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Open Integration Meets Metadata With The New Talend Metadata Bridge
Great news! Talend Metadata Bridge is now general availability (GA) since March, 8th. Talend customers with an active subscription to any of our Enterprise or Platform products can download and...
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Talend – Implementation in the ‘real world’: what is this blog all about?
Let me introduce myself: My name is Adam Pemble and I am a Principal Professional Services Consultant based in the UK. My area of expertise is MDM (Master Data Management), along with the related...
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Talend – Implementation in the ‘Real World’: Data Quality Matching (Part 1)
Data Quality (DQ) is an art form. If I was to define two simple rules for a project involving some element of DQ, they would be:Don’t underestimate the time and effort required to get it rightTalk to...
View ArticleAgatha Christie and the Challenge of Cloud Integration
Many classic detective novels progress in a familiar way: the hero, Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple for instance, has an incomplete understanding of how the crime played out and must painstakingly...
View ArticleMDM and the Chief Marketing Officer: Made for Each Other
When it comes to CMO’s, I’m about as data centric as they get. Early in my career, I worked as an economist for a consulting firm in Washington, D.C. I was happily awash in data and found myself...
View ArticleSelf-Service is Great for Fro-Yo but is it Right for Integration?
I had cause to visit a self-service frozen yogurt wonder emporium on a recent visit to the U.S. It was delightful and, at first, a tad overwhelming – so many flavors to choose from, so many toppings....
View ArticleThe Power of One
When we last spoke, I talked about how Talend is working with data-driven companies to define and implement their One-Click data strategies. 1-Click, introduced by Amazon.com in 1999, allows customers...
View ArticleSpaghetti alla Cloud: Prevent IT Indigestion today! (Part I)
Spaghetti alla Cloud? It’s what’s on the menu for most organizations today. With the explosion of popularity for SaaS applications, as well PaaS (Cloud platforms) and IaaS (Cloud Infrastructures), most...
View ArticleThe Union of Real-Time and Batch Integration Opens Up New Development...
Hadoop's Big Data processing platforms feature two integration modes that correspond to different types of usage, but are being used interchangeably with increasing frequency. "Batch" or "asynchronous"...
View ArticleWhy Everyone Will Become a Part-Time Data Scientist
Your job description just changed. Take a look around you – Big Data is no longer a buzzword. Data volumes are exploding and so are the opportunities to understand your customers, create new business,...
View ArticleSporting Lessons to Kick-Start Big Data Success
As football teams around the world enjoy their pre-season break, these can be exciting but anxious times. Especially for the teams and players making the step-up to play in a higher division after the...
View ArticleSpaghetti alla Cloud: Prevent IT Indigestion today! (Part II)
In part I of this two-part post, we learned why the IT architecture supporting modern business feels bloated when cloud computing was supposed to be a liberating, game-changing paradigm instead, and...
View ArticleData Preparation: Empowering The Business User
A growing number of business users with limited knowledge of computer programming are taking an interest in integration functions and data quality, as companies become more and more “data-driven”. From...
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Hadoop Summit 2015 Takeaway: The Lambda Architecture
It has been a couple of weeks since I got back from the Hadoop Summit in San Jose and I wanted to share a few highlights that I believe validate the direction Talend has taken over the past couple of...
View ArticleSurprising Data Warehouse Lessons from a Scrabble Genius
Lessons in data warehousing and cloud data integration can come from unexpected places. Consider: the latest French-language Scrabble champion doesn’t speak French.New Zealander Nigel Richards just won...
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OSGI Service Containers
The first post in this series provided a look at the definition of a Container. The second post in the series explored how Platforms leverage Containers to deliver SOA design patterns at internet...
View ArticleOn the Road to MDM
Think big, but start small. This is particularly good advice if you plan on implementing a master data management (MDM) system any time in the near future.MDM is an extremely powerful technology that...
View ArticleTalend and the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools – Less than...
Why you should consider the emerging leaderWhen it comes to Talend, prospective customers have a favorite question they like to ask analysts: “If I can get all of this from Talend at a fraction of the...
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Beyond “The Data Vault”
In my last blog “What is ‘The Data Vault’ and why do we need it?” I introduced a fresh, compelling methodology for data warehouse modeling authored and invented by Dan Linstedt (http://danlinstedt.com)...
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Talend – Implementation in the ‘Real World’: Data Quality Matching (Part 2)
First an apology: It has taken me a while to write this second part of the matching blog and I am sure that the suspense has been killing you. In my defence, the last few months have been incredibly...
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