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This tool became a game changer for our company
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity of connecting the data sources and the transparent pricing model
What do you dislike about the product?
Previously one had to pay per connector, but now this problem is solved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Replication of data from the various systems (production database, LinkedIn, Google Analytics) to Snowflake
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Easy ETL
What do you like best about the product?
- Fivetran offers a strong selection of data sources. During our time using Fivetran, we haven't encountered a time in which a data source that we needed wasn't already being offered as a connector.
- There is a great interface for fine-grain selection of which tables within a schema to sync. It is easy to see which tables have been selected, and for some connectors, individual columns can be selected to be synced with the warehouse.
- The health of each pipeline is visualised clearly and it is easy to set up alerts/manually trigger updates. Monitoring is an important element of any ETL tool, and so far we've found it easy to stay on top of it with Fivetran. The UI itself is very easy to read and understand, whilst the automated alerts let you know of any issues that the pipelines are encountering.
- The customer service team have become far more responsive than when we initially joined, and the service has now become a big plus. A few months ago, one of our connectors ran into an issue - during this time Fivetran were incredibly helpful in keeping us up-to-date with the progress being made to fix it.
- There is a great interface for fine-grain selection of which tables within a schema to sync. It is easy to see which tables have been selected, and for some connectors, individual columns can be selected to be synced with the warehouse.
- The health of each pipeline is visualised clearly and it is easy to set up alerts/manually trigger updates. Monitoring is an important element of any ETL tool, and so far we've found it easy to stay on top of it with Fivetran. The UI itself is very easy to read and understand, whilst the automated alerts let you know of any issues that the pipelines are encountering.
- The customer service team have become far more responsive than when we initially joined, and the service has now become a big plus. A few months ago, one of our connectors ran into an issue - during this time Fivetran were incredibly helpful in keeping us up-to-date with the progress being made to fix it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Previously I would have said the response time for any queries, but this has improved drastically during our time as a Fivetran customer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran allows us to pull data from a number of different sources into our data warehouse efficiently. The transformation layer allows to perform additional data cleaning before exposing it to the end users.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a strong option for handling the ETL process.
Fivetran helps us stay focused
What do you like best about the product?
We don't have to spend much time thinking about Fivetran and that's a great sign it's doing what we need it to do. Hooking up new connectors is typically quick and straightforward to do with solid documentation, then beyond that it's usually hands off from there. When we need to go in to check something, the dashboard is simple, yet provides all the information you really need.
It's handy that they take care of the modeling side in the data warehouse, which they then provide well-maintained and nicely detailed schema diagrams for. We've also gotten solid response times from support and they've helped push through some connector changes for us with reasonable turnaround.
It's handy that they take care of the modeling side in the data warehouse, which they then provide well-maintained and nicely detailed schema diagrams for. We've also gotten solid response times from support and they've helped push through some connector changes for us with reasonable turnaround.
What do you dislike about the product?
The recent change to usage based pricing has added an additional aspect we have to consider and watch, although they've done a pretty good job keeping it transparent (i.e. fivetran_log connector). However, I do wish we always had granular control of what data we want to pull in from every connector (currently only available to some) as that can play big part in costs.
Generally positive experience with all the connectors we've tried, but as you can imagine, some are more mature or stable than others. It's probably a good idea to thoroughly test them out first especially if you're going to be highly reliant on one or two of them.
Generally positive experience with all the connectors we've tried, but as you can imagine, some are more mature or stable than others. It's probably a good idea to thoroughly test them out first especially if you're going to be highly reliant on one or two of them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Fivetran to help us pull in data from other vendors into Snowflake...so our engineers don't have to. This means we don't have to worry about API integrations, deprecations, changes, or outages that can come up anytime. Ultimately, Fivetran helps us adapt to changes when it comes to vendor data. Whether those are changes vendors make to their API or new business requirements that brings in a new vendor, they're often able to take care of it for us so our team doesn't have to be distracted.
Fivetran made it incredibly easy to get the data we needed.
What do you like best about the product?
Working with the team at Fivetran was awesome. They made it super easy to get our data project over the finish line and helped us with every step of the process.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing. There was only one hiccup in identifying the right data source from our advertising platforms, but because we were able to get all the historical data it really wasn't an issue once we located the right source.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our team was looking for a solution to funnel advertising data into our data warehouse so we can analyze our marketing campaign data in one centralized location.
FIveTran made our data pipeline easy to get up and running!
What do you like best about the product?
They have a broad range of connectors that should suit most businesses and their support is excellent.
What do you dislike about the product?
Re-syncing complete datasets can be costly under their new pricing model, but overall using FiveTran is cheaper for our company than hiring full-time data engineering staff. For our size and scale, their solutions work really well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using FiveTran to power our Data Lake - we make use of the Google Analytics, Webhooks, and Postgres Connectors to bring in all of data into one location that we can then use to run transformations against. FiveTran makes all of this very simple and we haven't had any problems with the solution since we set it up.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider the cost of FiveTran against hiring your own Data Engineering team - for us FiveTran was significantly less and our existing engineering team could support it quite easily by comparison.
Fivetran is magic--transports what you want, all the time, with very little effort
What do you like best about the product?
Works with everything I want to bring data from, delivers it consistently (to BigQuery for me), and just works.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not the simplest thing to write your own functions to integrate from APIs that aren't natively supported, but at least it's an option, and it works well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We funnel all of the data we need (from SFTP sites, from Google Sheets, from DynamoDB, from Cognito, from Zendesk, from Five9, etc etc) to one place to query. It's the magical data lake transportation engine that you need.
Most Reliable Managed ETL Service
What do you like best about the product?
Probably the most reliable ETL as a service. Support is quick when there are issues with the data, or when we have general questions.
What do you dislike about the product?
"Opaque" box-ish. Problems need to be resolved through Fivetran Support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick ETL pipelines. Especially when we aren't doing anything crazy to the data coming in, or for data sets that are low impact / high effort.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great for quick pipelines. If you do a lot of in database transformations, and don't have heavy security needs (encrypting pii, etc), it's a great tool. Or if you need data in a db quickly and cheaply, they are definitely the way to go
Fivetran Makes Loading Data Easy
What do you like best about the product?
There are multiple existing connectors that make it easy to connect different systems and load data into our warehouse.
The connectors are easy to configure and you can get up and running really quickly.
Alerts show when there are issues with your connectors that need your attention.
You also get email notifications when a connector is delayed and when it resumes, so you can always be on top of things.
When there is an issue, support is there to help you to try to find a solution.
The connectors are easy to configure and you can get up and running really quickly.
Alerts show when there are issues with your connectors that need your attention.
You also get email notifications when a connector is delayed and when it resumes, so you can always be on top of things.
When there is an issue, support is there to help you to try to find a solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
When you run into an issue, it is not always easy to understand what is causing the error. When it works, it just works. But, when it doesn't, it can be difficult to understand the issue without trial and error.
Sometimes, it is just easier to ask support to help you troubleshoot, even though it can take a bit more time to get a solution to your problem.
Sometimes, it is just easier to ask support to help you troubleshoot, even though it can take a bit more time to get a solution to your problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connecting multiple systems and some Google Sheets to load all our data into our data warehouse.
Fivetran works as our loader in our ELT BI stack.
We use it to load our data from many systems, including our custom-built professional services management tool using the SQL Server connector, Jira, Hubspot and many others. The data is loaded straight into our Snowflake database and it's easy to query for new data with the timestamps that Fivetran adds to each row.
Fivetran works as our loader in our ELT BI stack.
We use it to load our data from many systems, including our custom-built professional services management tool using the SQL Server connector, Jira, Hubspot and many others. The data is loaded straight into our Snowflake database and it's easy to query for new data with the timestamps that Fivetran adds to each row.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is great at what it does.
Easy
What do you like best about the product?
An Integration with multiple sub-systems
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the user interface could be improved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Great integration to centralize our business information from CRM, Jira, production data and some Google sheets
Resilient and capable pipelining tool
What do you like best about the product?
Wide variety of connectors, config vs. code, a new compelling pricing model, excellent support. Also a high bar for security has been met for our usage given the architecture.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far there has been little to dislike, support cases have been rare and well attended to. Pricing under the older connector based model was starting to look prohibitive but the consumption model has eliminated that concern. Commercial processes are somewhat immature.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick, secure and easy pipelining of SaaS and DB sources to our Snowflake instances. Very positive cost benefit by displacing labour and license costs for other data integraton tools
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Evaluate through a trial, consider architecture in context of security
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