Fivetran Data Movement Platform
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Easy integration and significant shortens time to market
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran was exceptionally easy to integrate into our tech stack and makes data centralization a breeze. We needed to quickly provide data for business side reporting into Redshift and using Fivetran significantly reduced our time to market by weeks. Highly recommend!
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much to dislike really - just needed to learn that deletes in the DB are soft deletes in connected datasources. This is really a very solid tool to have especially when a system has many sources of data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business reporting and centralization of data into a warehouse from multiple sources - reports that took weeks to run, now just take hours post Fivetran integration.
My experience has been seamless so far
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of setup. Lots of connector options. Interaction with Fivetran staff has been very pleasant.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing that I can really think of. I don't understand the benefit of doing transformations through Fivetran instead of by myself in my connector.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran is helping us better to understand a product of ours with minimal technical resources. In the future it will be easy to replicate what we have for other products of ours.
Fivetran allow us to extract information from almost 20 data source with a few clicks
What do you like best about the product?
Dont need to code, just with a few clicks you can setup everyting
What do you dislike about the product?
I think can add or develop more adapters
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To have a single datawarehouse to connect our BI tools
Fivetran is a great resource for ETL and has helped me organise my data!
What do you like best about the product?
I like that while Fivetran offers plenty of pre-built connectors, I can always use their webhooks to make my own. The service they offer directly to me through my account manager is incredibly supportive.
What do you dislike about the product?
There could be more work on the transformations that Fivetran offers through DBT, as they're great but a little challenging to get started with! Other than that, there's little to find to dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran is helping me solve my ETL problems. Getting data into the company in an automated and smooth way while retaining control over how that data is processed and transformed is really easy through Fivetran.
Best in Class at Competitive Price
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran is a best in class product, that offers services to our smaller use company at a reduced price rate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Like any other pay per usage software, lower usage levels result in longer support times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran takes care of the extracting and loading in the modern data stack. It allows us to get the data from disparate systems in one place for analysis.
Game changing for operations teams
What do you like best about the product?
Census is so easy to use. For organizations with data siloed in their data warehouse or data lake, census makes it super easy to transform and leverage that data inside your other tooling systems.
I remember first being introduced to Census and within 30 minutes we had product data in our CRM. We had been talking about this project for two years prior and Salesforce quoted us an insane price for some custom tooling to achieve the same result. With Census, I piped product data into SFDC and had reporting spun up for Reps in a day. It was magic.
Oh, and it gets better. If you start leveraging a transformation tool like dbt to create models, you can do a ton of sophisticated data transforms and then pump it back into your CRM or tooling. Salesforce makes it a nightmare to do lead or account scoring, so you either have to do magic math with formula fields or have a developer / flow expert who can actually create something valuable. With Census powering the data flow you can write SQL models and provide insights to your teams that you never thought were possible.
I remember first being introduced to Census and within 30 minutes we had product data in our CRM. We had been talking about this project for two years prior and Salesforce quoted us an insane price for some custom tooling to achieve the same result. With Census, I piped product data into SFDC and had reporting spun up for Reps in a day. It was magic.
Oh, and it gets better. If you start leveraging a transformation tool like dbt to create models, you can do a ton of sophisticated data transforms and then pump it back into your CRM or tooling. Salesforce makes it a nightmare to do lead or account scoring, so you either have to do magic math with formula fields or have a developer / flow expert who can actually create something valuable. With Census powering the data flow you can write SQL models and provide insights to your teams that you never thought were possible.
What do you dislike about the product?
Improved data monitoring would be nice, but other than that it is really easy to use and they make it pretty simple to get models up and running. I am not sure if you can do this, but updating records only if the prior value is changed would be nice too, though you can control this in your data modeling.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Census solves the gap between the massive amount of data that exists at companies and the ability to surface that data to your employees in a digestible and clean way in the tools they directly interface with.
Automated the distribution of data with constantly changing requirements
What do you like best about the product?
We struggled to find the best way to surface our product data to the downstream systems we needed to power the customer experience we wanted to drive. We built a custom solution in-house, but it was fragile, and the effort to update it when a team changed the data points they wanted to capture was too high. We built our first Census model in a day, and overnight, we were able to enrich far more records than we could with our previous system thanks to Census having more context from other data sources. They took the time to understand our business during the onboarding phase and provided creative solutions to expand how we're leveraging the tool and their support team is excellent at proactively reaching out when something might not be working the way we expect.
What do you dislike about the product?
No real complaints, though it's worth noting that you'll need to coordinate with your data team or develop some basic SQL knowledge to extract the most value from the tool. They've made some significant strides in enabling a low/no-code approach to setting up audience segments once you've built that muscle, but to get the maximum value, it will help to have some foundational SQL skills.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had various data asks from other business areas that required us to pipe data from our product to a myriad of systems. Those requests were constant and ever-changing. Census allowed us to create a series of common models on which the other cross-functional teams could align and extract insights from the most relevant data.
A great tool to avoid hard coding every new parameter request from teams
What do you like best about the product?
- Key integrations available for both the data source and the destination (in our case BigQuery to Mixpanel, among others).
- Good onboarding process (this involved a challenge to use the tools to select T shirt size from source data)
- Intuitive and simple layout
- Quick and helpful support (the few times I have reached out, I could tell they really understood my issue and had already set up a copy of data to try and replicate the issue - there was little back and forth)
- Sync scheduling
- Good onboarding process (this involved a challenge to use the tools to select T shirt size from source data)
- Intuitive and simple layout
- Quick and helpful support (the few times I have reached out, I could tell they really understood my issue and had already set up a copy of data to try and replicate the issue - there was little back and forth)
- Sync scheduling
What do you dislike about the product?
Signing up for the app wasn't as smooth as it could have been - both myself and my colleague got stuck in loops when accepting invites, but support was able to quickly help!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Consolidation and access to data, as well as freeing up the dev team's time. Previously for any new metrics or parameters that the various teams needed, we would need to hard code these metrics and send them to their respective destinations (including needing to deploy!). Now the dev team can quickly set up a sync with the requested parameters, or even other members of the team can jump in and arrange what they need to sync.
Senior Data Analyst
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicty and ease of use. The RevOps team owns this tooling and is able to easily onboard to Census and own the flow. Setting up new syncs is realtively quick and stratightforward. Strong technical skills aren't required to operate the product. Customer service is really good. Great team!
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it's hard to debug why new syncs aren't landing into Salesforce. It would be nice to have some sort of sandbox environment to test new syncs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Census is helping us sync data from BigQuery and unload that data into Salesforce so the Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams can operationalize that data.
Reliable solution for reverse ETL
What do you like best about the product?
Census is just a reliable product. We have a need to push data from Snowflake to Salesforce and rely on Census to do this daily. It works and I rarely even have to pay attention to it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Census only does batch reverse ETL, so if there were a need for near real time reverse ETL, census wouldn't be an answer. We also tried to push Json data from postgres to json data in S3 and struggled.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Census helps up move data from analytical database to operational system so people can see the data we've transformed in the place they're working instead of forcing them to a Bi tool.
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