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

Keep Intercom 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 Intercom and InterSystems IRIS

Treat Intercom 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 Segments, Admins & Teams, Articles, Contacts from Intercom 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 Intercom 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

  • Keep custom data attributes updated from billing or ERP systems so message segments reflect current plan and spend
  • Route qualified leads from Intercom conversations into the CRM as leads or opportunities in near real time
  • Replicate IRIS tables to Postgres so application teams can build against a familiar database
  • Sync operational tables in IRIS bi-directionally with a CRM so business teams work on IRIS-backed data without SQL access

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

Field and stage updates in Intercom arrive as row changes in InterSystems IRIS, ready to drive jobs and notifications.

Query the CRM like a database

Accounts, contacts, and custom objects from Intercom 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 Intercom, giving go-to-market teams live product context.

What you can sync between Intercom 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.

Intercom objects InterSystems IRIS objects
Custom Data Attributes Typed custom fields on contacts and companies hold synced billing and usage data. Namespaces Namespaces partition databases and determine the connection context for integrations.
Tags Labels applied to contacts, companies, and conversations sync for routing and reporting. Stored Procedures Server-side logic callable over SQL supports controlled writes and transformations.
Segments Saved audience definitions are readable for targeting parity across tools. Tables Relational projections of stored data are the primary read/write surface for SQL-based syncs.
Admins & Teams Teammate records map conversation ownership to CRM users. Views SQL views expose curated slices of data for outbound replication.
Articles Help center content is accessible via API for knowledge sync and audits. Schemas Schema organization scopes which tables a sync connection can see.
Contacts A single contact model covers both users and leads, distinguished by a role attribute. Persistent Classes Object-model classes project to tables, so class data is reachable through SQL.
What ships with Intercom ⇄ InterSystems IRIS

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Intercom 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 Intercom or InterSystems IRIS record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Intercom ⇄ 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 Intercom and InterSystems IRIS.

How the Intercom and InterSystems IRIS connectors work

Intercom

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 for public apps or a workspace access token
Change detection
Webhook topic subscriptions for contact, company, and conversation events, plus polling for backfill
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to per-app rate limits on the Intercom API

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 Intercom 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 Intercom 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
    Intercom connected
    InterSystems IRIS connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Intercom 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 · Intercom ⇄ 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
    Intercom 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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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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