What is Talend
Talend is a leading ETL and big data integration software with an open-source environment for data planning, integration, processing, and cloud storage. It benefits organisations heading towards becoming data-driven by facilitating faster data movement to the preferred location for real-time data-driven decision-making. Through various other ETL tools available in the market, Talend is considered to be the next generation leader in the cloud and big data integration software.
What Solvay uses Talend for
Solvay uses Tableau for dealing with heterogeneous data which is a tedious task and as the volume of data increases, only gets more tiresome. Talend helps in transforming this data into homogeneous data which can be useful for the business to analyse and derive the necessary information from it.
Who should use it
When should you use Talend
What outputs it will give you
It helps in taking real time decisions and becoming more data driven:
- Easily connect to various data sources (Excel, SQL databases, Google Drive)
- Perform data transformations using a no-code/low-code approach that simplifies maintenance
- Store the results in various databases or data warehouses
- Create standard job templates that can be re-used by other developers to fasten and standardize the development of data pipelines in the company
- Integrate with version control systems (GitLab, BitBucket…) allowing multiple developers to work at the same time on a same project and easily revert to previous versions in case of problems
