Case Study: American Student Assistance halves software costs and streamlines data pipelines with Rivery

How a Non-profit Matured Their Data Pipelines and Halved Software Costs by Switching to Rivery

American Student Assistance, a non-profit focused on educational access, needed a better way to manage its growing data operations across marketing, product, Snowflake, dbt, and Tableau. After using Fivetran for ingestion and transformations, the team faced rising costs, limited flexibility, poor pipeline visibility, and no streamlined CI/CD process for production deployments.

American Student Assistance switched to Rivery after evaluating it against Matillion, using it for data ingestion and orchestration alongside dbt Cloud and Tableau refreshes. With Rivery, they improved end-to-end pipeline control, reduced troubleshooting time, enabled dev-to-prod deployments with built-in environments, and cut software costs by 50% while freeing up engineering time for more analysis and dashboard development.