I am happy to inform you that Talend Open Studio 2.3.0 is now officially available.

What’s new in this version? The numerous new features of Talend Open Studio 2.3.0 include:

• Reinforcement of Web Services architecture, with the full support of the WSDL standard
• Significant performance improvements of a number of components and connectors
• Enhancements to the Trace Mode: expand/collapse options, pause/resume capabilities, step-by-step mode

We have also integrated new components and connectors:

• Microsoft Dynamics, the suite of business applications from Microsoft
• Mondrian, the open source ROLAP (relational online analytical processing) technology
• Palo, the open source MOLAP (multidimensional online analytical processing) technology
• Weka, the open source data mining technology
• Vertica, the column-oriented database for large scale data warehouse and data mart workloads
• iReports, JasperSoft’s leading open source reporting technology
• In addition, the support for Slowly Changing Dimensions (types 1, 2 & 3) has been expanded to include the following databases: IBM DB2, Ingres, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Sybase ASE
• PNG graphs generation
• groovy scripts
• Java classes loading
• operating system sockets

The download is available at http://www.talend.com/download.php.

The community tools (Forum, Bugtracker, Changed Log, Wiki, Subversion, Trac, Flash tutorials…) are available at http://www.talendforge.org.

Thanks again for your support and your involvement!

Fabrice

A month after celebrating our 100,000 downloads, a few weeks after releasing Talend Open Studio v2.1, now is time to welcome Talend Integration Suite to the market!

I want to start this post with congratulations to the Talend R&D team, and to the community that provided its invaluable feedback, without which it would have been difficult to build Talend Integration Suite. Kudos to everyone!

So what is Talend Integration Suite? It’s an extension of Talend Open Studio, with many enteprise-grade features for development and deployment.

First (very important) point: no change of environment is required for the developers, who still use Talend Open Studio to build their jobs.

Second point: Talend Integration Suite is a series of optional modules, that are packaged into different editions of the solution. The modules focus on 3 major enterprise areas:
- Facilitate collaboration and promote best practices
- Manage enterprise-scale deployments
- Centralize monitoring of integration processes

Today, we are putting into GA the following modules:
- Shared Repository, to share all projects and metadata in a central repository (deployed internally). You will have recognized here a theme similar to Talend On Demand, our SaaS data integration solution. That makes sense, since it’s the same technology stack - except you deploy it behind your firewall, and you fully control it.
- Distant Run, to execute remotely a job from the Job Designer interface. This will come very handy for testing jobs on remote systems, and for running jobs upon request on different systems.
- Activity Monitoring Console, an Eclipse plugin (part of Talend Open Studio or standalone) that provides a single, centralized way of monitoring job events, execution times, data volumes…

There will be many more options for Talend Integration Suite - stay tuned!

Fabrice