Fivetran

It just works

What do you like best? It works with little intervention and time from my team to manage What do you dislike? Documentation could be a bit more detailed What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Data replication from source data to our data lake. It is easy to maintain

Fivetran made it incredibly easy to get the data we needed.

What do you like best? Working with the team at Fivetran was awesome. They made it super easy to get our data project over the finish line and helped us with every step of the process. What do you dislike? Nothing. There was only one hiccup in identifying the right data source from our advertising platforms, but because we were able to get all the historical data it really wasn't an issue once we located the right source. What problems are you solving with the product? What ...

FIveTran made our data pipeline easy to get up and running!

What do you like best? They have a broad range of connectors that should suit most businesses and their support is excellent. What do you dislike? Re-syncing complete datasets can be costly under their new pricing model, but overall using FiveTran is cheaper for our company than hiring full-time data engineering staff. For our size and scale, their solutions work really well. Recommendations to others considering the product: Consider the cost of FiveTran against hiring your own ...

Fivetran is magic--transports what you want, all the time, with very little effort

What do you like best? Works with everything I want to bring data from, delivers it consistently (to BigQuery for me), and just works. What do you dislike? It's not the simplest thing to write your own functions to integrate from APIs that aren't natively supported, but at least it's an option, and it works well. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We funnel all of the data we need (from SFTP sites, from Google Sheets, from DynamoDB, ...

Resilient and capable pipelining tool

What do you like best? Wide variety of connectors, config vs. code, a new compelling pricing model, excellent support. Also a high bar for security has been met for our usage given the architecture. What do you dislike? So far there has been little to dislike, support cases have been rare and well attended to. Pricing under the older connector based model was starting to look prohibitive but the consumption model has eliminated that concern. Commercial processes are somewhat immature. ...

Simple setup and good UI

What do you like best? FiveTran is a good solution for our needs. It was easy to connect to our various data sources and start getting the data into Snowflake. We connected to 10 different sources in one weekend to get started. What do you dislike? At times the error messages were helpful in figuring out the issue. Recommendations to others considering the product: It is a great solution to connect with your data warehouse. What problems are you solving with the product? What ...

Best Replication Tool

What do you like best? 1. Wide range of connectors 2. Dynamic column creation in Target if source add some column 3. SQL DB CDC option What do you dislike? 1. Errors are not user friendly. 2. Transformation option only available for SQL DB What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Migrated our Tradition ETL system to ELT. Fivetran helped us in migrationg from ETL to ELT. Raw data into datalake (Snowfalke) by just few just few clicks

Easy to use and reliable ETL

What do you like best? Ease of use, and consistency. The UX allows for clear understanding of the sync processes, and troubleshooting with clear error descriptions. What do you dislike? There is really nothing I dislike about Fivetran. Recommendations to others considering the product: Ensure the integrations will work for you, test it out. Netsuite is the tricky one but has been working very well for us. Fivetran provides what we need and takes away the headache of having to ...

FiveTran is great

What do you like best? It is very easy to use and virtually replaces the need for a data engineer in some aspects. What do you dislike? It is a little bit pricy with the per connector cost. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Shoveling data into snowflake out of several sources.

fivetran takes the pain away for managing etls

What do you like best? - fivetran takes the pain away for managing etls for standard vendors - fivetran allows non-technical users to interact with our warehouse with csv uploads functionality - fivetran transformations works well for us with webhook connectors to dynamically load data into our warehouse - for anonymizing data using column hashing feature while doing replication from our master to dev rds instance - this helps with gdpr concerns and keeps our dev database from ...