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# Best ETL Software of 2026

Updated October 24, 2026

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### [Skyvia](/data-extraction/skyvia-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.9/5
- Reviews: 116
- Starting price: $6.00/month
- Best for: Data Import/Export
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Skyvia is a cloud-based data integration, backup and management platform for businesses of all sizes. Key features include direct data integration between apps, scheduling settings

[Read more](/data-extraction/skyvia-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Integrations Management: 5/5
- Application Management: 5/5
- Data Cleansing: 5/5
- Automatic Backup: 5/5

##### Worst rated features

- Data Visualization: 4/5
- Query Builder: 4/5
- Match & Merge: 4/5
- Compression: 4/5

[See all features](/data-extraction/skyvia-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Basic

- Price: $6.00/month

[See full pricing details](/data-extraction/skyvia-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [BroadPeak](/bi/k3-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.9/5
- Reviews: 39
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

BroadPeak Partners (BroadPeak) is the post trade foundation for trading, risk, and compliance teams at energy and commodity trading firms. With certified connectivity to more than

[Read more](/bi/k3-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Dashboard: 5/5
- Metadata Management: 5/5
- Data Management: 5/5
- ETL: 5/5

[See all features](/bi/k3-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Basic

- Price: Custom
- Pricing available upon request

[See full pricing details](/bi/k3-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Rivery ](/bi/rivery-profile/)

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviews: 12
- Starting price: $1.00/month
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Rivery is a cloud-based solution that provides small to large enterprises with business intelligence tools to manage and automate data pipelines. It comes with a centralized

[Read more](/bi/rivery-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Reporting & Statistics: 5/5
- Third-Party Integrations: 5/5
- Data Synchronization: 5/5
- Activity Dashboard: 5/5

##### Worst rated features

- Multiple Data Sources: 4/5

[See all features](/bi/rivery-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Basic

- Price: $1.00/month

[See full pricing details](/bi/rivery-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Hevo ](/bi/hevo-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.7/5
- Reviews: 110
- Starting price: $299.00/month
- Best for: Ease of use
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Hevo is a no-code, bi-directional data pipeline platform specially built for modern ETL, ELT, and Reverse ETL Needs. It helps data teams streamline and automate org-wide data flows

[Read more](/bi/hevo-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Customer Database: 5/5
- Data Analysis Tools: 5/5
- Automatic Backup: 5/5
- Real-Time Reporting: 5/5

[See all features](/bi/hevo-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Free

- Price: Custom
- Pricing available upon request
- For data teams that want to get started with analytics.

Includes 1 million free events.

##### Starter

- Price: $299.00/month
- For data teams that want to scale up their analytics. Get 5 million events for this starter plan and

##### Business

- Price: Custom
- Pricing available upon request
- For large data teams with many data sources and high data volume.

[See full pricing details](/bi/hevo-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Adriel](/marketing/adriel-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.8/5
- Reviews: 25
- Starting price: $299.00/month
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Adriel is a cloud-based business intelligence and marketing automation platform. It is designed for small to medium size companies in a variety of industries, including retail,

[Read more](/marketing/adriel-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Data Connectors: 5/5
- Multi-Channel Attribution: 5/5
- Key Performance Indicators: 5/5
- Profitability Analysis: 5/5

##### Worst rated features

- Website Analytics: 3.6/5
- Ad hoc Reporting: 4/5
- Social Media Monitoring: 4/5
- Multi-Channel Marketing: 4/5

[See all features](/marketing/adriel-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Pro

- Price: $299.00/month

[See full pricing details](/marketing/adriel-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Nexla](/bi/nexla-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.9/5
- Reviews: 9
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Nexla is the data connectivity layer for enterprise AI, connecting agents and applications to data systems, business applications, APIs, documents, and other enterprise sources

[Read more](/bi/nexla-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Access Controls/Permissions: 5/5
- Job Scheduling: 5/5
- ETL: 4.5/5
- Alerts/Escalation: 4/5

##### Worst rated features

- Metadata Management: 2/5
- Real-Time Monitoring: 3/5
- Data Connectors: 4/5
- Third-Party Integrations: 4/5

[See all features](/bi/nexla-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Contact us

- Price: Custom
- Pricing available upon request
- Contact Nexla for detailed pricing information.

[See full pricing details](/bi/nexla-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Funnel](/bi/funnel-dashboards-reports-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.7/5
- Reviews: 20
- Starting price: $120.00
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Funnel is a marketing intelligence platform designed to aggregate data from various marketing channels and provide tools for reporting, measurement, and data export. It is used by

[Read more](/bi/funnel-dashboards-reports-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- API: 5/5
- Website Analytics: 5/5
- Data Source Connectors: 5/5
- Data Import/Export: 4/5

##### Worst rated features

- Job Scheduling: 1/5
- Data Analysis Tools: 3/5
- Dashboard Creation: 3/5
- Keyword Tracking: 3/5

[See all features](/bi/funnel-dashboards-reports-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Starter

- Price: $120.00
- Begin your journey to data-driven marketing with Funnel's Free plan.

##### Business

- Price: $750.00/month
- Experience rock-solid business intelligence and powerful connectivity.

##### Enterprise

- Price: Custom
- Pricing available upon request
- Designed for organizations operating at scale with personalized, advanced onboarding.

[See full pricing details](/bi/funnel-dashboards-reports-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [DigitalRoute](/data-management-platforms/digitalroute-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.8/5
- Reviews: 13
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

DigitalRoute is a data management platform that helps businesses integrate the platform with any system within a company's IT infrastructure to gather, process, enhance, and

[Read more](/data-management-platforms/digitalroute-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Invoice History: 5/5
- Data Extraction: 5/5
- Online Invoicing: 5/5
- Workflow Management: 5/5

##### Worst rated features

- Reporting/Analytics: 3.8/5

[See all features](/data-management-platforms/digitalroute-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Basic

- Price: Custom
- Pricing available upon request

[See full pricing details](/data-management-platforms/digitalroute-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Reeport](/bi/reeport-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.9/5
- Reviews: 7
- Starting price: €35.00/month
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Reeport is a cloud-based data analytics platform, which helps businesses of all sizes automate the collection of data from multiple sources, visualize performance through graphical

[Read more](/bi/reeport-profile/)

#### Pricing

##### Basic

- Price: €35.00/month

[See full pricing details](/bi/reeport-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Snowplow BDP](/master-data-management/snowplow-insights-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.8/5
- Reviews: 9
- Starting price: $1,500.00/month
- Free trial: Not available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Snowplow Insights is a cloud-based data collection platform that helps businesses of all sizes collect and store data from across the web in real-time. Key features include data

[Read more](/master-data-management/snowplow-insights-profile/)

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### [Fuse](/product/355587-Fuse/)

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviews: 3
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Designed for small to large businesses, Flatirons Fuse is a data management tool that automatically translates and imports customer information from any source into its own

[Read more](/product/355587-Fuse/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Data Migration: 5/5
- Data Transformation: 5/5
- Data Connectors: 5/5
- Customer Database: 5/5

##### Worst rated features

- Email Address Extraction: 2/5
- Data Extraction: 3/5

[See all features](/product/355587-Fuse/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Basic

- Price: Custom
- Pricing available upon request

[See full pricing details](/product/355587-Fuse/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Mozart Data](/bi/mozart-data-profile/)

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviews: 3
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Backed by award-winning data analyst support, Mozart Data is the fastest way to set up scalable, reliable data infrastructure that doesn’t need to be maintained by you. Mozart

[Read more](/bi/mozart-data-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Query Builder: 5/5
- Alerts/Notifications: 5/5
- Ad hoc Reporting: 5/5
- Data Capture and Transfer: 5/5

[See all features](/bi/mozart-data-profile/#key-features)

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### [Datorios](/bi/datorios-profile/)

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviews: 2
- Starting price: $1.50
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Datorios is a streaming data processing hub, enabling seamless building, deployment, and monitoring of contextual data pipelines in minutes. Our engineering-centric solution

[Read more](/bi/datorios-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Data Capture and Transfer: 5/5
- Access Controls/Permissions: 5/5
- Job Scheduling: 5/5
- Data Synchronization: 5/5

[See all features](/bi/datorios-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Basic

- Price: $1.50

[See full pricing details](/bi/datorios-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Zuar Runner](/bi/mitto-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.7/5
- Reviews: 7
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Zuar Runner is a powerful, end-to-end data pipeline and orchestration platform that automates the flow of data from virtually any source — CRMs, ERPs, cloud applications, file

[Read more](/bi/mitto-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Data Connectors: 5/5
- Integrations Management: 5/5
- Access Controls/Permissions: 5/5
- High Volume Processing: 5/5

##### Worst rated features

- Customer Database: 4/5
- Accounting Integration: 4/5

[See all features](/bi/mitto-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Basic

- Price: Custom
- Pricing available upon request

[See full pricing details](/bi/mitto-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [ClicData](/bi/clicdata-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.6/5
- Reviews: 145
- Starting price: $265.00/month
- Best for: Customer support
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

ClicData is a modern data platform providing data teams a complete set of tools: data integration, built-in data lakehouse, data cleaning and processing, analytics & machine

[Read more](/bi/clicdata-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Self Service Data Preparation: 5/5
- Conversion Tracking: 5/5
- Customizable Branding: 5/5
- Mobile Dashboards: 5/5

##### Worst rated features

- Data Quality Control: 4/5
- OLAP: 4/5

[See all features](/bi/clicdata-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Basic

- Price: $265.00/month
- Ideal for small teams with strong data needs

##### Team

- Price: $475.00/month
- Bigger needs, more storage, more connectors

##### Enterprise

- Price: $760.00/month
- Everything you will ever need

[See full pricing details](/bi/clicdata-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Conversionomics](/bi/conversionomics-profile/)

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviews: 1
- Starting price: $250.00/month
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Conversionomics is an efficient data aggregation tool that offers a simple user interface that makes it easy to quickly build data API sources. From those sources, users can create

[Read more](/bi/conversionomics-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- OLAP: 5/5
- Scheduled/Automated Reports: 5/5
- Ad hoc Reporting: 5/5
- Data Mapping: 5/5

##### Worst rated features

- Forecasting: 3/5
- Activity Dashboard: 3/5

[See all features](/bi/conversionomics-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Basic

- Price: $250.00/month

[See full pricing details](/bi/conversionomics-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Tranzactor](/bi/tranzactor-profile/)

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviews: 1
- Starting price: $5,995.00
- Free trial: Not available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Tranzactor is an integrations tool for the logistics and trucking industry, which allows businesses to integrate data from a range of third party applications including TMW Suite,

[Read more](/bi/tranzactor-profile/)

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### [AWS AppSync](/bi/aws-appsync-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.7/5
- Reviews: 3
- Free trial: Not available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

AWS AppSync is a data migration solution that enables developers to design and build GraphQL-powered APIs that extract and combine data from databases, APIs, and other back-end

[Read more](/bi/aws-appsync-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Multiple Data Sources: 4.5/5
- Monitoring: 4.5/5
- API: 4.5/5
- Data Storage Management: 4/5

##### Worst rated features

- Data Extraction: 4/5
- Data Connectors: 4/5
- Data Storage Management: 4/5

[See all features](/bi/aws-appsync-profile/#key-features)

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### [Wyn Enterprise](/bi/wyn-enterprise-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.6/5
- Reviews: 10
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Wyn Enterprise is an embedded business intelligence (BI) platform that can be added to any internal or commercial app to provide interactive dashboards, BI reporting, scheduling,

[Read more](/bi/wyn-enterprise-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Drag & Drop: 5/5
- Publishing/Sharing: 5/5
- Customizable Branding: 5/5
- Reporting/Analytics: 5/5

##### Worst rated features

- Benchmarking: 3.8/5
- Data Connectors: 4/5
- Key Performance Indicators: 4/5
- Customizable Dashboard: 4/5

[See all features](/bi/wyn-enterprise-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Basic

- Price: Custom
- Pricing available upon request

[See full pricing details](/bi/wyn-enterprise-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Integrate.io](/bi/xplenty-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.6/5
- Reviews: 17
- Starting price: $1,200.00/month
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Unify Your Data Stack: Experience the first no-code data pipeline platform and power enlightened decision making. 

Integrate.io is the only complete set of data solutions &

[Read more](/bi/xplenty-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Data Management: 5/5
- Integrations Management: 5/5
- Multiple Data Sources: 5/5

[See all features](/bi/xplenty-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Basic

- Price: $1,200.00/month

[See full pricing details](/bi/xplenty-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Atlan](/data-collection/atlan-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.5/5
- Reviews: 2
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

The Atlan Collect platform helps businesses collect and track high-quality customer experience data. Also available on an easy to use mobile app, Atlan Collect is designed to work

[Read more](/data-collection/atlan-profile/)

#### Pricing

##### Basic

- Price: Custom
- Pricing available upon request

[See full pricing details](/data-collection/atlan-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Workato](/bi/workato-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.6/5
- Reviews: 86
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Workato is an enterprise integration and automation platform that helps mid-to-large organizations connect their business applications and automate workflows without heavy reliance

[Read more](/bi/workato-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- eCommerce Management: 5/5
- Real-Time Updates: 5/5
- Monitoring: 5/5
- Data Warehouse: 5/5

##### Worst rated features

- Mobile Access: 3.3/5
- ETL: 3.3/5

[See all features](/bi/workato-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Custom plan

- Price: Custom
- Pricing available upon request
- We offer flexible pricing tailored to your business needs. Schedule a free demo and our team will

[See full pricing details](/bi/workato-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Etleap](/bi/et-leap-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviews: 1
- Starting price: $1.00
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Etleap is a cloud-based AWS database management tool that allows users to analyze data from disparate sources.


Users can add or modify new data sources and apply custom

[Read more](/bi/et-leap-profile/)

#### Pricing

##### Basic

- Price: $1.00

[See full pricing details](/bi/et-leap-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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### [Adverity](/bi/datatap-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.5/5
- Reviews: 26
- Free trial: Not available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Adverity is the marketing data intelligence company seen as the foundation that makes enterprise marketing AI work.

Adverity Connect is an enterprise-grade marketing ETL. It pulls

[Read more](/bi/datatap-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Data Cleansing: 5/5
- Data Visualization: 5/5
- Dashboard: 5/5
- Data Quality Control: 5/5

##### Worst rated features

- Reporting/Analytics: 4/5
- Performance Metrics: 4/5
- Multiple Data Sources: 4/5
- Data Connectors: 4/5

[See all features](/bi/datatap-profile/#key-features)

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### [Dataddo](/bi/dataddo-profile/)

- Overall rating: 4.4/5
- Reviews: 21
- Starting price: $0.00/month
- Free trial: Available
- Free demo: Not available

#### Overview

Dataddo is the enterprise data integration platform built to eliminate the operational ownership risk of data movement. 

Acting as the connective backbone of your organization, we

[Read more](/bi/dataddo-profile/)

#### Features

##### Best rated features

- Web Data Extraction: 5/5
- Job Scheduling: 5/5
- Self Service Data Preparation: 5/5
- API: 5/5

##### Worst rated features

- Data Quality Control: 2/5
- Data Synchronization: 3/5
- Data Capture and Transfer: 4/5
- Pipeline Management: 4/5

[See all features](/bi/dataddo-profile/#key-features)

#### Pricing

##### Free

- Price: $0.00/month
- Sync data to any visualization tools on a weekly basis. Includes up to 3 data flows.

##### Data to Dashboards

- Price: $99.00/month
- Sync data to any visualization tools on an hourly basis. 

- 10 data flows: $99/month (billed

##### Data Anywhere

- Price: $99.00/month
- Sync data between any sources and any destinations

- 3 data flows: $99/month (billed annually) or

[See full pricing details](/bi/dataddo-profile/#pricing-and-plans)

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Inaccuracies in business data generate the wrong analyses and intelligence reports. This can result in poor decisions and failures, which will eventually be the downfall of a business.

Sounds scary? Because it is.

Your business needs an extract, transform, and load (ETL) solution that lets you define the frequency and cadence of data refresh. The software would ensure that the data in your reporting database is updated and accurate at all times. Your business intelligence (BI) software applies this data to get business insights, which then, allows you to make data-backed decisions.

To understand why accuracy, relevance, and date in a database is important, let's look at the example of the school grading system. In each term, the subject score is totaled and students are assigned grades. If the scores in a subject are unavailable, the final grades can't be assigned.

So, at the end of each term (frequency), you need all the scores (cadence).

As ETL is a technical tool, you need to know its features and benefits before purchasing it. Ensure that the tool you select meets the frequency and cadence requirements of data upload, which means getting the desired reports in the stipulated amount of time.

To help you select the right ETL solution for your business, we created this buyers guide to discuss the following topics:

-   [What is ETL software?](#WhatisETLsoftware)
    
-   [Common features of ETL software](#CommonfeaturesofETLsoftware)
    
-   [What type of buyer are you?](#Whattypeofbuyerareyou)
    
-   [Benefits of ETL software](#BenefitsofETLsoftware)
    
-   [Market trends to understand](#Markettrendstounderstand)
    

## What is ETL software?

ETL software is a platform that helps businesses manage data transfer from different sources into the central database of a BI solution. These sources could include software applications (such as CRM and HR), data files (such as CSV and XML), in-house databases, and cloud-based data storage solutions.

There are three components of an ETL solution:

-   **Extract:** Reads data from different databases and software solutions.
    
-   **Transform:** Performs data cleaning and formatting functions on the extracted data, so that its format (such as text, date, and numbers) is consistent with the data warehouse fields or headers (such as name, payment details, and contacts).
    
-   **Load:** Moves data after the second step (i.e., data transformation) to the data warehouse. This data can be loaded into either a cloud-based or an on-premise data warehousing solution.
    

_ETL workflow in Altova (_[Source](https://www.altova.com/mapforce/etl-tool)_)_

## Common features of ETL software

The first step in purchasing an ETL solution to understand its features. This will help you shortlist products based on the offered capabilities, ensuring that the product you choose performs all the functions you need.

The table below lists the common features of ETL software.

| Feature | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Data integration | Extracts data from different sources such as local servers and software applications. Some products offer built-in connectors that let users extract data from different software such as CRM and HR. |
| Job scheduling | Schedules and monitors the data importing and loading operations for different sources. For instance, you can set a data extraction operation every 12 hours. |
| Workflow interface | Provides users a graphical interface to design ETL workflows. This lets them easily perform ETL operations, as the process doesn't require a lot of technical know-how. |
| Data cleansing | Cleans data errors, such as truncation spaces and formatting issues, before uploading the data into the data warehouse. |
| Reporting | Provides users reports related to their ETL operations. These reports can include the amount of data transferred, time taken, and growth in data volume. |

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## What type of buyer are you?

As ETL is a technical function, your technological proficiency will decide the type of software you should purchase. In this section, we analyze the needs and challenges of two types of software buyers. We've also identified the types of ETL software that each buyer type should consider for use.

-   **Small businesses with less technical expertise.** If your business doesn't have a dedicated IT staff, select a solution that offers built-in data connectors that allow smooth data transfers. This will help you extract data from different sources without having to manually code the operations.
    
-   **Businesses with dedicated IT teams.** Buyers with a dedicated IT team are better equipped to create custom data connections and managing solutions as they can fully understand technical issues. For this reason, buyers should choose a tool that offers advanced reporting, which can help them identify ways to improve their ETL operations.
    

## Benefits of ETL software

The next step of the buyer journey is to understand the advantages of using the software. Understand the usefulness of the software, how it will suit your business, and things to focus on before making the final decision.

Based on our research, here are a few benefits of ETL software:

-   **Accurate and real-time reporting.** The manual processes of data collecting, cleaning, and uploading are time consuming and prone to error. An ETL solution automates these steps, thus, helping you generate timely and accurate business reports.
    
-   **Automatic data sync.** It's hard to manually sync all the databases, which means that the generated reports aren't always accurate. For instance, if all your sales and purchase management systems aren't synchronized, profit estimates will be incorrect. ETL software ensures that all data sources are automatically synced with the BI database.
    
-   **Visual workflows.** ETL operations are purely technical and, if done manually, require programming knowledge. An ETL solution offers a visual workflow designer interface that lets you define all the data operations in a process. This provides a graphical representation of your data-related workflows.
    

## Market trends to understand

While you decide on whether to implement an ETL solution in your organization, you should be aware of the relevant market trends. Find out which vendors are incorporating new technologies in their offerings because this could potentially give you first-mover advantage in the market.

According to our research, **e\*\***vent streams being an integral part of ETL software will be the biggest market trend\*\*.

Akin to live dashboards, event streams allow you to monitor the real-time information of your business functions. For example, shipment tracking streams let you track the real-time status and location of your shipments.

Unlike the traditional ETL approach, in which data is refreshed at fixed intervals, event streams refresh data in real time. For this reason, the latter requires higher network bandwidth and more efficient data management. As demand for event streams in BI grows, we expect ETL vendors to incorporate it in their offerings by 2022.

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-   [Data Extraction Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-extraction/)
-   [Data Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-management/)
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-   [Data Quality Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-quality/)
-   [Database Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-management-systems/)
-   [Integration Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/data-integration-tools-comparison/)
-   [Master Data Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/master-data-management/)