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

Keep Drift 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 Drift and InterSystems IRIS

Treat Drift 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 Playbooks, Meetings, Contacts, Conversations from Drift into Globals, Namespaces, Stored Procedures, Tables in InterSystems IRIS with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in Drift 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

  • Archive historical Drift conversation and contact data into a warehouse ahead of a platform migration.
  • Sync Drift-captured contacts into the CRM so chat-sourced leads enter standard sales workflows immediately.
  • Keep reference data consistent between an IRIS-based clinical or financial application and downstream SaaS tools
  • Write enriched or corrected records from SaaS apps back into IRIS tables for on-platform processing

Query the CRM like a database

Accounts, contacts, and custom objects from Drift 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 Drift, 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 Drift API, limits, and retries.

What you can sync between Drift 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.

Drift objects InterSystems IRIS objects
Meetings Meetings booked through Drift, synced to CRM as sales activities. Persistent Classes Object-model classes project to tables, so class data is reachable through SQL.
Contacts Visitor and lead records created or matched from chat identities; the main CRM-sync object. Globals The underlying multidimensional storage; typically accessed indirectly via SQL or objects in syncs.
Conversations Chat threads with status and participants; the center of Drift's data model. Namespaces Namespaces partition databases and determine the connection context for integrations.
Messages Individual messages within a conversation, used for transcript and intent analysis. Stored Procedures Server-side logic callable over SQL supports controlled writes and transformations.
Accounts Company records used for account-based routing and targeting. Tables Relational projections of stored data are the primary read/write surface for SQL-based syncs.
Users Agents and sales reps who own conversations and meetings. Views SQL views expose curated slices of data for outbound replication.
What ships with Drift ⇄ InterSystems IRIS

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Drift 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 Drift or InterSystems IRIS record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Drift ⇄ 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 Drift and InterSystems IRIS.

How the Drift and InterSystems IRIS connectors work

Drift

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via apps registered on the Drift developer platform
Change detection
Webhook events for new conversations, messages, and contact changes; polling for backfills
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's 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 Drift 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 Drift 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
    Drift connected
    InterSystems IRIS connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Drift 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 · Drift ⇄ 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
    Drift InterSystems IRIS
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

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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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