Fivetran Data Movement Platform
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Great way to sync data from your warehouse to specific tools
What do you like best about the product?
Census is easy to configure (with a little SQL) and does exactly what it says as a reverse ELT. Once you've set it up, it consistently runs in the background - you can set it and forget it.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's a bit of a learning curve to set up your first connections, but once you get past that there's not much to dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Census sends data from our data warehouse to a handful of specific tools. It feeds into our analytics tool and enriches Salesforce profiles, among other things.
Census enables better data accuracy
What do you like best about the product?
- Able to adjust the query/logic as needed
- Can be able to track model refreshes and schedule
- Can be able to track model refreshes and schedule
What do you dislike about the product?
- Hard to get details when refresh failed - is there a way to see which records did not get processed? Was hard to diagnose/troubleshoot when this happens
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping to automate data population in a scalable way to our CRM platform and provide more accurate reporting
Transform Your Data Integration Process with Census Reverse ETL Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Census has a user-friendly interface that allows me to easily create and manage data syncs between our data warehouse and other applications and has helped me save time and effort by reducing the need for manual data entry and processing. Another helpful feature of Census is its automation capabilities. It automates data syncs, which has helped us reduce errors and ensure that our data is always up-to-date; particularly helpful for our sales and marketing teams, who rely on accurate and timely data to make informed decisions.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the cost of the Census platform may be a potential downside, it's essential to consider its numerous benefits. Depending on the size and complexity of an organization's data integration needs, the benefits of Census may outweigh the costs and significantly improve business outcomes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Census has been a lifesaver for us when it comes to integrating our data from different systems. We were struggling to keep our data warehouse in sync with other applications like CRM, marketing automation tools, and analytics platforms, but now with Census, it's become a breeze. We can easily connect and synchronize data across our various systems, which has given us a more unified and comprehensive view of our data, improved our decision-making, and helped us identify new growth opportunities. With Census automating the data syncs, we can now keep our data up-to-date and accurate without the need for manual data entry or the risk of errors. I highly recommend Census to anyone looking to simplify their reverse ETL process and unlock the full potential of their data.
Solid ELT solution, meets our data Integration needs.
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to transform data within the platform without requiring external tools or scripts. Fivetran has a large number of pre-built connectors, they cover a wide range of data sources, making it easy to integrate with different systems. Regardless of where our data is coming from, Fivetran has made the extraction process seamless and reliable, providing us with clean and structured data that we can use for our analytics needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
We've had scenarios when the sync process failed to complete successfully, causing some delays in our data pipeline. The process of troubleshooting the sync errors can be time-consuming and requires technical expertise, which could be a challenge for some organizations without dedicated data engineering resources.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran streamlines the way we access and use data by providing a reliable ELT solution that reduces the need for manual intervention. Helps us focus on analyzing data and drawing insights that drive business decisions rather than spending time on manual data integration processes.
Amazing integrations
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of connector use and variety of connector ecosystem. A lot of their connectors have really good schema which naturally fits the use case. Also whenever in doubt the documentation is very good, I refer to it
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing is pretty confusing and its a bummer that their logging feature is only available in a paid plan. They should really give solid examples on their website.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Google Ads, Bing, Yahoo Search data. Also GSC Data is super useful.
Great Product, but Beware the Cost
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran is almost unbelievably easy to configure and use. The free initial sync is an incredible feature, and MAR is pretty transparent and easy to work with. Fivetran support is also terrific.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost can be prohibitive, and new users really need to pay attention to what they're planning to ingest. Expense can get out of hand quickly, which means you may end up supporting multiple pipeline tools anyway.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Extremely easy to use--basically replaces half an FTE for us.
Great tool for data loading across multiple platforms
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use interface, great selection of connections for most common platforms, databases and tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some writeback capabilities (like resetting destination tables) could be improved, pricing after year 1/promotional period could be better
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sending data from DWH/ODS to multiple 3rd party platforms
One of the great tool for reverse ETL
What do you like best about the product?
It helps us to create different segment of our data very easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
NA, as we have not encountered anything as such.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
That is helping to do different calculation at different segment level.
Helpful tool for reverse ETL
What do you like best about the product?
The UI is clear and user-friendly; integrations for source and destination are straightforward; and syncs are very flexible!
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there is an easier way to track the destination-fields being used actively, to monitor and optimize capacity.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Census helps us send back relevant datasets to other applications that need them!
Census is a valuable asset for driving business growth and improving customer experiences
What do you like best about the product?
Having used Census to unify and manage our customer data, we have been impressed with the platform's capabilities and ease of use. The ability to create user segments and send them to email marketing platforms and ad networks has been a game-changer for our marketing campaigns, allowing us to create more targeted and personalized content for our audience. Additionally, sending lifetime value data to ad networks has helped us optimize our advertising campaigns and drive better ROI. All of this with ability to take data from centrally defined user dimension and fact tables in our data warehouse.
We have also appreciated the support of Census's customer success and product teams, who have been extremely helpful in resolving any issues we encountered and building new connectors quickly. Their responsiveness and willingness to work with us to find solutions has been outstanding.
Overall, we highly recommend Census to any business looking to unify their customer data and improve their marketing and customer success strategies. The platform's capabilities, combined with the exceptional support from the Census team, make it a valuable asset for driving business growth and improving customer experiences.
We have also appreciated the support of Census's customer success and product teams, who have been extremely helpful in resolving any issues we encountered and building new connectors quickly. Their responsiveness and willingness to work with us to find solutions has been outstanding.
Overall, we highly recommend Census to any business looking to unify their customer data and improve their marketing and customer success strategies. The platform's capabilities, combined with the exceptional support from the Census team, make it a valuable asset for driving business growth and improving customer experiences.
What do you dislike about the product?
In some cases you can feel that Census is fairly young company that still experiences bugs or are missing key components in their syncs (i.e. batching the syncs, if the API endpoint is rate limited). Though in all cases they were able to fix those issues within 2-3 weeks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Marketing audiences syncing to ad networks (google, meta, tiktok). Marketing audience syncing to email marketing platform. Conversion tracking (sending LTV) to Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, etc. Sending product usage data for enterprise customer success platform to better inform customer success teams.
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