Heap
If you want to reduce engineering effort, Heap can capture events with less manual instrumentation and export to Snowflake; can still feed modeling in Snowflake and activation via Hightouch.
Heap Pros & Cons
Key strengths and limitations to consider
Strengths
- Autocapture reduces implementation time for web analytics events
- Snowflake export available to keep your warehouse as system of record
- Useful product analytics layer if you want more than routing
Limitations
- Not a like-for-like event router in the Snowplow sense (different philosophy)
- Autocapture can increase data volume/noise if not governed carefully
- Mobile/server event parity may require additional work
Ideal For
Who benefits most from Heap
Quick Analysis
If you want to reduce engineering effort, Heap can capture events with less manual instrumentation and export to Snowflake; can still feed modeling in Snowflake and activation via Hightouch.
Product teams analyzing user journeys
SaaS companies tracking feature adoption
Growth teams identifying conversion bottlenecks
UX researchers studying in-app behavior
Data teams wanting auto-captured event streams
Key Features
- Autocapture for web events
- Session replay
- Funnel and retention analysis
- User journey mapping
- Heatmaps
- Snowflake data export
- No-code event definitions
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