I work in a company where Fivetran is being used, and we pay the licenses to them. We use it as a customer with a lot of different sources to our databases, such as Google Cloud Storage. Fivetran is used to establish data connections in the pipeline, for example, from SAP S4HANA to Google Cloud Storage.
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Expensive but valuable
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity of use and wide-ranging number of "pre-baked" sources. It is very impressive, and the catalogue is always growing.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing model, specially the new "MARs per connector" pricing model.
We would use it for more sources, specially, event sources, but it is impractical.
We would use it for more sources, specially, event sources, but it is impractical.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is our primary ingestion method from SaaS providers and 3rd party solutions. The way schema changes are managed is very solid, creates consistency on our approach, and saves engineering time.
Low code, low management for data pipeline
What do you like best about the product?
HVR, HVA, many connectors with easy management
What do you dislike about the product?
There is few items to be improved, especially in UI side
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
High frequent near real time replication from on-prem SQL to Data Lake (ADLS gen2) through Snowflake with HVA hybrid,
Very easy to use and set up
What do you like best about the product?
Setting up connectors is very easy and intuitive. Their customer support has been amazing so far. We are using Fivetran as our sole Extraction and Loading tool for our data warehouse
What do you dislike about the product?
This is more of a niche request, but working on the sports industry there aren't as many connectors that support the tools we are used to using in the Sports Industry (Fortress, Tickets.com, TM, etc)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps me build managed Extraction and Loading pipelines from multiple sources and send them over to our Datalake and Data Warehouse
Fivetran is very user friendly and save lot of development effort and time.
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran's support has been very promising. We feel very easy reaching support team and getting timely response for the issue. Also , Fivetran is bundle of many connector types, which had solved and saved many of our developement and effort.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you can improve the documentation of HVR , that would be great. We will HVR documentation are not that self explanatory as Fivetran connector.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran helps us with few custom connectors over SAAS application, where the data extraction is via API. Building an ETL over API related data and flatenning to meaningfull data based on domain/subject area had been very challenging. Fivetran effective solves it , almost most of its SAAS oriented connectors are helpfull for our enterprise data modeling.
Powerful ETL Tool
What do you like best about the product?
The massive list of connectors and ease of use to set them all up. This makes moving data so easy. I am able to get daily data updated with ease.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it can be challengeing to use very specific connectors, but that is a rare issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps me get data so much easier with out jumping through hoops.
Enhanced data pipeline connectivity with user-friendly interface
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Fivetran provides a user-friendly interface, which makes data pipelining and connecting the source and the destination easier.
What is most valuable?
The user interface is mostly UI-based, eliminating the need for a lot of coding. Furthermore, Fivetran offers scheduled pipeline extraction up to twelve times in a day.
What needs improvement?
There is not a lot of options to customize the pipeline, and the cost is high. Additionally, conducting extractions with transformations, like removing null values or doing simple calculations, is difficult. Vendor support is also slow to respond.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is not stable due to issues with vendor support when problems occur.
How are customer service and support?
Vendor support is not very good, and it takes time to reach out.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The vendor handles installations on our PCs, and we receive updates either monthly or half-yearly.
What about the implementation team?
The vendor's partners are involved in updates being held on a scheduled basis.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The cost is high for using Fivetran.
What other advice do I have?
The response sense is not very high, so it's a problem. Pricing is an expensive solution.
I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.
Customer-friendly and intuitive product
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran's connectors are highly intuitive and extract/load data effortlessly
What do you dislike about the product?
No dislikes. Company representatives are friendly, and policy of syncing data for free for 14 days is customer-friendly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran extracts data from various sources to centralized data stores for analytics
Amazing Company
What do you like best about the product?
They care about the future and seem to have a grip on things that other competitors dont.
What do you dislike about the product?
They are great but are on the costly side. it is something to think about when starting your data journey
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We need to sync data from many sources over to our data warehouse and they seem to do the trick for us
Reliable Data Integration with Fivetran
What do you like best about the product?
Our team saved a lot of time using Fivetran. We were able accelerate adoption because of its user-friendly interface and step by step guidelines to set up connectors. We were able to connect 30+ data sources and not have to worry about schema drifts and other data engineering tasks. Also, we used Fivetran’s sdk to build custom connectors for complex integration. Customer support helped us a lot when we encountered issues. They would reply within 12 hours and offer detail feedback which helped us resolve issues quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main concern we have with Fivetran is the pricing model. It can increase rapidly as they volume of the data increases and also the compute costs will increase when the sync frequency increases. Fivetran gives a 2-week free trial to estimate costs before you turn on the connector, but it is hard to get an additional budget mid fiscal year. Also, you will need to use Fivetran with another tool like dbt to handle complex transformations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran solved the challenge of replicating data from various sources to our Snowflake Data Warehouse. Before using Fivetran my team would have to spend a lot of time maintaining custom data ingestions or using other ETL tools that were not optimized for data ingestion.
Easy setup
What do you like best about the product?
Simple, 600+ drivers for data ingestion, easy integration of workflows
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, customer support takes time to follow up
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ingestion made easier
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