Talend Open Studio Pros and Cons

A helpful feature for us is the integration with NoSQL databases.

Talend Studio has the ability to use it to ensure data quality.

We have contacted their technical support. They are great. They offer very professional help. If I need some technical answer, they are very professional. They are quick, professional, and very accurate.

The Talend Studio connected to the Talend MDM (Master Data Management) is the most valuable feature. Talend Studio is used to create a job stream that connects to multiple data sources, matches, compares or creates a golden record for overall identification. It also has a good catalogue of objects that can be dragged and dropped for building models.

The initial setup was quite straightforward. The deployment took between two and three days.

The drag-and-drop feature in the interface is very good.

You can use Talend as a stand-alone application without customization to collect data and generate reports over dashboards. It's got great functionality.

We're sold on the customization part of the solution.

This solution has improved our overall time to value for data ingestion.

The price for Talend Data Integration should be less expensive.

The technical support and documentation need a lot of work to come up to standard.

If I compare Open Studion to other solutions, their interface is robust but not so fancy looking. This is an area that could use improvement. I would like to see an updated interface.

It needs better installation configuration for other databases. Although the installation allows you to select another database, this doesn't mean that all connection points in the application point to the database selected. You actually need to do a search through the entire install to locate the configuration settings and change them.

In version 6.2 we did encounter issues with the job servers and specifically with ESB. Version 6.3 is better but large jobs can cause the MDM server to fall over, requiring a reboot.

The profiling perspective needs improvement. Instead of using it in the studio, we are using a different tool which is also provided by Talend. It's redundant.

Having additional training materials, such as a video tutorial, would be an improvement.

There used to be many Youtube channels that offered Talend training, but now there don't seem to be any. The solution should offer more online training resources.

It gets the job done but it's a bit slow.

Inter-version compatibility is a problem, and migration projects between versions are required.