SnapLogic

My main use case for SnapLogic is for different projects involving data migrations. We need to migrate data from our old SQL database to SnapLogic. I am mainly using it for this purpose and am currently learning the platform. Data migration is the primary project we are using SnapLogic for at this time.

SnapLogic has positively impacted my organization by optimizing time management. Previously, we were spending more time on these processes, but now we are using significantly less time compared to our previous methods. It has been very helpful in the management of time. Our customers are also happy with the results. SnapLogic is saving time and cost for us, which creates a win-win situation.

SnapLogic offers many valuable features including Snaps, which provides different methods, exception handling, error handling, and a good user interface. I find Snaps to be the most helpful feature. Snaps are excellent because they offer drag and drop functionality that we can use easily. We can utilize different Snaps for various purposes, which I have found to be helpful.

Regarding SnapLogic's governance and security capabilities, I believe they are very secure and good. The security is excellent. Regarding SnapLogic's accuracy and reliability of output, I find it to be reliable. SnapLogic uses AI power, so we can trust the output.

I feel SnapLogic can be improved, particularly on the user interface side. While it is good, I believe we can improve the GUI further. This improvement would help newcomers by making the interface more user-friendly. This is my suggestion at this time.

I have been using SnapLogic for six months. I am relatively new to SnapLogic, having started using this technology just recently within the past six months.

SnapLogic is a powerful tool that is easy to use. It is more beneficial, more secure, and more stable compared to other tools I have used previously. I can recommend this to everyone. I have rated SnapLogic a seven out of ten because there are some improvements that I feel need to be done, but otherwise everything is good. I chose seven out of ten for this reason since everything requires some improvements.

My main use case for SnapLogic is data ingestion. We have lots of data, but the main one is connecting out to APIs and SQL databases, bringing them into all the various system sources that we have within the business.

A specific example of a process or workflow I run with SnapLogic for data ingestion is that we recently built a data lakehouse within Databricks. We use SnapLogic to connect to all of the system data sources, and with a little bit of logic, we create Parquet files for Databricks ingestion.

SnapLogic has positively impacted my organization in that unlike other tools that we have used, no one in the business really notices or worries that SnapLogic is handling data. We don't get failures, we don't get issues, and we don't get week on week issues with the processes; it just works.

This reliability has translated into measurable outcomes for my team. The amount of timesheets that we deal with now without issues week on week is probably double what it originally was. It has gone from 5,000 timesheets a week to 10,000 timesheets a week with no noticeable impact from the business.

The best features SnapLogic offers include a good range of connectors that is very broad. We have not found any systems that we cannot use SnapLogic to connect to either to pull data from or push data to. Additionally, SnapLogic has good professional services that are very supportive if we have issues or if we have use cases that we want to discuss with them to make sure that we are doing things in the appropriate way.

The support from SnapLogic's professional services has made a difference for my team and projects because they basically keep us on a solid footing. They make sure that we are not missing out on features within SnapLogic, and they are always open to discussing with us what we are currently working on.

SnapLogic integrates with other tools or platforms in my tech stack very well.

SnapLogic handles data transformation and mapping for my use cases very well.

I would describe the documentation and learning resources provided by SnapLogic as really good.

SnapLogic can be improved by not keeping some of the connectors that would be very useful as a premium connector.

I handle monitoring and alerting for my SnapLogic pipelines by noting that the issue with SnapLogic is that you have to be an environment admin to be able to see the monitoring. This makes it quite difficult to do it from within the software. We have to bring the alerts out into a SQL database and report from there.

I have been using SnapLogic for four years.

SnapLogic is stable.

SnapLogic's performance when dealing with large-scale or high-volume data processes is very good.

SnapLogic's scalability has never presented an issue, as our initial setup has been the same, and we have never had an issue.

The customer support for SnapLogic is very good, as tickets get resolved within SLA.

I would rate the customer support on a scale of one to ten as a ten.

Before SnapLogic, I previously used several solutions such as Power Automate and SSIS packages. We had many different processes trying to do the same job, so we were able to consolidate this within SnapLogic.

I have seen a return on investment. There are not exact metrics, but the fact that we can process so many without additional people in the business has been a bonus.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is generally good, but the frustration is that some of the snap packs that we would like are held behind a kind of premium additional cost, which is frustrating.

Before choosing SnapLogic, I evaluated other options such as Power Automate and PagerDuty.

I would rate SnapLogic overall as a nine out of ten. I choose nine out of ten because it has been far better than anything else that I have used previously. The fact that it just works is a massive bonus, and the only mark that I have against it is that some of the connectors are an additional cost because they class them as premium.

Regarding SnapLogic's AI capabilities, from what I know, its governance and security seem to be very well thought out. I don't actually use the AI features very much.

SnapLogic is deployed in my organization in a hybrid cloud and on-premise setup.

It was fairly easy for my team to learn SnapLogic since it is low code, so it was not very difficult.

SnapLogic supports compliance requirements in my organization since we don't use SnapLogic to store any data, so there are no issues with that.

My advice to others looking into using SnapLogic is to look at the premium snaps that you know you think you need, not just the initial cost.

My main use case for SnapLogic is to automate SFTP pickups and banking integrations, and I also use it for data formatting, changing CSVs into different types of files, filling out data, and completely changing it for all sorts of data work.

A specific example of a workflow I automate with SnapLogic is when we receive a file from a bank about different transactions in US dollars and in Philippine currency as a text file in an old bank style format that needs to be converted into an Excel sheet for one of our other platforms.

In this example, I first transform the file and remove any unnecessary data. Since the file is a text file without proper spreadsheet formatting and no real columns, I must ensure that I am reading and formatting the file correctly into columns and rows so that it displays properly for our other platforms.

In addition to my main use cases with SnapLogic, I also use it in a couple of places to work with our internal APIs as a company, where clients want to provide us data, whether it may be a list of customers or a list of accounts that they work with, and they want to give it to us in a CSV format and do not feel comfortable using an API and calling it.

The process of transforming that file takes less than sixty seconds with SnapLogic, and before I started using the platform, we would have to do it by hand by copying and pasting content from the text file into Excel, which was a very manual workflow.

SnapLogic has impacted my organization positively by removing a lot of manual work from people who were doing that tedious work, allowing them to focus on tasks that require more skill and are better uses of their time.

While I do not have any cost numbers or time-saved numbers, I believe we went from approximately five or six platforms that we were using for different purposes to being able to use SnapLogic in place of those.

Some of the best features SnapLogic offers include the visual coding approach with small blocks that I can write without needing any programming knowledge, whereas a lot of what we were doing, if it was not done manually, would have to be done by writing scripts of some sort.

It has meant that getting new users into using SnapLogic has been incredibly easy, and while there is going to be a learning curve with every platform, SnapLogic has really simplified the process and has meant that people who would not necessarily have been able to do some of this work can be trained to do it because it is quite simple once they get the hang of it.

One feature that deserves a mention is that whenever I need to write an expression for any of my snaps, there is an autofill option that attempts to guess what I am working with, pulling data from any of the snaps to either side of it to try and determine what I am doing.

I do think some of the documentation could be improved as it can be a bit hard to parse, and sometimes there are simply not as many examples of things or ways to use some of the snaps as there could be.

The interface recently got an upgrade which was very needed because before it was very dated and a bit clunky, and it definitely looks a lot better now, and the speed has never really been an issue.

I think the documentation issue is what keeps SnapLogic from being perfect for me, along with some instances where snaps for things such as joining tables or filtering things do not work exactly how one might think they do intuitively.

I have been using SnapLogic for about two and a half years.

From what we have experienced, I would think SnapLogic is stable.

I think SnapLogic's scalability is pretty decent, but we have not had to scale it up massively since I am in quite a small startup, so I do not know if it is hugely applicable.

Customer support for SnapLogic has been really good.

I would rate the customer support a nine on a scale of one to ten.

I did not previously use a different solution before SnapLogic that was very similar.

I believe we also looked at Zapier before choosing SnapLogic, but our other options were mainly continuing what we were doing with manual and scripting work.

I would give SnapLogic a nine on a scale of one to ten.

I think SnapLogic's accuracy and reliability of output is pretty accurate.

In terms of SnapLogic's AI capabilities, I think it is pretty good, but I am not particularly well-versed in that area, so I cannot give a very strong answer on it.

My advice for others looking into using SnapLogic is to think about what you are going to use it for because there are so many things you can do, and make sure you understand what they are before bringing it on board.

My main use case for SnapLogic involves all the ETL applications where I need to get data from sources and then perform transformations and either send it to downstream applications within our firm or to any external vendors that need specific data sets.

For one of those ETL processes, I can give a specific example where some applications need data related to people and some of their transactions, which we hold in different applications. For people data, we use SnapLogic to connect to Workday and get their information such as first name, surname, preferred surname, and HR number, while their transactions, which are the things they actually work on, do not exist in Workday. These transactions are stored in a different application called 3E. In the same integration, SnapLogic gets people data from Workday and financial data from 3E, which is related to different users, and then we map them together by using joins and send all the user-related data along with their related financial transactions. We group them together, and each of the user data will be sent to an external vendor.

This main use case is our primary use case in most of the integrations.

SnapLogic has positively impacted our organization because over time, we have only started building more and more integrations within SnapLogic. Although about three or four integrations have been decommissioned, within that time span, we have built at least ten or fifteen more integrations, so I can see it is only growing bigger.

Regarding the outcomes I have seen, recently since AI tools have picked up, there was SnapGPT within SnapLogic, which understands everything specifically to SnapLogic, and that has helped me a lot. It also builds the pipelines for me and does the mappings when I use basic English to explain what I want as an output from the data that is going into the snaps, making it quite helpful in using SnapGPT.

The best features SnapLogic offers make it very simple to use, so it only took me around two or three months to get used to the interface, and in the past five to six years, I have noticed that there have not been many big changes. It is nothing very difficult to learn, as it has always been very simple with the interface and everything being quite easy to learn.

I would add that all the connectors we have include the basic set of Snap Packs, and I am very much familiar with them. Over time we did purchase some premium Snap Packs because we wanted to connect to different applications which were not offered by default, such as Azure Service Bus and Databricks, and we do have documentation available online, which helps us understand clearly without actually having to reach out to support to understand how to use them.

SnapLogic can be improved by generating SQL queries within SnapGPT, including the variables, as it would be very useful because lately, I have been using other AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT to generate SQL queries. If SnapLogic SnapGPT can do that efficiently, then that would be very helpful.

It would be easier if there were a support chat option within the pipeline so that we do not have to raise a ticket on the portal to explain what is happening and then grant access. If by default, in the test environment and dev, not in prod, we could add a chat option where a live chat person can actually be contacted within SnapLogic itself, that would be very helpful.

I have been using SnapLogic for six years.

In my experience, SnapLogic is stable.

SnapLogic's scalability measures are evident as we use it for small integrations that run under thirty seconds and some integrations that run for about five to six hours as well. So far, I do not think anything has caused any issues, so it is stable. Scalability-wise, I think we can go from small minimum integrations to a massive one.

SnapLogic customer support is quite helpful, and we have a customer success manager who increases the priority on our tickets when we say something is really important and we want a resolution as soon as possible. Overall, support and our CSM have been very helpful. On a scale of one to ten, I rate SnapLogic customer support a nine.

Before SnapLogic, I do not think we used any other solutions or similar applications, as I believe it has been about eight years since we introduced SnapLogic. Prior to that, we had SAP and Workday, with all different applications sitting on their own without connecting many applications, from what I know. SnapLogic was the first application of its kind that we introduced in our firm.

Before choosing SnapLogic, I was not there eight years ago, so I would not know if they evaluated other options.

SnapLogic is deployed in our organization where all our SnapLogic nodes are on-premises, so we have not migrated to the cloud yet. The advice I would give to others looking into using SnapLogic is that it is very simple to use. I understand this is a low-code platform, but being a low-code platform, it is quite efficient, and I could recommend it to anyone. I rate SnapLogic an overall nine out of ten.