Cloud Enabled Open Source Integration Software

Cloud computing is the inevitable future of the enterprise. Cloud deployment of applications provides invaluable flexibility: fast provisioning, elasticity, and low overhead.   But with these benefits come new challenges:

• Private and public cloud databases, data services and SaaS-based applications (CRM, HR, ERP, etc.) are springing up alongside on-premise applications and databases that have been the mainstay of corporate IT.
• The resulting hybrid IT environments have more sources, of more diverse types, which require more modes of integration, and more effort on data quality and consistency across sources.
• Application and data integration are at least as critical as they are for strictly on-premise systems, and even harder to get right. Concerns like latency, bandwidth, permissions and security complicate the integration problem further in hybrid environments.
• “Pure” public or private cloud deployments are still rare, but they present much the same data management challenges as hybrid environments.

All products that constitute the Talend Unified Platform are cloud ready:

• Data Integration: Talend Open Studio for Data Integration and Talend Enterprise Data Integration
• Data Quality: Talend Open Studio for Data Quality and Talend Enterprise Data Quality
• Master Data Management: Talend Open Studio for MDM and Talend Enterprise MDM
• Enterprise Service Bus: Talend Open Studio for ESB and Talend Enterprise ESB

These cloud-enabled products rely on the foundation of the Unified Platform, with:

• A single development environment
• A shared metadata repository
• A single deployment and runtime environment
• An integrated monitoring solution

They offer the benefits that are the hallmark of Talend’s solutions:

• Widely used and familiar to developers and administrators
• Consistent across products, and across on-premise and cloud-based deployment modes
• Validated and field-tested through hundreds of thousands of deployments worldwide

Together, they provide a high-value, comprehensive and unified data management platform for the cloud, that seamlessly integrates hybrid deployments of on-premise, public and private cloud, and SaaS applications.

In addition to an extensive portfolio of 450+ connectors, Talend Cloud provides a series of connectors specific to Cloud and SaaS applications and technologies.

Out of the box, these include:

• Salesforce.com
• NetSuite
• SugarCRM
• BIRT OnDemand
• Marketo
• Amazon RDS
• Amazon S3
• Database.com
• Google Applications
• Google Analytics
• Twitter
• Hadoop

These provide native connectivity, encapsulating any complex, vendor-specific APIs.
This list is constantly growing, as new and enhanced connectors are added on a regular basis by open source community members and by Talend’s R&D organization.  The Talend Exchange provides the latest connectors, which can be downloaded and installed directly within the Talend Studio.

And there is no per-connector cost - as with other Talend connectors, everything is included.

As IT organizations integrate cloud-based systems, issues such as latency & bandwidth, permissions & security, may arise, making it critical to run integration “close” to the sources or targets. Integration processes may therefore need to run anywhere across this hybrid environment: on premise, or in private or public Clouds.

Talend Cloud provides complete deployment flexibility. 

• Any combination of components - data integration, data quality, MDM and ESB - can be installed fully in the cloud, fully on premise, or in any needed hybrid combination.
• Components can be deployed and run inside mainstream virtualization solutions.
• Components deployed in the cloud fully benefit from the flexibility and elasticity of the cloud.
• Components communicate using various cloud-friendly protocols to ensure the overall orchestration and integrity of the integration processes in a secure environment. 

All this is delivered in consistent, unified tools, unlike cloud-specific point solutions that conflict with existing data integration and data management approaches.

Talend’s solutions deliver the following benefits when used in Cloud and hybrid deployments:

• Elasticity: Talend Cloud is lightweight and easily embedded into applications, and supports the ability to expand and contract deployments as required.
• Performance: Talend’s data-oriented integration services, when situated in the cloud, can be located near cloud-based sources or targets as needed to reduce latency and maximize performance.
• Ubiquity: Talend’s support for standard Web services and REST integration approaches makes resources easily accessible by myriad platforms and devices.
• Extensibility: Talend’s modular architecture and open source model allows organizations to add, modify or remove functionality as requirements change over time.
• Security & reliability: Talend’s products can maintain security and reliability of applications down to the individual message level, allowing organizations to meet customer SLAs.

The same monitoring capabilities offered by the Talend Unified Platform apply in cloud and hybrid deployments as well. Additionally, Talend Cloud provides monitoring portlets that can be used with JBoss GateIn, iGoogle and mobile platforms such as iPhone and iPad.

Until Talend Cloud, tools for data management in cloud deployments have been cost-prohibitive and closed, making them difficult to deploy, evolve and maintain for organizations unwilling to spend huge resources, struggle with pre-cloud price models, or settle for point solutions.

Open source, standards-compliant software that works the same in cloud and on-premise environments democratizes cloud data management, by reducing the risk of being stuck within a closed-source vendor’s roadmap with hidden costs and limitations down the road. Customers get lower startup costs, shorter time to value, more flexibility in fitting solutions to real requirements.