Meet George Fraser, a 2023 Datanami Person to Watch

Death, taxes, and ETL: Some things are just inevitable. But give credit to Fivetran co-founder and CEO George Fraser with creating a product and company that is trying to make the process of building pipelines that move Read more…

Fivetran Benchmarks Five Cloud Data Warehouses

ETL software maker Fivetran this week released results of a benchmark test it ran comparing the cost and performance of five cloud data warehouses, including BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, Snowflake, and Synapse. The bi Read more…

Bad Data Pipelines Costing Companies Big, Fivetran Finds

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Overworked data engineer builds faulty data pipeline, which leads to bad data, which leads to a bad outcome. It may be the same old song, but it’s also the current state of af Read more…

Fivetran Raises $565 Million, Buys CDC Vendor HVR

Fivetran took a big step into the world of enterprise data integration today when it announced an Andreessen Horowitz-led $565 million round of financing and plans to acquire change data capture (CDC) vendor HVR for $700 Read more…

In Search of the Modern Data Stack

The modern data stack is many things to many people. It’s multi-cloud! It’s the data mesh! It’s BI plus AI! To get a better visibility into just what the modern data stack is, how it’s evolving, and why it all ma Read more…

Data Lakes Are Legacy Tech, Fivetran CEO Says

By some accounts, data lakes appear poised to supplant data warehouses as the center of gravity of modern analytics systems, particularly with today’s sophisticated data virtualization capabilities. But with the advent Read more…