With Thanksgiving around the corner, it's a perfect moment to take a step back and get some recipes to be data savvy within your organization. Fortunately, Talend experts have a recipe for data success that will help you to stay above the fray. As companies become more data driven, being ahead of the curve will obviously be considered as a sign of curiosity and a way to differentiate. This is also a means for your company to anticipate incoming trends and thrive in a changing world wh...

Remember how the Internet made it so easy and cheap to create content that everyone did it? Well, that’s where we are with the data economy today. The challenge with the web was not lack of fascinating content, but a way to find it. After two decades we know that winners in the web economy are those that created a single point of access to content in their category: Google, YouTube, Baidu, Amazon, Wikipedia. Now, we are faced with...

Metadata Management has slowly become one of the most important practices for a successful digital initiative strategy. With the rise of distributed architectures such as Big Data and Cloud which can create siloed systems and data, metadata management is ...

We all know we are at the peak of the hype cycle for…wait for it – Blockchain! We are also already aware of some of the benefits of blockchain - but can blockchain be applicable to traditional data management? Though real-world blockchain implementations in the enterprise are mini...

AB InBev, headquartered in Belgium, is one of the largest fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies in the world with a diverse portfolio of well over 500 beer brands, including Budweiser, Corona, Stella Artois, Beck’s, Hoegaarden and Leffe. When companies grow via external acquisitions, integrating the systems and data from acquired companies is always a challenge. For AB InBev, that challenge included a hybrid environment...

The recently released 2017 Gartner Market Guide for Data Preparation ([1]) estimates that...

For those who are familiar with my previous Talend blogs perhaps you’ve noticed that I like to talk about building better solutions through design patterns and best practices.  My blogs also tend to be a bit long.  Yet you read them; many thanks for that!  This blog is going to focus on methodologies as they apply to Talend solutions.  My hope is that at the end of it we...

When a disaster strikes and takes down the IT systems that are essential to operations, the IT team is often called on to enable a quick recovery. A disaster recovery plan (DRP) can help get systems back online quickly and efficiently. This plan documents the procedures required recover critical data and IT infrastructure after an outage. But, is a "disaster" plan different than a normal recovery plan? Surprisingly many IT teams rely on normal backup plan and consider...

Over the year, I’ve had dozens of discussions with customers, partners, and thought leaders on the challenges and opportunities they face in achieving GDPR compliance. Since September, I’ve seen an undeniable uptake on the number of companies focused on the "how" rather than the "why" or the what of GDPR. Interest has spread across countries, from the UK to Germany, Nordics to Spain, Italy to France and BeNeLux. But the most insightful discussions I’ve heard on GD...

That’s right everyone; Talend broke into another Leaders Quadrant! This time Talend was named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools. While other vendors in the Leaders’ quad seemed to be moving down and back, we believe our market vision and laser focus on execution was what paved our way from the Visionary quadrant to the Leaders quadrant. [resource-download resource_sync_code="12948"] I believe this year’s report represents furthe...