Qlik Talend Cloud Reviews

We have multiple use cases for this solution. We integrate with Salesforce, SAP and Oracle databases to build business logic and provide reporting.

The transformations are built in and come as a package for us to drag and drop and complete in one go. The main platform of this tool is Java and if you know how to use Java, it will be a very easy tool to use.

Sometimes there are bugs which are unidentified and we have to follow-up with the Talend team to resolve them. In a critical situation, it takes time for them to update patches. In a month, we get two or three patches and this means we need to redeploy completed jobs. 

I have been using this solution for three years. 

This is a stable solution. 

This is a scalable solution. 

The technical support team are very supportive and respond quickly based on the severity of the ticket we raise.

Positive

This solution is very easy to set up and deployment is quick. 

Deployment was completed by an in-house team. 

This is a good tool. If your use case depends on heterogeneous sources like Salesforce, SAP, and some other product information systems, I would recommend Talend. 

I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

My main use of this solution is application integration.

I like everything about this product, but the biggest thing is the ease of use. I also like the ability to have files between Linux missions.

An area for improvement would be that securing the product can be challenging because there are multiple ways to secure everything. If they offered a secured version or sample, that would be a big improvement.

I've been using this solution for around ten years. I use it myself and have trained others in how to use it.

I've had some issues with bugs causing crashes, especially when making changes to the system or with the monthly upgrades to Studio they've introduced. However, the stability is great when you scale up to more users or more data.

Currently, scaling is more effective with the cloud version, where you can get into the data fabric and have access to more power.

I've had no problems with tech support - they're willing to work with me as an advanced user to figure out solutions.

Talend is scaled much lower in cost than Informatica.

Talend is getting ready to drop SVN as a code repository in version 8 going forward, so you have to convert anybody who's using SVN to switch over to GIT (on which it runs much faster). I understand it isn't easy to get people who are experienced in this product, so you should go through the training on their website as there are a lot of nuances in this product that you may miss otherwise. I would rate this solution as ten out of ten.

Data Quality easily identifiable instead of manual finding and cleaning the data through Excel (earlier used to follow) before ETL

Currently the best open source data quality tool available as compared to other open DQ tools ('DataCleaner', 'Open Source Data Quality & Profiling') for of a variety of reasons:

1. Vast connectors to different DB, Web, CRM, etc
2. Custom code is allowed
3. Wide range of advanced algorithms
4. Recommended for advanced users
5. Detailed analysis, etc
6. Large community of users

The most valuable features for us are: custom code, connectors, algorithms.

As it is a open source tool, some minor bugs are there.

Fairly straightforward. Lots of user guides and tutorials are available to get started.

The best part is that it is open source.

Great product, surely give it a try.

The solution is customizable.

I have been using Talend Data Quality for approximately four and a half years.

The performance is one area that Talend Data Quality could improve in because large volumes take a lot of time.

I have not needed the technical support.

The implementation is not difficult, it has been straightforward for the implementations we have done.

We do the implementation of this solution.

I rate Talend Data Quality a nine out of ten.

Currently, I am using this solution to develop an integration between two particular systems. It's selecting a TSV file from slate and transferring to banner after you work the data.

Since I am using it for an ongoing project, I haven't been able to deliver on that project.

It is going to help us in changing the way we look at integrations and not have deployed from a strictly coding standpoint. Instead, it's going to be from a perspective of design and orchestration, which is the direction we are going in.

I have been using very basic features, but one of the features that I liked the most is how it handles different contexts. I like the way that you can use the context variables, and how you can work those context variables to give you values and settings for every development environment, such as PROD, TEST, and DEV.

The objects are friendly to use, and another feature that I like is the general generic schemas, even though it took a certain amount of learning to get used to it, it was beneficial.

With what I have seen in the cloud version the interface is great, and what I have used of the on-premises version is great.

It's user friendly.

While I understand that I am using the open-source version, but the facility of having version control is to the point where you can share it with other developers in the team. I think that's the way the product was intentionally made. That way you don't have organizations using the open-source version and instead of using the paid version.

I would like to sync a project and do an upload from that current version, and then from GitLab, be able to download the latest one. It will make it easier to share code with teammates. This is most likely something that Talend Open Studio doesn't have intentionally so that organizations have to invest in the cloud.

If Talend were to be able to offer an annual license in which the number of integrations is the deciding factor, instead of the number of concurrent users developing, then that would make them a little bit more competitive when you're comparing them to, for example, were Workato or SnapLogic.

I'm still in the learning phase and the exploration phase. I have been working with this solution for approximately a month and a half.

I haven't found any bugs or glitches so far. I am still exploring the tool.

I've heard from organizations that have the cloud version, that there are certain objects that I will not have in the on-premises version. I don't know which objects they are. 

I still haven't seen Talent Open Studio lacking in anything, but I guess that they've gone through something specific.

I am sure that there is a generic object that you can use to cover a certain demand.

In terms of scalability, we have put basic projects in Cron Servers to run out a Cron Job, which didn't require a lot of work. I had to do the research on how to export the job, then it worked. We have only done it with basic jobs where you are moving files over, creating directories, and validating if the directories exist.

Soon we will be deploying one that is going to involve connecting to an SFTP to select files, doing a DIFF of the file, and comparing it to a previous version. With what is left, we're performing inserts and Oracle tables.

I am the only one that is fully using this solution. I do have another person who helps me when transferring files to the Cron Server.

I really haven't reached out to technical support. I've been just doing it on my own, going through forums, blogs, reading multiple books, and finding a couple of videos on YouTube. That has been enough.

I would have to encounter something that is challenging in the development process, and since I am going to be using some APIs, those calls would be done through SQL. I don't think that I will be asking for help anytime soon, but it might be different once we are using the cloud version.

We are currently in the process of selecting an I-PASS solution and right now, the Talend Data Management Platform is one of the finalists.

We are ironing out the differences and seeing how much we can do with the open-source version before moving onto the cloud version.

In the initial setup, I was having some struggles with making sure that Java requirements were properly set up. After that, it was working fine. 

I have installed it on both a Mac and a PC, and I haven't had any complaints. 

I'm still working out the dynamic of using a GIT repository, such as GitLab to be able to back up all of the projects that I'm working on.

The pricing is a little higher than what I had expected, but it's comparable with I-PASS competitors.

It's on the higher side because it's a developer-user licensed solution. It makes you look at the investment differently than an I-PASS that is offered by the number of integrations that you have to work on. You have to balance it out on one end. You have an I-PASS that tells you that you can have an unlimited amount of developers, but you can only develop a certain amount of integrations per yer. That's what you are paying for.

With Talend, it's the opposite. You can have an unlimited amount of integrations but you only a license for two developers, for example.

For anyone looking to use this solution, I would suggest using the open-source version first.

I have been told that there are missing features, but I haven't found what those components are. I can understand how an organization that is already living with the Talend cloud can identify that easier because they were already facing a challenge without finding that component.

The reason why that organization told me that was because they have three developers working on a cloud version and one developer working on the on-premises version. 

That is how they picked up on it. According to what I had heard from that source, there are differences. There are some components that are only going to be available in the Talend cloud version.

At this time, it is difficult for me to evaluate this solution, as I have only seen how their products work and I am not fully working with Talend. It's subjective. 

The only way that I could be objective would be if I had maybe one year of experience using a different I-PASS and then one year of experiencing using this one.

We are still in the process of evaluating them, but I love the way things look in Talend, and I'm all for Talend. I know that Workato is really close to it as well.

The relationship with the vendor is currently coding, presentations, demos, and conversations of how this I-PASS can be a part of our organization.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I was using the Talend Data Management Platform to ship data from the source to the website, and I was using the Talend administration console to monitor the different data flex and developing new data flex.

The new data flex was deployed to our servers. We are also using the same Talend administration for tasks, monitoring the tasks, and for developing the tasks.

We have four to five servers running on Talend.

The features that I like the most are the simplicity of the interface, and the ability to quickly develop with a predefined component.

Having the ability to mix both my own code created in Java with the predefined components is helpful.

It is easy to face issues and meet any of the client's needs.

We were using TAC for the testing environments and another TAC for the production environment. We had to promote our code manually from one environment to another.

I would like to see them add a feature in TAC that exists in TMC where you have the ability with different environments to promote code easily from one to the other.

They lack in memory capacity. We had to add a new job server to deal with the new system we had.

I would like to see components added with routing and web services. We have many subsystems that are not being used with Talend to make them communicate. It would be better to have unified systems within Talend to be able to do so. Having it directly in Talend Data Management would be nice, or an ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) or some web service applications. Also to have a unified TAC, actually just having one environment or one Infospace for the entire environment.

This solution is scalable. When we had to add new data flex we were just parallelizing, having different jobs running in Talend on five different job servers.

I haven't had the need to contact technical support. When I have had issues, the Talend portal is there and there is a Talend Help Centre where you have discussions and blogs. I was able to find answers there. 

Previously, we were using TAC (Talend Administrative Console).

License renewal is on a yearly basis.

I have never spoken with Talend technical support directly over the phone or by mail, I was able to find my answers on the web. Overall, I am satisfied with Talend and I recommend it.

I would rate Talend an eight out of ten.

Our use cases vary, but mainly we are using it for implementing a master data management platform. We get data from multiple sources and create a golden ticket record that can be used for ingesting the data from that single source to any of the platforms. 

The features that I find to be the most valuable are the extensibility, the integration, and the ease of integration with multiple platforms. The integration is one of the great features,  which is mainly what we use it for.

I would say that some of the support elements need improvement. It is built on open-source technology and they provide platinum support, but they need improvement. We have a large customer base and they need more customized support from them.

I would like to see more advancements with certain big data technology that they have that hasn't been added to the platform. It's something that they could add in the future.

We have been using this solution for two years.

It's a stable platform. We process large volumes of data and have not experienced any challenges.

We have not had any challenges, so I would say that it's a scalable solution.

One of our clients has ten developers. The licensing is based on developers and ten is a large number to have. It's a sizable project.

It's being used on a daily basis by a global client. They don't have data stewards that are available across different countries on the globe for this organization. They access it with the master record that has been created.

They currently have ten developers but plan to increase up to 25 users in the future.

We have team members who have worked on the deployment. From their experience and the feedback that I have received, it is very easy to deploy and to manage this solution.

It takes approximately four weeks to deploy Talend itself, but there are some use cases that are very long and take some time. 

The average project for us is approximately three to four months because we build the integrations, cleanse the data, and many other things that are required once the platform is set up.

The initial setup takes four weeks. It is straight forward and there is not a lot of complexity.

It's very cost-effective in terms of licensing and implementation.

It's a subscription-based platform, we renew it every year.

There are different packages that are Data Integration, Data Management, and Data Fabric. The Data Fabric is the highest package and they sell it based on the number of end-users/developers.

There are not really additional fees, but we have to be mindful of the add ons, which are not part of the standard package. They have a standard package with some inclusions, but there are normally add ons that would have to be purchased. Customers need to be mindful of that and share the requirements before getting the licensing for their project.

We also evaluated Oracle. Oracle was more of a closed platform that was good for technologies, but we wanted something that is more extensible and supports the technologies for integration.

Talend is partly open-source and cost-wise, it is quite optimized compared to Oracle.

It's a great technology.

Be careful of the add ons and there are different packages. Most customers are fine with starting off with Data Management, but there are add ons. I would suggest sharing the requirements or the scope with Talend so that they have an understanding of the work features that are required to grow with the right brand of data fabric for data management. 

It's one of the leading platforms. It has customers who are looking for a good and cost-effective data integration platform, that can connect with multiple technologies. 

It has data integration and data management capabilities, which is why many customers use Talend, but there are some elements with the support that they need to look at.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We use Talend to help our clients distribute their products.

It's a real ETL solution. You download data, transform it, and then you upload it.

The most valuable feature is integration. There are several connectors, there is a large community, and the solution updates often. It is always up-to-date.

Performance and speed could be improved.

They could improve on the scalability.

I have been using the Talend Data Management Platform for three or four years.

This solution is stable, although not the best. I'd say that it is great but not on the top.

It's scalable but they could use Docker to improve the scalability.

I have contacted technical support on occasion. It's great because you have the support and you have the community as well.

You create a ticket and intel is very open and reactive. They are friendly.

The initial setup is straightforward and not complex.

It did not take a lot of time to deploy.

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.

Talend is a good product and I recommend it. It is an open system, you have several connectors, it's evolved, and you are unlimited because of the great community. There are always people who may have had some of the same encounters and have found solutions to the same problems. 

I am still learning this product myself, I have not yet used all of the features this product has to offer.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.