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Full ownership and flexibility of your Data pipeline
What do you like best about the product?
Decide what you want to track when and where, across platforms and devices in a scalable and unified manner. Out of the box it works but when optimizing it to your needs there are almost you will see the true value. Enrich tracking with almost no limitations.
What do you dislike about the product?
To get the full potential out of Snowplow you need to have a clear understanding of what you want to achieve in order to set up the right tracking. And the amount of data you will start collecting with a proper tracking set up will result in that you perhaps need to rethink about storage and data processing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scalability, multi-channel, multi-platform, Extensive context tracking. Using support to challenge issues in tracking.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Think of you most ideal situation in regards of tracking & collecting data and challenge Snowplow to achieve that goal.
A trusted extensible events collection platform
What do you like best about the product?
- Completed hosted within our AWS accounts. Data does not leave the private network
- well managed by Snowplow Analytics and they are aware of fix issues before we notice them
- Interaction with Snowplow Analytics PMs, Engineers and CEOs have been very insightful and provided a lot of confidence in the company and the product
- well managed by Snowplow Analytics and they are aware of fix issues before we notice them
- Interaction with Snowplow Analytics PMs, Engineers and CEOs have been very insightful and provided a lot of confidence in the company and the product
What do you dislike about the product?
- almost all interaction is via Zendesk which is a little too async.
- As an engineer, there is not a lot of visibility into the pipelines. there's no UI for schema registry which makes it difficult to make it accessible
- As an engineer, there is not a lot of visibility into the pipelines. there's no UI for schema registry which makes it difficult to make it accessible
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- basic event capture for analytics
- reuse of events for aggregation and providing this to end users (clients)
- reuse of events for aggregation and providing this to end users (clients)
Excellent Analytical Tool for Developers
What do you like best about the product?
The interface and the ease with the tool could be used helped me gain access to the world of visualization and data representation which otherwise is difficult to understand via tools such as SAS or Excel.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing that I dislike about the software is that the initial setup time is high and the support/help system is weak.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm solving problems of data visualization, representation, cleaning, and management from this tool which better gives an idea about in which direction analytical effort should be posted.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
When starting with this software one should make sure that the right amount of time is being spent in understanding as to how the interface works because sometimes it can be intimidating that there are so many functionalities that one needs to take care of and this intern reduces the quality of the deliverable that one is trying to produce for a specific business use case. The analytical advantages supported by this software are immense such a data cleaning and efficient representations, which otherwise are not clearly dealt with other statistical packages. I believe that one should spend enough time analyzing the initial setup time and progress because once the setup is done it is hard to make any further changes.
The coolest event analytics platform!
What do you like best about the product?
SA's analytics help in collecting granular event-level data from platforms which includes web and mobile platforms and it helps to analyse that data with structured data stores to support advanced data analytics. SA being an open source platform helped us to explore the wide range of analytics tools available in the market. We set it up on our AWS account and had complete ownership and control over the event data. Events included classroom attendance data, assignments completed, assigned, courses taken up etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a tool coming from a startup and thus it is bound to have limitations when you are looking at it from an enterprise business problem point of view. There are things that are part of our project that we can't accomplish through SA and have to look elsewhere but it is an honest and a well attempted tool with amazing potential and scale.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We integrated google analytics with Snowplow analytics and tried to duplicate the results in SA UI to see few things like - how they filtered out the dupe entries, parsing end to end data from an internal web based platform.
I had no idea what to do with my data until Snowplow
What do you like best about the product?
I loved that they showed me ways to use my data that I never would have thought of.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve is a bit steep, but they are patient.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I had so much data from all the shows and venues and they made me realize how many different ways I could use it.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's worth is to explore data that you didn't think you even had a use for.
Easy Maintenance of Data
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the comprehensive tracking ability which I get with Snowplow pipeline. The Snowplow features automatically track the install and crash events and enable me to get started with mobile tracking quickly
What do you dislike about the product?
I felt that it is priced a bit on higher side. The basic version is priced 1500$/month and it doesn't consist of real time pipeline. And if you want to have a real time pipeline of data then you have to upgrade to an even pricer account
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are working with a client on healthcare products. Since we track the prescription data which we receive from various stakeholders it is very essential to have a complete infrastructure to support the data points coming into the system from various avenues. Snowplow analytics helps us in collecting. validating and repairing that data
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would suggest you go ahead and use this product. I believe you should first go with the basic version of this which costs around 1500$. At the beginning of the projects, even the basic version is sufficient
Snowplow as user tracking component
What do you like best about the product?
I've used Snowplows trackers in a few projects and really liked it. Mostly used the Javascript tracker.
What do you dislike about the product?
Customers sometimes view Snowplow as only through the components they provide when we at Solita are also capable of creating e.g. collectors with different languages and tools. I would be great if Snowplow could offer this FAQ type of thing for re-assuring that there are also other valid ways to use Snowplow OS components.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fast development time and a generally nice fit to companies existing solutions e.g. Tag Manager
Powerful data collection
What do you like best about the product?
Flexible and well-developed tracking. Strong open source base
What do you dislike about the product?
Takes a fair amount of initial configuration, and may be worth it depending on your needs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scalable cross-platform tracking to enable analysis and personalization
A great product to help you with user event collection and tracking
What do you like best about the product?
- Access data in real time
- It's an open platform
- Snowplow as a company is great to work with
- It's an open platform
- Snowplow as a company is great to work with
What do you dislike about the product?
- You need to work on creating the reporting layer. It's understandable but it still puts ownership onto the team using it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- User analytics
- Experimentation
- ML-based products such as recommender systems.
- Experimentation
- ML-based products such as recommender systems.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
- Engage with Snowplow as a provider, they really know their product and the surrounding ecosystem really well.
Best event analytics platform
What do you like best about the product?
The scalability and full control of collected event data. As a Snowplow partner we enable our customers to gain full control of their data collection and store massive amounts of behavioral event data in their own data warehouse for further analysis. Unlike analytics platforms as GA(360) or Adobe Analytics, Snowplow is able to scale to the volume and variety of data with keeping the size and data strategies companies who work with Snowplow in mind.
What do you dislike about the product?
Snowplow can be complex in setup. It can be hard to make the right decisions for collector, enrichment, etc based on requirements.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With implementing Snowplow we enable customers to work with comprehensive data, collected, transformed and stored in their own data platform like AWS. Using this rich data we help companies to answer all sorts of data challenges, from basic marketing intellegence to data science models
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