Fivetran Data Movement Platform
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Easy button for creating data pipelines into Snowflake
What do you like best about the product?
After struggling for years to reliably move data from our various cloud and on-prem systems into our data warehouse environment, using custom code, legacy technology, other point solutions, we found Fivetran. In one afternoon with just a little bit of config, Fivetran started replicating data from our cloud-based CRM system into a Snowflake database every 15 minutes, capturing full history of every row update, insert, delete. It's really easy, and it just works.
What do you dislike about the product?
Minor stuff to quibble about. The user interface to select tables (and columns if desired) for replication is fairly limited and manual, especially when trying to switch to history mode on hundreds or thousands of tables one by one. There is an API available to automate some (but not all) of that, but that defeats the easy button aspect. Fortunately, it does many ongoing things automagically, so it was largely a one-time setup thing we had to go through, not difficult, just lots of mouse clicking. With history mode it creates new change records on rows that have changed in the source, even if I have deselected the column(s) that are changing in the source, so a field like "last viewed on" that is frequently changing during the day will create a lot of target record changes and use more credits.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran is helping us to get ALL of our essential business data in one place for analysis, alerting, etc. We spent way less time and effort developing and maintaining custom Python scripts just to move data from one place to another, so we can be more responsive to getting data in the hands of business data analysts faster, helping them get insights and take actions to grow revenue or identify and eliminate sources of waste and excess cost.
Amazing tool, It takes cares of all the ETL Development workload.
What do you like best about the product?
Using many connectors, integrate with any system with few clicks
What do you dislike about the product?
don't find any mistakes; all looks good..
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrating data in Salesforce, Google analystics data with SQL Server
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Perfect data Extract tool, get data from any source and load data. perform incremental and delta loads, without any development efforts
Very smooth and great support team
What do you like best about the product?
The process is easy and the team is awesome. They always answered all my questions and never had any major issues. Had a smooth Integration with Shopify.
What do you dislike about the product?
Few tables were separated compared to my actual flat files, which I felt could be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Process anutomation, and having a data warehouse.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
100%
It's an awesome product that solves EL issue. It's great for start-ups which want to scale fast
What do you like best about the product?
a lot of connectors to connect your analytical database with the operational database, very easy to manage and monitor. The support is definitely one of the stronger points
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing until now, but i would like to have more transformation features without use dbt
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am managing all our EL (extract and loads) process of our company with Fivetran and some schedule transformation process
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take the chance, they have an excellent on-boarding process
Fantastic 0-60 Data Pipeline
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of working with the product. There is no complicated set up, heck we did not even need assistance from our infrastructure team. Fivetran is as close to point-and-click as a data pipeline can be.
What do you dislike about the product?
MAR, I hate MAR. I personally find it an extremely confusing way to price products. It also has us often making decisions based on cost versus value. I wish there was a simpler methodology.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The "EL" portion of the "ELT" pipeline. I cannot stress how wonderful it has been to completely eliminate the need of custom scripts to transport data between systems and our datalake.
great ETL tool
What do you like best about the product?
simplicity, easy to use , no coding required , ready to go in 1 minute, UI , Logs
What do you dislike about the product?
some integration is complex like generate / refresh tooen
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
solving ETL tool issue , we do not need to build in house ETL tool
It allows you to forget about database connection
What do you like best about the product?
Its simplicity and flexibility and how easy is to start using it
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing I don't like or I miss.. just that is very expensive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Typeform, stripe and hubspot connection with redshift
Data Automation with Excellent Support
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran offers excellent support for their integrations, even integrations in their Beta phase. We implemented their Pipedrive connector, which was in Beta, and it was having issues. Fivetran's support team worked on it until they implemented a solution. The integrations run as expected every 15 minutes. Tighter intervals are available at a higher subsciption level. Data deduplicates automatically. You are able to add additional users at no additional cost, as pricing is consumption based. Shane, our rep, went above and beyond in the trial phase, giving us some extra trial time when the Pipedrive connector (which was still in Beta phase) was having issues. We initially trialed Fivetran with a Snowflake data warehouse, which we were also trialing, but fell short on Snowflake end. When we obtained our own database server and wanted to start back up with FiveTran, Shane was just as helpful as ever, even though our account had to be transferred to another rep.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some connectors can have a lot of tables that do not contain much information, however the billing is based on active rows so they can increase the cost. You can customize which tables sync though so cost can be controlled.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data from our SaaS systems loads into our database and is updated every 15 minutes, keeping our Tableau reports up to date and fully automated. We are also able to access data that was not available from the SaaS built-in data extracts.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider your options but keep Fivetran at the top of your list unless another solution that has all of your integrations is cheaper
Smooth and reliable
What do you like best about the product?
almost no setup, tons of sources, awesome support
What do you dislike about the product?
as a fivetran and dbt user, I’d love to trigger my transformations as soon as the data hits the dw
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it's cheaper than maintaining a data engineer taking care of my most used sources
Excellent ETL Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran's best feature is its consistent handling of incremental loads. Setting up efficient incremental loads used to be a major task; now it's the standard for most connections out of the box.
What do you dislike about the product?
The free usage for new connectors is amazing - it means you get your historical data usually synced for free. I've learned my lesson about syncing all the fields I can up front though - re-syncing historic data outside the free use period because of a field you forgot to include can be expensive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's made our data warehouse so much easier to maintain and grow. The cost may be higher than rolling your own ETL, but only if you don't value your sanity.
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