How to track historical data in CRM without a data warehouse
Native CRM sync tools often fail to support historical data objects like seasonal inventory trends or past metrics, forcing businesses to choose between external data warehouses or losing insights for platforms like Tableau Next. Without a way to capture metrics from day one—such as dead stock per season rather than just total sales—owners cannot recover past data for future decision-making.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Reviewing what was left over from previous periods before restocking rather than just looking at past sales totals.
- 2standing up a separate data warehouse
- 3putting files on S3 and then reading them from there
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“lo que más me hubiera servido llevar desde el principio es cuánto se me quedaba en tallas muertas por temporada, nomás llevaba el total vendido y ya.”source ↗
“I'm just learning that most History objects are not supported by the native CRM sync. What are people doing instead? (Besides throwing Data 360 in the trash)”source ↗
“I'd prefer to stay on-platform, as in not stand up a separate data warehouse or put files on S3 and then read them from there etc.”source ↗
“The ultimate goal is to use the data in Tableau Next.”source ↗
Where this came up
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