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description: Give your sales team data and connections that they can use to cultivate great relationships with customers and target productive prospects. Lightning Data connects you with firmographic, industry, and region-specific data from third-party providers. You license Lightning Data packages directly from providers, and you use a convenient unified interface to integrate data from all third-party sources into Salesforce.
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# Integrate Third-Party Data with Your Records

Give your sales team data and connections that they can use to cultivate great relationships with customers and target productive prospects. Lightning Data connects you with firmographic, industry, and region-specific data from third-party providers. You license Lightning Data packages directly from providers, and you use a convenient unified interface to integrate data from all third-party sources into Salesforce.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small "><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, and <strong>Unlimited</strong> Editions; Geocode rules also available in <strong>Developer</strong> Edition.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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            <th scope="colgroup" class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" id="d8792e69">User Permissions
              Needed</th>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8792e69 ">To update records:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8792e69 ">Edit on accounts, contacts, leads, and Read on the custom and external objects
              included in a data package</td>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8792e69 ">To activate or deactivate data integration rules:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8792e69 ">Customize Application</td>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8792e69 ">To install a package:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8792e69 ">Download AppExchange Packages</td>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8792e69 ">To activate and configure data integration rules for third-party data
              services:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8792e69 ">
              <p>View Setup and Configuration</p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Customize Application</p>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8792e69 ">To run or access a data assessment:</td>

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              <p>Customize Application</p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">View All Data</p>
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- **[Use Third-Party Data to Update and Add Records to Salesforce](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.data_integration_update_and_import_records.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    A rule set up by your Salesforce admin compares your accounts, contacts, and leads to data from Lightning Data. Depending on how your admin sets up the rule, your records are updated as information changes. Or your admin can give you purchase credits to import Lightning Data records to add to Salesforce as accounts.
- **[Set Up and Monitor Data Integration](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.data_dot_com_clean_admin_set_up_clean_rules.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Set up Lightning Data data services to update your existing records or import new ones. Monitor match rates and updates.
- **[Considerations for Using Data Integration in the Salesforce Mobile App](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.data_integration_salesforce_app.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Review considerations for using Data Integration features on a mobile device.

#### See Also

- [_AppExchange_: Lightning Data](https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxStore?type=Data)