At our company, we are using Fivetran for change data capture and to sync between two different databases using the high volume replication feature.
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Easily the most helpful product for operations & analytics
What do you like best about the product?
- Ease of use
- Use frequently
- Time saver
- Use frequently
- Time saver
What do you dislike about the product?
- The UI could be a little better, I do not like that there's no easy way to re-sort columns after setting up a sync.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can leverage data without constant run and downloading a query manually, census does that work for me which saves a lot of time.
if you are in data engineering, you gotta love this software
What do you like best about the product?
No doubt fivetran functionalities are great but their UI is one thing I love. We had to the cost planning and it was very easy for us to understand our growth, our usage and find the best annual value for the contract.
What do you dislike about the product?
UI is great but we saw so many discrepencies between our actual usage and what fivetran showed. IT took us a while for us to make them agree to that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have to pull our data from postgres and these are realtime transactions so volume is huge. On top of that we needed WAL replication. Fivetran helped us bring the data from postgres, excel sheet and salesforce into snowflake for our billing pipeline and ML.
Making ETL code Zero!
What do you like best about the product?
Just in few clicks ETL pipeline with CDC features are up and running. Bootstrapping a pipeline has become much easier after fivetran came into picture. Really resposnsive customer support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some customisations around certain connectors are not very helpful, but the product is constantly evolving.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No code ETL pipelines, easy to setup a pipeline and deliver the data to end users (Analysts)
Really good product, saving time with trust
What do you like best about the product?
We're savaing a lot of devlopment time using fivetran for loading data into snowflake
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd like to be able to run any dbt command (build, snapshot, test..) from the fivetran UI and a better monitoring view for transformation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran make it easy to replicate our data sources into snowflake. We're saving a lot of time and improve the reliability of our data.
Expensive but reliable ingestion tool
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran is easy to use, have a lot of integrations and very mature.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's pretty expensive and some connectors are very "verbose": automatically unnest JSON, cannot disabled some tables
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We collect data from multiple sources: internal (databases, spreadsheets) and external (Salesforce, Hubpost, Google Ads, ...).
Fivetran help us to extract all these sources and store them in our datawarehouse.
Fivetran help us to extract all these sources and store them in our datawarehouse.
Excellent product & support!
What do you like best about the product?
Seamless integration with Google Ads & Meta and GA4.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing! I wouldnt change a thing if I am honest.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aggregating all the important advertising & financial data in one place => Metabase.
Fivetran
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran is easy to use and saves our engineers time to implement data transformations
What do you dislike about the product?
It is missing some log connectors such as ELK
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran solving some of our data extracts from some SAAS platforms and a few of our products
Offers native connectivity and real-time syncing but lacks an in-line data quality checking feature
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Fivetran offers native connectivity with Sybase, which is highly valuable. The solution also allows real-time syncing and especially between Sybase and Snowflake, which is the solution's use case in our organization. Fivetran provides seamless integration without any data loss, and data changes are reflected in real time. Due to the change data capture capability, Fivetran allows the seamless data flow from one way to another.
What needs improvement?
Fivetran has multiple offerings and I have majorly worked with the high volume replication feature. An in-line data quality checking capability is missing in the solution. Whatever data gets synced or converted from one format to another as part of an ETL task using Fivetran, a data quality check cannot be performed.
As part of the data observation, when the data flows from the source to the target, there isn't a single interface provided by Fivetran to observe the data flow process, check for issues, and implement a comparison with historical transformation. The data observability could also be better in the product in terms of the gaps present.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Fivetran for nearly two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution offers satisfying stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Fivetran is reasonably scalable and easy to use and I haven't faced any challenges with scaling.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support from Fivetran is satisfying. I would rate customer support an eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The on-prem deployment of Fivetran is a little bit complex, but the on-cloud deployment through the vendor's SaaS offering is comparatively easier and simpler. Just a couple of professionals are required to deploy Fivetran.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten. The product is reasonably expensive.
What other advice do I have?
The solution provides a satisfying user experience by utilizing its automation capabilities. I would rate the product a seven out of ten.
Its easy to setup connectors
What do you like best about the product?
The UI and its rich feature in product and seamless connections
What do you dislike about the product?
Some VPC intenral network does not allow to make connections
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Able to copy data easily to snowflake from other DBs
Very help iPaaS out of the box with no code set up
What do you like best about the product?
That it is no code, very well documented set up guides, as a non technical owner I can set up my own pipelines without help from an engineer or someone from the Central Data Platform team.
I also think Fivetran supports a very comprehensive set of connectors and sources and destinations.
I also think Fivetran supports a very comprehensive set of connectors and sources and destinations.
What do you dislike about the product?
When the connector fails, I can see in the log there is an error but I don't actually know which table are missing data or have incorrect data.
Support is sometimes subpar because of offshoring to India, I have to wait 24 hours before getting a reply.
Support is sometimes subpar because of offshoring to India, I have to wait 24 hours before getting a reply.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Replicating Stripe data and Salesforce data to our datawarehouse destination
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