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Fivetran Primary Use Case

Mediha Šiljić - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Data Engineer at Sensilab
Fivetran is our main ETL tool. We use it primarily to extract data from different data sources and load it to our data warehouse. We don't do any transformations using Fivetran, as it is primarily used just for data extraction. View full review »
MS
Founder at Vichinth
The primary use case for Fivetran is integrating with multiple data sources. We explored this use case when considering Fivetran. View full review »
Nicole  Jacobs - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We have implemented Fivetran at client sites to connect to various platforms like Dynamics 365 and SharePoint. My objective was to determine which solution was better for handling geospatial data.

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Hrittik Saha - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Enterprise Architect(Data Analyst) at Dyson

I work in a company where Fivetran is being used, and we pay the licenses to them. We use it as a customer with a lot of different sources to our databases, such as Google Cloud Storage. Fivetran is used to establish data connections in the pipeline, for example, from SAP S4HANA to Google Cloud Storage.

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Manoj Bansal - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Data Engineering, Governance, Operation and Analytics Platform at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

At our company, we are using Fivetran for change data capture and to sync between two different databases using the high volume replication feature. 

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Erik Jones - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of BI and Analytics at HyperScience

We have a number of different data sources that we collect information in from; for example, Salesforce for sales, Marketo for marketing, NetSuite for finance. We wanted to centralize all that data into a data warehouse, which is why we use Fivetran to manage all of those data pipelines.

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Radovan Bacovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our company uses the solution for the extraction part of data warehousing and ETL or ELT processing. Once we extract, we use Snowflake to database as soon as possible. Later on, we process the data. 

We currently have five to ten users with no significant growth plans. We recently added one new team member and he is already accessing the solution. 

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reviewer1715364 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at a photography company with 11-50 employees

We use Fivetran for bidirectional data synchronizations between systems.

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reviewer2108010 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Data Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

For this project, we are using both Fivetran and HVR; however, HVR has a limited number of connections, with only around 30 sources, whereas Fivetran has around 200 source connections. Therefore, if we are unable to connect with HVR, we are connecting with Fivetran.

Fivetran is a SaaS solution, so it is always on a public cloud.

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reviewer2108010 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Data Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

This solution was previously called HVR, which stands for "high-volume replicator." It is now part of Fivetran. It is useful when you need to migrate a large volume of data. We use it for massive data migrations from 30 or 40 sources, including the file system database and some transitional systems. 

In our case, we had historical and active data. Everything was in on-premise Oracle databases. The historical data itself was around 4.5 terabytes. Fivetran is currently deployed in an AWS EC2 instance.

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reviewer2038452 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Director of BI and Analytics at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We use FiveTran to do data integration and pipelines into data warehouses for analytics. We do the typical use case of bringing in from our internal systems, data syncing, change data capture, as well as bringing from third-party systems, like Salesforce, NetSuite, and even Google Analytics and web platforms. We use the solution primarily in an ELT framework. 

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Stephen Ebrey - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Consultant at Omaze

We are ingesting data from various SaaS tools.

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Vijayant Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Data Architect at a tech consulting company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have multiple data available from multiple sources. We use the tool to collect the data in one data warehouse.

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Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution to replicate data from our ERP.

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Cledwyn Menezes - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Celebal Technologies

Real-time streaming and SAP are the primary use cases of the solution.

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reviewer2034351 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead Data & Analytics at a hospitality company with 501-1,000 employees

We use this solution for integration with different data sources to push data to our data warehouse, BigQuery and regularly updating the data.

We have four people using this solution in our business. 

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SK
Engineering manager data at Arrive logistic

I primarily use Fivetran to reduce the operational cost time of data engineering.

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JM
Assistance Vice President for Data managment at Capgemini

We are doing a proof of concept, and we are still building the operating model. We are using it for moving data from one source to another. We will be using HVR with Snowflake.

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MR
Principal Data Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Fivetran is used as an ingestion tool to move data between different sources and destinations. It orchestrates a series of pipelines that can be easily set up manually without any technical experience. These pipelines can run daily according to a specific schedule, depending on the licensing level. Fivetran addresses schema changes and updates destination tables unless there's a major difference, which is helpful in integrating systems from third parties.

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John Parker - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Data Science and Strategy at Innive Inc

We use Fivetran to build data engineering pipelines. It helps us do a lot of data transformation and data extraction. 

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it_user1284903 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I'm responsible for replicating the data from one source to another. It is constantly running, and we do nothing other than looking at monitoring reports. Once it is established, it is pretty much hands-off.

We are not using its latest version. We are slow to migrate to the new version. We wait until there is a need to upgrade, and we are generally one or two versions behind.

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MR
Principal Data Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We mainly use Fivetran for ETL.

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reviewer1551972 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I mainly use HVR Software for replication and migration.

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it_user1005216 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We primarily use the solution for business intelligence.

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reviewer893925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Integrated Support and Planning & Project Management Specialist at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

We are currently using the private model of this solution. It is CDC and we take data from an OLTP system to populate a data warehouse and to populate a reporting system. 

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MR
Principal Data Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Fivetran is an ingestion tool used to move data between different sources and destinations. It helps orchestrate pipelines that can be set up manually without technical experience. It facilitates daily pipeline runs based on a specific schedule determined by the licensing level.

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