Fivetran Data Movement Platform
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Make reverse ETL easier to maintain and enable non-engs
What do you like best about the product?
Census UI is clean and user-friendly. Non-engineers can config the connections, edit mappings and check the status of syncs. It also makes reverse ETL (multiple destinations) easier to maintain for the data eng team.
What do you dislike about the product?
I asked Census about connector supporting Mixpanel lookup table a while ago and it is live now! So please developing more connectors and more supported objects.
Role based permission managment is also needed. For example, admin is able to create and config source and destinations, while basic user can only edit mappings/schedule in syncs, etc..
Role based permission managment is also needed. For example, admin is able to create and config source and destinations, while basic user can only edit mappings/schedule in syncs, etc..
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used to develop reverse ETL system with Python and Airflow for destinations like Eloqua, Mixpanel, Braze, Intercom, and Salesforce. Every destination requires different data types, formats, rate limits, and API requests. Census sets me from maintaining my custom code, so I can spend more time to optimize the system itself. The user-friendly UI enables non-engineers and stakeholders to adjust columns, mappings, and schedules. They can check the status of syncs anytime they want; they no longer need to ask if the data was synced successfully and when was the last sync.
Democratizing the data pipeline
What do you like best about the product?
Census has a highly intuitive interface for any user who would like to quickly and securely sync data sitting in a cloud data warehouse to another SaaS tool. It can remove the need to maintain custom data pipelines (or at least provides a common tap for custom targets/destination APIs). This frees up time for data folks to address other parts of the stack and enables non-technical folks to make their own pipelines.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are bugs to work out as they scale and experience some growing pains, but the support team is very attentive to these issues. Otherwise, there are some highly desired integrations that still need to be built, which might be a detractor for teams who want to completely do away with custom data infrastructure to support reverse ETL processes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Census provides a singular place to configure outflows from our data warehouse and has allowed us to remove many of the custom data infrastrucure we were using to manage these outflows (think many different scheduled serverless functions). Their tool makes governance and observability of our pipelines much more straightforward.
Census has changed the way we use data as a business
What do you like best about the product?
Census has literally changed our business. It makes it incredibly easy to send any data anywhere, and make sure everything has the latest and correct version of all of our data - no matter how complicated the query is.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much! Pricing is based on connectors so it can get expensive if you have as many places to send data as we do, but it's still worth every cent!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Segment to send analytics to a warehouse and downstream, but as soon as there's any ETL required (or querying of that data), and where we want to send anything other than just a trait to another tool, we needed a way to sync our warehouse to downstream tools e.g. CRM, email apps, Slack etc.
Engineering your data integrations and analysis
What do you like best about the product?
It almost functions as a workload automation with moving data from Snowflake to Segment or Airtable with a lot of SQL commands designed to make the engineering aspect work. I also like the wealth of integrations available and documentation.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think more work around ETL and documentation thereof would be good. There is some but more so it was around reverse ETL and emphasis is on SQL instead of the data pipelines and metadata management.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I focus on customer analytics and market mix modeling on identifying top most customers, their respective actions and lead scoring. This is what I was able to do with writing queries with Census to help to curate data.
Basically fine but has some localization issues.
What do you like best about the product?
Everything is automated. All I need to do is to analyze data on Snowflake.
What do you dislike about the product?
Headers of Japanese characters (two-byte codes) are corrupted through Spreadsheet Connectors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connecting sales data and marketing data in one company.
Fivetran Helps to reduce the engineering effort for Data Integration
What do you like best about the product?
Easy flexible integration helps to reduce the effort of data integration and to focus on actual business problem.
What do you dislike about the product?
The MAR based method is not clear, in some cases, the billing is not predictable and not understanding
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data integration to the warehouse. Reduce engineering effort and time to action
Easy to implement, CSM and SA have been very helpful
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use with connectors they have available
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up non-native connectors through a cloud provider (GCP) require a lot of work
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connect to the majority of our tools, Ability to schedule fast incremental data updates, Ability to track history on important Salesforce fields
Recommendations to others considering the product:
They have many connectors that are easy to use. Setting up non-native connectors requires a good amount of engineering work for your team, so be sure that you are ok with this.
Fivetran is super easy to work with
What do you like best about the product?
How quick I can get a feed from my data sources to my data warehouse. It has great insights and notifications if there are any troubles, but honestly we set it and forget it.
What do you dislike about the product?
The logging for connectors is a little hard to decipher but all in all it has the information needed to know whats going on. If they made it a little more user friendly to understand it would be helpful. The other thing that I wished was they were quicker at getting to connector requests. I have a couple I have been waiting for that I would love to see added.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving getting our data source data to our data warehouse in near realtime with minimal effort. This allows us to focus time on true engineered solutions without getting bogged down in how I get data from point a to point b
Great platform. Easy to use.
What do you like best about the product?
The five transplatform allows you to have end to end pipelines built from start to finish in minutes.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing model is more complicated than any other platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran allows us to lemonade a huge number of swivel chair data management tasks. It has also made the creation of a data warehouse incredibly simple.
ETL for dummies
What do you like best about the product?
Authenticating for Google Ads data is handled by Fivetran, no need to create your own OAuth application
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing model is smart, but still becomes very expensive. Logs of actions are keps but only available for 7 days. Support is not so good
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I now understand that Fivetran is not worth it. If you can spare the time you will always get a better result building the system yourself
Recommendations to others considering the product:
if you have the skill to build the system yourself, then don't waste your money with fivetran.
if it's your only option, well then it's your only option
if it's your only option, well then it's your only option
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