Sr. Director of BI and Analytics at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 29, 2022
There's the general feature of the platform where it just makes it very easy to integrate different things, but I would say a specific difference is their integration of DBT,.
Integrated Support and Planning & Project Management Specialist at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Aug 19, 2019
The ease of usability is the most valuable feature. It's very easy and quick to set up. It also has a central hub as opposed to GoldenGate which is one direct interface. For GoldenGate I would have needed three interfaces whereas with HVR I have a central interface that manages everything.
Sr. Director of BI and Analytics at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 29, 2022
Some of the pain points we're looking at are trying to integrate some of the items in the Microsoft stack, so SharePoint and Excel, and then some of the newer Azure services.
We use a separate tool for "reverse ETL", which is the opposite of what Fivetran does; it pushes data from your data warehouse back out to business applications. If Fivetran pulls data from those same applications, they should also enable users to push it back. I would love to do both ETL and reverse ETL in the same tool.
The customization could improve because Fivetran gives more thought to people who don't want to manage analytics workflows rather than engineers who want to be able to customize pipelines more thoroughly.
Associate Data Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
Feb 20, 2023
The documentation is decent, but it's hard to find information online about Fivetran. For example, if you try to search for an error code, you won't find much information about it in forums.
Integrated Support and Planning & Project Management Specialist at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Aug 19, 2019
I would like for them to incorporate additional transformations. A valuable aspect of the product is that it does inflight transformations and that could be expanded.
Database Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 17, 2021
The documentation can be laid out better to make it easier to find things, and I really wish there was built-in support for changing passwords.
Some features don't work as advertised for the platform/repository database, and HVR is not always the fastest at getting results.
