In a world in which the amount of data an organization needs to manage is doubled every three years, many organizations have concluded that an upgrade is necessary for the way data is managed. They understand that they must change how the organization thinks regarding data management and integration.

The Immediate Need for Integration In The Modern and Digital Worlds

The instant need to open new channels (Mobile Web etc.) with clients, agents, partners, and providers, requires the availability of reliable data to make decisions and execute transactions. The time required from getting the information to having insights needs to shorten substantially: the end clients ask to get the information as quickly as possible. Studies have shown that 40% of clients will not wait more than 3 seconds to get information on the screen. They will prefer to go to another screen.

In addition, the need for service improvement binds for fast and stable integration tools which combine data optimization while transferring it. Organizations must be prepared to open new media channels with their clients, for they need to initiate, not just respond to them, and so they need fast and reliable tools that can withstand the greatest of service demands.

The internal clients are also asking to get reliable data in a short time. Usually, they will ask for direct permission to the data to create their own reports, regardless of self-service IT.
The advantage is obvious: the danger of making IT into a bottleneck regarding all small services. As the number of analysts in the organization grows, so will the pressure on the IT department to provide the data and, with that, the costs of Shadow IT. Here too, the advantage of Talend reflects significantly: it allows to shorten development time schedule and sets automated tools for data optimization and preparation using the end user.

Cloud and Big Data Integration

One of the problems with data proliferation in IT systems is the organization can’t manage and process a huge amount of data in tables, and for this, the common solutions are building Hadoop bases and/or using cloud databases. Here too, a building strategy is required to maintain the organization’s business logic and prevent the need for duplication processes. The new tools, and the Talend management tool at the front, are solving the problem of duplicating procedures by activating a designated code generator for each environment, which enables transferring the same job to a different destination without any development, and with an easy drag.

Compliance With Regulations

The regulation is driving organizations to take control over their data management abilities. The organizations complying with the regulations are enjoying a great profit, providing them the ability to work with innovative tools, which allows them to shorten the time of development and investment preservation. They need not increase their costs (with the old tools, the charge is for each server and interface, while with the new tools, such as Talend, the charge is for each developer only).

Best Solution of Its Kind

In 2005 the data market was at a crossroads. While other branches have been drawn to expensive and complex integration products, Talend founders Fabrice Bonan and Bertrand Diard believed there’s another way: something simple, strong, flexible, and expandable. Their solution was the first commercial program with open-source code for data integration.

Talend believed that it must change the way the world is making decisions, and the way to achieve that is by making data accessible to everyone. Later on, Talend was named by global research companies as the leader of the world’s data management field with solutions for data integrity and health.

A little more than a decade later (in 2016), after already launching an organizational big data solution and predicting the transition to cloud infrastructure, the company went public on Nasdaq under the name TLND.

The company, which started its way in 2005’ is offering a cutting-edge platform, unlike any other long-standing suppliers in the market that started their way in the world of ETL in the 90. Its tools were built in an architecture based on open code and fast and efficient code development paradigms, the way the tool generates code and doesn’t require designated running components (the tool generates JAR or SPARK). This enables processes to run ten times as fast or more compared to competing products. In the architecture, mechanisms are built that enable clients to easily maintain the processes (Continuous Integration) with great speed thanks to its testing and version management processes, which enable the creation of an existing process and transfer it to production in mere minutes.

In addition, this architecture enables the user to add other functions and components, like managing the data in a single management window. While competing manufacturers acquire companies and complementary products to try and combine with their products, it’s clear that with Talend, the transition from normal ETL to Big Data is instant (by dragging the object).

By Yosi Rodrik, CEO of UCL