Supermetrics vs. Stitch vs. Improvado

Improvado automates the annoying parts of data management. With Improvado, marketers are no longer at the mercy of non-scalable manual processes. Costly and valuable developer time is now freed up, no longer from having to create interfaces, host and maintain databases, normalize data, and visualize reports.

Supermetrics is a data integration platform that helps marketing and sales teams automatically pull data from siloed platforms—CRMs, marketing automation platforms, paid channels, and more—into a consolidated destination for reporting, analytics, or storage.

Supermetrics isn't a dedicated marketing attribution platform. Instead, it automates fast and efficient data delivery into Google Sheets, Excel or warehouses like BigQuery and Snowflake, where you can now connect all your touchpoints and create a custom attribution model relevant to your business yourself.

Supermetrics offers an automated reporting solution that helps users generate marketing reports for stakeholders as needed. It is also important to note that Supermetrics only encrypts and caches data for a few minutes and never stores it in a backup. This is a testament to its robust data security and privacy policies. But on the flip side, you can't conveniently work with historical data on such a platform.

Stitch Data is a cloud-first, open-source ETL platform that enables business teams to rapidly and securely move data from multiple sources to designated data warehouses for fast and efficient analysis.

The platform is an integral part of the Talend Data Fabric, providing prebuilt connectors to over 100 databases and SaaS applications, with support for leading data warehousing platforms like Snowflake, RedShift, BigQuery, and Azure Synapse Analytics.

Stitch Data offers a simple interface with ready-to-query schemas designed to accelerate the process of onboarding and extracting insights from new data sources.

The platform, as stated in one of its documentation pages, does not support user-defined data transformation. This means that you can’t carry out advanced data transformation processes on the platform. It does support and automate a few basic preload transformation processes, like JSON structures, data typing, object names, etc., but these are only sufficient for light- and medium-duty data warehousing needs. Advanced data transformation capabilities can only be accessed by signing up on Talend, Stitch Data’s “parent platform”.

The platform is also compliant with major security protocols, including SOC-2 and HIPAA.