Fivetran is an automated data movement platform designed to centralize data from various sources to destinations like data warehouses and data lakes. It enables organizations, from startups to global enterprises, to accelerate insights, optimize operations, and power data-driven decisions.
Key features include:
- Extensive Connectivity: Offers 700+ pre-built connectors for SaaS applications, databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, SAP ERP), ERPs, and files.
- Automated Data Pipelines: Reliably and securely moves critical business data with high-performance pipelines.
- Flexible Deployment: Supports Hybrid Deployment for moving data within your own environment to meet specific security needs.
- Managed Data Lake Service: Lands standardized, governed data in your data lake using query-ready open table formats.
- Custom Connectors: Provides a Connector SDK for building custom pipelines for niche data sources.
- Data Transformations: Accelerates insights with automated transformations and Fivetran Quickstart data models for analytics-ready tables.
- Robust Security & Governance: Built-in rigorous security (SOC 1 & 2, GDPR, HIPAA BAA, ISO 27001, PCI DSS Level 1, HITRUST) and governance capabilities to know, protect, and scale data.
- rETL: Activates data back into data applications.
Use cases include powering real-time analytics, database replication, AI workflows, and cloud migrations, as demonstrated by customer stories like Jetblue, Autodesk, Pitney Bowes, and National Australia Bank. The platform boasts impressive benchmarks, syncing over 9.1 Petabytes of data and handling 22.2M+ schema changes and 37.7M+ transformation models per month.

