Datos Intelligence Reviews

Complete user interface, with lots of thoughtful details to help you get things done faster and get better visibility on your data transformations

Compared to dbt cloud, Y42 really helps me manage seamlessly different environments (prod & dev) for both my code and the data created by the code

Seamless transition form dbt

Easy to get started, whether you are used to dbt project management or not

Very reactive customer support, excellent communication regarding projects, challenges, bugs, updates

Excellent documentation

Great onboarding process (with the Y42 team and thanks to the "Get Started" menu embeded in the UI)

A couple of bugs with some pipelines running for too long (but very reactive customer support)

Can be intimidating at first (there are a lot of components and features to get used to)

Manage data pipelines across environments (prod, dev)

Because data loading and transformations are packaged in the same box, it allows us to configure and see the health of our entire pipeline in one tool.

All startups including Y42 experience some growing pains. However, issues are resolved very quickly.

Organized and version controlled data pipelines

- The IDE in general with intelligence built into many features

- Lineage adjusting live while your changing models

- Adding dbt tests via UI automatically translated to code

- The 3 developer modes are amazing: code, lineage, and catalog

- Change logs and rollbacks are quite helpful

- You need to get used to the Y42 logic of “stateful data assets”

- Doesn’t support Python models but it seems to be on their roadmap

It covers most of our data pipeline needs and provides the guardrails for junior team members to collaborate more safely with experienced colleagues

- Very smooth and performant Git integration (Gitlab)

- Embracing best-in-class technologies like dbt and Airbyte

- Many integrations out-of-the-box

- Easy to build, deploy, and maintain even complex data pipelines

- Very responsive Customer Success team

- Increasingly streamlined workflows with Integrated Data Development Environment (IDDE)

- Cloud-first without any need to download software

There are only very few things I dislike about Y42.

- Pricing could become an issue as you scale, depending on the overall size of your DWH and corresponding workloads. Apparently, they want to review their pricing models, and I know them to be open to negotiation, though.

- As early adopters, we had to do multiple migrations due to fundamental overhauls of their product. However, with V3, I think that risk is minimized and updates should no longer be that fundamental.

1. Y42 enables easy integration of data from multiple sources into your data warehouse

2. You can transform your data with Y42 directly within your data warehouse to be consumed by downstream applications

3. Y42 also simplifies the orchestration of your workloads within the same tool

4. Reverse ETL is possible to select tools too

All your development is version controlled with a smooth Git integration that empowers teams to collaborate from day 1.

The platform is super didactic and simple to use, and at the same time powerful.

The new version came with great new features, like the possibility to use jinja, it helps us a lot in data manipulation. We are looking forward to testing the publish module with cube.dev.

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Another point that I could not fail to comment on is the quality of the support offered, the support team is very agile and willing to help.

No dislikes at the moment.

All the integrations we need are in the tool, the modeling is easy to use and the orchestration even easier.

A possible improvement could be the creation of a module for reverse ETL, such as sending json to rudderstack.

One of our biggest challenges that made us look for Y42 was the creation of a reliable and simple-to-use pipeline to identify the behavior of our customers, from capturing it on Google, Facebook or Rudderstack to mapping the consumption profile, creating metrics and developing a reverse ETL.

Y42 was great in letting us stitch together our multiple data sources. It also helped us with running automated scripts that updated our data, our analytics, and even exported and updated insights into a Google Sheets. The customer support was great as well

The interface to create dashboard and to query data was daunting at first and sometimes unintuitive but after getting used to it, was easy to use. Also wished it supported more db services but I was told that is coming soon

We want to have analytics - which include charts and tables and other resources - that are built upon multiple data sources. We also have scripts that we want to run periodically. Y42 helps end-to-end in a single product

broad & easy integration of various data sources,data cleaning,modeling, analysis & automation. Customer service goes above and beyond to solve problems.

visualizations and output work well, but are still limited in terms of capabilities

single source of truth across multiple platforms and data sources - fully automated & easy to use

Integrates seamlessly with multiple data sources & once set up, you can visualize data in every way possible.

There was a learning curve, but the customer success team helped each step of the way.

Saving 10+ hours in data pulls in real-time + cutting down in missed sales by seeing FG + Raw Mat stock levels in real time.

How simple and quick it is to build complex models that run in my data warehouse.

As of now, multiple people can't be in the same model at once.

It's the foundation of our data stack now that manages almost our entire ETL processes and data warehouse. I'm spoiled now and couldn't live without it.

Y42 is very easy to implement and doesn't require extensive resources or know-how to keep it running. The tool connects with pretty much any data source you can think of, and even if something is missing, Y42 is keen to add new integrations. The onboarding process and ongoing support are also very satisfactory.

The visualizations feature doesn't offer as much as visualization-focused competitors, but Y42 is constantly improving it, so the limitations should disappear over time.

Y42 allowed me to establish a proper data pipeline realitively easily and provide the business with reliable reporting.