Authored by Dr. Gero Presser, CEO of Quinscape GmbH in Dortmund. We are living in an era where data has become a critical competitive factor. In the words of Talend CEO Mike Tuchen: “Data is the new battleground. For companies, the situation is clear – their future depends on how quickly and efficiently they can turn […]
A well-defined SDLC practice in a typical organization generally has projects running with users and roles. These users design, develop, test and deploy the jobs as per the business need/requirement. But have you ever wondered – what happens to the code after that? What if multiple developers want to work on the same job? […]
With the increased availability of data through sensors, inter-connected mobile devices, social media and private or public spatial data sets, the demand for a seamless integration of spatial information into data-driven decision-making processes has reached a new high. We consider spatial data as any kind of data supplemented with additional information about the location […]
The 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools will help catapult your latest Talend project from “your best-kept secret” into a organizationally-recognized example of genius. We all have our ‘dirty little secrets’, if you will, don’t we? Maybe you threw a party at your parent’s house in high school when they were on […]
Authored by Darius Kemeklis, Myers-Holum, Inc It’s hard to believe that Data Warehousing (DW) has been around since 1970 when Bill Inmon first defined the term. The 1990’s saw Bill Inmon and Ralph Kimball dueling on two different Data Warehousing approaches, with Kimball publishing The Data Warehousing Toolkit. The 2000’s saw MPP databases and the birth of Big Data and […]
What is a Data Model? As Talend developers, we see them every day, and we think we know what they are: A structural definition of a business system data A graphical representation of business data A data foundation upon which to build business solutions These may all be true statements, but for a moment […]
You may have seen recently that the first stable version of Apache Beam (v.2.0) was recently released. Apache Beam is an advanced unified programming model designed for batch and streaming data processing. It’s extremely powerful and portable which is why we’ve been actively contributing to the project since the very beginning. Recently, we’ve integrated […]
Docker Containers are widely used and becoming even more prevalent as companies seek to streamline their operations. Containers help decouple compute resources from applications, increasing the elasticity and hence the efficiency of IT operations. DataDog reports that Docker usage has grown 40% over the past year, 18.8% of the DataDog sample customers use Docker. […]
Talend’s Summer ’17 release officially GA’d at the end of June and it was our biggest Cloud release yet! Building upon our already robust set of connectors to AWS—such as EMR, Redshift, Aurora, etc.—with this release we added a comprehensive set of connectors for the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, which included services […]
In the first two parts of this series we emphasized that manufacturing companies face enormous challenges in managing their data. Obviously, it takes a lot of skill to integrate the IT systems already in place – CAD, CAPP, MES, PPS and ERP, among many others. Technologies for IoT, cyber-physical systems, and Industry 4.0 make […]
