Fivetran Data Movement Platform

What do you like best about the product?

I like that for the first 14 days, Fivetran offers a grace period where I can change the schema as much as needed, which really helped us in scoping out our requirements without being billed for just trying to understand the data. This feature allowed us to explore how the entire data flow would look like in the future. It's also great that instead of manually dumping data into our AWS S3, Fivetran handles that for us, which feels like a Quality of Life upgrade. Additionally, I found the initial setup to be extremely easy. Overall, it's one of the smoother tools I've used recently.

What do you dislike about the product?

Initially, I had a complaint that it does not allow us to send data back to the client's CRM, but they have solved that recently. No other major complaints. Maybe one more thing - I'm not sure if this is already there - but having an API that can be integrated with other applications like Slack or Databricks, so we can trigger system syncs without opening the system.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fivetran lets us access clients' CRM data directly, avoiding AWS S3 uploads, and refresh data throughout the day. Its grace period for schema changes helped us explore data flows without billing worries.

What do you like best about the product?

Seamless connectivity and quick support. We haven’t had many incidents or much downtime, which has been great. The alerts and monitoring are solid and help us stay on top of things.

What do you dislike about the product?

The costs have increased significantly. Also, the Shopify connector doesn’t let me select or deselect columns, which is a major limitation.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It lets us connect to multiple data sources and bring everything into an ingestible format for our data warehouse, without having to build new connectors ourselves.

What do you like best about the product?

Easy to set it up for several data sources and mostly reliable functionality

What do you dislike about the product?

In few data sources CDC setup, data loss could occur and it takes lot of time to debug the root cause. for ex: at purpose financial, i had bad experiecne with Fivetran

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

CDC replicating jira primarily. Team said they had several issues with salesforces setup hence switched to databricks pysparkk jobs

What do you like best about the product?

I found it easy to learn how to set up pushing important data into our CRM

What do you dislike about the product?

Honestly for me, the downside is the interface, I sometimes find it hard to look up and find things based on certain fields, etc

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It hasn't necessarily solved anything but helped a lot with our data pushes

What do you like best about the product?

Three things -

#1 is the wide availability of connectors across very different platforms. It just so easier to link everything via fivetran and setup ingestion process
#2 - Very easy to navigate across different features for business users
#3 - Fivetran support is very responsisve and always available to help

What do you dislike about the product?

Performance can be better - especially on ingesting very large tables in incremental mode.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Collecting files/data from clients in standard formats automatically been a pain for us for long term - especially for smaller clients who may not have data layers beyond their data warehouse. Fivetran integrations helped us to setup efficient pipelines rather than dumping everything to us and build ETL to clearn up

What do you like best about the product?

I like how it transforms data from multiple databases into a single, resolvable, SQL-like dataset, including data coming from NoSQL databases.

What do you dislike about the product?

By default, it should allow sync intervals of less than 15 minutes and offer more granularity in how data is synced. The current three options (only new columns, new data, etc.) aren’t very helpful. We should also have the ability to periodically run a full data sync.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a lot of data spread across multiple databases that needs to be consolidated and prepared so we can run analytics on it.

What do you like best about the product?

I like their UI and the variety of available connectors. They’re really easy to set up, even if you have limited technical knowledge.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes, their notifications can be a bit brief, specifically when daily data syncs are failing.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's solving our connection between our HRIS and Snowflake. It's benefiting us by creating a SOX-compliant alternative for our financial reporting.

What do you like best about the product?

The startup speed is solid, and the documentation and ticketing support are well provided, especially compared to more niche players.

What do you dislike about the product?

We ran into roadblocks because certain endpoints we needed couldn’t be added.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data access to CRM systems and to feed our data model

What do you like best about the product?

they have a lot of of out of the box connectors. good for simple, low volume integrations or getting off the ground quickly

What do you dislike about the product?

their platform is opaque for remedying issues. you just hope they fix it. support is slow

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

easy, fast data integrations

What do you like best about the product?

I like the overall dashboard with its capabilities that let me explore different connectors and the extensive area of native connectors, which means I don't have to write my own custom logic all the time. It’s great that, while I don't always have to worry about custom logic, Fivetran still provides the flexibility I need to write custom logic and fetch data from various sources. The ease with which I can set up connectors using just credentials, and the fact that the data flows into my destination, is great. The setup process for multiple connectors, whether native or custom, has mostly been flawless with the existing documentation and CLI tooling.

What do you dislike about the product?

So some of the things that I feel, Fivetran needs improvement on are like the odd start time or the cold start time that it generally takes, where if things had been on a much more active system, they would have been much faster than how it takes right now. I also feel that some requirements like the ability to publish custom connectors, even though it's something that has been actively worked on by the product management team, could be improved. Additionally, there are issues with the absurd and some RDS destinations that could be resolved to make things better.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fivetran helps manage the life cycle of data setup, maintains cursors, handles incremental syncing, configures destinations with schemas, and aggregates details. It simplifies data movement and eliminates the need to manually manage updates or custom configurations.