Fivetran’s Upcoming Features and Updates for Q3
A recap of Fivetran’s Q3 product showcase with new data connectors, High Volume Agent Connectors, updates to Business Critical Fivetran, and more!
You may have caught our recent update on Fivetran’s Teleport Sync, a feature that allows for a “faster method for dataset comparison.” If you found yourself wanting even more, then you’re in luck! Fivetran recently held a quarterly product showcase which gave viewers a peek at what we can expect to see from them over the next few months.
A Look Back on Last Quarter
The product showcase kicked off with a quick recap of what we saw in Q2, including both new and upgraded connectors, including beta connectors for Amazon Ads and Salesforce Commerce Cloud. They also discussed their High Volume Agent Connectors, which come following their recent acquisition of HVR and enable users to “minimize source load so data teams can realize faster setup times, limit maintenance and handle higher volumes and data structure changes.” They then touched on Teleport Sync, which you can again catch up on here, as well as announced that Metadata API went from private preview to being moved into beta. Finally, the last Q2 recap was on Fivetran Transformations, which will remain a free feature that will “orchestrate custom data transformations in your destination.” Now, on to what’s to come!
Coming Up This Quarter
We can expect to see even more changes and updates in data connectors & destinations, transformations, and governance & security in Q3. First, those beta connectors for Amazon Ads and Salesforce Commerce Cloud that were mentioned earlier will be moving from beta to general availability. Joining them on that move to general availability will be Sage Intacct, ADP Workforce Now, and SAP Business By Design. There will also be a number of new connectors in development, among them being Bamboo HR, Yahoo DSP, Spotify Ads, Google Search Ads 360, and more.
They’re also working more with High Volume Agent Connectors this quarter, with HVA SQL Server launching in private preview. In development will be agent-initiated connections, HVA SAP (PP), and HVA DB2i (PP).
Business Critical Fivetran, their “highest level of data protection and compliance,” will also be seeing some updates this quarter. They will be adding more high security on Google Cloud, which is currently unavailable but will be made available this quarter. Features that have been popular on Snowflake and AWS, like private networking, cloud region support, and the security of PCI DSS Level 1 will soon be seen on Google Cloud. We’ll also be seeing some new metadata catalog integrations with data.world, Collibra, and our other partners Alation and Atlan!
Another upcoming update will be with Transformations, with a Quickstart package coming to private preview this quarter. This will “set up model runs without touching a single line of code” and take data from its raw state to being ready for analysis even faster. There will also be new pre-built data models — coming soon will be Apple Search Ads, Amplitude, Databricks compatibility with models, and Recurly.
Currently, Fivetran has Amazon S3 as a source, but coming soon we will see S3 as a destination as well. During the showcase, they introduced S3 with Iceberg, which will offer a modern data lake with S3 and provide extensive data governance. This private preview will go live in September!
These were all of the new features and updates we can expect to see this quarter, but we did get a bit of a teaser for a new feature they have been working on for the past year. This feature is building connectors by request, which differs from the way they currently build their connectors. At present, customers can let Fivetran know what they’d like to see, and they take those suggestions and process them, then narrow it down and that connector might be made available a few months down the road. They’re looking into making it a possibility for customers to ask for the connector they need, offer to share access to it can be built, and Fivetran makes this happen in somewhere closer to 45 days. Be on the lookout for more updates on this offer!
Upcoming Events
If you want to stay in the loop with Fivetran, there are a couple of upcoming events that you can check out! There is an upcoming webinar on Wednesday, August 31, 2022, on Modernizing your data lake with Fivetran, Amazon S3 and Apache Iceberg. They also have a monthly virtual event, Hands-On Lab: Fivetran Transformations for dbt Core, with the next one landing on Thursday, September 8th, 2022!
Hashmap and Fivetran
We are happy to be partners with Fivetran! We offer Fivetran Custom Connectors, which you can find more about here. We’ve also featured a few people from Fivetran on our podcast, Hashmap on Tap, like George Fraser, CEO and Co-Founder of Fivetran, to learn more about the company. We also have a number of recorded webinars and demos available! You can check all of those out and more (like blog posts and solution profiles) here. If you want to go ahead and get started with Hashmap and Fivetran, get in touch with us!
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