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Data pipeline and transformation done in mins
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity of loading required data based on the schema information and the ability to transform the data as per our needs, all of them in one-go
What do you dislike about the product?
As the number of data points to be ELT'ed becomes higher, the cost aspect is not suitable for startups. Therefore limiting the use or pressing us towards open source or scripting Solutions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aggregating data from numerous sources to a single data warehouse.
Benefits: Ability to analyze disparate information sources in a single place rather than using multiple data sources and use excel sheet to understand them altogether.
Benefits: Ability to analyze disparate information sources in a single place rather than using multiple data sources and use excel sheet to understand them altogether.
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Simple self-serve no code data integration
What do you like best about the product?
As a SaaS platform, Fivetran eliminates the need for costly replication infrastructure and maintenance. There are many connectors for source and target systems which allows a whole range of possible integration scenarios. Getting up and running takes as little as 10 minutes with easy source (Connector) and target (Destination) configuration. The user interface is clean and informative. Historical loads transition seamlessly into incremental loads. Schema evolution between source and target schemas is handled by the sync automatically. There is also strong integration with dbt for post-load ELT transformations. Syncs can be configured to run as frequently as every 5 minutes, and data pipelines do not compete for resources, unlike some competitors. Security concerns are well-considered, with strong encryption in transit and at rest and a range of regulatory compliance. Documentation is also well written and comprehensive. The Monthly Active Record (MAR) pricing model bills for each primary key seen by Fivetran in a given month, allowing for unlimited record updates without additional cost in that month.
What do you dislike about the product?
Fivetran promote an ELT approach to data integration, which can limit your options for landing data into your target. In our case, we needed to be able to identify the source database within the landed data itself. Without pre-load transformation, we had to work around this by using database/schema naming conventions and extracting the source information in post load transformations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We aggregate data from 100s of SQL Server source databases into a Snowflake data warehouse for data analytics and machine learning.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
With Fivetran you can move your data around and get the data analytics and insights you need to make critical business decisions in a matter of minutes. Outsourcing the ongoing maintenance of infrastructure, code and connectors allows businesses to focus on what they do best, leaving these data integration concerns to the experts like Fivetran.
Straightforward integrations but support is terrible, business model and pricing are terrible
What do you like best about the product?
Variety of connectors, ease of setup, no need to write code for many integrations
What do you dislike about the product?
A simple Google Play Store sync can cost nearly 1000 USD a month. It's not even possible to select specific tables/collections to be synced in most connectors - by design. Support is barely existent and almost 100% based on India so expect only automated or standard answers. Billing is very controversial and shady. Hard to recommend at this point. Fivetran now caters basically to huge organizations willing to spend five digits a month in ELT on the top-tier plan.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran aims to reduce the need to develop and maintain multiple integrations from many kinds of SaaS to Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake. In my experience, we haven't realized many benefits due to the shady pricing model and non-existent support.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do not waste your time on the free trial. What happens after is only bad experiences.
Best tool for extracting and loading data into data warehouses
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran gives new users sufficient time to trial the product. There is a very thorough collection of built connectors, with option to request new ones. The documentation is one of the best I have seen. And, the team was very responsive and easy to do business with. I was notified by email of all errors and downtimes.
What do you dislike about the product?
A tool this good does come with a price tag. It is certainly not cheap. The pricing model is based on MAR, which is a different concept to wrap your head around with, but not too difficult to make sense.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Fivetran to solve the data silo and reporting silo problems. With minimal effort, we were able to make data from multiple sources available in our selected destinations, ready for transformation. It's also a great relief to know that Fivetran does minimal necessary transformation with the data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Fivetran is the best fit for our use case, based on engineering capacity, budget, usage and etc. It is important to understand the pricing model before you sign the contract. Contact your Fivetran rep and ask as many questions as you need. From my experience, they are very responsive and helpful.
Very reliable and complete solution
What do you like best about the product?
It's huge catalogue of integrations, their reliability and the customer support
What do you dislike about the product?
You need to be careful with the costs. With very high volume append only sources there may be cheaper alternatives
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrating with many SaaS tools in an easy and fast way. It has saved us a lot of hours in development and maintenance
Maybe the best data delivery from source to destinatio amongst the market
What do you like best about the product?
The way Fivetran handle schema changes (https://fivetran.com/blog/schema-changes)
Fivetran can save a lot of manual work when dealing with schema changes.
Fivetran can save a lot of manual work when dealing with schema changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
When schema changes, Fivetran will do a resync, which will generate a lot of MAR equivalent to money.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran provides us with significant data accuracy and data in real-time, which do great help.
Good, reliable product, but the billing structure and UI can be confusing
What do you like best about the product?
The data schemas produced by Fivetran are clear and well documented.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is difficult to estimate and understand billing costs, or predict what actions will result in a large increase in costs. I also find the UI somewhat unintuitive at times. It can take me a bit of time to find what I am looking for.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Fivetran as an additional ETL tool for data sources for which our other ETL tools do not offer an integration.
needs more connectors and better customer service. easy to use and fast though.
What do you like best about the product?
it's easy to use and fast. the utilization pricing model is good.
What do you dislike about the product?
slow response times & need to resync when minor changes to databases made
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
mostly used to build our internal KPI's
data extraction
What do you like best about the product?
allows us to track data flow and map to perform analysis. we used Fivetran for Snowflake implementation to bring in data around Salesforce opportunities and sales renewals and was able to create a dashboard from this data
What do you dislike about the product?
Data extractions are more manual than automatic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are currently using it to create a sales dashboard and funnel with live features. The ability to see data in a different way has been a large benefit
Recommendations to others considering the product:
NA
Experience of Fivetran
What do you like best about the product?
The level of support we received when we purchased the product was excellent, and the people assigned to our account helped us get over the initial learning curve. The number of out-of-the-box connectors is also excellent as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
The support portal needs some further work and is not as user-friendly as some other software vendors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can extract and load data we produce and procure into our Snowflake Data Warehouse.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure that you understand the sources of data you want to consume and ensure that the connectors are there available to you.
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