

These tools help in extracting data from Intercom and various sources (APIs, databases, and more), transforming it efficiently, and loading it into Oracle and other databases, data warehouses and data lakes, enhancing data management capabilities.