205 Data Lab recommends Polytomic as the ETL product for its clients
- 205 Data Lab was able to consolidate multiple ETL vendors with Polytomic
- Polytomic's Terraform and Git integrations allow engineering-driven orchestration
- Polytomic's straightforward pricing enables a pure focus on the work
About 205 Data Lab
205 Data Lab is a data consulting company focused on modern cloud-based data solutions. They offer fractional data team and analytics services to three primary audiences:
- Business and Revenue operations teams that can’t get sufficient support from an internal data team.
- Data teams that need help setting up their data stack with best practices.
- Venture capital funds who often have data needs but no data teams to serve them.
Services offered include assistance with data engineering, analytics, or business intelligence and dashboarding. Depending on the client’s needs, they can either be a full data team for hire, or assist with specific data problems.
A big part of the job is setting up data integrations: moving data between multiple systems, including data warehouses. This is where Polytomic comes in.
Using Polyomic in client engagements
The ETL and data sync market is a crowded one: there are many vendors to choose from. So why does 205 Data Lab choose Polytomic for its client engagements? Pedro Machado, founder and general manager of 205 Data Lab, lists a few reasons:
One app for both ETL and Reverse ETL
Rather than purchasing two separate apps (one to move data into the data warehouse and another to move data from it) from two separate vendors with separate pricing models, Polytomic is the single app that can do the whole lot. There are advantages to this. For example:
- Unified sync scheduling. You can, for example, have a sync to Salesforce automatically run after a sync to Snowflake completes.
- Centralized monitoring and alerting for all data flows.
- A consistent pricing model covering all sync cases.
Infrastructure as code
One of the biggest complaints about no-code apps is the lack of version control and inability to integrate with existing deployment infrastructure. Polytomic does not suffer from this because it has been developed with an engineering audience in mind.
Polytomic thus comes with a native Terraform module, GitHub integration, and full API. The app can be driven either using the UI or in a headless fashion. All changes can be automatically propagated to and from GitHub commits using Terraform.
Straightforward pricing
Rather than charging on volume, Polytomic’s pricing is flat rate per integration. Thus 205 Data Lab can feel comfortable that their clients won’t get surprise overage bills if they add more data to an existing data pipeline.
World class customer service
As Pedro says, 205 Data Lab’s reputation is on the line with their clients based on the tools they recommend. The fact that the Polytomic team responds immediately over live chat to any questions or issues gives 205 Data Lab the peace of mind knowing that their customers will be taken care should anything arise.
A partnership for the future
The market of data pipeline vendors and their surrounding infrastructure is incredibly fragmented. Because 205 Data Lab’s clients have a variety of data pipeline needs, Polytomic is the natural partner to handle them, saving everyone from having to deal with multiple vendors.