The South East Asia SOA Weblog

In my day I have used many and varied data integration products and approaches. Obviously all of the solutions have various strengths and weaknesses. We have recently started using Talend Open Studio for data integration(www.talend.com). The depth and breadth of this suite is incredible for open source. Talend it brings a whole new dimension to the solution space and rivals any commercial product suite. As with most data integration tools, Talend provides the ability to map the process from a diagram perspective down to the specific mappings and various adapters to accomplish ETL tasks. The design of the tool has been well thought through and resulted in the most flexible and powerful data integration tool set i have used. Talend also has a great capability for building jobs and deploying them as packages that can be run as autonomous Java or PERL and/or deployed as Axis Web Services (can be consumed by any ESB of course) or into the jBoss ESB.

Here is a shot of the debugging panel

In short, there is way to much to describe here. Check it out for yourself or consult with us for advice in deployment.