Census Reviews & Product Details

Census offers a highly efficient, low-maintenance platform for loading business-critical data into third-party systems. Previously, we relied on custom integrations that demanded significant maintenance and ongoing management to ensure performance and efficiency. With the Census platform, this burden is completely eliminated, allowing us to concentrate on the data itself rather than the upkeep of data pipelines and complex integrations. Impressively, our first data sync took only minutes to implement, a process that would typically require hours or even days with the assistance of a data engineer. Additionally, their support team is incredibly helpful and knowledgeable, ensuring any issues or questions are promptly and effectively addressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have yet found any issues working with the Census platform or their team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Every need I have to push data back from my DWH into various tools / locations, Census can do it for me. It allows our business to move at high speed and continue to be fully data focussed and data driven. It's UI/UX is very simple and intuitive so there's no steep learning curve like often is the case with similar tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't yet come across anything I dislike. Everything I've wanted to achieve with Census, I've been able to do so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Census interface makes it easy to connect two platforms, since the implementation and day to day usage were quite simple. Also, it has error detection capabilities that I haven't seen in other solutions. It also seems to have a very robust connection engines, since I seldomly experienced downtimes. That way, you don't have to necessarily keep an eye on it at all times and can be logged out of the admin platform for days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Census' principal downside is its price, since it can be quite steep for medium-to-small companies. It also lacks some on-the-fly transformations functionality, at least on the tier I was registered to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Census is really simple to use, easy to understand as a use case, and quick to get setup and start receiving value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the features involving users outside the Data teams are harder to implement in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was easy to implement and configure. It reads all the journal entries and data capture changes from the data warehouse and is able to send events to various marketing platforms. We used that to send marketing communications to our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the tool is still pretty young. The number of SaaS tools it connects to is still somewhat limited. Also the configuration options for some tools such as Mailchimp is again quite limited, it may not covered all business cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use is it's plus point for me. No technical skills are required for using it as reverse ETL tool. Customer support is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not a very complex tool with tons of features. But It does what it supposed to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing about census was the speed you can implement and how can you start delivering results in a fast and realiable way. With tons of conectors and features easy to start you can start your etl and data activations process fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A little bit costly when comparing running other etl tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of Use

Short learning curve

Support for Salesforce/Marketo/Redshift/DBT

Error notifications when a sync doesn't happen for whatever reason

Very responsive support team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That Census is phasing out ingestions and maybe that's the reason why there is no way of knowing why an Ingestion failed.

Manual dependency on the support team to add fields to the ingestions, once again due to it being phased out, makes little sense to automate this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Census has enabled us to push the most relevant data to where our sales, support, and success teams need it most, the tools they work in on a daily basis. They don't have the leave the CRM or Zendesk to do lookups in our data warehouse. Solving this "pivot" problem saves the hours switching contexts and writing queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Any time you're pushing data back to operational systems there are risks because you're playing with production. We needed to establish some organizational discipline to test on sandboxes and single row updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Easy to use UI

- Easy to understand

- up and running in <10 minutes with limited technical knowledge

- consultants/ tech pre-sales very helpful, in particular slack groups

- New features coming out every so often are pretty straightforward and easy to adopt, for example connecting dbt runs and queries for less duplicate work across tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly I'm very happy with the tool and don't have any complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.