Talend Benefits and Insights

Why use Talend?

Key differentiators & advantages of Talend

Maximize ROI: Save money and time – build data pipelines faster. Lower operational costs with a zero-footprint solution. Build long-term customer associations by making reliable, accurate data available. Reduce risk and ensure regulatory compliance. Get a fast return on investment with its usage-based subscription model.
Make Business Decisions Quicker: Live preview business data and diagnose issues instantly. Refer to dataset documentation to understand how datasets relate and change through the data flow and how variables used in analysis are defined. Transform data while maintaining optimum quality by applying built-in functions across batch and streaming pipelines.
Integrate Big Data: Connect to a variety of data sources with more than 800 data connectors, with native support for Hadoop, MapReduce and NoSQL. Delivers clean, consistent assets at a big data scale.
Deploy Anywhere: Get data from behind firewalls, data centers or in secure cloud environments. Manage data in the public cloud, with self-managed private clouds and on-premise platforms, or go hybrid.
Scale As The Business Grows: Scales as more complex, larger data sets are generated to provide advanced analytics. Works with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Snowflake and Databricks.
Maintain Data Quality: Identify, highlight and fix issues as data moves across systems. Ensure data quality at every stage of the data pipeline with embedded checks. Preempt inconsistencies before they can impact crucial decisions.

Industry Expertise

Talend provides data integration to multiple clients in diverse industries across the world. Some of these are financial services, healthcare, retail, government, sales, marketing and communications.

Talend Reviews

Average customer reviews & user sentiment summary for Talend:

270 reviews

82%

of users would recommend this product

Key Features

Talend Data Fabric

Pipeline Designer: Pull in data to create dashboards that power business insights. Build reusable pipelines to integrate data from any source, then transform it to upload to data warehouses.
- DIY Data Workflows: Design and preview data workflows directly in the web browser without IT help. Run pipelines directly where the data lives, with support for disparate filesystems, business apps, databases, data warehouses and messaging services. Automate data stewardship, preparation and cataloging into data pipelines.
Data Inventory: Prepare, consume and share data from a single, centralized hub. Make informed decisions by putting unique, accurate data at the center of business.
- View data trustworthiness at a glance with the Trust Score. Aggregates multiple metrics into a single, easy-to-understand score, scaling from 0 to 5.
- Flags data silos across sources and resolves the gap with reusable and shareable data assets.
- Make data work for you by sharing assets between the data preparation and designer modules.
Talend Open Studio: Handles big data by leveraging Hadoop and its databases, or HBase, HCatalog, HDFS and Hive. Connects to Oracle, Teradata, Microsoft SQL Server, Marketo, Salesforce, Netsuite, SAP, Sugar CRM, Microsoft Dynamics, SMTP, FTP/SFTP, LDAP and more. Provides an Eclipse-based integrated environment (IDE) for system development.
Talend Sandbox: The vendor provides a sandbox environment for data warehouse optimization, clickstream analytics, social media sentiment analysis and Apache weblog analytics.

Stitch

The vendor acquired Stitch, a fully managed, open-source, cloud-first, scalable data onboarding service, in 2018. The vendor offers free and paid versions.

Data Connectivity: Connects to more than 100 SaaS systems and data repositories. Supports cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics.
Self-Service Data Ingestion: Save time by focusing on insights – onboard data seamlessly with its simple interface and ready-to-query schemas. Scale to work with new data sources as they become available.
Enterprise-Grade Security: Build confidence in the data pipeline with the product, support SLAs and security capabilities. Complies with SOC 2 and HIPAA regulations. Secures the data pipeline with advanced connectivity options like SSH tunneling.

Limitations

At the time of this review, these are the limitations according to user feedback:

Isn’t resource optimized.
Doesn’t have sufficient documentation.
Isn’t cost-effective for smaller businesses and startups.
Doesn’t have the data integration module in the free version.

Suite Support

Go through the knowledge center, video tutorials, webinars, whitepapers on the vendor’s website for answers to queries and self-paced issue resolution. Read product-specific FAQs on Stack Overflow for development-related queries, or register for free to access documentation and community support.

Email: customercare@talend.com.

Phone: (800) 256-2480.

Training: Register to the Talend Academy for all-you-can-learn access to instructor-led courses, virtual and in-person, or book personalized training for the team. Get certified as a developer or an administrator on the Academy portal.

Tickets: Submit support requests through the community support page.

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