We’ve just found out about a program developed by a customer migrating their DataStage (IBM Infosphere) projects to Talend. They were looking for a solution to make the migration as automatized as possible and developed two programs that greatly improved efficiency. And, in the true open source spirit they have made it available for all in SourceForge.

The first program audits the DataStage project so as to better understand its complexity and get an accurate evaluation of the number of consulting days required to migrate the project from DataStage to Talend.
The second program is a “Converter” that automatically translates the DataStage jobs into Talend jobs! Of course not everything can be done automatically, especially the custom developments in DataStage. Still, this cuts the time and effort required to do the migration in half—a tremendous help.

In times like these, when many companies are looking for ways to reduce their IT maintenance bills, a solution facilitating the migration to a cost-effective open source solution like Talend is very welcome!

Who might be interested? Customers who have already done the migration cite three main reasons:
1. Cost control and cost reduction – to fight the ever increasing maintenance bills.
• With the increase in data volume and number of CPUs on the servers, IBM maintenance fees are getting higher and higher. Not a problem on Talend per user licensing.
• IBM is aggressively pushing their customers to migrate from DataStage Server to DataStage PX – more expensive and based on a totally different product architecture.
2. Benefit from a better solution – better GUI, performance, architecture and connectivity.
3. Leverage the open source advantages – lower TCO, faster development cycle, use of Standards, adaptability, support from a Community, and no lock-in.

If you’re interested in learning more about this – and about the partners that could help you with this migration – don’t hesitate to contact me (jsolansATtalend.com).

Happy Holidays!
Jean-Luc