Analytics

There's an incredible amount of hype about AI today. Consumer use cases like self-driving cars and robotics have captured people’s imaginations and shown them that they can make a huge leap with innovation rather than an incremental change. That shift in thinking is exciting, but there’s also a lot of FOMO around AI that means businesses are just trying to tick a box rather than thinking more deeply about how they can use automation to improve their business.

Talend Data Catalog provides intelligent data discovery that delivers a single source of trusted data into a centralized data catalog. Talend Data Catalog provides the capability for doing impact analysis and/or tracing lineage by harvesting Talend data integration Jobs. For example, you can find the use of a specific attribute or column from the source to the destination of the data flow within the scope of a Talend data integration Job.

There's been a huge amount of investment in the BI space recently. A recent article by Dave Kellogg talked about the hype in valuation and capital efficiency of many BI companies. It’s an important topic that people purchasing analytics platforms should think about because it says a lot about what priorities a business has.

Talend Cloud enables the use of several prebuilt connectors and components for different services running on cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. This article explores a use case of querying an Amazon Redshift table as part of a Talend Job developed using Talend Studio and executed as a task on Talend Cloud.