Fivetran Data Movement Platform
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Built-in connectors offer extensive data source integration and time savings
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of Fivetran is its built-in connectors for a wide range of data sources. This covers about ninety-five percent of our needs. It also includes monitoring features which are essential for managing data connections from a couple of dozen different data sources through one tool. We don't need to worry about upgrades as Fivetran manages them. It's crucial for us to have everything managed through one tool.
What needs improvement?
Fivetran could improve by adapting more for technical users and by providing more options for such users. There should be more adaptability in terms of new features. If a specific feature is required, it should be integrated promptly. Improvement in existing connectors with new features is desirable. Enhancements around customer-focused product adaptation are also suggested.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Fivetran for at least four years.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support provided by Fivetran has generally been good, with a response time and competence that I would rate as good. However, sometimes I feel they do not fully adapt their product to the needs of customers.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have used some other similar tools in the past that also provided automatic schema migrations.
What about the implementation team?
We have internal people that manage Fivetran, implying that the implementation was handled internally.
What was our ROI?
Primarily, Fivetran brings time savings. It saves us the effort of having one to two data engineers managing the tasks that Fivetran handles. However, since they upgraded their pricing every year and despite discounts, I would not consider pricing to be an advantage.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Our current yearly contract for Fivetran is approximately $70,000. Their pricing has increased over the years, so it's not seen as an advantage anymore. However, we do receive discounts with each contract.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate Fivetran nine out of ten. In the future, I hope Fivetran addresses pricing and features more promptly to improve adaptability.
A great tool, but with a matching price tag
What do you like best about the product?
The most useful thing about Fivetran is that it considers a lot of things for us. We use it everyday for ingestion, and it's working very well. It took little time to implement and integrate with our product, and their support has been really nice.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside we face while using Fivetran is the cost. The associated cost is not cheap.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ingesting data from Customers
The product works. Can get expensive on some bigger connectors.
What do you like best about the product?
Reliability. The product works. We have rarely been let down by it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Obscure pricing. Super normalised data models also just add to MAR
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Fivetran to bring in data from external sources. We do not use their pre-built models
FiveTran is expensive but worth it
What do you like best about the product?
It has reduced our data engineer headcount and their communication about issues/bugs has been great, highly proactive. Our trust level is high with it.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a proprietary platform, so it may not have long-term sustainability depending upon its cost effectiveness relative to other upcoming options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Extraction of data from SaaS applications to Snowflake
Best Third Party ETL
What do you like best about the product?
Great variety of connectors and ease of setup
What do you dislike about the product?
Some connectors are advertised as fully functional but do not work
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to pull a variety of data sources into a single data warehouse
Detailed review of Fivetran Connectors
What do you like best about the product?
We are at the beginning stages of setting up Fivetran as our ELT data stack tool. Fivetran has many useful features which could and we are hopeful would serve us well in our data strategy journey and implementation. Customer support seems to be great - you providing support/consulting during the first 90 days of account setup which is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
We are at the beginning stages of setting up Fivetran as our ELT data stack tool. We are currently facing some roadblocks regarding getting data out of Netsuite and Adaptive Insights/Workday Data sources as there is no a connector to those data sources currently set up in Fivetran. Would be great to see ease of integration to systems such as Netsuite, Workday, MyEvolv and proprietory systems.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As I mentioned, Fivetran is going to be our tool for data extraction. We just got our account set up last week and still learning the tool as well as encounting few roadblocks regarding data extraction from our Data Systems/Sources. Netsuite and Adaptive Insights/Workday in particular.
A great looking product with a solid support team that is actively being worked on and improved.
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran looks great and is easy to use. I like that support is very sresponsive and that the engineers and devs are very active in making improvements.
What do you dislike about the product?
The comapany moves fast and sometimes that causes issues (data issues, downtime on connectors, etc). I would like to see more robust testing and QA before features roll out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Moving data from A to B. Fivetran helped us solve this issue for a specific use case in a way that was compliant with our current security standards.
Simple, Easy and Very Useful transformations.
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy the transformations to get reporting set up is; once created, doing a dbt core job on the data to create reports is very simple with the fivetran ads dbt packages.
What do you dislike about the product?
Getting the dbt core set up and running within fivetran seems less feature complete than running the dbt core job using your own agent. The error codes in fivetran are sometime not entirely full fleshed out, which can be confusing where the error is actually located.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Getting raw data into our snowflake database is very useful and extremely convienent.
Ideal for New Business Users
What do you like best about the product?
The low-code interface and automated processes make it easy for new business users in the business to set up and manage data pipelines without extensive technical knowledge. It automates the whole data extraction, cleaning, and transformation process which saves time and reduces manual effort. The customisable sync schedules lets us pull in data as per our requirements.
With over hundereds of ready to use connectors, we've been able to support a wide range of our client's data sources with ease.
With over hundereds of ready to use connectors, we've been able to support a wide range of our client's data sources with ease.
What do you dislike about the product?
As the data volume increases, the cost can ramp up quite quickly which can be a concern when a business a scaling up
Currently the transformations available are quite limited.
Currently the transformations available are quite limited.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its ease of use, automation capabilities, and extensive connector library make it an excellent choice for businesses looking to streamline their data processes without needing a dedicated data engineering team
Fivetran is greate, enables our team with easy ETL workflows
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran is an easy to use tool, very intuitive, the support is great and documentation is greatly appreciated.
What do you dislike about the product?
The customization of some of the connectors can be tedious but the support and documentation is always ready to help on enabling smooth workflows.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It enables us to get easy connections between systems and our database, it simplifies our process greatly.
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