Fivetran Data Movement Platform
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Easy UI, Effective Solution
What do you like best about the product?
It's variety of compatibilities and it's commitment to keep adding to the list
What do you dislike about the product?
Support is responsive, but a little slow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran is quickly and efficiently pulling data from almost all of our source systems and making it easy for us to transform it in our data warehouse.
A solid rETL platform that I have relied on for data piping into 3rd party platforms
What do you like best about the product?
- UI and ease of use is topnotch
- Support, at least in our case, has been fantastic, lovely bunch of people to work with
- Rapid product iteration in response to issues and emerging use cases. Thank you!
- Support, at least in our case, has been fantastic, lovely bunch of people to work with
- Rapid product iteration in response to issues and emerging use cases. Thank you!
What do you dislike about the product?
- I guess due to the balancing act of 80/20 (20 percent of features cover 80 of customer use cases), when it works it works however if you fall outside of the beaten path it can get flaky.
- Some new areas such as segment builder is still in its infancy
- Some new areas such as segment builder is still in its infancy
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Getting data out of dwh and into 3rd party platforms
Transformative for ops and marketing
What do you like best about the product?
I've worked at two companies that use Census. Census was a game-changer at both. I can't overstate how transformative it is to be able to pass information from a data warehouse into a CRM or other tool using only SQL, without needing to go through an engineering department. Census accomplished in days what might have taken weeks or months to build into a product roadmap.
What do you dislike about the product?
No complaints! I haven't used Census directly for a few months, so they've probably added features for anything I might have found frustrating by now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Let's say your marketing tools don't know who is and isn't a customer. (This is a problem I've run into at multiple organizations I've worked with, from freelancing to full-time jobs; in some cases, answering the question "which of these email addresses is a customer?" required manual CSV exports!) You have a separate reporting tool that does know who is and isn't a customer. Wouldn't it be amazing if you could use the report query to push all the data you need directly to your CRM? Census does that. The interface is bare-bones in the best sense of the word: no useless features, transparent explanations of load times and syncs, simple setup.
Excellent reverse ETL and data pipelines tool
What do you like best about the product?
Census interface makes it easy to connect two platforms, since the implementation and day to day usage were quite simple. Also, it has error detection capabilities that I haven't seen in other solutions. It also seems to have a very robust connection engines, since I seldomly experienced downtimes. That way, you don't have to necessarily keep an eye on it at all times and can be logged out of the admin platform for days.
What do you dislike about the product?
Census' principal downside is its price, since it can be quite steep for medium-to-small companies. It also lacks some on-the-fly transformations functionality, at least on the tier I was registered to.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Used Census to ingest Hubspot data to different cloud platforms, and then feed it back to Hubspot in some capacity.
Absolutely seamless data pipeline automation solution with an interesting pricing model
What do you like best about the product?
The solution is absolutely intuitive and works seamlessly. It has scheduled maintenances from time-to-time, but nothing that obstructs daily business. The connectors have a very easy set-up and sync process. The pricing model also seems to be pretty reasonable if you are using the solution to connect multiple data sources, but with low-mid volume of data.
What do you dislike about the product?
The number of connectors are a bit limited and their custom connector creation is completely on you and is not really user-friendly. Also, a lot of connectors only have a full sync of all possible data you have on a source system and not selective sync that enables you take only the required data to your destination. This leads to unnecessary data being dumped on to your destination and incurs more costs to the client.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran enables us connect multiple data sources and siloed systems with very less effort and that helps us focus on driving business outcomes rather than focussing on ETL and creating data pipelines. Fivetran also helps us connect to systems that have no direct connection to our visualization tools like Power BI or Tableau.
Census Review: Excelling in Data Integration and Ease-of-Use
What do you like best about the product?
What I appreciate most about Census is its remarkable capability to eliminate the need for extensive coding when pushing data into various system APIs. As someone managing both data engineering and data analytics teams, I recognize the immense value this brings. It not only saves a significant amount of time but also reduces the ongoing maintenance burden associated with custom code. This feature allows our teams to focus more on strategic data analysis and less on the technical intricacies of data integration. Census effectively bridges the gap between complex data operations and user-friendly functionality, making it an indispensable tool in our data management toolkit.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Census excels in many aspects, one area that could be enhanced is the control and customization of alerts. In our operation, where timely and accurate data flow is crucial, having the ability to direct specific pipeline alerts to designated Slack channels would significantly improve our response efficiency. Currently, the alerting system in Census, though effective, lacks this level of granularity. This means that alerts from various pipelines may not be as targeted as we would like. Being able to customize alert destinations based on the pipeline or data event would allow for more streamlined and focused communication within our teams. This feature would not only aid in quicker issue resolution but also help in maintaining an organized and efficient workflow, especially in a fast-paced data management environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streamlining Reverse ETL Processes: The primary benefit of Census for us has been its ability to streamline the reverse ETL process, particularly in eliminating the need for custom coding for different data payloads. This has significantly reduced the time and resources typically spent on developing and maintaining bespoke integration scripts.
Enhancing Salesforce Integration: By using Census to push data from our data warehouse into Salesforce (SFDC), we have improved the accuracy and timeliness of our customer data. This seamless integration ensures that our sales and customer service teams have the most relevant and up-to-date information at their fingertips, enhancing customer relationship management.
Identifying Customer Expansion Opportunities: Census plays a crucial role in our customer expansion strategy. It helps us track and highlight when customers are utilizing beyond their provisioned quota. This insight enables us to proactively approach these customers with targeted expansion or upsell opportunities, thus driving revenue growth.
Enriching Data in Intercom and Amplitude: We also leverage Census to enrich our Intercom and Amplitude datasets with key business metrics. This enrichment allows us to have a more comprehensive view of our customer interactions and product usage, facilitating better-informed decisions and more personalized customer experiences.
In summary, Census is not just a tool for data integration; it's a catalyst for operational efficiency, strategic customer engagement, and data-driven decision-making in our organization. Its impact goes beyond mere technical functionality, playing a pivotal role in enhancing our overall business processes.
Enhancing Salesforce Integration: By using Census to push data from our data warehouse into Salesforce (SFDC), we have improved the accuracy and timeliness of our customer data. This seamless integration ensures that our sales and customer service teams have the most relevant and up-to-date information at their fingertips, enhancing customer relationship management.
Identifying Customer Expansion Opportunities: Census plays a crucial role in our customer expansion strategy. It helps us track and highlight when customers are utilizing beyond their provisioned quota. This insight enables us to proactively approach these customers with targeted expansion or upsell opportunities, thus driving revenue growth.
Enriching Data in Intercom and Amplitude: We also leverage Census to enrich our Intercom and Amplitude datasets with key business metrics. This enrichment allows us to have a more comprehensive view of our customer interactions and product usage, facilitating better-informed decisions and more personalized customer experiences.
In summary, Census is not just a tool for data integration; it's a catalyst for operational efficiency, strategic customer engagement, and data-driven decision-making in our organization. Its impact goes beyond mere technical functionality, playing a pivotal role in enhancing our overall business processes.
Census help us to keep the data in sync
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about Census is how easy configure it. Also, the tool helps us to get notified if we have an issue during the sync phase.
What do you dislike about the product?
Probably add more notification data source capabilities such as Slack.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keep in sync data in several datasources
Using Census at Apollo in my Growth Ops role
What do you like best about the product?
We utilize Census' reverse ETL to move data from our data warehouse into Apollo utilizing custom field mapping and it helps us run sequences and plays as part of our GTM strategy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing of note. They've been very supportive in troubleshooting along the way.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Moving data from point A to B
Pricing structure makes it nearly impossible to cost and resell
What do you like best about the product?
consistent schema and data syncing if running
What do you dislike about the product?
pricing model and costs based on sync efficiency vs actual data useage
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
consistently updating multiple data sources into a data warehouse. great concept and simplifies an important part of the process
Product is good, sale team and price is terrible
What do you like best about the product?
Reduce remarkably time to insight / market of data products.
Reduce engineering part of data projects.
Reduce engineering part of data projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
Slow response on incidents, we used to got more than 2 weeks downtime of Facebook pages connectors and Fivetran refused all responsibilities.
They mostly stop supportive response after signing anual contract.
They mostly stop supportive response after signing anual contract.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Pre-built connectors help us to push up the data extraction process
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