Big data is here to stay After social media, the Internet of Things is the next big driving force behind the increase in data worldwide, which is doubling in size every two years. [1] At the same time, data processing speeds and capabilities are becoming increasingly important because—much like food—data loses relevance after a […]
Today’s enterprise IT organizations are once again experiencing a massive upheaval due to pressure from employee forces. It’s a familiar story. Just think of the turmoil caused by the dawning of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) era, with employees demanding to use their beloved, personal mobile phones or tablets for work. If IT balked at their […]
Today, we announced the general availability of the Winter ’17 release of Talend Integration Cloud, an Integration-as-a-Service (iPaaS) platform. This release helps customers build data lakes dramatically faster using AWS S3 and reduce data security vulnerabilities through controlled access. The new release also enables customers to continuously deliver integration projects, accelerate the software development […]
If you are Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock and you need to get somewhere in a hurry, then you “beam” there, it’s just what you do. If you are a company and you want to become more data driven, then as surprising as it may sound, the answer there could be beam as well, […]
The Panama Papers is the history’s biggest data leak and cross-border investigation in journalism history. For one year, around 400 reporters across almost 80 countries dived into this massive trove of information that exposed how the offshore economy works. Talend Big Data was instrumental in bringing that information into the public domain. Founded in […]
Our journey to this day started 10 months ago, and what an exciting road it has been. In February 2016, Google, Talend, Cloudera, dataArtisans, PayPal and Slack joined efforts to propose Apache Beam (see “Introduction to Apache Beam”) to the Apache Incubator, the entry path into The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The numbers are […]
What does your next data-driven project have to do with data stewardship? Well actually a lot if you want to get the most out of your data. Many companies today are filling the data lake with vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. But they tend to forget an important fact: on average, organizations believe that […]
Air France-KLM serves 90 million passengers per year and 27 million Flying Blue reward program members. The data explosion has been a clear game changer in the last few years, owing especially to social media: Air France-KLM has 16 million fans on Facebook and 3 million Twitter followers. Travel as you like Many airlines […]
Our journey in Talend Job Design Patterns & Best Practices is reaching an exciting juncture. My humble endeavor at providing useful content has taken on a life of its own. The continued success of the previous blogs in this series (please read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 if you haven’t already), plus […]
