Fivetran Data Movement Platform

What do you like best about the product?

It’s almost perfect to connect all sources in a company. It’s easy to use, has a great interface, works flawlessly, it’s secure and fast. It can connect to almost everything.

What do you dislike about the product?

It’s pricing model is too complicated and impossible to predict. It’s almost deceptive. Support has not been very useful when needed.

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

Integrating data from dozens of different sources.

What do you like best about the product?

Actually surprisingly easy to setup and follow a self serve path, the data is move to the warehouse is a ordered fashion and schema changes are handled well. Surprisingly easy to our data out of vendors and in to a warehouse where we can query it. Free plan is generous enough to know it will work and performance has been great.

What do you dislike about the product?

Could have more connectors to cover more apps on the market, I think this should be expanded without compromising the detail of the schema. Then we could justify a better ROI, otherwise we need to use other services. I'd also like to see a direct integration with data analytics platforms like Metabase and Graphana to analyse the warehoused data.

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

Getting our data out of vendors via their APIs so we can run our own reports and generate accurate business stats without rebuilding the infrastructure in house.

What do you like best about the product?

I use Fivetran for end-to-end data integration and love how easy it is to get data into our warehouse for analytics, especially as a small data team. It takes little effort, which is crucial for us. I appreciate the wide list of connectors they offer, which really expands our integration capabilities. HIPAA compliance is imperative for us as a healthcare company, and Fivetran meets this need. I also found the initial setup to be very easy.

What do you dislike about the product?

The pricing model is unpredictable. We had an Excel connector where someone double-clicked a column till the end of the file, adding a million extra monthly active rows to our Fivetran costs. Also, their support team is not easily reachable, and they default to just the same responses from the support documentation.

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

Fivetran simplifies data integration for our small team, easily aggregating and transforming data from multiple sources. Its ease of use and HIPAA compliance are crucial for our healthcare needs.

What do you like best about the product?

We switched to Fivetran in order to stop maintaining our own ad-hoc connectors, which was brittle and time consuming. Fivetran definitely helps with hiding the complexities of connectors, retries, mapping of fields, etc. It makes it painless to add new connectors, too.

What do you dislike about the product?

For a product aimed at reducing complexity, we still experience regular problems (once or twice a month) with connectors requiring manual intervention. Also, observability is not straightforward: there used to be a log which could be accessed from the UI, which was then moved to a destination that can be queried with SQL; while the latter is more flexible, for quick checking of problems the UI-accessible log was better. Furthermore, the destination-as-log can be impacted by outages, resulting in situations where you are blind to what the actual problem was.

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

Fivetran solves one specific problem for us: fast integration of third party data sources into our data platform.

What do you like best about the product?

Easy connectors; really satisfied with the setup.

What do you dislike about the product?

I get far too many email updates about services I don’t use, and it’s becoming annoying.

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

Getting the business information I need without having the technical skills to build the connectors myself.

What do you like best about the product?

Easy Setup and reliable automated connector.

What do you dislike about the product?

Pricey at scale and limited custom connation flexibility.

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

It Reduce manual ETL work and saving time and errors.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that Fivetran requires low maintenance and ensures data integrity and recovery with minimal custom scripting. I appreciate how it abstracts much of the 'EL' work, letting us focus more on delivering solutions. It saves us time from fiddling with extract and load processes, so we can concentrate on solving problems for our stakeholders.

What do you dislike about the product?

More detailed errors and log history would be ideal. Clearer root cause rather than generic error messages would help us debug or triage.

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

Fivetran is low maintenance, ensures data integrity and recovery, and requires minimal custom scripting. It abstracts much of the 'EL' dirty work, letting us focus on solving stakeholder problems instead of fiddling with extraction and loading.

What do you like best about the product?

I love that it keeps our data in sync and up-to-date as often as we need it and it's very reliable and easy to use.

What do you dislike about the product?

That I have to pay for it, but the price is reasonable considering the value it provides.

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

It has allowed us to sync our Salesforce data, Google Analytics data and data from other systems very easily and we don't have to think about it and we didn't have to build API's or packages to do this.

What do you like best about the product?

Fivetran just launched a new AI connector feature which i find very useful where can create a connection if that is not natively available. Apart from that it is very reliable and efficient tool for data repliaction.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing major as of now. I’ve just noticed that a few niche tools aren’t available.

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

Data fetching and inserting into our data warehouse.

What do you like best about the product?

I use Fivetran for ETL, and I love how it easily gets data from multiple sources into our data warehouse. I like that it's easy to set up—pretty easy, with no blockers, it just works. I'm also impressed with the proxy agent for private databases, which is good.

What do you dislike about the product?

Cost per row

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

Fivetran gets data from multiple sources into our data warehouse, and it's easy to set up.