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Segment Sources – Load Salesforce, Zendesk, Stripe into Redshift and Postgres

by TheHydroImpulse on 4/6/16, 4:12 PM with 37 comments

• by samcheng on 4/6/16, 5:03 PM

  ETL-as-a-Service is a great idea, particularly one that is visualization/analytics-tool-agnostic!

  However, there are so many data sources, and they all require different integrations with their different APIs or export mechanisms. A service isn't really useful unless it can import the lion's share of services that a given company uses...

• by dan_ahmadi on 4/6/16, 4:20 PM

  I wonder if this makes BI companies freak out a little bit -- because pushing this data into redshift and adding a visualization layer on top takes care of most smaller scale BI needs...

• by primeobsession on 4/6/16, 6:54 PM

  RJMetrics has a similar product (ETL as a service) with 10x the number of rows for their free tier. https://rjmetrics.com/product/pipeline/

• by uberneo on 4/6/16, 5:27 PM

  What a coincidence, today only I came across another ETL as a service from Pintrest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11438216

• by vyrotek on 4/6/16, 4:52 PM

  Is this just running the SF SoQL statement for you and storing the aggregated result in a Segment table?

  Or does Segment provide a way to completely clone entire SF tables such as Opportunities & Cases and then create the aggregate queries later in segment?

• by pinaceae on 4/7/16, 1:21 AM

  just be careful with SFDC, bunch of harsh limits, killer one being 5k bulk api requests per rolling 24h.

  if you think that's a lot you haven't seen big orgs with a shit ton of integrations and custom stuff on top of them.

• by josep2 on 4/6/16, 6:08 PM

  Segment is always killing it.

• by slachterman on 4/6/16, 6:47 PM

  Are there any plans for Warehouses support for IBM's DashDB?

• by vyrotek on 4/6/16, 6:46 PM

  Please add options to use Windows Azure as a warehouse!