Ranjith Ramachandran is a senior Big Data and Talend Consultant at Wavicle Data Solutions.    Data lakes: smooth sailing or choppy waters? In May, Talend announced its support for...

Outra is a UK predictive data science business that helps companies increase the power and precision of data through a modern, science-led approach which delivers actionable insight at speed. ...

I have had the privilege of playing with and following the progress of Pipeline Designer for a while now. I am really excited about this new tool. If you haven’t seen it yet, then don’t delay and get your free trial now…..actually, maybe read this blog first ;-)  Pipeline Designer is an incredibly intuitive, web-based, batch and stream processing integration tool. The real geniu...

When working with Talend Pipeline Designer, you may come across situations where you need to write an Avro schema. Go to the Apache AVRO site to read more about this serialization technology. This blog has come about thanks to some experiences I’ve had when working with Avro schemas and getting them to work when serializing using Python and Java. Spoiler alert!....they don’t necessarily work the same w...

Talend Cloud is an Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) offering by Talend. It is a fully managed cloud option which has the capabilities of data integration, data stewardship, data preparation, API designer and Tester and Pipeline designer. These tools can be used for lightweight ETL and detecting the schema on the fly. One of the unique features of Talend Cloud is it provides both on premise and cloud execution environments. Remote engines can be installed behind the firewall, which al...

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...

Almost three years ago today, to the day, Talend opened its fourth global research and development center, and its second one in France, in Nantes. It was clear to Talend from the very beginning of this new innovation center that it would not be a simple satellite of existing centers, but a key element in our strategy and overall R&D efforts. Dedicated to innovative cloud, big data, and machine-learning technologies, this center plays a key role in our research and development eff...

OTTO is one of Europe’s most successful e-commerce companies and Germany’s biggest online retailer. In the past financial year, 6.6 million customers ordered online from OTTO. Like virtually every other retailer with an online presence, OTTO competes against Amazon for customers and mindshare. To hold their own, they knew they needed to use and analyze data t...

This post was authored by Venkat Sundaram from Talend and Ramu Kalvakuntla from Clarity Insights. This is the second part in a series of blogs that discuss how to successfully build governed data lakes. To all those who have read...

In 2012 when I worked at Lenovo, the company set out on a journey to create the Lenovo Unified Customer Intelligence (LUCI) platform. The decisions we made with regard to people and technology involved in that project helped to shape my self-development, relationships with others on the team, and relationship with executives. Data management leaders today are still faci...