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...

Thanks to all our readers for a very positive response to my previous blog on “Informatica PowerCenter Developers Guide to Talend”. The first part of the series provided an overview of the architectural differences between PowerCenter and Talend. It also provided a primer on Talend Studio – our unified development environment – for developers transitioning over fr...

If you didn’t catch it, the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools published in early August and what was most notable about this year’s report is that many of the legacy vendors in the Leaders’ Quadrant moved down and back, causing the entire competitive landscape to shift. Download the 2017 Gartner Magic...

In this example, I have been asked to check if the corporate standard for naming employee documents has been adhered to. If not, I then want to know how many deviations are in the dataset. You have in your database a table of employees, employee documents (contracts of employment, performance reviews etc.), and a table of document types. Let's begin by utilizing those data sets and see what we come up with....

I recently became a new mom, and like many others, there are many frustrating moments for me, big and small. Stepping into a whole new world of products that I’m not aware of ever existed, playing the guessing game on what size anything my baby will need and for how long, and that late-night diaper run to the store, just to name a few. As a consumer, I’m confused, time-strangled and desperately looking for ways to simplify my shopping experiences, both online and offline. I can�...

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 vacation.  Maybe that buddy you used to hang out with in college wasn’t really John Travo...

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,...

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 ...

This article originally appeared on Rilhia Solutions "OK Google, what can you do when connected to Talend?" In this tutorial, I will show how to create an Agent in API.AI that will respond to commands spoken to Google Home. The Agent will reverse the...

I recently started working with Talend as a Customer Success Architect. In this role, I help customers with architecture guidelines and best practices for managing their data strategies with Talend.  Before joining Talend, I worked on several data warehouse implementations where Informatica PowerCenter was the common ETL tool of choice. Any transition from one technology to another can be a big challenge. But, instead of trying to “replicate” how things are done in PowerCenter into Tale...