Fivetran vs webMethods.io comparison

Fivetran and IBM are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. Fivetran is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.8, while IBM is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.1. Fivetran holds a 5.7% mindshare in CDI, compared to IBM’s 4.4% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Fivetran users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

webMethods.io and Fivetran compete in the integration and data management domain. While webMethods.io focuses on comprehensive integration services, Fivetran has an advantage in data pipeline management due to its ease of use and minimal setup requirements.

Features: webMethods.io offers a robust Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solution, comprehensive debugging, and XML management. It provides a wide range of tools suited for complex integration tasks, making it ideal for large-scale enterprises. Fivetran, on the other hand, specializes in managing data pipelines with an extensive library of data connectors, facilitating straightforward data replication with minimal manual intervention. It is particularly appreciated for its ease of connection setup.

Room for Improvement: webMethods.io needs to enhance its documentation and improve API portal features. Stability issues and the complexity of configuration, especially for scaling and trading partners, present challenges. Fivetran users seek improvements in data pipeline observability and a reduction in the pricing model for heavy data usage. More integration capabilities for additional data sources and better customization options could also enhance its offering.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: webMethods.io provides versatile deployment options supporting hybrid environments, but faces challenges with complex on-premises setups. Fivetran excels with easier cloud deployments and an intuitive interface, favoring quick setups. Both solutions offer satisfactory customer service, though webMethods.io occasionally experiences delays in support response and complexity in issue resolution.

Pricing and ROI: webMethods.io is often regarded as expensive with complex licensing, suited for larger enterprises with long-term integration plans. Fivetran also appears costly, especially with extensive data sources, but offers flexible pricing models that scale with usage. Both platforms deliver significant ROI through efficiency gains and operational cost reductions, though the ROI for webMethods.io may vary more significantly depending on the implementation scope.

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Categories and Ranking

Fivetran

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (12th), Data Replication (3rd)

webMethods.io

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business-to-Business Middleware (3rd), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (3rd), Managed File Transfer (MFT) (10th), API Management (10th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of Fivetran is 5.7%, up from 4.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of webMethods.io is 4.4%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Erik Jones

Head of BI and Analytics at HyperScience

Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI

Fivetran has room for improvement in data pipeline observability. The Fivetran logs are fairly basic, compared to, for example, the insight Fivetran gives into helping users understanding the performance of data pipelines. So I think their observability into the pipeline itself could be improved. In addition, Fivetran is in the very early stages of allowing other companies to access its metadata API, but that's something that could use improvement, and I know that they're working on right now. We use a separate tool for "reverse ETL", which is the opposite of what Fivetran does; it pushes data from your data warehouse back out to business applications. If Fivetran pulls data from those same applications, they should also enable users to push it back. I would love to do both ETL and reverse ETL in the same tool. It would be nice if Fivetran offered both their regular offering plus the reverse ETL option as well.

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Michele Illiano

Head of Division at Innovery

Can function as an ESB along with the core product, with decent integration of message protocols

I have noticed that webMethods ActiveTransfer has had problems when handling large files. For example, when we receive (and perform operations on) files that are larger than about 16 MB, the software starts losing performance. This is why, for most customers who have to deal with big files, I suggest that they use a product other than ActiveTransfer. I would like to note that this problem mainly concerns large files that undergo extra operations, such assigning, unassigning, or file translation. When these operations take place on large files, ActiveTransfer will use up a lot of resources. Within the product itself, I also believe that there is room for improvement in terms of optimization when it comes to general performance. I suspect that the issues underlying poor optimization are because it is all developed in Java. That is, all the objects and functions that are used need to be better organized, especially when it comes to big files but also overall. webMethods ActiveTransfer was born as an ESB to handle messages, and these messages were typically very short, i.e. small in size. A message is data that you have to send to an application, where it must be received in real-time and possibly processed or acknowledged elsewhere in the system as well. So, because it was initially designed for small messages, it struggles with performance when presented with very large files. All this to say, I suggest that they have an engineer reevaluate the architecture of the product in order to consider cases where large files are sent, and not only small ones. As for new features, compared to other products in the market, I think Software AG should be more up to date when it comes to extra protocol support, especially those protocols that other solutions have included in their products by default. Whenever we need to add an unsupported protocol, we have to go through the effort of custom development in order to work with it. Also, all the banks are obligated to migrate to the new standards, and big companies are all handling translations and operating their libraries with the new protocol formats. But webMethods ActiveTransfer doesn't seem to be keeping up with this evolution. Thus, they should aim to be more compliant in future, along the lines of their competitors such as IBM and Primeur.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The compare feature is the most valuable piece of it."

"The ease of setting up the connectors and transformations is highly valuable."

"SysTrack load is the best feature."

"Fivetran can perform data migration incredibly fast, depending on the source and target."

"You can manage all of your connectors individually, which gives you a very good ability to trace which one of your ETL processes is running and when."

"The simplicity and scalability are the strongest features of Fivetran."

"The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."

"It is easy for users to get accustomed to the tool due to its gentle learning curve and clear error transparency."

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"High throughput and excellent scalability."

"All of the components are very independent but are tied together to give the business value."

"The most valuable aspect of this solution for me has been the configuration-based UI. Once you get the hang of it, it enables you to easily develop an API. In addition, it has many in-built policies that are quite handy."

"It has a good integration server, designer, and a very good API portal."

"Ease of implementation and flexibility to hold the business logic are the most valuable features."

"The cloud version of the solution is very easy to set up."

"The MFT component of webMethods, for example, is easy to set up and convenient to use. It handles files very efficiently and it is easy to automate tasks with complex schedules. Monitoring is centralized to MWS which can be used to monitor other products as well (Trading Networks, BPM, MFT, etc.)"

"Some of the key features are the integration platform, query mechanism, message handling within the bus, and the rules engine. We've had a really good experience with webMethods Integration Server."

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Cons

"HVR Software's technical support could be improved. Whenever we log a case, the response that we get from the support is a bit delayed."

"We experience cost issues because Fivetran is charged on a usage basis. When you reach a certain level, the tool should focus on reducing the costs. The solution is expensive when you are moving gigabytes and petabytes of data. It should also focus more on REST APIs and webhooks."

"I would like for them to incorporate additional transformations. A valuable aspect of the product is that it does inflight transformations and that could be expanded."

"There is not a lot of options to customize the pipeline, and the cost is high."

"We use a separate tool for "reverse ETL", which is the opposite of what Fivetran does; it pushes data from your data warehouse back out to business applications. If Fivetran pulls data from those same applications, they should also enable users to push it back. I would love to do both ETL and reverse ETL in the same tool."

"Fivetran is very expensive for data sources with a lot of rows, such as email data. I would like to see cheaper pricing for data sources like that."

"Fivetran could improve in the area of customization, especially in how they socialize their tools."

"The documentation is decent, but it's hard to find information online about Fivetran. For example, if you try to search for an error code, you won't find much information about it in forums."

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"The deployment should be simplified."

"The installation process should be simplified for first time users and be made more user-friendly."

"Prices should be reduced, ideally by up to 30% for long-term customers like us."

"t doesn't represent OOP very well, just a method and proprietary interface called IData."

"There should be better logging, or a better dashboard, to allow you to see see the logs of the services."

"The product's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"With performance, there is room for improvement in regards to if we would like to put another extra layer of security on it, such as SSL. This is affecting their performance quite significantly. They need to improve the process of managing the SSL and other things inside their solutions, so there will not be quite such a significant impact to the performance."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I've heard that the license for HVR is a bit costly compared to its competitors, but since it's reliable and efficient, I think the customer shouldn't be bothered about the cost."

"The solution is affordable."

"Fivetran is very expensive, and its database-driven pricing model is outdated."

"I rate the pricing a six out of ten."

"The product is reasonably expensive"

"The pricing model is okay and mid to large companies will not have an issue with it."

"I don't have the exact information, but I know it is high, and it is on a yearly basis. There is no additional cost for what we're doing. We're always open to doing things cheaper, so we might potentially implement a different solution."

"In the first year, we were given a very good discount. It was approximately 20,000 Euros per year. In the third year, we purchased credit for two years and the price was 33,000 Euros per year."

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"Sometimes we don't have a very clear idea what the licensing will entail at first, because it can be very customizable. On one hand, this can be a good thing, because it can be tailored to a specific customer's needs. But on the other hand it can also be an issue when some customer asks, "What's the cost?" and we can't yet give them an accurate answer."

"Based on our team discussions and feedback, it is pretty costly because they charge us for each transmission."

"It is an expensive tool. I rate the product price a nine out of ten, where ten means it is very expensive."

"webMethods.io is expensive. We have multiple components, and you need to pay for each of them."

"Some who consider this solution often avoid it due to its high price."

"This is an expensive product and we may replace it with something more reasonably priced."

"Pricing has to be negotiated with the local Software AG representative. SAG can always prepare an appropriate pricing model for every client."

"I do think webMethods is coming under increasing pressure when it comes to their price-to-feature value proposition. It's probably the single biggest strategic risk they have. They're very expensive in their industry. They've been raising the price recently, especially when compared with their competitors."

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Educational Organization

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Computer Software Company

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Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

13%

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Questions from the Community

What's the deal with the HVR software acquisition?

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Does HVR Software provide reliable insights?

I honestly can't think of another data replication software that can give you better statistics and insight than HVR Software. There's the feature for topology and statistics and both of them can ...

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How much traffic can HVR Software handle?

As someone who works at a company where a high volume of information is replicated and has tried several data replication softwares, I can tell you that you're looking at the right one. HVR Softwar...

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What do you like most about Built.io Flow?

The tool helps us to streamline data integration. Its BPM is very strong and powerful. The solution helps us manage digital transformation.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Built.io Flow?

webMethods.io is expensive. We have multiple components, and you need to pay for each of them.

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What needs improvement with Built.io Flow?

webMethods.io needs to incorporate ChatGPT to enhance user experience. It can offer a customized user experience.

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Built.io Flow, webMethods Integration Server, webMethods Trading Networks, webMethods ActiveTransfer, webMethods.io API

Overview

Fivetran, the global leader in data movement, is trusted by companies like OpenAI, LVMH, Pfizer, Verizon and Spotify to centralize data from SaaS applications, databases, files, and other sources into cloud destinations, including data lakes. With high-performance pipelines, seamless interoperability, and enterprise-grade security, Fivetran empowers organizations to modernize their data infrastructure, power analytics and AI, ensure compliance, and achieve transformative business outcomes. Learn more at Fivetran.com

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webMethods.io Integration is a powerful integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that provides a combination of capabilities offered by ESBs, data integration systems, API management tools, and B2B gateways.

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