Migrating business-critical data between platforms is daunting—especially when client relationships and revenue are at stake. Discover how a FinTech leader partnered with AppiWorks to achieve a flawless, fully-automated transfer from Asana to Zoho CRM, eliminating manual headaches and setting a new standard for integration ease.
This case study highlights how the Asana AppiWorks Zoho CRM Extension helped a user migrate their entire workflow from Asana into Zoho CRM, while ensuring data consistency, relationship mapping, and smooth adoption.
The client is a Hong Kong-based FinTech company that empowers investments with Financial Analysis in the APAC markets. They are experts in extracting valuable insights from massive unstructured data using AI & NLP for Structured & Quantitative Analysis.
They are primarily using Asana as their CRM to manage their clients, projects, tasks, and subtasks. Recently, they decided to migrate to Zoho CRM for vibrant CRM capabilities, including better account and deal management.
Customers are maintained as tasks
Pipelines/Deals of the Customers are maintained as sub-tasks
Asana projects/sections/tasks → Zoho Accounts
Asana subtasks → Zoho Deals
The key requirement was to maintain the relationship between accounts (tasks) and deals (subtasks) post-migration in Zoho CRM.
Due to the way that the client maintained on Asana (Customers as Tasks and Deals as Sub-Tasks), the migration into Zoho CRM became complicated.
With customers and deals tracked as tasks and subtasks in Asana, important relationships risked being lost during migration, threatening business continuity.
During migration, the relationship needs to be established in Zoho CRM as per the relationship in Asana.
For maintaining the relationship between Accounts and Deals in Zoho CRM
Zoho Deals requires an Account ID for association.
The user needed a way to correctly map subtasks (deals) with their parent tasks (accounts).
Without automation, this would involve manually finding and entering Account IDs — a time-consuming and error-prone process.
Being a deep integration expert, we at Jivrus Technologies quickly understood the need and complexity.
AppiWorks engineered an innovative Lookup Mapping Option, automating even the most complex data associations. This eliminated tedious manual lookup, ensured 100% data consistency, and set the stage for lasting CRM success.
Lookup Mapping Option within AppiWorks:
While mapping fields, users can select the “Lookup” option.
For Account Name ID, the system checks the Account module in Zoho CRM.
If the Account Name matches the parent task name (from Asana), the corresponding Account Record ID is automatically retrieved and assigned.
This dynamic implementation can be used for any field in future workflows.
Additionally, we guided the user to import Accounts first, followed by Deals. This ensures that all Accounts exist before linking related Deals during import.
The following video demonstrates how the workflow was executed for this user:
See the streamlined migration in action
Automated Relationship Mapping: No manual entry of Account IDs.
Reusable Logic: Lookup option is flexible and can be applied to other modules/fields.
Seamless Migration: The User can successfully move all Asana data into Zoho CRM.
100% data integrity, 90% time saved, zero post-migration issues
Migration challenges often lie in relationships between data objects.
A lookup-based mapping system re-establishes relationships and reduces complexity.
AppiWorks strives for deep integrations to meet complex requirements.
With AppiWorks, even non-technical users can handle complex CRM migrations.
If you are looking for an automation that needs migration or integration between your applications, look no further.
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