Really good product, saving time with trust
What do you like best about the product?
We're savaing a lot of devlopment time using fivetran for loading data into snowflake
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd like to be able to run any dbt command (build, snapshot, test..) from the fivetran UI and a better monitoring view for transformation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran make it easy to replicate our data sources into snowflake. We're saving a lot of time and improve the reliability of our data.
Expensive but reliable ingestion tool
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran is easy to use, have a lot of integrations and very mature.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's pretty expensive and some connectors are very "verbose": automatically unnest JSON, cannot disabled some tables
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We collect data from multiple sources: internal (databases, spreadsheets) and external (Salesforce, Hubpost, Google Ads, ...).
Fivetran help us to extract all these sources and store them in our datawarehouse.
Fivetran
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran is easy to use and saves our engineers time to implement data transformations
What do you dislike about the product?
It is missing some log connectors such as ELK
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran solving some of our data extracts from some SAAS platforms and a few of our products
Very help iPaaS out of the box with no code set up
What do you like best about the product?
That it is no code, very well documented set up guides, as a non technical owner I can set up my own pipelines without help from an engineer or someone from the Central Data Platform team.
I also think Fivetran supports a very comprehensive set of connectors and sources and destinations.
What do you dislike about the product?
When the connector fails, I can see in the log there is an error but I don't actually know which table are missing data or have incorrect data.
Support is sometimes subpar because of offshoring to India, I have to wait 24 hours before getting a reply.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Replicating Stripe data and Salesforce data to our datawarehouse destination
One stop shop for ETL
What do you like best about the product?
Its easy to get data from various sources easily and standardize them.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some API endpoints are not fully built out. so we need to request that the endpoint be added.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
efficient in pulling the data we need from sources.
Plug and play solution that is budget friendly
What do you like best about the product?
Creating custom ETLs with staging and error handling for multiple sources of data requires a team of engineers (or one engineer and several months). Fivetran allowed me to spin up pipelines immediately for both simple and complex sources (e.g. Facebook). It is significantly cheaper to maintain these pipelines than hiring more full time engineers! Implementing Fivetran was fast, easy and exceptionally cost effective.
What do you dislike about the product?
Fivetran worked well for all of our data sources except Google Analytics. This is likely not an issue for most users but because we have a tremendous amount of data from this source, Fivetran's plug and play delta loads just weren't the right solution. Aside from that one source, Fivetran has met all of our needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran allows us to ingest data from multiple external sources without having to build custom code, monitor loads and manage errors. In fact, it is a completely no-code solution that requires minimal set up, even for complex data sources.
Easy UI, Effective Solution
What do you like best about the product?
It's variety of compatibilities and it's commitment to keep adding to the list
What do you dislike about the product?
Support is responsive, but a little slow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran is quickly and efficiently pulling data from almost all of our source systems and making it easy for us to transform it in our data warehouse.
Absolutely seamless data pipeline automation solution with an interesting pricing model
What do you like best about the product?
The solution is absolutely intuitive and works seamlessly. It has scheduled maintenances from time-to-time, but nothing that obstructs daily business. The connectors have a very easy set-up and sync process. The pricing model also seems to be pretty reasonable if you are using the solution to connect multiple data sources, but with low-mid volume of data.
What do you dislike about the product?
The number of connectors are a bit limited and their custom connector creation is completely on you and is not really user-friendly. Also, a lot of connectors only have a full sync of all possible data you have on a source system and not selective sync that enables you take only the required data to your destination. This leads to unnecessary data being dumped on to your destination and incurs more costs to the client.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fivetran enables us connect multiple data sources and siloed systems with very less effort and that helps us focus on driving business outcomes rather than focussing on ETL and creating data pipelines. Fivetran also helps us connect to systems that have no direct connection to our visualization tools like Power BI or Tableau.
Seamless Data Integration Made Possible With Fivetran
What do you like best about the product?
The set up of the tool is very easy. The tool also has wide range of connectors; customer support is excellent.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost is little on the higher end so I wouldn't recommend for early stage orgs. There is slight learning curve involved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The tool helps us pull data from multiples systesm i.e. Salesforce, HubSpot, Google AdWords. It also saves us a lot of time to integrate these systems and centralize the data at data warehouse level (Snowflake). The tools is literal plug and play.
A scalable solution that is very easy to use and very easy to configure
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution to replicate data from our ERP.
What is most valuable?
The product is very easy to use and very easy to configure. We can do an end-to-end configuration in a few minutes.
What needs improvement?
The connections with SAP must be improved. The environment has some limitations.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution since January 2023.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product’s stability is very good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The tool’s scalability is very good.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is very easy. It is not that complex. I was part of the deployment process. It is still ongoing. We are not running production for now.
What about the implementation team?
We need two or three IT employees to maintain the solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution has good pricing. I rate the pricing a six out of ten.
What other advice do I have?
It's a good integration tool. It is easy to use. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.