January 2019 Summaries

The Fivetran engineering team recently held a retreat in Phuket, Thailand, where they participated in various activities such as Geek Club instructionals, a training video Makeathon, and a 24-hour Hackathon. They also had a fireside chat discussing the history of their engineering team. Throughout their stay, they took time to explore the island. Fivetran is currently hiring for talented individuals to join their growing team.

Fivetran has introduced a new feature that allows users to block specific columns from replicating, protecting personally identifiable information (PII). This helps ensure compliance with data protection regulations such as GDPR. The Column Blocking feature is available for Salesforce, NetSuite, Marketo, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and SQL Server connectors. Users can access this feature by unchecking the columns they want to omit from syncing in their connector details page.

Fivetran experienced significant growth in 2018, with a doubling of its customer base from 279 to 525 by year's end. The company expanded its operations into EMEA and added about 60 connectors, bringing the total number to over 115. Fivetran also launched several new features such as column blocking, table re-sync, one-minute updates, and sync history. Additionally, the company tripled its revenue and secured $15 million in Series A funding led by Matrix Partners. Looking forward, Fivetran aims to continue developing its technology and help more companies centralize their data sources for better insights.

Fivetran has introduced the capability to use its connectors on EU region servers, which is crucial for GDPR compliance. To migrate your service to EU servers, you need to whitelist specific IP addresses in your source system or warehouse and update the Region setting in the Warehouse tab of your dashboard. This change will automatically start running Fivetran connectors on EU region servers. For more information or assistance, contact their support team or request a demo from their product specialists.

Fivetran, a company that automates data connectors, has recently hired its 100th employee and shared its core values publicly for the first time. Founded in 2013 by friends with a vision to disrupt the market, Fivetran's mission remains unchanged: to remove engineering burdens from data teams by standardizing and automating data connectors. The company has grown without compromising its core values which include preserving integrity, taking initiative, trusting each other, nurturing diversity, leading instead of following, and working as one team. These values have contributed to Fivetran's success and growth, making it an attractive place for potential employees.