Talend

In the world that is ruled by Big data and is centered around cloud, it has become extremely important for the enterprises to harness their enterprise information. Talend is an open source software integration platform that helps you in smoothly turning the enterprise data into business insights.

What is Talend?

Talend is an open source data integration software platform which offers various services and solutions for data integration, enterprise application integration, data management solutions, cloud storage, Big Data and data quality. Talend concentrates on the big data integration. Apart from these, it also offers a unified repository to store and reprocess the Metadata. It can be found in both open source as well as premium version. It is one of the finest tools for big data integration and cloud computing.
It was in 2005 that Talend came as the first commercial open source software vendor of data integration software in the market. The very first product of Talend started off as Talend Open Studio in October 2016 is currently known as Talend Open Studio for Data Integration. Since then, it has released an extensive range of products which are used quite constructively in the market.
Talend is known to be the leader of the next generation in the cloud and Big Data integration domain. It assists companies in taking real-time decisions and develop into more data-driven firms. Data becomes more accessible, its quality enhances and it can be moved rapidly to the target systems using Talend.

Distinctive Features of Talend products:

• Less Cost: Talend offers open source tools that can be downloaded without incurring any cost at all. Furthermore, as the processes get faster, the cost of development reduces significantly.
• Speedy Development and Deployment: Talend systematizes tasks and additionally maintains them for you taking a lot of burden off your shoulders.
• Future Oriented: Talend is capable of everything that you might require to meet the marketing requirements in the present as well as in the future.
• Vast Community: Since Talend is an open source software, it is backed up by a vast community. It is the ideal location for all Talend users and community members where they can share material, skills, doubts, queries etc.

In the next section of this blog on what is Talend, we will take a look at the various products released by Talend.

Talend Open Studio- Architecture:

Given are the major components of Talend Open Studio Architecture:

• Workspace: In Talend, a workspace is a directory where you can store all the project folders. But for that, you will need at least at least one workspace directory per repository connection. Talend permits connecting with several workspace directories in case if you are not willing to use the default directories.
• Repository: A repository is the storage area which TOS tool utilize to gather data to elaborate business models or to design Jobs.
• Talend Server: The Talend server is one more significant block that includes a web-based application server. It allows the administration and maintenance of all projects. It consists of user accounts, access rights, and project authorization in the Administration database.
• Clients: The Clients block includes one or more Talend Studio(s) and Web browsers that uses same or different machines. Talend Studio permits you to run data integration processes irrespective of the level of data volumes and complexity of the process.
• Database: The Database component comprises of the Administration, the Audit and the monitoring of databases. This component aids to manage user accounts, access rights, and project authorization. The Audit database assists to assess several aspects of the Jobs for developing an ideal process-oriented decision support system.

Advantages of Talend:

• Portfolio relevance and cost model. Reference customers are appreciative of the fact that performance of Talend’s functionality is solid and also its support of diverse use cases, and the lower TCO of Talend’s technology, as compared to competitors. Talend’s free open-source offering and cheap developer-based pricing for fully featured software fancies to customers and frequently attracts usage for augmenting data integration capabilities.
• Adaptable capabilities in a unified product set. Talend’s portfolio, including the data quality, MDM, business process management, an ESB, and a recently added metadata management tool, sets out in order to deepen interactions across information- and application infrastructure-related cases of use. Customers value the configurability of Talend tools, which makes them elastic enough to adapt to the business requirements of data integration processes and the availability of artifacts built by community of Talend’s practitioners.
• Commitment to big data and evolving trends. Talend continues to receive benefits from an early commitment to big data and Hadoop, with novel customer adoption and technology advancements such as in-memory processing (with Apache Spark) and enabling of real-time scenarios. Impetus to support big data, coupled with a new iPaaS offering and plans for self-service data preparation capability (using data virtualization and iPaaS) in 1Q16, positions Talend to expand its reach in the market.