Fivetran Data Movement Platform
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Seamless integration, pay for only what you use!
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to implement, pay by row, great customer support, easy UI, fast onboarding. Easy to integrate with Snowflake and other cloud platforms. Has many great out-of-the-box solutions that other competitors do not have.
What do you dislike about the product?
Non-intuitive marketing reports, cannot seem to get a 1:1 with marketing platform data such as facebook, pinterest, google etc. Lacks integrations such as Impact.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrate data into one centralized location. In-real time data ingest.
Great, easy to use pay as you go ELT tool to get data into your data warehouse
What do you like best about the product?
The set up to connect your sources to your data warehouse is a snap, literally in minutes like they advertise. Large array of supported source connections, with support for ad hoc spreadsheet uploads via Google Sheets or emailing CSVs.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's some source connectors not supported yet like Facebook leadgen data, so definitely compare what's available out of the box and read the fine print. I haven't tried Stitch or Matillion, so you should compare against those tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The Salesforce, Netsuite (new version coming soon), Google Sheets and CSV connectors are great for us, and everything syncs seamlessly into our Snowflake instance.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Compare to Stitch and Matillion and make sure your major sources and destination data warehouse are supported.
Simple and easy
What do you like best about the product?
Connecting a data source is so much easier when I can just click to login to a new source
What do you dislike about the product?
Considering we could build our own etl it is quite expensice
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Accessibility to our data
Good product; exceptional customer support
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran does its job well, and we've had it running for months without issues. What has really stood out about Fivetran though is the support we've gotten from our account rep, both during our trial and since. He has been very quick to respond helpfully to questions, and worked hard to resolve an issue we had that required action by another vendor (for one of the connecting SaaS products we were syncing data from). As an early stage startup, we're a small account, but we never felt de-prioritized. Knowing we can get expert help resolving questions related to Fivetran is part of making it a reliable part of our data stack, and I would be eager to choose Fivetran again in the future because of this.
We had also trialed Fivetran two years prior to our ultimate adoption, and the support from a different set of folks at that time was also superb. They were very upfront about what was and was not possible, and understood when we decided it wasn't a good fit for us at the time. The positive experience I had then was part of why I reached back out when I thought we were ready to get value from Fivetran. The feeling of partnership to determine whether there was a good fit, instead of pressure to sign up no matter what, was refreshing.
We had also trialed Fivetran two years prior to our ultimate adoption, and the support from a different set of folks at that time was also superb. They were very upfront about what was and was not possible, and understood when we decided it wasn't a good fit for us at the time. The positive experience I had then was part of why I reached back out when I thought we were ready to get value from Fivetran. The feeling of partnership to determine whether there was a good fit, instead of pressure to sign up no matter what, was refreshing.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's hard to anticipate which connectors will be up and running with the push of a button, and where there might be snags (often outside of Fivetran's control). One of the key connectors we wanted to use required a substantial upgrade of our account with the other vendor, which we didn't realize would be necessary. However, the trial period with Fivetran was very effective in helping us identify these issues before we committed to using Fivetran, and the responsiveness of our account rep helped minimize the pain points. For the majority of the connectors we set up, it really was very easy to get going.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For data sources that have Fivetran connectors, we've been able to sync data from these products into our BigQuery data warehouse with almost no setup or maintenance required. In all cases, we could have built these connections ourselves, but I'm very happy to enable my team to focus on truly custom work related to our business specifics, and pay for Fivetran to handle the rest for us. Especially in an environment where data scientists and engineers are in high demand, I don't want them to spend time re-inventing the wheel when we can access the work Fivetran has already done for common sources.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make good use of the free trial period, it really helps you understand how it will work for you
Happy experience with Census
What do you like best about the product?
I love the data syncing feature of Census. It helps me a lot
What do you dislike about the product?
I think Census as a platform is doing its best
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am a student. I have a lot of class projects. I worked on Census to get real-life experience of customer-to-company data syncing and improve my skills.
Census a best way to manage your data warehouse ?
What do you like best about the product?
Census can sit on any of your data and helps you manipulate your data at ease. The census provides a wide range of scope to interact with your data warehouse, You name it and they have it Google big query etc. Using census is pretty simple, having a good knowledge of SQL will help you cope with the Census platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
Census has many features but when we compare census with CRM platforms like salesforce, I feel census could do better and develop a CRM platform. I'm not sure about their cross-platform support but a mobile application will make census shine in the dark sky.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before using Census, all the data had to be entered or retrieved manually. Census lets me automate a few of the simple yet important steps to create an impact. Census has helped me save my time and reduce manual errors drastically.
Census is critical in our work
What do you like best about the product?
It is a great tool to sync customer & Product data. Our data resides on several servers and databases. We had a tough time reconciling and combining. Census is easier to work with and provides good ways of integration.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial setup took some time. Once the integration is set up we were able to leverage it. However when another integration process was to be set up, we started from scratch. A template option would help.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Sending data to several operational tools; few that my company uses are Salesforce
- Checking and validating syncing between different tools
Both of these tasks were easy to accomplish
- Checking and validating syncing between different tools
Both of these tasks were easy to accomplish
Would have saved me days
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use. You can get up and running in minutes, with little to no training because the platform is so intuitive.
The selection of connections is incredible. This would have saved me so much time at my last role where I spent days and days building these connections out bespoke.
The selection of connections is incredible. This would have saved me so much time at my last role where I spent days and days building these connections out bespoke.
What do you dislike about the product?
More and more connections would be great. But that is more a function of the sprawl of the market than Census.
Not sure how easy to use this would be without some data experience. Even more intuitive UI for more standard business user could be great.
Not sure how easy to use this would be without some data experience. Even more intuitive UI for more standard business user could be great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving for the sprawl of tools in the market and in our company. It's great to have so much flexibility until you need to move data in and out. Without Census you kill yourself trying to keep all your data aligned and moving where you need to be.
Good product, but pricing changes caught us off guard
What do you like best about the product?
The reverse ETL part of Census works well and is competitive. The platform is well organized and integrates well across systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Our relationship with Census has been a bit all over the place. Our initial purchase went well, but at renewal we faced challenges with increased pricing even when requesting to stay on the same plan. Communications flopped going through Vendr and we were left to try to get the price within budget at last minute which involved a call with a manager who was rude and condescending.
We did decide to renew to avoid the trouble of switching, and upon adding onto our contract we had easy and quick negotiations so perhaps it all just depends on who you're dealing with or whether you're using Vendr. We're hoping for a smooth renewal next time now that both sides have learned how to communicate and reach an agreement.The product is good and if the situational renewal was a one-off, I would recommend working with Census.
We did decide to renew to avoid the trouble of switching, and upon adding onto our contract we had easy and quick negotiations so perhaps it all just depends on who you're dealing with or whether you're using Vendr. We're hoping for a smooth renewal next time now that both sides have learned how to communicate and reach an agreement.The product is good and if the situational renewal was a one-off, I would recommend working with Census.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed to be able to move product data into our marketing and sales systems so that we could better target and hunt for accounts.
Enjoying Reverse ETL
What do you like best about the product?
We had integrations with most of our major digital marketing vendors from BigQuery up and running within 2 weeks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the UX needs updating and just need a more flexible webhook.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having the ability to transmit a single view of the customer to multiple marketing vendors in minutes is great.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have a good centralized data infrastructure and have someone who knows SQL readily available for support. At that point you are off to the races.
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