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We performed a comparison between Actian DataConnect and Talend Open Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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  • "Pricing and licensing are fairly straightforward. It is reasonably priced and managed."
  • "Talend is free and you can download it."
  • "The paid version of this solution has a very high price, but even with the limitations, the Community version works fine."
  • "Price could be lower. It is getting too expensive when compared to some other solutions, which is actually a little bit concerning."
  • "There are many versions available and one is open-sourced which is free."
  • "The cost for one year for the ETL tools, not for the big data, is 6K per year. It is a good price."
  • "It does the job well for nothing — without cost. That's the advantage of this product."
  • "Talend Open Studio is priced too high."
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    Top Answer:We reviewed AWS Glue before choosing Talend Open Studio. AWS Glue is the managed ETL (extract, transform, and load) from Amazon Web Services. AWS Glue enables AWS users to create and manage jobs in… more »
    Top Answer:The product's initial setup phase was easy.
    Top Answer:For Talend Open Studio, there is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing cost. Talend Open Studio is a bit expensive, in my opinion.
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    Overview

    Actian DataConnect has you covered with seamless, fast and easy integration. Actian handles the heavy lifting and makes integration look so easy that it’s virtually invisible.  We remove the bottlenecks and allow you to focus on what’s important.  The business-critical stuff.

    With Actian DataConnect, you can:

    • Improve Productivity: Automate time-consuming data integration jobs so you can focus on business-critical projects, your end users can be more self-reliant and everyone can be more efficient.
    • Connect to Any Data Source: With Actian’s “one connector to rule them all” web services connector, you can seamlessly connect to any volume and variety of data, whether it resides in the cloud, on premises or both.
    • Process More Data Faster: Connect disparate data in real-time or via batch processing with an easy-to-use visual interface.

    Actian removes the delivery model discussion from the data integration equation. We focus on enabling our customers to achieve their business goals.  That being said, our integration platform is enterprise-grade and feature-rich and can be delivered via the cloud, on premises, hybrid model or our Engineered service – which is delivered by Actian subject-matter experts via our cloud platform.

    Talend Open Studio is a free, open source ETL tool for data integration and Big Data. The solution enables you to extract diverse datasets and normalize and transform them into a consistent format which can be loaded into a number of third-party databases and applications.

    Talend Open Studio Features

    Talend Open Studio has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Automatic identification of data types and potential errors
    • tMap module
    • Graphical conversion tools
    • Charts
    • Database SCD Tools
    • Business intelligence formats (Jasper, OLAP, SPSS, Splunk)
    • ETL and ELT support
    • Eclipse-based development tooling
    • Versioning
    • Large library of connectors
    • Data flow orchestration
    • File management without scripting
    • Data transformations

    Talend Open Studio Benefits

    There are several benefits to implementing Talend Open Studio. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Reduces the time taken to develop the integration.
    • Provides a wide selection of source and target connectors.
    • Monitor and manage problematic deployments with ease.
    • Allows developers to have the lowest cost of ownership for any solution.
    • Improves collaboration between different teams who need access to data.
    • Automated data integration process synchronizes the data and eases real time and periodic reporting, which would be time-consuming if done manually.
    • Achieve better data quality because data matures and improves over time.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the Talend Open Studio solution.

    Elio B., Data Integration Specialist/CTO at Asset messages, says, "The solution has a good balance between automated items and the ability for a developer to integrate and extend what he needs. Other competing tools do not offer the same grade of flexibility when you need to go beyond what is provided by the tool. Talend, on the other hand, allows you to expand very easily."

    A Practice Head, Analytics at a tech services company mentions, “The data integration aspect of the solution is excellent. The product's data preparation features are very good. There's very useful data stewardship within the product. From a technical standpoint, the solution itself is pretty good. There are very good pre-built connectors in Talend, which is good for many clients or businesses, as, in most cases, companies are dealing with multiple data sources from multiple technologies. That is where a tool like Talend is extremely helpful.”

    Prerna T., Senior System Executive at a tech services company, comments, “The best thing I have found with Talend Open Studio is their major support for the lookups. With Salesforce, when we want to relate our child objects to their parent object, we need to create them via IDs. Then the upsert operation, which will allow you to relate a child object to the event, will have an external ID. That is the best thing which keeps it very sorted. I like that.”

    An Implementation Specialist, Individual Contributor at a computer software company, states, “I can connect with different databases such as Oracle Database or SQL Server. It allows you to extract the data from one database to another. I can structure the data by filtering and mapping the fields.” He also adds, “It is very user-friendly. You need to know the basics of SQL development or SQL queries, and you can use this tool.”

    PeerSpot user Badrakh V., Information System Architect at Astvision, explains, "The most valuable features are the ETL tools."

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    Almerys, BF&M, Findus
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    Insurance Company12%
    Financial Services Firm12%
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    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Small Business42%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise33%
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    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Actian DataConnect is ranked 62nd in Data Integration while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 47 reviews. Actian DataConnect is rated 0.0, while Talend Open Studio is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Talend Open Studio writes "An open-source ETL tool, when deployed on-premises, requiring an easy installation phase". Actian DataConnect is most compared with SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter and Boomi AtomSphere Integration, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory and Talend Data Fabric.

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