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

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

PS -  In this video I walk through Fivetran's Total Cost of Ownership Calculator. 

Click here to try it out for yourself.

Enjoy!