As part of a global series of events, Connect UK brought together the entire Talend community, including our customers, users and partners for a full day of valuable insight, information sharing and networking. It enabled delegates to interact with management and technical teams of the company, participate in technical workshops and meet both users and business partners.

With a combination of strategic keynotes, talks, case studies, demonstrations and presentations from leading industry analysts, experts and vendors attendees received valuable insight on the key issues, technologies and practices shaping the present and future of data today.

Download Talend’s solutions: http://www.talend.com/download.php?src=tc

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The method described by Jonathan Bowen in this book is straightforward. It is based on hands-on examples. There is no need for previous knowledge and anyone can try to perform the exercises.

Throughout the chapters, you will discover the main features of Talend Open Studio and learn the best practices. Take your time when setting up the technical environment and when solving all the exercises. Learning will be easier that way.

Interested readers should consider studying for Talend Certification. Keep upgrading your skills with online resources as described in the last chapter… or visiting http://www.talendforge.org

Click below to more information about this book published thanks Packt Publishing:

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Launched at ApacheCon North America 2011, the program allows community members and contributors to engage and discuss their work on open source projects. Details can be viewed on the program website at http://coders.talend.com.
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The games available on mobile phone are increasingly used to attract attention and to relay messages. According to the opinion of the first users, the game is popular with young and old users!
Its costs 79 cents Euro, it does not be a lot of money for the association, but the fact of “paying” is a first step that will help users do do more in a next step

The context of the game is a bit murky (but not as much as are the abuses in our world!), the goal is to interpose between a firing squad and a victim… and stop the bullets!
You need to “press the screen ” to stop the bullets. 10 levels are available, the number of bullets to stop are growing at each level.

The 50 years of Amnesty International are not limited to this game, please visit http://www.amnesty.org to discover the different animations that are proposed
To promote this game, you can relay the url http://bulletproof.amnesty.fr and the following video:

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• View the Press Release announcing the acquisition
• Read the Frequently Asked Questions

Talend will announce in December 2010 the impact of the acquisition on its new product roadmap, both for its new application integration division and its core data management products. If you want to receive information when it becomes available, you can fill out the form below.

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Starting in September 2010, Talend is offering several new training classes about Data Integration, Data Quality and Data Master Management. See below the Talend Training Offers:

Please visit http://www.talend.com/services/training.php to discover the Table Of Contentof these courses.

Talend provide frequently public courses in numerous country and provide onsite training when it’s needed

See below the date of the French Public Training for the end of 2010:

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In December 2009 a French publisher of school books, Delagrave, contacted Talend to ask the permission to use the company as a practical case in a book dedicated to the French BTS students (equivalent to junior college).

This school book was created for the students in Business Administration.
On page 46 we find an article about Talend and then there are questions about the understanding of the company’s business model and strategy.

Talend is part of the section “Strategic or operational management” along with large companies such as Renault, Danone or EADS

Title: Management des entreprises BTS 1re année - Livre de l’élève
EAN: 9782206015651
Link: http://www.delagrave-edition.fr/Albums_Detail.cfm?ID=37892

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You like and use our products on a daily bases, why not becoming part of Talend’s team?

We have today a Support Engineer new job opportunities that we publish to the community.

Support Engineer: your qualifications

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You’re a service-minded and structured individual with a large technical interest and the ability to communicate fluently (written and spoken) in English and in French.

You’re open-minded and have experience from working with technical support or technical aspects of products in other ways.

You have a sound knowledge of basic computer software and hardware technology and we believe you have a keen general interest in data integration.

• Good communication skills are required.
• Experience of ETL tools like Talend Open Studio will be considered as a plus.
• Experience of SQL, Java and/or Perl will be considered as a plus.

Job Description

As Support Engineer you will be in direct contact with both end customers and partners.
Your Responsibilities: resolve tickets within the customer and obtain a high Customer Satisfaction Rating.

Your main tasks will be to:

• Provide phone, e-mail and online helpdesk support
• Coordinate the US, China and French Support Team
• Build technical knowledge base

EMEA customer services gives technical support to customers within the EMEA sales region (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Howerver, the Support Engineer works too with the US Team.
The function is centralized to Paris but there needed an extensive cooperation with the local sales offices in the region.

This role performs varying degrees of problem determination and resolution of software problems through the effective use of available technical resources, per contracted service level agreements.
The Support Engineer may also perform installs or help the customer to realize backup or migration tasks.
The Support Engineer are responsible for resolving problems and completing all related administrative duties.

As the main interface to the customer, The Support Engineer need to understand the local and regional infrastructure and key contacts - developers, server admin - in order to ensure taking action on the problem.

We have just written the first pages of a great book. If you want to be part of the adventure, make an application by sending your resume at jobs@talend.com

Please, send your mail with the subject “Support Engineer EMEA”

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The channel is hosted on YouTube and several videos have been already broadcasted. The creation of the Talend Channel allows Talend to broadcast interesting contents, increasing the visibility of the company through a new type of information support

The channel is going to be enriched with new interviews. To date, interviews of several of our partners and of Talend executives are available. You can also view a tutorial about the installation of Talend MDM.

Some of the tutorial published in TalendForge are extracted from the official contents of training and give you an overview about the practical exercises.

2 exercise are extract of the Talend Open Studio Foundation Course. With this 2 tutorial, you will learn how to catch statistics and warning from your job and how to store monitoring information.

2010-02-08 -  How to use a MultiSchema component

This tutorial explains how to use the Multi Schema Editor. In the tutorial, you will create a job reading complex multi-structured data via a tFileInputMSDelimited component.

Set up the tFileInputMSDelimited component to open a complex multi-structured file, to read its data structures (schemas) and to use Row links to send fields as defined in the different schemas to the next job components.

In this tutorial, the multi schema delimited file is read row by row and the extracted fields are displayed on the Run Job console as defined in the Multi Schema Editor.

2010-02-22 - Learn how to catch information about your jobs’ executions
With this tutorial, you will learn:

• how to catch errors messages with the Trigger / On Component Error link
• how to use the tDie and tLogCatcher components to collect error messages

2010-03-08 - Learn how to create tables to store the monitoring information.
In this tutorial, you will create a new MySQL database for the monitoring data.

The tLogCatcher, tStatCatcher, tFlowMeterCatcher need a table each to store the data.

In this exercise, you will use the tCreateTable component to create the needed table.

For more tutorial, visit the Tutorial Section of TalendForge !

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See below the code:

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In another way, the Rapid Learning often use this kind of video. Fast, friendly, this media is a good solution to transmit information to an expert team

More vidéo: http://www.youtube.com/user/TalendChannel

Scenario:

After the declaration of a delimited file in the metadata, the video shows the design of a job to read the data included in the delimited file.

The tMap component and the Expression Builder are used to transform the data.

In a second step, a mysql connexion is declared and a join between the 2 sources is designed in the tMap.

In the last minute, the video shows the SQL Builder and the data are recorded in a mysql table.

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This challenge is dedicated to the user of Talend Open Studio, Talend Open Profiler, Talend On Demand, Talend Integration Suite or Talend Data Quality. Are you achieving a return on investment or business gain? Are you getting exceptional performance out of your data integration or data quality processes? Nominate your project for the Talend Awards 2009!

If your project is selected by the jury, you will:

Become a Talend Ambassador
Talend Ambassadors are recognized by the Talend Community as expert users of Talend technologies.

Win the latest iPod Touch!
The winning entry in each category will receive an Apple iPod Touch. In addition, up to two runner-ups may also be selected and will each win an iPod Shuffle.

Get recognition
Talend will communicate extensively toward the IT Press and Analysts, and the community, with the results of the Talend Awards, and the winners will get coverage for their projects and achievements.

Nominate your project now!

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• The screencasting could be recorder and display in Windows, Mac OS or Linux
• The record don’t need any software installation - but need the flash plugin
• This solution provide a high-quality screencasts streamed
• The recorded screencasts look exactly like your screen

ScreenToaster is a free web-based screen recorder designed to capture your screen activity, audio and webcam images in real-time then publish and share your video in blogs and websites. Among the new features, you may find:

• Live audio capture
• Embed webcam in screen capture
• Accelerated or slow-motion playback
• Pauses during recording
• Download the completed screencast
• Redesign and improved content organization

Now, please, launch the demonstration below:

ScreenToaster use VNC, an open source video technology, to capture video frames directly at the level of the video driver. However, the final format is a proprietary format. Here is the list of the open sources project using:

• TightVNC: http://www.tightvnc.com/ (GPL)
• VineVNC: http://sourceforge.net/projects/osxvnc (GNU-GPL)
• Flashlight-VNC: http://www.wizhelp.com/flashlight-vnc/ (LGPL)
• Fzlib: http://wizhelp.com/fzlib/ (LGPL)
• X11VNC: http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc (GNU-GPL)

In September 2008 the company launch a first round of capital from angel investors expert in the industry. I have not knowledge about the business model of this company… How win monney from this free service? Perhaps in the near future, this company provide a professional solution. Stay tuned!

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Clients trusting a systems integrator to implement a solution or seeking to hire an individual want to be reassured that the consultants are indeed experts in the technology. Talend certification gives them this level of assurance.

A number of technical staff members from several Talend Alliance Partners have already received certification, including consultants from Altic, Dmoon, Elosi, Lunexa, Micropole Univers, Napstec, Open Wide, Systech, and Umanis. And you? Learn more on how to get certified!

Fabrice Bonan, COO and co-founder of Talend, explained: “The certification exam was developed and fine-tuned by consultants who are exposed to the many different ways our solutions are used on a daily basis. It’s not an easy exam-you need an in-depth knowledge of Talend Open Studio to pass-but it is delivered in a fair and consistent way, and guarantees that certified individuals have mastered open source data integration.”

Exam Preparation

Read the User Guide and use Talend in a real data integration project. Talend offers two 3-day courses to assist in gaining knowledge and helping you prepare for taking exam. Refer to Talend Training section for details and schedule of public classes.

Taking the Exam

The exam, which is around ½ day in duration, needs to be taken online.

The exam requires you to complete a series of tasks. TIP: Since the test is timed, you may not have the luxury to rummage around trying to figure out an answer. Be prepared before you schedule the exam. Know Talend inside and out.

To gain your certification, you must take an exam. See below an extract of the exam:

• My job contains two components on a green background (startable) and I checked the option Multithread. Which of my components runs first?
• What are the criteria for choosing between the ETL and the ELT modes of Talend?
• I have created a variable FileNameParam which contains the name of my parameter file PARAM.txt, how can I use it in my program ready to be deployed to production?
• In a tJavaRow, how do I fill the column “name”?

Benefits of Talend certifications

Talend certification provides an increased understanding of the planning, design, and maintenance of Talend products and technologies. A Talend certification provides higher morale and self confidence, besides handsome salaries and better opportunities for promotions. An Talend Certified Partners also gets invitations to Talend conferences, technical training sessions, and special events.

Attaining a Talend Open Studio Certification provides proof of your skills to create ETL and Data Integration jobs, using all the tools and features of Talend Open Studio. Talend certification can increase your earning and advancement potential. For these reasons, Talend provide an html code to embed the certification in your resume, in your social network profile or in your website:
Click here to see my Diploma

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In a second step, a mysql connexion is declared and a join between the 2 sources is designed in the tMap.

In the last minute, the video shows the SQL Builder and the data are recorded in a mysql table.

In another way, the Rapid Learning often use this kind of video. Fast, friendly, this media is a good solution to transmit information to an expert team

Tech News

First open source connectors for SAP

Version 3.0 of Talend Open Studio includes native connectors for SAP.
Extract data from SAP for business intelligence projects, migrate to and from SAP, and synchronize SAP with other applications.

Compiere connector available in the Ecosystem

Connect to the leading open source business software solution (ERP/CRM) with the Compiere connector, contributed by the community through the Talend Ecosystem.

New set of connectors for Google Apps

New set of connectors for Google AppsDiscover in the Talend Ecosystem a new set of connectors for Google Apps. Check them out: gaEmailList, gaAccount, and a few others.

New connector for SAS

Extract data from SAS databases, and integrate SAS with other applications and databases in your  information system.

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- the new On Demand Webinars section, where replays of selected past Webinars are now available. The Free Talend Webinar are recorded and you can see it when you wan’t ! This section is a complement of the calendar of the real time webinar.

- a reformatted Talend Customers section, with links to case studies (most of them are available in several languages) and a rotation of customer and partners logos.

- the new white paper library, featuring WPs and analyst reports.

All the documents are provide in French and in English.

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E-meeting is getting more and more common for companies when presenting their products range or services. They may aim at adressing more people, at getting rid of physical frontiers or quite simply at reducing costs and time. In fact e-meeting may not always take place without  physical meeting at one point or another… although undoubtedly it helps to value such meetings.

Here is a good illustration for the e-meeting concept:

E-meetings are organized via tools named “virtual classes”. Over last years those classes got to be more easy to get installed. Ergonomy got better, commercial offers were more numerous which means today that their use is at everyone’s stake.

To get an idea about the advantages of the tools, why don’t you start using them to enhance your phone meetings first? When you publish a slideshow, it will help having your message spread and if you use such solutions you will get ahead from your competitors.

VoIP or phone communication?

Most of virtual classes offer VoIP solutions to communicate with microphones and headphones. There are two advantages:

• no communication cost
• recording of synchronous exchanges with screen share

Yet the host will have to get used to VoIP inconvenients: a short delay of 1 to 3 seconds.
As to participants, using VoIP implies they have some technical abilities and a high quality Internet connexion. In other cases, most people will choose to communicate on the phone.

Whatever you decide to do, you should begin the meeting on the phone thus you will be able to accompany participants in handling their connexion to the e-meeting and you will be sure they won’t miss the appointment According to their number, I strongly advise you to begin that way. What’s more, it is much helpful in case of technical problems. Many will pay phone calls rather than cancel a meeting!

Participants being at ease is important. Whether by VoIP or phone, it is better to use a headphone with integrated microphone. The headphone will keep your hands free and also will low down surroundings sounds.

Yet on the phone there is no recording possible… too bad as it is much rewarding to learn from them about their abilities… and very useful for participants to watch meetings again!

How to use chat?

Chat does not permit true exchanges although it turns out to be useful during a meeting:

• to get the assurance that participants can hear one another
• to allow participants to speak one after the other (the host is the one to be heard otherwise)
• to encourage participants to ask questions
• to have private exchanges (ask for one person to intervene in particular, for instance)

In a webinar with several participants, you may find it interesting to have two hosts at the same time. One will give the tune and the other will concentrate on chat: communication will therefore be nice both orally and on the screen!

Chat is completeley useless in the case of a one-to-one meeting.

What about screen sharing?

Screen sharing makes it posible to view the host’s screen for participants. Technical solutions are getting more efficient, thanks to Flash technology for one: screen sharing is among the most common functionalities.

There are two types:

• slideshow publication
• application sharing whether Desk or software

Slideshow publication is being democratized thanks to 2.0 collaborative tools, or the import of Powerpoint slideshows. If that functionality turns out to be sufficient for your projects, have a look at vyew.com.

When sharing your screen, choose one or two applications not the whole desktop. That way you will open a booknote unviewed by other participants ;). On the contrary ask for participants to have their desktop shared. You’ll get an overall idea that will help:

• identify unwished software (that is heavy on the Web for instance)
• check if participants are doing something else (personal emailing, chat or whatever!)
• identify specific technical troubles (Windows security or virus alerts)

Whatever technical solution is choosen when presenting a software, you are bound to notice a delay of seconds between what you show and what is seen by participants. Quite unnoticeable in the very beginning it grows more and more and counts up to several seconds 20 minutes later. It depends on each person’s web connexion (host and participants). As broadband varies, the delay will change accordingly during the session.

To try and reduce or stop such delay, virtual classes propose to postpone sharing or modify screen appearance frequency. You may also wish to reinitialize you connexion.

What about video?

Video exchanging means all particpants have a high quality Internet connexion. That is most unrealistic thus to get video all along the session. On the contrary it may be used as a welcoming video introducing people and also at the end when quitting the session on friendly faces.

If meetings do require video most of the time, I advise you check every Internet connexion that will be used! Note that personal ADSL connexion (at home) is often better than that at work. Indeed if better in quality undoubtedly, professionnal connexion is shared by numerous people.

Get trained!

Do you wish to host suh a meeting? Then connect yourself to a test webinar (provided that you can handle two computers at work: the first one as host and the other as participant). You can get trained by watching the participant’s screen: you will get an idea how works the delay mentioned in the post.

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To discover the essential knowledge, Talend Open Studio documentation is split into two guides:

• The User Guide provide general use information and describe the Graphical Interface User
• The Reference Guide of Talend components describe the use of all components and include several use cases

To turn theory into practice, Talend propose several resources :

• Tutorials (video) published in TalendForge
• Job Design Scenarios described in our documentation
• A Demo Project included in Talend Open Studio

This 3 resources are independent, the examples files are not common and the use cases are not the same.

To have ready-to-use Job Designs at your disposal, import the Demo Project include in Talend Open Studio.

In this release, the demo project are updated.

How to import the Demo Project?

Simply follow the steps below:

• Launch Talend Open Studio
• In the login window, click on Manage and click on Demo
• Choose Java or Perl Demo Project
• Click on Finish to complete the operation
• Choose the TALENDDEMOJAVA or TALENDDEMOPERL on the “Existing” list
• Click on Open

How to install the example files?

In the view Repository, open the node Job Designs and Contexts:

• The default folder used to store the example files is “C// “. To change this value, let’s double click on globalContext (node Contexts), Next and let’s go in the panel Value as Tree to change the value of the var “defaultDir”
• Open the job named beforeRunJobs and execute it to install the example files

Additional setting: Open the Metadata/Db Connections/demoMysql and change the settings to establish the connection with your database.

How to take advantage of the Demo Project?

Open each Job Design and press F6 to run the job. If you wan’t some help about a component, select it and press F1. In the view Run Job, 2 features are available: Traces and Statistics.

The Statistics feature is available to observe the repartition of the data:

The Traces feature is available to observe the transformation of the data:

Want to talk about Talend Open Studio? Need help to use the software? Want to make suggestions and discuss with the dev team? Forum is the right place!

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During 3 hours the participants to the workshops will receive complimentary training on Talend Open Studio - and at the end of the workshop they will leave with a USB key containing the data integration jobs they have developed.

Next year, we’ll be taking this concept to other countries and continents - we have also been running several workshops in Germany, which have been very successful.

Check out the calendar and sign up now:

• 23rd of october - Lille
• 24th of october - Luxembourg City
• 28th of october - Genève
• 29th of october - Genève

Following the numerous requests received, I am please to announce you that the Talend Discovery Roadshow will make a stop in Brussels on the 25th of November 2008. We will make there 2 workshops in French and English.

If you wish to register for this workshop, or simply suggest another location, please click on this link.

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You like and use our products on a daily bases, why not becoming part of Talend’s team?

In may 2008, we announced several Consultant job opportunities.

We have today a Support Engineer job opportunities that we publish to the community.

Support Engineer: your qualifications

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You’re a service-minded and structured individual with a large technical interest and the ability to communicate fluently (written and spoken) in English and in French.

You’re open-minded and have experience from working with technical support or technical aspects of products in other ways.

You have a sound knowledge of basic computer software and hardware technology and we believe you have a keen general interest in data integration.

• Good communication skills are required.
• Experience of ETL tools like Talend Open Studio will be considered as a plus.
• Experience of SQL, Java and/or Perl will be considered as a plus.

Job Description

As Support Engineer you will be in direct contact with both end customers and partners.
Your Responsibilities: resolve tickets within the customer and obtain a high Customer Satisfaction Rating.

Your main tasks will be to:

• Provide phone, e-mail and online helpdesk support
• Coordinate the US, China and French Support Team
• Build technical knowledge and develop the service and support function with the team
• Realize software qualification of new Products (Milestone and Release Candidate)

At your disposal you will have a team of product specialists - R&D Engineers.

EMEA customer services gives technical support to customers within the EMEA sales region (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Howerver, the Support Engineer works too with the US Team.
The function is centralized to Paris but there needed an extensive cooperation with the local sales offices in the region.

This role performs varying degrees of problem determination and resolution of software problems through the effective use of available technical resources, per contracted service level agreements.
The Support Engineer may also perform installs or help the customer to realize backup or migration tasks.
The Support Engineer are responsible for resolving problems and completing all related administrative duties.

As the main interface to the customer, The Support Engineer need to understand the local and regional infrastructure and key contacts - developers, server admin - in order to ensure taking action on the problem.

We have just written the first pages of a great book. If you want to be part of the adventure, make an application by sending your resume at jobs@talend.com

Please, send your mail with the subject “Support Engineer EMEA”.

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