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New and upcoming connectors and data models

New and upcoming connectors and data models

Keep track of new releases for our data connectors and data models for dbt with this regularly updated list.

New and upcoming connectors and data models

New and upcoming connectors and data models

Keep track of new releases for our data connectors and data models for dbt with this regularly updated list.

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When are you ready for artificial intelligence and machine learning?

When are you ready for artificial intelligence and machine learning?

How to chart a roadmap to the pinnacle of data science

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Automated date integration for HL7 files

Automated date integration for HL7 files

A continuation of our series on ASCII files; how to ingest data from HL7 files

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How replicating SAP data benefits manufacturing organizations

How replicating SAP data benefits manufacturing organizations

Learn how to overcome the complexity of SAP systems to leverage centralized manufacturing data

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 Fivetran unlocks local data residency for GCP users in Indonesia

Fivetran unlocks local data residency for GCP users in Indonesia

Fivetran’s latest cloud region launch supports GCP hosting in Indonesia

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5 critical features of modern data movement

5 critical features of modern data movement

Look for the following must-haves when you want to move data seamlessly between sources and destinations of all kinds

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Accelerate your data movement with Fivetran at Data + AI Summit 2023!

Accelerate your data movement with Fivetran at Data + AI Summit 2023!

Connect with Fivetran at this year’s Data + AI Summit in San Francisco, CA from June 26th-29th!

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Applying lessons from BI to data science

Applying lessons from BI to data science

Data practitioners should bring best practices from BI, especially automated data integration, to data science.

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Automated data integration for EDI files

Automated data integration for EDI files

A continuation of our series on ASCII files; how to ingest data from EDI files

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Accelerate your data movement with Fivetran at this year’s Snowflake Summit

Accelerate your data movement with Fivetran at this year’s Snowflake Summit

Connect with Fivetran at Snowflake Summit 2023 in Las Vegas from June 26th-29th!

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Transforming data: How an ELT platform can accelerate analytics

Transforming data: How an ELT platform can accelerate analytics

Features like prebuilt data models, version control and integrated scheduling make data transformation faster and more powerful.

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Product thinking for data teams

Product thinking for data teams

To get the most out of data centralization and democratization, treat data assets like products

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Key considerations when choosing a CDC solution

Key considerations when choosing a CDC solution

Change data capture (CDC) allows you to move your data in real time. Learn what matters when choosing a solution for your organization.

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How Fivetran is revolutionizing the Composable CDP landscape

How Fivetran is revolutionizing the Composable CDP landscape

Learn how Fivetran's cloud-native approach is revolutionizing the Composable CDP landscape and empowering organizations to build personalized experiences that drive business outcomes.

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Building a data architecture for long-term success

Building a data architecture for long-term success

Modern data stores give you the flexibility to tailor a data architecture to your needs

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Fivetran expands Business Critical support to GCP

Fivetran expands Business Critical support to GCP

The most secure data movement solution, now available on Google Cloud

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Monitor performance and control costs with the Fivetran Log Connector

Monitor performance and control costs with the Fivetran Log Connector

Learn how we utilize the Fivetran Log Connector to maintain our own Fivetran demo account

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Increasing your clients’ ROI with marketing analytics

Increasing your clients’ ROI with marketing analytics

Agencies can centralize data from 300+ sources and efficiently scale marketing analytics for clients through automation and valuable insights

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6 tips to understand and optimize your Fivetran usage

6 tips to understand and optimize your Fivetran usage

View and modify your usage with ease — so you only use what you need.

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Watch out for "Immortal Time" in conversion rates

Watch out for "Immortal Time" in conversion rates

Learn about "immortal time" and how it impacts conversion rates

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 How to go from spreadsheets to a modern data stack with limited resources

How to go from spreadsheets to a modern data stack with limited resources

Learn how growth consultant Kat Gardiner guides early-stage organizations in developing a scalable data strategy, without breaking the bank.

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How HubSpot’s analytics engineering team gained pipeline autonomy

How HubSpot’s analytics engineering team gained pipeline autonomy

Learn how Oviya Arasu and her team at HubSpot use Fivetran data models and Transformations for dbt Core™ to automate their pipelines and decrease engineering bottlenecks

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Five real-world examples of database analytics

Five real-world examples of database analytics

Our customers share why they chose Fivetran to replicate their database data and how their analytics have improved as a result.

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Unleashing the power of Fivetran and Azure Synapse for accelerated data movement

Unleashing the power of Fivetran and Azure Synapse for accelerated data movement

Say goodbye to constant “One-Offs” and hello to “Set It and Forget It”

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6 steps to building world-class data operations

6 steps to building world-class data operations

Practical advice for starting your journey to analytics excellence

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The small data team’s guide to conquering data

The small data team’s guide to conquering data

All of the tools a small data team needs to turn their disparate data into a centralized data strategy, powered by Fivetran

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Fivetran vs. Hevo Data: Features, pricing, services and more

Fivetran vs. Hevo Data: Features, pricing, services and more

Choosing one over the other can come down to a few key differences. Let’s take a look at both to help you make an informed decision.

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Fivetran + Databricks: Level up your manufacturing operations

Fivetran + Databricks: Level up your manufacturing operations

Fivetran partners with Databricks on their launch of Lakehouse for Manufacturing (L4M)

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Data strategy takeaways from Big Data and AI World 2023

Data strategy takeaways from Big Data and AI World 2023

Sara Seylani, Solution Architect at Fivetran, reflects on the data, technology and espionage expert insights from Big Data and AI World 2023

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How to govern your S3 data lake

How to govern your S3 data lake

S3 Lake Formation with Apache Iceberg enables ACID compliance, the key to data lake governance and regulatory compliance

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Replacing iPaaS workflows with warehouse-centric data pipelines

Replacing iPaaS workflows with warehouse-centric data pipelines

Welcome to the data movement movement. Use Fivetran and Hightouch to replace your existing iPaaS workflows and build warehouse-centric data pipelines.

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Why SQL is a must-have skill for every data analyst

Why SQL is a must-have skill for every data analyst

Learn why SQL is essential for every data analyst’s career and how it upgrades the impact you can make for your organization

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Setting up your first data pipeline

Setting up your first data pipeline

A beginner’s guide to setting up ELT data pipelines

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Launch partnership: Fivetran and Snowflake accelerate manufacturing insights

Launch partnership: Fivetran and Snowflake accelerate manufacturing insights

Accelerate the extraction, loading, storing and transformation of data — including data from SAP systems — for faster, richer manufacturing insights

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Eying efficiency: This is data’s opportunity

Eying efficiency: This is data’s opportunity

Data is the biggest value driver for businesses bringing positive change and enabling near term efficiency.

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What is Fivetran?

What is Fivetran?

And how does it work? Fivetran explained in about 1000 words or 5 minutes.

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5 criteria for evaluating data platform security

5 criteria for evaluating data platform security

Critical features for maintaining regulatory compliance, managing brand risk and keeping your business ethical.

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How we execute dbt™ runs faster and cheaper

How we execute dbt™ runs faster and cheaper

Introducing smart run for dbt Core™

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Navigating complex data landscapes with data observability through Monte Carlo

Navigating complex data landscapes with data observability through Monte Carlo

Harness the power of data observability across your modern data stack.

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Fivetran supports Amazon S3 as a destination with Apache Iceberg

Fivetran supports Amazon S3 as a destination with Apache Iceberg

Our new offering accelerates data delivery to Amazon S3 with secure, fully managed pipelines and comprehensive compliance.

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Taming the HiPPO with data-driven decision making

Taming the HiPPO with data-driven decision making

What is the HiPPO? Learn how organizations can overcome this phenomenon through data-driven decisions.

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Cost-effective ELT: Four factors to consider

Cost-effective ELT: Four factors to consider

From DIY opportunity cost and pipeline maintenance to moving and transforming data, here’s how to judge the cost-effectiveness of ELT.

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Automating your data for better decision-making

Automating your data for better decision-making

Instead of relying on inaccurate, messy and low-quality data, business leaders can instead drive innovation forward by turning to automated data management, creating a clean and steady data flow.

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The modern data stack: How companies differentiate on data

The modern data stack: How companies differentiate on data

How is the modern data stack evolving and what will it look like in the future? Experts from Andreessen Horowitz, Accenture and Fivetran weigh in.

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Only pay for what you use with usage-based pricing

Only pay for what you use with usage-based pricing

Why and how Fivetran’s usage-based pricing model ties cost to value for our customers

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How fast is DuckDB really?

How fast is DuckDB really?

DuckDB is competitive with the best commercial systems for small and medium data sizes, but is not (yet) good at scaling up to many CPU cores.

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Fivetran & dbt: The essential duo for modern analytics

Fivetran & dbt: The essential duo for modern analytics

Learn how leading companies such as Snowflake, SpotOn and Red Ventures have seen massive analytics efficiencies and boosted ROI using modern data tools, including Fivetran and dbt.

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Fivetran brings data integration to AWS users in Japan

Fivetran brings data integration to AWS users in Japan

Fivetran adds AWS hosting in Japan to support businesses that require local data residency

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Master the MDS balancing act: Data governance vs. Self-serve

Master the MDS balancing act: Data governance vs. Self-serve

A guide to finding the happy balance between enough governance to tame data chaos and enough self-service to empower stakeholders.

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How data governance creates an effective data supply chain

How data governance creates an effective data supply chain

Effective data governance builds a culture of trust and collaboration around data.

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Why context is key to building reliable data pipelines

Why context is key to building reliable data pipelines

The data catalog is a critical step in the movement toward becoming a data-driven business. Here are 4 table-stakes questions to ask yourself to deliver reliable, trusted data.

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Breaking the bias and embracing equity at Fivetran

Breaking the bias and embracing equity at Fivetran

Hear from remarkable women on Fivetran's EMEA team about their career journey into a technical role and the ways that they're promoting greater gender equity at Fivetran.

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Active metadata: Open the black box of your data pipelines

Active metadata: Open the black box of your data pipelines

Data integration pipelines supply valuable data from producers to consumers, but even the best pipelines can break. Now what?

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How the Fivetran approach to data normalization cuts compute costs

How the Fivetran approach to data normalization cuts compute costs

Where your ELT provider normalizes your data can dramatically increase or decrease your compute costs.

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Why MAR is a better measure of value than total synced rows

Why MAR is a better measure of value than total synced rows

Monthly active rows enable data professionals and businesses of all sizes to maximize the value of Fivetran.

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Fivetran: The all-in-one data movement platform for enterprise

Fivetran: The all-in-one data movement platform for enterprise

Starting March 1, 2023, users can access HVR capabilities rebranded as Fivetran Local Data Processing as well as deploy Fivetran in the cloud, on-premises and in hybrid environments.

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How Sigma Computing built its best-in-class modern data stack

How Sigma Computing built its best-in-class modern data stack

Turns out if you’re working hard just to keep the data flowing, you won’t get much else done. Fivetran, dbt™ and Sigma change that.

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Beyond data integration: Why data movement is the future

Beyond data integration: Why data movement is the future

Future uses of data will require an automated data movement platform, not just data pipelines as single point solutions

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Fivetran launches AWS data center in Singapore

Fivetran launches AWS data center in Singapore

Asia Pacific customers can now host Fivetran on GCP, AWS and Azure in Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo or Mumbai to meet data residency requirements.

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Four data infrastructure trends to look out for in 2023

Four data infrastructure trends to look out for in 2023

Learn how these trends highlight the growing importance and adoption of cloud-based solutions for businesses of all sizes.

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ETL vs. ELT: Why a post-load process wins every time

ETL vs. ELT: Why a post-load process wins every time

Learn three reasons why you should only perform your data transformations post load.

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Fivetran vs. Airbyte: Features, pricing, services and more

Fivetran vs. Airbyte: Features, pricing, services and more

Choosing one over the other can come down to a few key differences. Let’s take a look at both to help you make an informed decision.

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Automated data integration for CSV files

Automated data integration for CSV files

Use Fivetran to rapidly and automatically ingest CSV and other ASCII files of unknown structure.

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From application to insights with Quickstart data models

From application to insights with Quickstart data models

Fivetran’s new Quickstart data models let you turn your application data into analytics-ready tables, all with the click of a button.

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How change data capture lets data teams do more with less

How change data capture lets data teams do more with less

Data teams are seeking change data capture solutions for faster, more efficient analytics.

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Move data from nearly any SaaS app with Lite connectors

Move data from nearly any SaaS app with Lite connectors

Customers can realize the same fully managed experience they have with our standard connectors and bring all their data into one platform.

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It's time to ditch point-to-point data integration

It's time to ditch point-to-point data integration

A case for using the data warehouse as a middleman for all point-to-point integration workflows.

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Introducing the Fivetran Free Plan

Introducing the Fivetran Free Plan

Starting today, hundreds of existing Standard Select customers will automatically be migrated to the Fivetran Free Plan, and current pay-as-you-go customers will see an 11 percent price decrease.

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New Lite connectors

New Lite connectors

Keep track of new releases for our Lite connectors with this regularly updated list.

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10 data pipeline challenges your engineers will have to solve

10 data pipeline challenges your engineers will have to solve

When choosing to build or buy, consider whether the following challenges are worth the squeeze.

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Introducing the Fivetran async provider in Airflow

Introducing the Fivetran async provider in Airflow

A new Fivetran Airflow provider developed by Astronomer allows data engineers to run Fivetran data syncs more efficiently in Airflow 2.2+

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A trip around the world with George Fraser

A trip around the world with George Fraser

Spending time with fellow Fivetranners, Fivetran’s CEO reinforces company culture and growth across the globe.

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How Fivetran’s female engineers grow their careers in India

How Fivetran’s female engineers grow their careers in India

Hear the stories of three Fivetranners who have established themselves as leaders on our tech teams in India’s competitive tech marketplace.

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Evidence-based business

Evidence-based business

The point of evidence is to guide decisions, so transforming a business into being evidence-based has to start with leaders.

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Data hygiene in ETL and reverse ETL

Data hygiene in ETL and reverse ETL

Good data hygiene means data is correct and easily used to draw insight — but how do you achieve it?

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Building a scalable data stack: Three lessons from Backcountry

Building a scalable data stack: Three lessons from Backcountry

The outdoor gear retailer uses a modern data stack to overcome data silos, modernize legacy systems and improve customer experience.

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Driving self-service analytics on the modern data stack

Driving self-service analytics on the modern data stack

Fintech companies AJ Bell, OrderPay and Tide are blazing a path to better insights with a modern approach to data: self-service analytics.

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The modern data warehouse: Benefits and migration strategies

The modern data warehouse: Benefits and migration strategies

Learn why migration will pay off — and how to make it easy.

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Build vs. buy data pipeline: Four factors Autodesk considers

Build vs. buy data pipeline: Four factors Autodesk considers

From cost-effectiveness to business value, here's what Autodesk prioritizes when deciding whether to buy or build data pipelines.

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The ultimate guide to using distributed databases

The ultimate guide to using distributed databases

A distributed database can improve your data storage and analytics processes — as long as you know how to use it.

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Data engineer vs. data scientist: What’s the difference and which should you hire?

Data engineer vs. data scientist: What’s the difference and which should you hire?

Learn more about data engineers and data scientists, including their roles, tools and more.

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Cloud Data Warehouse Benchmark

Cloud Data Warehouse Benchmark

Our newest benchmark compares price, performance and differentiated features for Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks and Synapse.

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What is data integration architecture? A complete guide

What is data integration architecture? A complete guide

Learn why businesses need data integration architecture, how it's structured and five best practices for implementing it.

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A framework for understanding and evaluating data product owners

A framework for understanding and evaluating data product owners

Product owners enable data teams to meet your organization’s needs. Here's how to measure their efforts.

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Five questions for MDSCon keynote speaker DJ Patil

Five questions for MDSCon keynote speaker DJ Patil

What does it take to succeed in the world of data? We asked DJ Patil, renowned data scientist and keynote speaker at the 2023 Modern Data Stack Conference.

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Fivetran and Atlan team up to power modern data governance

Fivetran and Atlan team up to power modern data governance

Joint customers can move faster with more visibility across their entire data stack, helping data teams collaborate better with increased trust in their data.

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How to build a data pipeline

How to build a data pipeline

You'll need to understand the six key components of a data pipeline and overcome five important technical challenges.

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Blend data pipelines into your app with co-branded Connect Cards

Blend data pipelines into your app with co-branded Connect Cards

Help your customers feel comfortable opening their data to you with data pipelines that seem like part of your product.

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What is a data lakehouse?

What is a data lakehouse?

The data lakehouse is a promising new technology that combines aspects of data warehouses and data lakes.

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The benefits of working with Fivetran solution architects

The benefits of working with Fivetran solution architects

Learn how Fivetran solution architects support customers with implementing robust and scalable data platforms.

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Five reasons to attend Modern Data Stack Conference 2023

Five reasons to attend Modern Data Stack Conference 2023

Join us in San Francisco on April 4 and 5 as we bring back the Modern Data Stack Conference for another amazing year.

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Orchestrate ELT with the Fivetran Prefect Collection

Orchestrate ELT with the Fivetran Prefect Collection

One pre-written line of code for each data source is all you need to effectively orchestrate automated data ingestion.

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Power your database replication with a high-volume agent

Power your database replication with a high-volume agent

Learn how Fivetran is addressing your high-volume database replication needs with our new high-volume agent connectors.

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Analysis: Cloud growth drives automated data movement

Analysis: Cloud growth drives automated data movement

IDC research shows that automated data movement enables organizations to improve insights and derive more value from cloud data warehouses and lakes.

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Introducing the Fivetran Community

Introducing the Fivetran Community

Ask and answer questions, learn from experts and collaborate with our community of data practitioners.

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The modern data mindset is your key to unlocking data integration

The modern data mindset is your key to unlocking data integration

Command and control your data with our new ultimate guide.

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Fivetran adds data process center in Japan for Google Cloud users

Fivetran adds data process center in Japan for Google Cloud users

This expansion helps us improve our ability to provide a global, highly available service infrastructure for customers requiring locally delivered data pipelines.

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An introduction to digital marketing analytics

An introduction to digital marketing analytics

What is marketing analytics? Learn why it’s important to measure and optimize your marketing activities and how to get started.

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Demystifying the transactional database

Demystifying the transactional database

Transactional databases are essential to many apps and software. Learn more about them and their benefits with Fivetran.

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What is data pipeline architecture? What you need to know

What is data pipeline architecture? What you need to know

A data pipeline is a series of actions that combine data from multiple sources for analysis or visualization.

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