Overall Satisfaction with Task Factory
We use several components in our daily process to import data into our data warehouse. It allowed us to easily import Sharepoint data and grab emailed Excel attachments to process. It made it easier to accept and parse JSON data.
- The ability to use the email source to play with individual messages in a mailbox is key. We get a lot of attachments that we download based on attachment extension and subject content to place them in network directories for further processing.
- The ability to pull from Sharepoint lists that easily was a game changer. We can allow our users to maintain content that we can then consume and push to our data warehouse.
- The REST source was easy to implement and utilize to pull data from vendor APIs.
- The documentation could use some polishing, though I have seen significant improvement now that SentryOne took over.
- Prebuilt templates or examples available for use to jumpstart development efforts.
- We've been able to consolidate our data into one place and automate things to allow our users to spend their time wisely instead of on manual processes.
I've been using TF on and off since 2011, so familiarity with the product was key in deciding to retire some of our older components and replace them with TF. Plus, the customer service I received was far and away better than any I had experienced in the past with any tool.