It is a good tool compared to other vendors. I recommend it to others and rate it a nine out of ten.

We needed a smart supporter because this is the first type for the users. The first time the user plays with the tool is always the most difficult period. We have a couple of experts to help with that. It is very, very important to have technical experts on the sources. If you want to connect an ACP source, for example, whatever the flavor, if you don't have your team or you don't ask the SAP expert, you will fail. This is very easy for a SAP expert, because the Talend documentation is very smart. You fill in talend.com and everything is well explained. If, however, you are not able to translate the recommendations in the figures of the source, it is very, very difficult. This is a one lesson that we learned. You need to have a experts, but it is not a full time job. When you want to connect to SAP source, you ask a SAP guy, he works a couple of days and the job is done. You definitively need experts for retrieving data, though.

I would rate this as eight of ten. It doesn't get rated a ten, because this is not a perfect tool. Each release brings new features and I think the tool is still maturing, but definitely in the right direction.

I would recommend Talend as an integration solution. Talend has very good support for big data. I would say Talend is just behind Informatica and Gartners Leadership Quadrant.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

On a scale from one to 10, I rate this program a nine, because there is always room for improvement. Additional features that I would like to see included in the next release of Talend Data Fabric is having more machine learning capabilities inside the product.