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Fivetran vs Workato comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

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Sentiment score
9.0
Workato's customer support is highly rated for its professional service, real-time chat, and consistently high technical support ratings.
 

Room For Improvement

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Sentiment score
3.4
Workato needs updates for improved API management, app capabilities, EDI, cloud presence, low-code customization, ETL, licensing, and stability.
 

Scalability Issues

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Sentiment score
6.8
Workato is scalable, supports various licenses, integrates with many apps, and benefits medium to enterprise-level users with minimal maintenance.
 

Setup Cost

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Workato's pricing starts at 50K per year, with additional costs for add-ons, advanced features, and varying licensing options.
 

Stability Issues

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Users praise Workato's performance and stability, built on AWS, despite occasional downtimes, with high ratings between 7-10.
 

Valuable Features

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8.5
Workato is a user-friendly, low-code platform with pre-built connectors and drag-and-drop automation, ideal for non-technical users.
 

Categories and Ranking

Fivetran
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (13th), Data Replication (3rd), Cloud Data Integration (6th)
Workato
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Fivetran and Workato aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Fivetran is designed for Data Integration and holds a mindshare of 2.2%, up 2.0% compared to last year.
Workato, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 4.0% mindshare, down 5.0% since last year.
Data Integration
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Erik Jones - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Rohit Sircar - PeerSpot reviewer
Great automation and strong workflows useful for integration
The initial setup is quite straightforward. When connecting Workato with your on-premises system, you have to install the Workato agent on your network. It was not complex but a long process to configure and settle. Workato has not gone live for us yet, so only the developers are currently using it. But in terms of users, we will have close to 250 and maybe 30 additional direct users. We are seeing a lot of different use cases where we can add new recipes because we started small, and there are many different areas where we can implement Workato for automation.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
28%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Educational Organization
41%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What's the deal with the HVR software acquisition?
As a user of HVR Software I followed this deal closely. Fivetran is apparently trying to establish more in its sector and by buying an already established data replication software, they become som...
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 ...
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...
What do you like most about Workato?
Workato is low code, intuitive, and easy to use.
What needs improvement with Workato?
Workato's Extract, transform, and load (ETL) and extract, load, and transform (ELT) are not very strong and could be improved for very complex transformations. Workato's licensing model is a bit co...
What is your primary use case for Workato?
We use Workato for iPaaS, which is like a middleware enterprise service bus. We use it for transformation, quick data migrations from one platform to another, and building connectivity. It's got ov...
 

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Sample Customers

DocuSign, Oldcastle Infrastructure, Crossmedia, Talkdesk, Chubbies, Brandwatch
Panera Bread, Berkshire Hathaway, Salesforce, Box, Splunk, ComScore, IBM, Complex Media, Microsoft, Home Depot, Cisco, News Corp, Braille Institute
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