Fivetran vs. Cortana (discontinued)

Fivetran

Cortana (discontinued)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Fivetran	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Fivetran replicates applications, databases, events and files into a high-performance data warehouse, after a five minute setup. The vendor says their standardized cloud pipelines are fully managed and zero-maintenance. The vendor says Fivetran began with a realization: For modern companies using cloud-based software and storage, traditional ETL tools badly underperformed, and the complicated configurations they required often led to project failures. To streamline and accelerate…	$0.01 per credit
Cortana (discontinued)	Score 7.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's Cortana was a general purpose productivity assistant, that has been deprecated as a standalone product.	N/A

Pricing

Fivetran

Cortana (discontinued)

Editions & Modules

Starter: $0.01
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Standard: $0.01
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Enterprise: $0.01
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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Fivetran	Cortana (discontinued)
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Fivetran	Cortana (discontinued)
Considered Both Products	Fivetran Verified User Anonymous Chose Fivetran Matillion requires a lot more initial setup effort and the resulting schemas are also much more "raw" data than the nicely cleaned schemas which Fivetran provides. Therefore it would also require more (manual) post-processing efforts compared to Fivetran. So the savings on time … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fivetran Fivetran is much easier to set up and maintain. Airbyte still had a degree of technical knowledge requirement that we didn't have the resources to commit. Fivetran allowed a non-technical employee to establish pipelines and immediately start using the data without having to … Incentivized Helpful? Uddipan Mukherjee Big Data Specialist Chose Fivetran Fivetran is a powerful data replication tool that supported use cases for organization-wide data platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fivetran 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 Helpful? Sudarshan Kothari Senior Data Scientist Chose Fivetran Fivetran came well with the connectors' availability and updates with the source changes. We had an idea on data requirements in our case which helped us to work out on cost implication and take a decision for Fivetran as a data provider for our organization. These were 2 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fivetran Fivetran is more intuitive and easier to use than code-based ETL/ELT tools. The data modelling Fivetran performs makes the data more usable more quickly. Fivetran's dbt support and integration is unique. Incentivized Helpful? Scott Laronge Head of Data Science Chose Fivetran Honestly, we haven't done much investigation in a while, it just works 360 days of the year. The other five days there may be a hiccup that will throw us a day off of data, but it gets caught up in the end. Incentivized Helpful?	Cortana (discontinued) Verified User Anonymous Chose Cortana (discontinued) IBM Watson Assistant has been early into this market and has improved a lot over time compared to Azure AI Cortana. More documentation related to the services. But Ease of integration Azure AI ranks over IBM Watson Assistant. And again in terms of services offered under the … Incentivized Helpful? Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial Chose Cortana (discontinued) - Lower acquisition cost (my institution has other contracts with Microsoft which lowers the global cost of many tools and technologies) - More learning and study material available (which facilitates learning by teams - More intuitive technology Incentivized Helpful? Rich Mephan Director of Research and Development Chose Cortana (discontinued) Have not evaluate any other similar products, we are a Microsoft Software house so it was a logical decision to use Cortana over other alternatives. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Fivetran

Cortana (discontinued)

Data Source Connection

Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
	Fivetran 10.0 Ratings 19% above category average	Cortana (discontinued) - Ratings
Connect to traditional data sources	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Transformations

Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
	Fivetran 7.4 Ratings 9% below category average	Cortana (discontinued) - Ratings
Simple transformations	7.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Complex transformations	7.30 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Modeling

Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
	Fivetran 6.2 Ratings 23% below category average	Cortana (discontinued) - Ratings
Data model creation	2.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Metadata management	4.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Collaboration	7.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Testing and debugging	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Governance

Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
	Fivetran 8.3 Ratings 3% above category average	Cortana (discontinued) - Ratings
Integration with data quality tools	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Fivetran	Cortana (discontinued)
Small Businesses	Skyvia Score 10.0 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Enterprises	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10	No answers on this topic
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Fivetran	Cortana (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (0 ratings)	7.1 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Fivetran	Cortana (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	[Fivetran is] very well suited when you are using popular and common data sources, such as the major ad platforms, and SaaS platforms such as Salesforce. If the majority of your data sources are custom internal applications or databases, may be less value as you aren't leveraging the delivered connectors. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	As a provider of software applications to the legal market there is not a huge amount that the Cortana Intelligence suite can be utilised for though at the speed that new features are being added I suspect that will change very quickly. However the current functionality is clearly really well suited for e-commerce companies or vertical markets where process is very prescriptive and linear. Incentivized Rich Mephan Director of Research and Development Read full review
Pros	Simplified ETL from a wide range of data sources Stable and painless data pipeline Granular control over what parts of the data source are loaded Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Ease of Integration for all AI services. Reduced time for development. A one stop for all AI related services. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Doesn't include support for a Kinesis stream as a data source so couldn't be used for some use cases under consideration Doesn't support the use of "BEFORE DELETE" triggers No support for serverless Aurora Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The language understanding service can be a little overwhelming at first trying to understand the differnces between intents and entities Incentivized Rich Mephan Director of Research and Development Read full review
Usability	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	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 Scott Laronge Head of Data Science Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Fivetran came well with the connectors' availability and updates with the source changes. We had an idea on data requirements in our case which helped us to work out on cost implication and take a decision for Fivetran as a data provider for our organization. These were 2 places where Fivetran out-performed, other vendors. Incentivized Sudarshan Kothari Senior Data Scientist Read full review	IBM Watson Assistant has been early into this market and has improved a lot over time compared to Azure AI Cortana. More documentation related to the services. But Ease of integration Azure AI ranks over IBM Watson Assistant. And again in terms of services offered under the ecosystem, Azure AI precedes IBM Watson Assitant. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Saved a lot of manual development days (unable to quantify) Accelerated the time to add a new source to the data warehouse a lot Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We do not yet have measurements and impact indicators for the adoption of Azure IA. But I believe it will be of high impact in the years to come. We can improve our analysis and optimize team time We can improve our digitization Incentivized Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial Read full review
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