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Integrating data from various sources requires a business user or administrator to have intricate knowledge about the source and destination entities and field mappings. More importantly, they need to know how these entities are to be mapped from source to destination. They also have business needs that require them to transform the data before importing it.
An integration template serves as a blueprint that provides predefined entities and field mappings to enable the flow of data from source to destination. It also provides the ability to transform the data before importing it. Often, the schema between the source and destination apps is different. The template with the predefined entity and field mappings serves as a great starting point for an integration project.
Integration templates make it easy to integrate data from various data sources
Over the last few months, we worked closely with the application teams to ship out-of-the-box templates for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, Field Service, and Project Service applications. We also shipped a Salesforce preview template to bring data into Common Data Service for Apps.
We will continue this momentum and partner with the Dynamics 365 for Talent, Dynamics 365 for Sales, and other application teams to bring more out-of-the-box templates, which will help expedite integrating data and reducing overall burden and cost. See the release notes for the corresponding application teams to understand the rich, process-based integration and analytics scenarios that these templates will help with.