The speed of onboarding is crucial for SaaS applications, with 70% of customers abandoning sign-up if it takes more than 20 minutes. A fast onboarding process promotes user retention, boosts engagement, and reduces churn, while slow onboarding leads to customer frustration and abandonment. To accelerate onboarding, strategies such as reducing friction, automating personalized messaging, optimizing processes based on customer feedback, and providing a seamless data integration experience can be effective. Census Embedded is an out-of-the-box integration ecosystem that provides fast, scalable, and reliable Reverse ETL data pipelines to popular data warehouses and business apps, enabling teams to quickly embed and deploy customer-facing integrations natively within their own SaaS app. By optimizing onboarding through metrics such as time-to-value, activation rate, drop-off rate, customer engagement rate, feature adoption rate, trial-to-paid conversion rate, and customer satisfaction levels, SaaS providers can create a speedy yet effective onboarding experience that turns new signups into lifelong users.