We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and Zapier based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The flexibility that Azure Data Factory offers is great."
"The data factory agent is quite good and programming or defining the value of jobs, processes, and activities is easy."
"Allows more data between on-premises and cloud solutions"
"The security of the agent that is installed on-premises is very good."
"It's extremely consistent."
"ADF is another ETL tool similar to Informatica that can transform data or copy it from on-prem to the cloud or vice versa. Once we have the data, we can apply various transformations to it and schedule our pipeline according to our business needs. ADF integrates with Databricks. We can call our Databricks notebooks and schedule them via ADF."
"The trigger scheduling options are decently robust."
"The feature I found most helpful in Azure Data Factory is the pipeline feature, including being able to connect to different sources. Azure Data Factory also has built-in security, which is another valuable feature."
"Zapier is a really good tool for connecting multiple different platforms and data sources. For example, with Quickbase, I can easily integrate data from other sources like AWS or task-tracking platforms such as ClickUp or Asana."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is very intuitive and has a very flat learning curve."
"Webhooks are the most valuable feature of Zapier."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"There are a few valuable features, like the stability that it comes with and also the number of features that it offers. I've used other services like Pabbly, but they don't offer similar numbers of applications that Zapier has or allows to integrate with – it's maximum."
"Zapier is user friendly and makes it easy to integrate different tools. It has a drag and drop functionality which makes it easy to connect environments."
"We find it effortless to set up. We really don't have to do anything other than finding the application in the Zapier catalog. And as long as the application has been re-integrated into Zapier, they're able to then just provide the connection details and hook it up."
"The ability to connect web applications to trigger actions in another app after having enriched, formatted, delayed, grouped, and filtered is really valuable for many businesses."
"In the next release, it's important that some sort of scheduler for running tasks is added."
"Snowflake connectivity was recently added and if the vendor provided some videos on how to create data then that would be helpful."
"A room for improvement in Azure Data Factory is its speed. Parallelization also needs improvement."
"Azure Data Factory should be cheaper to move data to a data center abroad for calamities in case of disasters."
"Sometimes I need to do some coding, and I'd like to avoid that. I'd like no-code integrations."
"Data Factory's cost is too high."
"There's space for improvement in the development process of the data pipelines."
"When the record fails, it's tough to identify and log."
"It is not worth the money if you have a little bit of a technical mind...Zapier is not able to set up different modules. When automation doesn't work, it's not that easy to find why it didn't work."
"My biggest concern with Zapier would be their pricing strategy."
"The pricing of the solution is quite expensive."
"Zapier needs to improve in the same way most RPA solutions should, such as Robocorp, Make, or UiPath. They are not good at helping you find the connections that you need for the problem that you have. For example, if need something on Instagram. I'm going to have to do research for hours to be able to find the components or the app, which is going to do what I need it to do. It makes it difficult to use the system when you don't know what to use."
"I would like to see them improve the Quickbase integration. Currently, it only allows triggering actions when records are added, but it would be more useful if we could also trigger actions when records are modified or deleted."
"At the moment, they allow a limited number of apps. I look forward to getting more apps for each package."
"Zapier could be a little faster, but that might not be possible. I would encourage Zapier to make more API endpoints for each application"
"Zapier needs more YouTube or video tutorials or more training for people. That would help a lot. In particular, Zapier should have documentation for every connector. Its documentation needs to be more detailed and visual."
Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while Zapier is ranked 10th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while Zapier is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Data Factory writes "The data factory agent is quite good but pricing needs to be more transparent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zapier writes "A tool for automation purposes requiring an easy initial setup while offering a very helpful technical support team ". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer, Snowflake and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Zapier is most compared with AWS Glue, Alteryx Designer, Tray.io, MuleSoft Composer and SnapLogic. See our Azure Data Factory vs. Zapier report.
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