it_user1407576 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant en intelligence dÃcisionnelle at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
Simple to use interface and good community support using the portal
Pros and Cons
  • "The features that I like the most are the simplicity of the interface, and the ability to quickly develop with a predefined component."
  • "They lack in memory capacity."

What is our primary use case?

I was using the Talend Data Management Platform to ship data from the source to the website, and I was using the Talend administration console to monitor the different data flex and developing new data flex.

The new data flex was deployed to our servers. We are also using the same Talend administration for tasks, monitoring the tasks, and for developing the tasks.

We have four to five servers running on Talend.

What is most valuable?

The features that I like the most are the simplicity of the interface, and the ability to quickly develop with a predefined component.

Having the ability to mix both my own code created in Java with the predefined components is helpful.

It is easy to face issues and meet any of the client's needs.

What needs improvement?

We were using TAC for the testing environments and another TAC for the production environment. We had to promote our code manually from one environment to another.

I would like to see them add a feature in TAC that exists in TMC where you have the ability with different environments to promote code easily from one to the other.

They lack in memory capacity. We had to add a new job server to deal with the new system we had.

I would like to see components added with routing and web services. We have many subsystems that are not being used with Talend to make them communicate. It would be better to have unified systems within Talend to be able to do so. Having it directly in Talend Data Management would be nice, or an ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) or some web service applications. Also to have a unified TAC, actually just having one environment or one Infospace for the entire environment.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This solution is scalable. When we had to add new data flex we were just parallelizing, having different jobs running in Talend on five different job servers.

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How are customer service and support?

I haven't had the need to contact technical support. When I have had issues, the Talend portal is there and there is a Talend Help Centre where you have discussions and blogs. I was able to find answers there. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Previously, we were using TAC (Talend Administrative Console).

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

License renewal is on a yearly basis.

What other advice do I have?

I have never spoken with Talend technical support directly over the phone or by mail, I was able to find my answers on the web. Overall, I am satisfied with Talend and I recommend it.

I would rate Talend an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: partner
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it_user4518 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Databases at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
Vendor
Powerful and flexible once we managed to get it installed and configured.

Valuable Features:

• It meets our operational and analytical data integration needs by providing us with a high performing set of tools to access, transform and integrate data in real time. • Provides us a central repository for sharing our enterprise metadata among business users, developers and IT staff, so we can access and share a single version of information. • It helped us in handling huge data volumes, remote execution of jobs, interacting with cloud data sources and deployment on cloud infrastructure. • We can centrally supervise our software integration processes by using Talend's advanced monitoring capabilities.

Room for Improvement:

• Lots of errors and system crashes during installation and IMHO we didn’t receive good enough technical support and guidance from Talend to solve the issues. • It doesn’t support multitasking.

Other Advice:

One of the reasons we chose the Talend integration suite was because it is an open source data integration tool. It provides us a central repository for sharing our enterprise metadata and meets our operational and analytical data integration needs. We like the fact that it offers data quality functionality, ESB and MDM solutions in a single package. We can easily manage huge data volumes and centrally supervise our software integration processes.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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it_user274527 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user274527Global Account Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Vendor

Hello,

You seem to have an experiment on a TIS which is no longer existing since 2013.
with 2 major upgrades per year, we have reached and accomplished lots of improvement (>850 plug and play connectors like sfdc, oracle, ...)
By example, you may download Talend Enterprise Data Integration on the us website and you should be able to test and use it 10 minutes after !

I may give you unlimited reasons to check Talend on his last release and you may reach me to get free licenses (for testing only)

I enjoy your initiative to speak freely, based upon user, of those software.

Regards,

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