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Quick and Easy but very expensive
What do you like best about the product?
The ease and the people who helped me throught the process.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is so very expensive. Also you can't set a hard limit on the amount of euro's you want to spend.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Extracting data from various sources to a datawarehouse. The benefits are that I have to invest less time to build it myself. Also it is less error prone
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do it only if you want to get it up and running like hell. But it is very expensive.
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VP of Engineering
What do you like best about the product?
The API is easy to use and integrate. I was able to in less than a day create an application that embeds FiveTran into our product. The APIs in postman was straightforward and made sense.
What do you dislike about the product?
There seem to be a lot of options in the API, but it is not documented very well. It would be great to have more detailed information about the options available and all the combinations for connection cards. It would be great if the connections cards walked the customer through the schema and column setup after the connections were made.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We allow customers to send us real-time data to monitor and track their ESG activity. We are now able to give customers more accurate information to help them make decisions that impact the environment in a positive way.
Recently onboarded FiveTran
What do you like best about the product?
Easy adaptors that help in getting various different data sources connected quickly enables easy engineering in the data warehouse development. This is helpful!
What do you dislike about the product?
The limitation as many data sources like AppsFlyer which is the most commonly used tool is not supported. Also the support from the team on any such cases are very poor. We really are chasing every day to get this response but support is very bad!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bring data from various different data sources to our platform without having to write custom adaptors /additional engineering efforts to develop adaptors or maintain those are the benefits.
Great software to start an organizations data platform
What do you like best about the product?
Great how many sources it plugs into, and how easy it is to get setup (very helpful documentation)
What do you dislike about the product?
Has missing elements of a general marketing stack... the types of integrations Segment leans heavily into
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sourcing data from all departments of our company. Fivetran syncs with all of the major sources of information.
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.
An Easy Data Integration Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran is a relatively easy data integration tool to set the data point integrations. It supports many different types of data source and targets. One that was important for us was salesforce which helped make the decision.
What do you dislike about the product?
We had some challenges wth their sales team who were in such hurry to close the deal weren't allowing us to test the tool with needed integrations and environments properly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had many different sources from where the data had to be collected into two major destinations. We had nearly 15 data sources which had sources like RMBMS, files, SF, stream, etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a good tools with less frill. I would recommend it if it fits your requirements. It is good for data transfer and replication and wouldn't recommend for ETL.
Low barrier to entry but gets pricey
What do you like best about the product?
Fivetran is the defacto ETL SaaS product out there. Fivetran has a low barrier to entry and is reliable, and the interface is intuitive. Getting setup and working is comparatively quick. Documentation is very well done and has been easy to find and use.
What do you dislike about the product?
It gets pricey fast. I've seen bills where our ETL costs were higher than our warehousing costs. While it is mostly set and forget, there are times when additional configuration changes were necessary to fix issues as we scaled.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it for ETL from our OLTP databases to our OLAP databases. Fivetran has kept our data moving without significant investment or management, this has allowed us to focus elsewhere.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Their discounting scheme is a bit opaque. Price it out first and understand your costs.
Fivetran, a before and after in ETL
What do you like best about the product?
The simplest form to send data from a source to our data warehouse
What do you dislike about the product?
the delay they have in the Interface .
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data transfer from source to data warehouse, with data normalization
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Implement it, it is expensive in the year, but it is worth it, as it simplifies data transfer, it is ideal for start-ups
Absolutely scam, don't ever sign a contract with them
What do you like best about the product?
The product works itself. If you have the budget and want to build your ETL pipeline, Fivetran works.
What do you dislike about the product?
Signing a contract with them means that you will pay for it and they won't provide the service. Terrible customer service. They hired non-technical people to do customer support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
You can build your ETL pipeline with Fivetran if you have the budget and developers.
Tool for developers mostly
What do you like best about the product?
- Open pricing information
- Flexible payment plans
- Solid number of connectors (however, there is an issue -> see downsides)
- Flexible payment plans
- Solid number of connectors (however, there is an issue -> see downsides)
What do you dislike about the product?
- The connectors break every second week, and Fivetran doesn't monitor that - they only learn from the tickets
- CS team will rather tell you to explore REST API calls on your own and will not proactively explore the technical issue. This can be an issue if you are a non-technical person
- The service is quite pricy and you will be charged even for downtimes because of their monetization approach
- Response time is not reliable, sometimes it might take 2-3 working days to reply to the ticket
- CS team will rather tell you to explore REST API calls on your own and will not proactively explore the technical issue. This can be an issue if you are a non-technical person
- The service is quite pricy and you will be charged even for downtimes because of their monetization approach
- Response time is not reliable, sometimes it might take 2-3 working days to reply to the ticket
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connecting Google Ads, CRM, Stripe to DWH to get some data insights. An initial configuration is relatively fast and relatively straightforward.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Only use if you can debug technical problems
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