Item: Treasure Data
Rating: 9
Author: Mike Galvin

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Shortening the time to market for getting data in the hands of users and easily integrating it into other platforms to centralize this data in a single place was a huge win for us. The ability to then query across data sets from different source systems at a large scale was great. The performance on very large data sets (billions of rows) was pretty good as well.

Pros and Cons

Very easy to get up to speed on the platform, the web interface was simple and easy to use and we were quickly able to leverage our teams existing SQL based skill set without having to know a ton about the underlying HDFS based platform Treasure Data sits on top of.
Speed of development was great and built-in connectors for various cloud data sources and destinations were excellent.
The ability to write directly to data sets for Tableau Online was a nice feature.

The workflow scheduling piece, while very robust was still too code/script heavy for what other integration platforms do easily in a simple UI. The UI will need to improve here to accommodate all the underlying features and functionality that can be implemented via the scripting language.
Updating data does not exist as part of the platform features so you just have to know what you want to use the platform for before implementation. This would be a nice feature enhancement.

Return on Investment

Our clients are seeing immediate returns on their investment because the platform allows them to quickly do what has traditionally taken much longer to get done from an integration platform perspective.

Innovative Uses

None at the moment as we are not directly using the product, rather have implemented it for our customers.

Alternatives Considered

None

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very well suited when you have a need for a simple way to integrate both cloud and on premise software into a central data repository. Do not try to use this as a data warehouse replacement However, it could work nicely as a compliment to any data warehouse considering it's built in snapshot capabilities of all data by default. I was impressed with its "schema-less" design in which changes in upstream systems of source data don't break downstream integrations like many other platforms.

Support Rating

Support has always been very responsive and digs in to help solve any problems. They have a great approach with both beginner users of the product as well as with more experienced users with more in depth questions or challenges.

Treasure Data Customer Support Pros and Cons

Pros	Cons
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response	None

Premium Support

Not Sure

Treasure Data - definitely some hidden gems here

Overall Satisfaction with Treasure Data