Funnel

One of the best ETL on the market, worth its (high) cost

Comments: I created a BI dashboard for a client of my agency, extracting data from several marketing platforms (from the most common ones as Google and Facebook till more niche ones, used for affiliation marketing), Google Analytics and the client's orders management system to create a comprehensive dashboard highlighting the performance of every marketing channel and allowing to take actions in almost real time to correct the business outcomes.

Pros:

Configuring it is straightforward: fast, easy, intuitive. It has a lot of connections (you can really import data from any marketing platform, CRM, service and export it to a lot of different destinations).

Cons:

As an ETL, the "E" and "L" parts are perfect, the "T" could be improved: there's no room for real transformation of the data (you can only perform easy tasks). Scheduling is not possible, which is quite annoying when you are developing business dashboards (and maybe you want you data updated every morning before the 9:30am meeting with the biggest stakeholders of the project).

Funnel is one main success factor for our BI stack

Comments: We don't waste our time for coding and maintaining python scripts for data integration. Dealing with API advertising data can be tricky and time consuming. Thanks to funnel our "time to report" is very fast, so our departments are always happy about or agility.

Pros:

Simplicity for data integration, up to 2 hours data freshness, awesome support, reliability of software

Cons:

No standard connections to have sql databases (mysql, postgres, ms sql,...) as a data source, so focus on marketing data only.

Solid Application To Get Your Data In The Right Places

Pros:

The ability to aggregate our data from multiple sources like Google Analytics, Facebook, Google Ads, Pinterest, and more. The ability to make custom metrics from multiple data sources saves us a lot of time and makes reporting less prone to human error.

Cons:

Sometimes it's impossible to get metrics that you get in the original channel you got the data from due to API issues or how they calculate their views and levels. It's a little confusing to set up and I'm still trying to understand it but their customer support is very good and helps you along the way.

Great tool, great team!

Comments: Great experience and saving hundreds of hours/month.
Great team!

Pros:

Great integration tool. Number of data sources and ease of use

Cons:

Dashboarding features are limited and could be improved

Nice tool with immense contribution to day to day work

Comments: Overall it has been fantastic to use Funnel and leave the load of the data collection to it and have ample analysis time for data. Highly recommended.

Pros:

Besides what this tool does which is a great value addition, I like the way the tool has been designed with each component fitting logically and complementary to each other. The tool has been regularly updated to make it more user friendly and adding more connectors and features depending on the current trend. Tableau connector is really the top pick for me among the new features added. Knowledge base is good and the support team has been excellent in their quick response time and resolution time.

Cons:

Though Knowledge Base is good and covers the tool nicely but can be extended further. More commonly use data destinations can be added but with ease of use.