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Integration in Four Steps

Step 1: Connect dbt

Connect to your dbt repo, select a branch that you'd like to use, and tag your models with "census" to make them available.

Step 2: Connect Heap as a destination

You can connect to Heap by creating an API key in Heap and providing it to Census in an intuitive interface.

Step 3: Define the core data that matters for your business

Write a SQL Statement. Select the records you want to sync from dbt. Census will match records based on the unique identifier you provide (like email or ID).

Step 4: Schedule your sync

Choose your sync frequency with options to transfer data continuously, on a schedule, or triggered via our API.

Step 1: Connect a single source of truth

Connect to your dbt data source using standard API or ODBC credentials.

Step 2: Connect Heap

You can use an OAuth log-in flow to connect Census to Heap directly via the Census Connections page.

Step 3: Define the core data that matters for your business

Write a SQL Statement. Select the records you want to sync from your dbt data source. Census will match records based on the unique identifier you provide (like email or ID).

Step 4: Schedule your sync

Choose your sync frequency with options to transfer data continuously, on a schedule, or triggered via our API.

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Where can you sync your dbt data in Heap?

User Activity API

The User Activity API allows a Google Analytics property owner to retrieve all analytics measurement data associated with a single user. Specifically, the API retrieves all of the measurement data associated with a particular User ID or Client ID.

API Docs Description

Add Event Properties

Use this API to send stateful information into Heap as a set of global key-value pairs that get attached to all of a user's subsequent events.

API Docs Description

Add Account

This API allows you to attach custom account properties to users. An account ID or use of our Salesforce integration is required for this to work.

API Docs Description

A single source of truth in all your tools

Census is the easiest way to share a consistent view of your data across your entire business. Define your models, metrics, and business logic in your data warehouse and sync them to all your operational tools.

Create trust in consistent metrics
Automate confidently with clean data
Simplify your data integration strategy
Improve data security and visibility

Trusted by companies you know

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Advantages of Census

Build once. Reuse everywhere.

Once you define your models in dbt or in Census, you can sync them to all of the tools, so every team is using the same data to achieve their goals.

No more CSV files & Python scripts

Focus on building a data stack and improving data quality, not writing custom code to integrate with Sales & Marketing tools. Census takes care of getting the data into the hands of your business team. No Engineering favors required.

It just works. At scale.

Whether you sync 100 records or 100 million, we will keep your data in sync across your warehouse and your business tools. Census automatically navigates API failures and monitoring keeps you aware of worst case scenarios.

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Data Activation Use Cases

Syncing from dbt

Connecting to dbt

dbt (data build tool) is a data modeling and data management tool that enables analytics engineers to transform data in their warehouses by simply writing select statements. dbt handles turning these select statements into tables and views. dbt approach to data modeling is the leading paradigm for ELT (Extract, Load, Transform). It makes it easy to transform data that has been delivered to the data warehouse via an ETL tool like Fivetran, Stitch, or Airbyte. Census has a native integration with dbt that expands the reach of your trustworthy models by putting them into the places where business teams can take action.

Now you can use the data in dbt for more than just analytics and BI. With dbt reverse ETL you can operationalize your data across your entire customer data stack.

Learn how to use Census with 👉 our dbt Docs

Syncing to Heap

Heap is the only digital insights platform that shows everything users do on your site, revealing the "unknown unknowns" that stay invisible with other tools.

With the Heap integration, your behavioral analytics dashboards show a consistent picture with the data in your data warehouse and finally mirror the data in all your other tools.

Learn how to use Census with 👉 our Heap Docs

Census connects to dbt through your data source and syncs data to Heap. With 50+ integrations (and counting!) and transparent pricing, it’s never been easier to start operationalizing your data. This is what we like to call Reverse ETL.

Census connects to dbt and syncs data to Heap. With 50+ integrations (and counting!) and transparent pricing, it’s never been easier to start operationalizing your data. This is what we like to call Reverse ETL.

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Census is the Data Activation platform of choice for companies who value scalability, observability, and performance.

#5 in the Top 50 Best Software Products of 2023The Leader in Reverse ETL on G2, 4 quarters in a row 🏆

Here's what reviewers on G2 have to say

"A fantastic tool that is only getting better."

Matthew C

Analytics Engineer

“Like that infomercial rotisserie — you just set it and forget it”

Matt N

Head of Growth

“Census just works”

Eric B

Director of Project Management

“An indispensable tool for BizOps and Go-to-market teams”

Michael T

Business Operations

“Like that infomercial rotisserie — you just set it and forget it”

Matt N

Head of Growth

“Census just works”

Eric B

Director of Project Management

“An indispensable tool for BizOps and Go-to-market teams”

Michael T

Business Operations

“My favorite tool in our martech stack!!”

Allison K

Growth Marketing Manager

I used to develop reverse ETL systems with Python and Airflow for destinations like Eloqua, Mixpanel, Braze, Intercom, and Salesforce. Every destination requires different data types, formats, rate limits, and API requests. Census saves me from maintaining my custom code, so I can spend more time to optimize the system itself.

Frances Fang

Sr Data Engineer

Census takes what the analytics team does out of static dashboards and into tools that the rest of the company uses, allowing us to actually deliver on the promise of being “data driven”.

Matt Nicosia

Director of Growth

"A fantastic tool that is only getting better."

Matthew C

Analytics Engineer

We make it easy to switch to Census.

Our Customer Success team will partner with you every step of the way to make sure you and your team are set up for long term success.

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Sync dbt to Heap

Sync dbt data to Heap

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Integration in Four Steps

Step 1: Connect dbt

Step 2: Connect Heap as a destination

Step 3: Define the core data that matters for your business

Step 4: Schedule your sync

Step 1: Connect a single source of truth

Step 2: Connect Heap

Step 3: Define the core data that matters for your business

Step 4: Schedule your sync

User Activity API

Add Event Properties

Add Account

A single source of truth in all your tools

Trusted by companies you know

Advantages of Census

Build once. Reuse everywhere.

No more CSV files & Python scripts

It just works. At scale.

Data Activation Use Cases

Syncing from dbt

Connecting to dbt

Syncing to Heap

Census is the Data Activation platform of choice for companies who value scalability, observability, and performance.

From your data warehouse to your favorite apps. Without code or engineers.