Alpha Serve vs. Fivetran

No code and prebuilt templates are very easy and convenient for anyone without programming skills to adopt and use it. User Interface and Role based reporting helps business and application users for their specific reporting needs. For day-to-day activities where only, few reports are needed this tool felt as less appropriate

Incentivized

Fivetran's business model justifies the use-case where we require data from a single source basically a lot of data but if the requirement is not on the heavier side, Fivetran comes to costly operation when compared to its peers. Otherwise, I'll recommend Fivetran for stability and update and seamless service provider.

Incentivized

• Advanced Filtering Options
• Convenient User Interface
• Different User Roles

Incentivized

• Easily connects to source data using delivered connectors
• Transforms data into standard models and schemas
• Has very good documentation to help quickly setup connectors

Incentivized

• Frequency of Data Refresh
• Pricing
• Reliable Support

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• Very difficult to get connectors enhanced if a specific needed object is not supported by them
• Depending on the edition needed and the data volumes, can get quite expensive

Incentivized

Simplicity of the API is easy any developer for the initial API integration and HTTPS for the secure and encryption of the data. Various data applications can be combined for consolidated reporting and exporting capabilities of the report. Added advantage is using the incremental refresh, which only sends the new or changed data.

Incentivized

Very easy and intuitive to setup and maintain as there usually are not that many options. Very well documented (e.g. how to setup each connector, how the schema looks like, any specific features of this connector etc.). Also the operation is intuitive, e.g. you have status pages, log pages, configuration pages etc. for each connector.

Incentivized

It runs pretty well and gets our data from point A to point cluster quickly enough. Honestly, it's not something I think about unless it breaks and that's pretty rare.

Incentivized

Integrated user interface similar to ServiceNow along with multiple filtering options and export the report. Different role for administrative task and to view only roles for end users. Incremental refresh helped in load balance by getting only the new or changed data. Consolidated reports for various business applications and HTTPS layer for sending the data.

Incentivized

We never seriously considered using anything else. Our data engineers had used Fivetran extensively in previous roles so when it came time to make a decision, there wasn't much of a process. They gladly signed the contract with Fivetran pretty quickly.

Incentivized

• Pre-built templates
• User Interface
• Cost is the negative impact

Incentivized

• It has been very positive in serving BI team with new source requests
• It has been OK at scaling to match as data volumes as source data size grows

Incentivized