The Biggest Cost of Owning Your Data (as a small team)

Calculate your Total Cost of Ownership - https://bit.ly/4bayV7C Start a Fivetran Trial for Free - https://bit.ly/4bs65Qc For many data teams, their biggest costs come from something right in front of them. But when you hear the word “cost” your first thought might go towards things like: - Licenses - Compute - Storage But for a lot of teams, the biggest cost of all actually comes from something else entirely. It's the total human resource expense and maintenance of keeping everything running. Because last time I checked, most of us don’t work for free. And there never seems to be a shortage of work to do. One area in particular where this cost tends to creep up is in the ingestion process. At the very start of the pipeline. So in this video, we're going to talk about: 1. The importance of data ingestion in an overall architecture 2. An example cost breakdown showing the impact of this maintenance cost 3. Review some of the common options that you have for managing it Enjoy! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:37 The Importance of Ingestion 02:38 3 Common Approaches 04:27 Total Cost of Ownership 08:22 Demo - Fivetran 16:35 Things to Consider 18:14 Recap