See how much Connect can save your business
Plug in your team's numbers. See exactly what Connect costs vs. building it yourself.
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- Schema-change maintenance —
- API-change maintenance —
Assumes 12 schema changes/yr × 4hrs each, 2 API changes/yr × 16hrs each, and 2080 working hrs/yr per FTE. Comparison period: 3 years.
Keeping pipelines running is necessary work that sets no one apart
Every line in the in-house bar buys the same thing: data your competitors pull from the same systems. Keeping it flowing is real work. It doesn't make your portfolio better run than the one next door.
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Same sources, same data
A Yardi lease or an Entrata work order has the same shape at every operator who runs it. Extracting it well earns you parity, and the operator down the street gets the same parity by buying it.
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The work never ends
Vendors change APIs, rotate credentials, rename fields and throttle requests on their schedule, not yours. Each new instance is one more pipeline that can break overnight, so the maintenance lines keep growing after the build is paid off.
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One fix reaches every customer
When a vendor changes its API, we fix the connector once and every operator on it gets the fix. In-house, your team absorbs that same change alone, on every source you run.
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Your engineers on your edge
The hours this page counts go back to work only your team can do: the models, pricing and operating decisions built on your data. The data stays yours.
“Build for differentiation, or where it's truly cost-effective. Buy when there is no differentiation.”
Rachel Ibarra Vice President, Data and Innovation, Cardinal Group Companies