Talend Open Studio for Data Integration

Talend Open Studio for Data Integration dramatically improves the efficiency of data integration job design through an easy-to-use graphical development environment. It enables rapid deployment and reduces maintenance costs with prebuilt connectors to all source and target systems, with support for all types of data integration, data migration and data synchronization operations. High quality support is available through a worldwide community of users who provide continual testing and feedback.

Talend Open Studio for Data Integration comprises three major applications (Business Modeler, Job Designer, and Metadata Manager) within a single graphical development environment based on Eclipse, which is easily adapted to corporate needs.

Powerful and extensible data integration solution

Deliver solutions for every requirement, in time and under budget

• Extensible to meet even the most complex and custom requirements.
• Easy to develop, reducing development from months, to days and even hours.
• Leverage the power of open source.

Meet the demands of even the most complex business requirements

• Supply the business with the information they need, when they need it so they can make timely and effective decisions.
• Extend data services to provide real-time access to any corporate data to approved applications and requestors. 
• Provide reliable data throughout the organization to meet both analytical and operational needs.

Extensible, intuitive and complete set of tools to access data

Talend Open Studio for Data Integration is the only enterprise-ready open source integration tool available. With open source users can customize and extend the solution to meet their explicit needs without having to rely on the vendor's capacity to meet unique specifications.This rate of innovation allows to focus on concrete problems and provides insight into functionality, as it is no longer a black box proprietary solution. This unique value is provided through the following:

• Code generation: Talend Open Studio for Data Integration is a code generator. A developer drags and configures a set of graphical components on a canvas and the tool creates all the underlying java code. This approach shrinks time to develop so that you can do more in less time.
• Connectors: Only Talend Open Studio for Data Integration provides the breadth of pre-built connectors to meet any enterprise requirement. Included in the solution are over 450 components that allow you to connect in real time or batch to nearly every database and many known business systems.
• Transforms: From structured, unstructured and even XML transformations are easy. With an extension into Talend Data Quality, it provides a native function to improve quality as part of a integration flow.

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Business Modeling

The Business Modeler uses a top-down approach that allows line-of-business stakeholders to get involved in the design of integration processes and to monitor development progress. Business Models are  non-technical and business-oriented views built using the convenient  library of shapes and links.

The Business Modeler groups all relevant documentation supporting open source data integration, data migration and data synchronization processes in a business-friendly diagram. This is a very efficient way of monitoring jobs and  performing impact analysis if a problem arises. 

Graphical Development

The Job Designer provides both a graphical and a functional view of actual integration processes using a graphical palette of open source components and connectors. Integration processes are built by simply drag-and-dropping these components and connectors onto the workspace, drawing  connections and relationships between them, and setting their properties.

Components and connectors cover all types of tasks and operations relating to the data itself, data management and data flow sequencing. Connectors help access and read/write all data source and target systems for data integration, data migration and data synchronization. Refer to http://www.talendforge.org/components for a complete list of supported connectors.

Parameters are configured in one centralized view when selecting each component involved in the job. Parameters can also be inherited from the Metadata Manager (repository).

Complex components are equipped with dedicated and intuitive graphical interfaces or built-in wizards to help users build jobs.

To maintain the readability of a job design, the job diagram can be divided into subjobs, which can be set out as child and parent jobs to sequence their execution. Other orchestration components help  users sequence process execution.

A built-in console  view lets users monitor execution and track performance directly from the  integration studio.

Metadata-driven Design

Talend Open Studio for Data Integration is an open source metadata-driven solution for data integration, data migration and data synchronization. All metadata is stored and managed in a Metadata Manager (repository) shared by all modules. The repository centralizes all project information and ensures consistency across all  integration processes.

Meta  information related to source and target systems of integration processes is  easily loaded in the Metadata Manager through advanced system, database or file introspection facilitated by a number of wizards. The Metadata Manager is based on an open relational model, where job dependencies can be easily  identified, facilitating the maintenance of the data integration, data  migration and data synchronization jobs.

Contextual  data, such as database connection details or file paths, can also be centralized in the Metadata Manager, making it easier to use and update.

The  data structure of any source or target system is also easily retrieved and  interpreted in a Talend Schema form, which is reused for all types of  data operations in all your integration processes.

Additional  pieces of code, routines or methods can also be unified in the repository,  facilitating the reuse and refactoring of process parts.

Advanced and Versatile Connectivity

Talend Open Studio for Data Integration offers native technical and business open source connectors to all IT environments. This wide array of connectors is the key to the successful interoperability of applications and databases; it allows bridging diverse and heterogeneous data structures at unmatched performance rates. The  library of connectors is continually expanding, extending the capabilities of  Talend’s data integration, data migration and data synchronization solutions.

Talend Open Studio for Data Integration offers comprehensive connectivity to:

• Packaged  applications (ERP, CRM, etc.), databases, mainframes, files, Web services, etc. on to address the growing variety of sources
• Data warehouses, data marts, OLAP applications, etc. for analysis, reporting, dashboards, scorecards.
• Built-in advanced components for ETL, including string manipulations, Slowly Changing Dimensions, automatic lookup handling, bulk loads support, etc.
• Dedicated components for data quality, data matching, master data management, etc.

Refer to http://www.talendforge.org/components for a complete list of supported connectors.

Talend Open Studio for Data Integration leverages industry-standard languages including Java and SQL. This allows users to easily enrich existing components or create their own. A dedicated community application Talend Exchange helps users plug these newly created open source components natively into the environment. Users can also write routines and other pieces of code for data migration or data synchronization and store this information centrally in the repository for reuse.

Real-time Debugging

Talend Open Studio for Data Integration includes powerful testing, debugging and tuning features that allow real-time tracking of data flowing through the entire transformation  processes, including execution statistics and an advanced trace mode.

When an integration job is executed through the open source Job Designer interface in graphical mode statistics are displayed in real time, showing the number of processed rows and rejected  rows, as well as the throughput (rows per second). This allows to immediately spot any bottleneck in the data integration, data migration and data synchronization job. It is also possible to activate a trace mode, which displays row-by-row behavior and shows the result of transformations. Traditional debugging breakpoints and variables are also available.

And, of course, all code generated by Talend Open Studio for Data Integration, regardless of the target language, is always visible and accessible from the design environment.

Deployment and Maintenance

Advanced execution context management (test, staging, production, etc.) facilitates integration processes deployment for data integration, data migration and data synchronization. Implicit loading of context parameters directly in the open source job design helps develop the various execution environments and manage them easily. Deployment of processes across enterprise systems can easily be performed as data services or as data integration, data migration or data synchronization services via the convenient  export tool.

Automated  documentation generation provides complete and up-to-date technical reference  documentation (in XML and HTML), which helps various users and stakeholders  maintain and update inherited processes.

The dependency detection feature helps users identify dependencies among integration processes developed within Talend Open Studio for Data Integration and simplifies the global update  of the large number of processes stored centrally in the repository.

Robust and Scalable Execution

Unlike many data integration, data migration and data synchronization solutions, which are based on a centralized integration server or can only use RDBMS engines to process data, Talend Open Studio for Data Integration allows  users to export processes into executable files that can be distributed across  a grid of systems or exposed as Web services. These systems do not need to be dedicated to executing integration processes. Instead, Talend Open Studio for Data Integration leverages available resources.

Talend Open Studio for Data Integration leverages both the traditional ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) approach as well as the ELT (Extract-Load-Transform) approach. ELT leverages the power of the RDBMS engines to execute the data transformations inside the database, achieving unmatched performance for high volume batches. For each subset of a process, it is possible to choose the most suitable approach, and hence to obtain the highest level of performance and scalability for data integration, data migration and data synchronization.

This architecture design, which is especially suited to leveraging grids of inexpensive servers, as well as high-range systems, enables data to be  processed at a location closest to its source (thus decreasing data transfers)  and maximizes the use rate of computing resources.

Talend’s data integration solutions cover all data integration needs, for organizations of all sizes. The broad range of data integration needs addressed by the Talend solutions includes:

• Operational data integration: in most organizations, operational data integration is addressed by implementing custom programs or routines, completed on-demand for a specific need. Data migration/loading and data synchronization/replication are the most common applications of operational data integration.
  
  
• Data migration: when upgrading to a new version of a database or application, or when switching to a new system, data needs to be preserved in the new system. The purpose of data migration is to transfer existing data to the new environment. It needs to be transformed to a format suitable for the new system, while preserving the information present in the old. Learn more about how Talend's solutions address data migration.
  
  
• Data synchronization: many cases exist in the information system where data is managed separately by multiple applications or databases, yet needs to be kept consistent between these systems. The need for data synchronization can either be permanent (synchronization between operational systems), or temporary, for example during a migration. Data synchronization includes all the processes that maintain data in sync between the applications and databases. Learn more about how Talend's solutions address data synchronization.
  
  
• ETL for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing: the ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Loading) processes are the most critical - and value added - components of a Business Intelligence infrastructure. While mostly invisible to the user of the BI platform, ETL processes retrieve the data from all operational systems and pre-process it for the analysis and reporting tools. The accuracy and timeliness of the entire BI platform relies indeed on the ETL processes. Learn more about how Talend addresses ETL for BI and analytics.
  

Global organizations gain value from Data Integration

Open source data integration is used by organizations of all sizes, in all industries, for extremely diverse projects. The following are examples of real-life case studies to help understand benefits that actual organizations are getting from open source Data Integration:

• Allianz Global Investors Distributors streamlines its data warehouse build
• Sony Online Entertainment leverages Talend for its gaming analytics
• Monolith provides powerful SaaS-based BI for the quick-serve restaurant industry
• Monecam Group bases its service-oriented architecture on Talend Integration Suite
• UMIT fights cancer with Data Integration, mining and analysis

Read more case studies and customer references.

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