Fivetran Data Movement Platform
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Ultimate data pipeline and transformation tool. Cost effective for prototyping and small projects.
What do you like best about the product?
We love the ease of setup and connecting to data sources. Likewise, the near-native integration with DBT makes scheduling and running transformations a breeze. Pricing was a little difficult to parse initially, one of our sales reps was confused about it, but it is very fair when all is said and done. The integration with BigQuery was SUPER easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation on how to connect to sources and destinations could use some improvement. It's occasionally circular and hard to follow. These are admittedly deeper waters though; roles and permissions between systems are wildly different.
Better controls for bulk adding or removing fields from import schemas would be nice. We crawled through many hundreds of fields to get ours set up, pulling data from SalesForce for example.
Better controls for bulk adding or removing fields from import schemas would be nice. We crawled through many hundreds of fields to get ours set up, pulling data from SalesForce for example.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Fivetran to:
1. Connect to multiple data sources and manage imports, retries, logging, etc.
2. Transform data into a standard format using DBT.
3. Send data to BigQuery for analysis and later consumption by further third parties.
Compared to our original, hand-coded data pipelines, Fivetran has been a quantum leap in scalability and standardization.
1. Connect to multiple data sources and manage imports, retries, logging, etc.
2. Transform data into a standard format using DBT.
3. Send data to BigQuery for analysis and later consumption by further third parties.
Compared to our original, hand-coded data pipelines, Fivetran has been a quantum leap in scalability and standardization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Fivetran is easiest when you can get direct access to your data source, ie direct database access, for example. If you have to pull data through APIs, and it's not one of the big services that are natively supported by Fivetran, then the integration is more tricky. Still a great option though.
Powerful and easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Connections are easy to set up, data models and schemas are clear and nice to work with. Monitoring is also made easy. Replications are fast. So overall, very functionnal. We had a nice support experience during our pre-sale POC.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing is high. It's not ideal to have to wonder about how adding a new connector of some schemas/tables can affect the cost dramatically the cost. Also, some connectors are missing. But so far we made it work alright.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Replicate data from different sources we have (saas tools we're using, databases etc.), and load them to our data warehouse from which we use dbt to transform them before visualization.
We were able to quickly create a data lake with little effort
What do you like best about the product?
Integration with many modern and contemporary analytical databases.
What do you dislike about the product?
Tiers of packages with some features, like logging, missing from the basic tier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reasonably quickly but good communication.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ensure that Fivetran offers all the integrations you need by using the free trial!
Great no-hassle option for data ingestion
What do you like best about the product?
The number of connectors, visibility into the ingestion process, ease of setup, ease of use
What do you dislike about the product?
Database connectors can be expensive, and streaming ingestion is limited
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We introduced Fivetran to ingest data from third parties, and it was the perfect option. The total cost of ownership is much lower than with a custom solution, and everything worked as expected out of the box!
Census is a no brainer - saves so much time & scales our team
What do you like best about the product?
1. It brings data into tools with no engineering effort - which allows us to scale out our small team & bring the data to reps they need to do their jobs more effectively
2. It automates data pulls and processes we do daily/weekly/monthly for business operations which saves us a ton of time
2. It automates data pulls and processes we do daily/weekly/monthly for business operations which saves us a ton of time
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing - its really intuitive to use. Only downside is you have to pay for the number of syncs you use so we have to track & optimize the ones we use vs being able to go unlimited
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We need to get reps the data they need in the tools they're already working in. We want to be able to do that quickly & ideally without a big engineering lift. Census allows us to scale out these efforts quickly & easily.
Fivetran has done a good job. Pricing can be better
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of setting up the pipeline.
Ease of debugging.
Ease of debugging.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing could be cheaper
Customer support can be better
Customer support can be better
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aggregating data from various databases to a data warehouse.
Data analytics manager
What do you like best about the product?
The product is really easy to use, and the pipelines seems working good.
We also have a good customer relationship, with Lea and Amine which count a lot when you're taking such a product.
We also have a good customer relationship, with Lea and Amine which count a lot when you're taking such a product.
What do you dislike about the product?
dbt is not working, i'm trying to get multiple data replication from different sources as the product dbt can do it, but we are facing trouble to develop packages
I'm also having some troubles to understand the data from the table replicated
I'm also having some troubles to understand the data from the table replicated
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
outsourcing Data engeenering team
Census Review!!
What do you like best about the product?
Some incredible features I would like to mention are,
1. With Census sharing data is very easy.
2. Census is the best tool for the data team, it is very optimized!
3. Good support team!
1. With Census sharing data is very easy.
2. Census is the best tool for the data team, it is very optimized!
3. Good support team!
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall, there aren't any big issues with Census, but few things which can be improved are:
1. Slack integration can be improved, for example- sending DM's.
1. Slack integration can be improved, for example- sending DM's.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Many things have improved in our day-to-day routine, like sending data to tools such as Salesforce is a lot quicker.
Data pipeline provider with good support
What do you like best about the product?
- Support is helpful
- documentation is really good
- incident & problem management communication is excellent
- the number of reliable connectors is pretty high compared to the competition.
- documentation is really good
- incident & problem management communication is excellent
- the number of reliable connectors is pretty high compared to the competition.
What do you dislike about the product?
- Pricing can get pretty expensive and is hard to calculate (as is it based on MAR)
- dbt integration has still a lot of room for improvement (and is pretty pricey as well)
- dbt integration has still a lot of room for improvement (and is pretty pricey as well)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Buy instead of self build data pipeline. For most usecases it is just basic config and works perfectly. Depending on your plan you can even go to neartime reporting scenarios (sync every 5 or 15 minutes with the source data)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Fivetran is pretty good at what it is supposed to do (data pipeline as a service)
Phenomenal Product
What do you like best about the product?
The best part about Census is it allows us to send data from our warehouse back into data sources such as Salesforce and Intercom. Additionally, it has the capabilities to use data models to drive slack alerts.
What do you dislike about the product?
The one function that doesn't exist yet is direct messaging someone in slack. Right now you can only sync data into a slack channel. It'd be great to have the ability to direct message, someone, from slack via Census
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have solved a variety of problems, the biggest being helping operationalize our data and give it to employees that can quickly take action on it. Additionally we have enhanced our salesforce environment with custom metrics and KPIs from data in our warehouse.
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