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Data management made easy
What do you like best about the product?
Census has a clean UI that makes managing data between systems easy and effective. I'm able to set up a sync between sources to push data into Salesforce within minutes.
What do you dislike about the product?
For me, Census has been a phenomenal tool. It was easy for me to get started right out the gate with very little confusion. I'm excited to see what improvements are made in the future!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Census has helped with connecting data sources and ensuring that our data is up-to-date across systems. It makes performing complex data ops easy and straightforward.
Very easy to use and the team is super nice!
What do you like best about the product?
The UI is extremely easy to understand and the team behind it is very quick to help and just nice overall.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a new tool and therefore sometimes there may be bugs, but the team is super quick to address and solve them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Census makes it really easy to take information from our own data warehouse and use it to create/modify attributes and generate user audiences for our marketing team.
An easy-to-set-up solution that can be used for bidirectional data synchronizations between systems
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
I didn't set up any transformation in Fivetran. I wanted Fivetran to take care of the log sequence number comparison between source and destination systems so that it would pick up only the data that needed to be synchronized, and it did it beautifully.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of Fivetran is that it only synchronizes what needs to be synchronized. You need to capture the in-source updates and digits from the source; this is the only information you want. You don't want to download the whole thing each time. Fivetran does this just beautifully.
What needs improvement?
Fivetran should add more connectors because its competitors, like Airbyte, have more connectors. All of these systems have a problem, namely that they are pure cloud player solutions. I often work in hybrid solutions where customers have on-prem things mixed with cloud things.
Pure cloud player solutions never provide a good solution for what is on-prem, which leads to a gap. When you look at systems such as ActiveBatch, they have a very, very strong on-prem platform. They are also looking at the web and cloud things, but they are not that good at the cloud things. So there is nothing that is equally good for both on-prem and cloud.
Fivetran should add a feature to connect to the SQL server on-prem.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Fivetran for a month.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Fivetran is a very stable solution. After you set it up, you can forget about it. I rate Fivetran a nine out of ten for stability.
What was our ROI?
Fivetran saved me a lot of work. I could have hired a bunch of engineers to write Python's code for me, but Fivetran was already built. So, it was easier for me to focus on my line of business and purchase a commercial product without trying to replicate this myself in Python. That's not a return on investment; that is savings.
What other advice do I have?
I am using the latest version of Fivetran.
Fivetran is easy to set up. It took me one or two hours to set up my flow, and then I forgot about it. So for me, it's perfect because it doesn't take a lot of time. It's not like some other solutions where you need two weeks of engineering to get them to work.
I would advise users to try Fivetran before they commit to it.
When I compare Fivetran with Airbyte, I like Airbyte better than Fivetran.
Overall, I rate Fivetran an eight out of ten.
Breaks too often, unhelpful support, expensive
What do you like best about the product?
It usually works, nothing much to add here.
What do you dislike about the product?
Providers break very often. It takes weeks for support to resolve such issues.
It takes days for support to respond to urgent issues
Some API methods have ridiculous designs, e.g. updating the schema: you have to perform 7 API calls in a row to achieve a single change in the config.
There's no API versioning; requests and responses just get updated.
Pricing is extreme. Self-hosted solutions, for example, Airbyte, are identical in terns of setup and maintenance efforts, but you only pay for hosting.
Last, but not least, it's not fast at all.
It takes days for support to respond to urgent issues
Some API methods have ridiculous designs, e.g. updating the schema: you have to perform 7 API calls in a row to achieve a single change in the config.
There's no API versioning; requests and responses just get updated.
Pricing is extreme. Self-hosted solutions, for example, Airbyte, are identical in terns of setup and maintenance efforts, but you only pay for hosting.
Last, but not least, it's not fast at all.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data syncs from external providers
Very good experience
What do you like best about the product?
the ease of segments/audiences creations
What do you dislike about the product?
the documentation are not helpul most of the time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
sending segments/audiences from our first party data on our marketing platforms.
Better targeting
Better targeting
Good integrations and easy to navigate
What do you like best about the product?
Audience hub is very user friendly and it makes life easier without having to use SQL
What do you dislike about the product?
Census does not have the best UI. also it could do with making the data fields searchable via typing rather than only being able to scroll.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to push data from entities into braze via synchs.
Census makes transferring data to our tools very easy and transparent
What do you like best about the product?
New data can easily be added and sync refined quickly without touching the data source.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't an easy way to export your syncs and document what data is being transferred where.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing our customer-facing teams with data insights about our customers.
A stable and scalable solution that needs improvement with pricing
What is our primary use case?
Real-time streaming and SAP are the primary use cases of the solution.
What is most valuable?
The simplicity of the solution is its valuable feature.
What needs improvement?
The solution is very expensive. I would like to have a better integration of the solution with Azure.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable solution that is recommended for only enterprise companies because small and medium companies do not have the expertise and money to run Fivetran.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
How was the initial setup?
The solution is not easy to setup for a startup and SME but if an enterprise wants to do everything hands-on, it's okay for them. The deployment takes a couple of weeks to complete. Two people are needed for implementation.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The licensing costs are extremely high for the usage of somebody who has one GB or two GB of usage per day for real-time traffic. There are many other players in the market which are similarly priced or competitively priced. On average per month, it used to come around 12,000-15,000 USD, which is very high.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the overall solution a seven out of ten.
Great App for us!
What do you like best about the product?
- Census makes it easy to integrate with other third party applications without your dev team having to spend cycles figuring out the best way to integrate
- It also gives your end-users the ability to go in and create their own filters on your core datasets, instead of created customized syncs/jobs for each person
- Finally, I also like that it means we can just sync relevant data to 3rd party apps, versus updating all users every day.
- It also gives your end-users the ability to go in and create their own filters on your core datasets, instead of created customized syncs/jobs for each person
- Finally, I also like that it means we can just sync relevant data to 3rd party apps, versus updating all users every day.
What do you dislike about the product?
- Keeping the app up to date and fresh is great, but feels a little odd that every time I log in it looks different / things are renamed / moved around - would be nicer to package these bigger changes into one versus the constant changing (also makes it tough for people to onboard since documentation is always out of date)
- With all the changes, things have been a little unstable lately, which is not ideal.
- With all the changes, things have been a little unstable lately, which is not ideal.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Census makes it easy to integrate with other third party applications without your dev team having to spend cycles figuring out the best way to integrate
- It also gives your end-users the ability to go in and create their own filters on your core datasets, instead of created customized syncs/jobs for each person
- Finally, I also like that it means we can just sync relevant data to 3rd party apps, versus updating all users every day.
- It also gives your end-users the ability to go in and create their own filters on your core datasets, instead of created customized syncs/jobs for each person
- Finally, I also like that it means we can just sync relevant data to 3rd party apps, versus updating all users every day.
Great tool for pushing data into SFDC.
What do you like best about the product?
The UI is very intuitive and Census Support is very helpful and responsive.
What do you dislike about the product?
It isn't a true ETL solution and I can't get too fancy with the update logic or push data from SFDC back to our DB.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to push data from our DB into SFDC
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