With more than 15 million members, XING is the leading online business network for professional contacts in German-speaking countries. XING has an advantage in providing local news and job information. Because the services XING provides are based on acquiring, storing and manipulating high-quality, timely data, it’s essential for the company to be able to efficiently integrate the many sources feeding data into XING’s systems. But XING had le...

Introduction In part 1 of my post on data governance fundamentals, I introduced the "5 Ws and 1 H" of problem-solving—"What”, “Why”, “Who”, “When”, “Where”, and “How”— and applied the first three to data governance. This part covers how you can apply the last three pieces and suggest some next steps. Let's get started! The "When" of Data Governance In 2001...

Today during Microsoft Build 2019, we announced that Talend Cloud, our Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), would soon be available on Microsoft Azure starting in Q3 2019. For those who have selected Azure as their cloud platform of choice, Talend Cloud running natively on Azure will provide enhanced connectivity options for modern data integration needs as well as bette...

Today’s ever-increasing competitive market is forcing organizations to become more data-driven. To support key business objectives such as growth, profitability and customer satisfaction, businesses must digitally transform and become reliant on more and more data to make laser sharp decisions faster. Per IDC, the global data sphere will more than quadruple by 2025, growing from 40 ZB in 2019 to a whopping 175 ZB in size in 2025 (Source: IDC DataAge 2025 whitepaper)....

Introduction Among Talend’s blog posts are many outstanding ones on data governance, such as David Talaga’s “Life Might Be Like a Box of Chocolates, But Your Data Strategy Shouldn’t Be” which encourages us to know our data, and his two-part post on “...

PT Bank Danamon is Indonesia’s sixth-largest bank, with four million customers and a network that stretches across the archipelago. Competition for customers in the Indonesian market is especially fierce, with 115 banks to choose from, according to recent government statistics. Finding a way to stand out is crucial. PT Bank Danamon has ambitious goals to more than double the number of customers making use of mobile and internet banking channe...

Gartner has recently released its 2019 Market Guide for Data Preparation ([1]), its fourth edition of a guide that was first published in the early days of the market, back in 2015 when Data Preparation was mostly intended to support self-service uses cases. Compared to Magic Quadrants, the...

This post is authored by Datagrate. Datagrate helps their clients launch, manage and scale Talend’s best application integration solutions solving the most complex communication challenges. When the Application Program Interface (API) first came into existence, developers viewed it as a revolutionary approach to creating re-usable software fragments. Instead of creating new code from scratch for every...

We are in the era of the information economy. Now, more than ever, companies have the capabilities to optimize their process through the use of data and analytics. While there are endless possibilities to data analysis, there are still challenges with maintaining, integrating, cleaning it to ensure that it will empower the people to ta...

Founded in 2016 and launched in February 2017, PointsBet is a cutting-edge online bookmaker in Australia offering both traditional fixed odds markets as well as "PointsBetting – where winnings or losses aren’t fixed but depend on how accurate the bet turns out to be. Online betting platforms have long recognized the need for a strong, resilient IT infrastructure. Even a minor glitch during a major sporting event can be disastrous. The losses ca...