The solution sometimes has memory bottlenecks when processing big files. Other products such as Informatica load files very easily. 

Informatica is built for ETL and has more functionality tied to that mode, but is twice the price of the solution. 

The solution is built for everything including ELP, ETL, and data or application migrations. 

We evaluated Informatica and Ab Initio. We chose Talend because of the data capabilities. It's a better tool for our requirements.

We evaluated Airflow. Talend was a better choice.

My solutions are client dependent. I do help them evaluate which tool they should use in some cases, but I can't say "I had this tool and I switched because of XYZ".

Before choosing Talend, we evaluated DataStage and Informatica.

We decided to go with Talend because it has an open-mindedness to it. It's not a closed system, you have a great community and in France, where I live, it is the leader and there are many people who can do a good job using Talend.

We did evaluate other solutions, although I can't remember the names. They were either more expensive and/or didn't have a community/free version that compared to Talend's Open Studio at the time.

We did not evaluate other options.