Case Study: Emery Sapp & Sons achieves 20% time savings on data pipelines and real-time reporting with Fivetran

Emery Sapp & Sons Builds Civil Infrastructure, Not Data Pipelines

Emery Sapp & Sons, a growing heavy civil construction company, faced hours of manual Excel reporting and inconsistent answers from disparate on‑premises and cloud systems. To centralize data and enable real‑time analysis, they implemented a modern data stack using Fivetran for automated pipelines, Google BigQuery as the warehouse, and Looker for BI.

Fivetran eliminated the need to build and maintain custom ETL, freeing roughly a day per week (about 20% of pipeline time) for the Director of Technology and avoiding the need to hire a dedicated engineer. Paired with BigQuery and Looker, the team built live dashboards—turning a 5–6 hour/month fuel report and a 2+ hour weekly AR report into real‑time views, consolidating three accounting systems, improving data consistency, and enabling faster, insight‑driven decisions that boost operational efficiency and competitiveness.

Emery Sapp & Sons

Clayton Hicklin

Director of Technolog