First of all, sorry about the delay in getting the second part of this blog written up. Things are moving very fast at Talend at the moment, which is great, but it's led to me having to delay in getting this second part out. I've been spending quite a bit of time working with the Pipeline Designer Summer 2019 release. Some really exciting additions are coming to Pipeline Designer, but we will look into those at a later date.

From its inception back in 2005 to today, Talend has always sought to be a different kind of data integration company – one rooted in open source to provide our customers with greater choice and flexibility and not afraid to change and embrace new innovations, such as multi-cloud and hybrid support and native integration with serverless cloud platforms.

Talend 7.1 brings in many new features, one such feature which needs a special discussion is containerization, which opens the doors to design and implement new Architectures namely Microservices. With a Maven plugin the Studio is now able to Build and Publish standard Jobs as Docker images into a Docker registry.

Earlier in May of this year we announced that Talend Cloud, our Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), will soon be available on Microsoft Azure starting in Q3 2019. For those who choose Azure as their cloud platform of choice, Talend Cloud running natively on Azure will provide enhanced connectivity options for modern data integration needs as well as better performance.

If you are a banker, would you like to hear the bad news that your company’s name is on the headlines of every news channel since the bank has accidently delivered the credit card to a scamster instead of a genuine customer? Unfortunately, this scenario occurs when the address records were not in standard format and the letter was delivered to a similarly resembling address.

In a competitive world driven by consumers, companies are all facing the same business challenge: they need to make their data available to their business teams, enabling them to deliver better experiences and to streamline operations. IT plays a strategic role here as it can accelerate delivery of trusted data.

In 2010, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) named France the 2016 host of the European Championship. Paris was also set to host the UN Climate Change Conference, COP 21, in late 2015, another major international event with high-stake security issues. How to make sure dangerous individuals would not have access to very sensitive areas?

Stitch is a very simple yet very powerful cloud service which connects to a diversity of data sources. It is a very user-friendly ingestion system and works in a very simple format. Stitch connects to the data sources, pulls the data and loads the data to a target. In this blog, I am going to connect to Amazon S3, read a file and load the data to Snowflake but first let’s understand few concepts of Stitch. For Stitch to work you need an Integration and a Destination.

Talend Cloud is an Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) offering by Talend. It is a fully managed cloud option which has the capabilities of data integration, data stewardship, data preparation, API designer and Tester and Pipeline designer. These tools can be used for lightweight ETL and detecting the schema on the fly. One of the unique features of Talend Cloud is it provides both on premise and cloud execution environments.

We know that data is a key driver of success in today data-driven world. In fact, according to Forrester, data and insight-driven businesses are growing at an average of more than 30% annually. However, becoming a data driven organization is not easy. Companies often struggle with speed in accessing and analyzing their data, as well with ensuring delivery of trustworthy data that is free of critical errors.