Let’s be honest, the ‘Data Lake’ is one of the latest buzz-words everyone is talking about. Like many buzzwords, few really know how to explain what it is, what it is supposed to do, and/or how to design and build one.  As pervasive as they appear to be, you may be surprised to learn that Gartner predicts that only 15% of Data Lake projects make it into productio...

Talend Fall ’18 is here! We’ve released a big update to the Talend platform this time around including support for APIs, as well as new big data and serverless capabilities. You will see blogs from my colleagues to highlight those major new product and features introductions. On my side, I’ve been working passionately to introduce...

AstraZeneca plc is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that is the world’s seventh-largest pharmaceutical business, with operations in more than 100 countries. The company focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines, which are used by millions of patients worldwide. It’s one of the few companies to span the entire lifecycle of a medicine; from research and development to manufacturing...

Presenting at Talend Connect London 2018 is Reed Elsevier (part of RELX Group), a $7 billion data and analytics company with 31,000 employees, serving scientists, lawyers,...

With expectations of business users evolving beyond limitations of traditional BI capabilities, we see a general thrust of organizations developing a cloud-based data strategy that enterprise users can leverage to build better analytics and make better business decisions. While this vision for cloud strategy is fairly straightforward, the journey of identifying and implementing the right technology stack that caters to BI and analytical requirements across the enterprise can create some stum...

As businesses in the primary economic hubs in Asia such as Tokyo, Banglore, Sydney and Singapore are growing at a historical level, they are moving to the cloud like never before. For those companies, their first and foremost priority is to fully leverage the value of their data while meeting strict local data residency, governance, and privacy requirements. Therefore, keeping data in a cloud data center that’s on the other side of the globe simply won’t be enough. That’s why...

In my last blog post, I shared some thoughts on the common pitfalls when building a data lake. As the movement to the cloud gets more and more common, I’d like to further discuss some of the best practices when building a cloud data lake strategy. When going beyond the scope of integration tools or platforms for your cloud data lake, here are 5 questions to ask, that can be used as a checklist: 1. Does your Cloud Data Lake strategy include a Cloud Data Warehouse? As many d...

Today, data integration projects are not just about moving data from point A to point B, there is much more to it. The ever-growing volumes of data, the speed at which the data changes presents a lot of challenges in managing the end-to-end data integration process. In order to address these challenges, it is paramount to track the data-journey from source to target in terms of start and end timestamps, job status, business area, subject area, and the individuals responsible for a specific jo...

We’ve all dreamed of going to bed one day and waking up the next with superpowers – stronger, faster and even perhaps with the ability to fly.  Yesterday that is exactly what happened to Tom Reilly and the people at Cloudera and Hortonworks.   On October 2nd they went to bed as two rivals vying for leadership in the big data space. In the morning they woke up as Cloudera 2...

The cloud is not “just someone else’s computer”, even though that meme has been spreading so fast on the internet. The cloud consists of extremely scalable data centers with highly optimized and automated processes. This makes a huge difference if you are talking about the level of application software. So what is “cloud-native” really? “Cloud-native” is more than just a marketing slogan. And a “cloud-native application” is not simply a co...