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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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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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

illustration credit: splorp

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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Training Services: With a three-day Foundation training course or a three-day Advanced training course, get all the tools and techniques you need to fully leverage the potential of Talend Open Studio.

Expertise Services: Our dedicated expertise team offers personalized service around our solutions. Looking for answers on the functioning of the software? Want to be accompanied by an expert? Make an appointment with our team!

Support Services: The support team is dedicated to processing software anomalies. If a customer meet an abnormal operating software, he open a ticket in the support application. By this way, we guarantee an optimal response time.

Commercial Services: Our team knows our softwares, and may at any time advise you when the professional services that help you succeed in your projects. Do not hesitate to contact them!

My role is not to substitute to the usual contacts. However, if one of the Talend services did not meet customers expectations, I will work with customers, and if necessary with the appropriate division managers at Talend, to make things right.

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Talend’s best-in-class Open Source data integration solutions are used by organizations of all sizes over the world. Talend shatters the traditional proprietary model by supplying open, innovative and powerful software solutions with the flexibility to meet the needs of all organizations. Today, Talend is actively seeking talented professionals to support its aggressive growth plans. You like and use our products on a daily bases, why not becoming part of Talend’s team?

We have actually a few Consultant job opportunities that we offer to the community.

Being a consultant at Talend, is becoming part of a team that is implementing our solutions in complex, exciting and challenging environments. Not only you will perform expertise over the whole set of Talend’s products (Talend Open Studio, Talend Integration Suite, Talend on Demand), but you will also make training to our customers. You will also intervene in pre-sales part.

Your motivation, curiosity and your capacity of learning and understanding new environments will be you assets and will make the difference. You will be located in France, in Paris, but will travel from time to time in France or other countries. The job requires a strong level of French, English, (Other languages Spanish, Italian, Arabic.. is a plus)

You are curious and like to change often of work environments? You want to become part of a success story? 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(at)talend.com

More offers: www.talend.com

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Qualifications:

You have at least 2-3 years experience as an English technical writer in the software field. You will be in charge of the following duties:

• Write and/or update administration, user, and installation guides, by interviewing developers and by using the product. This includes the creation of text and graphics in FrameMaker, produce pdf and html files, rebrand documentation for OEM products
• Respect strict deadlines

Skills:

• English mother tongue or excellent writing skills in English
• Experienced writer in IT/Software fields
• Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 Structured
• Webworks
• Experience in data integration, ETL or EDI a plus

If you are interested, please send your resume/cover email to jobs(at)talend.com

Now, a screenshot of one of our User Guide:

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The 15 Open Source Business Influencers

[Source: http://www.talend.com] eWeek.com recently published their list of the people driving the commercial open source IT revolution. Next to icons such as Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, or Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems and instrument of the GPL distribution of Java and of the takeover of MySQL, or even Marc Fleury, the French entrepreneur who founded and sold JBoss, I found two other persons I highly respect: John Roberts and Marten Mickos.

Talend Open Studio vs Pentaho Data Integration

[Source: http://scorreiait.wordpress.com] 29 03 2008 You don’t know which Open source ETL to choose? Have a look at this white paper (in French). It contains some interesting benchmarks that can help you choosing the best ETL for your need.

Une étude de Markess International Les entreprises face à l’explosion des données non structurées

[Source: http://www.itrmanager.com] Avec l’essor du numérique, l’information est de plus en plus disponible sous forme dématérialisée et non structurée, multi-sources et multi-formats. La multiplicité des sources et des formats corrélée à la croissance accélérée du volume des informations à manipuler exige désormais la mise en place de solutions spécifiques permettant de mieux accéder, rechercher, analyser, sécuriser et diffuser celles-ci afin d’en faciliter et d’en améliorer l’usage, le partage, la restitution et l’exploitation en interne. C’est une des conclusions d’une enquête réalisée par le cabinet Markess International auprès d’un échantillon de 200 entreprises et organisations publiques basées en France.

Intégration dans SAP de données issues de neuf sources et dans six formats grâce à Talend

[Source: http://www.cfo-news.com] Talend, premier éditeur de logiciels d’intégration de données Open Source, annonce aujourd’hui que MediaLab, spécialiste indépendant de la recherche et développement, s’est appuyé sur Talend Open Studio pour intégrer, dans des délais extrêmement courts, son logiciel de modélisation avec neuf sources de données afin d’alimenter automatiquement deux systèmes, dont SAP.

L’Open Source à l’assaut de la Business Intelligence

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Added Mar 20, 2008 Alors que le marché du logiciel de Business Intelligence s’est fortement concentré en 2007 avec les acquisitions de BO par SAP, Cognos par IBM et Hyperion par Oracle, l’Open Source entend faire entendre sa voix sur ce terrain et fait état de ses prétentions. Ce secteur prend une place importante dans les DSI et commence à entrer dans une phase de maturité. Le concept du flux montant qui veut qu’aucune donnée du datawarehouse ne soit utilisée en redescente sur un système opérationnel n’est parfois plus respecté.

The free software movement is a political cause, not a technical one.

[Source: http://framablog.org] Par aKa le samedi 8 mars 2008, 19:52 - logiciel libre - Lien permanent fsf stallman « The free software movement is a political cause, not a technical one. » Cette citation est extraite d’un tout récent message de Richard Stallman sur la liste emacs-devel.

Talend.getBlog(”french”)

[Source: http://blog.developpez.com] Suite à la demande sur le forum developpez concernant de la documentation sur le tPaloOutput, je vais consacrer ce post à un modeste overview de ce composant avec quelques screenshots à l’appui.

La promotion et la défense du logiciel libre

[Source: http://blog.smile.fr[ 19/02 ] Smile adhère à l’APRIL En rejoignant l’APRIL, l’Association pour la Recherche en Informatique libre, Smile renforce son action dans la promotion et la défense du logiciel libre.

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The User Guide (in pdf) describes in details the interface as well as the application functionalities. The User Guide is available in French and English and is regularly updated - the last updates were published on 2008-03-19.

Compared to the last version 2.3b, the documentation is divided in two documents for more readability and clearness:

• the user guide for the application
  • Getting started with Talend Open Studio
  • Designing a Business Model
  • Designing a Job Design
  • Managing jobs & projects
• the guide for the components
  • This pdf details the major components that you can find in the Palette of Talend Open Studio (technical informations + scenario)

I advice you to read only the User Guide to get all the tools and techniques you need to fully leverage the potential of Talend Open Studio. The Components References Guide is a technical reference, don’t read it like a Bible but use it only when you need a very accurate piece of information. Why such an advice? Because the References Guide is accessible directly in the software: you only need to select a component on a Job Design and press F1! The view Help displays the technical information and the scenario. See the illustration below:

Any problem with the installation of Talend Open Studio?

Find all the information you need to install Talend Open Studio on Talend’s wiki.

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Olivier has developed severals components and you can donwload it in the Talend Ecosystem. For more information, please, visit his French blog “Lolive & cie” , and read the full interview here .

About the Talend training offer

Through the Advanced course, users will acquire the skills required to create their own components. With a three-day training course, get all the tools and techniques you need to expand the features of Talend´s solutions…

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France : Microsoft and Talend
Interesting quote from Julien Codorniou at Microsoft: “The fact is that we really don’t care about Talend’s business model. They develop and sell software that runs on windows, everywhere in the world, and they’re gaining in popularity. (150000 downloads so far). Our interest is to maximize the experience on our platforms, and this partnership is driven by two things: customer satisfaction and Interoperability.”

Talend Integration Suite : une solution universelle d’intégration pour le Groupe Eurofins
La solution de Talend devient l’outil d’intégration de l’ensemble du Groupe Eurofins, aussi bien pour les projets locaux que pour les projets transversaux. Travaillant pour une société de services avant de rejoindre Eurofins, Pierre-Eric Menuet connaissait la solution Talend Open Studio : « Nous avons réalisé des tests sur des jeux de données limités, puis mis en œuvre l’outil dans un premier projet » explique-t-il.

Data Integration Suite est facturée 60 000 dollars (soit 40 681 euros) par processeur

Suite au rachat du français Sunopsis en 2006, puis d’Hyperion en 2007, Oracle vient de lancer une nouvelle suite d’intégration de données. aptisée ‘Data Integration Suite’ et facturée 60 000 dollars (soit 40 681 euros) par processeur (CPU), la nouvelle suite intègre des fonctionnalités d’intégration de données et de nouveaux outils dédiés aux architectures orientées services ou SOA (service-oriented architectures).

Aftershock for BO users - and it’s only the beginning!
In a recent press release, SAP detailed how it is reorganizing its operations to integrate Business Objects, for which they paid almost $7b. With 7,000 employees, the new entity will become “a leading organization targeting the business user market”. SAP highlights the synergies of the entities to justify an acquisition viewed as very costly by many analysts, especially given the latest numbers from the formerly French vendor.

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Not only will you standout from the crowd but you will also help the open source community: all the benefits will be invested in Open Source Projects.

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The award highlights the technological excellence of start-ups that were created in the last 5 years and have successfully implemented their solution in a short time frame.

The French secretary of Research has handed the awards to the prize-winners - paying tribute to their business performances and emphasizing on the importance of innovative start-ups in the technological environment.

Portrait of Talend Chief Executive Officer

Last Thursday, Neteco interviewed Bertrand Diard, Talend Chief Executive Officer. As part of the Salon Linux Solutions, the following video evokes the opening of Talend United States and the launch of the Open Solutions Alliance in 2007.

Linux Solutions in Paris

Plein Ecran, a LCI web emission, takes us through the aisles of Linux Solutions and goes through the Talend stand.

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• Ability to Execute
• Completeness of Vision

The interpretation of this chart is difficult. Is it the aim of Gartner? I invite you to read “Gartner BI Summit : la magie des carrés magiques“.

Observatory of Free Software published on January the “Baromètre des tendances 2007-2008 du logiciel libre 2007-2008“. I was pleased to read that the Business Intelligence is the most dynamic segment as I already mentionned it.

Why the Open Source Solutions aren’t represented in the Magic Quadrant 2008 ? Because the Gartner company thinks that the use of the Open Source is dangerous - Gartner BI Summit 2008. To read about BI actors’ opinion , please visit progilibre.com.

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The goal of the Talend Awards is to reward interesting and high performance projects developed by Talend users, and to emphasize the gains they achieve. Talend Awards will be awarded in three categories: “best technical prowess”, “best ROI/business gain”, and “best performance”.

The first edition of the Talend Awards is open until January 31, 2008 at midnight CET. Nominate your project now!

By launching the Talend Awards, we want to promote interesting uses of our solutions and representative case studies, and to strengthen ties with our users community. We will communicate on these case studies to provide visibility to our users.In addition to the visibility, winners of the Talend Awards will:

- Become Talend Ambassadors: 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, donated by Talend. In addition, up to two runner-ups may also be selected and will each win an iPod Shuffle.

So, if you are using one of Talend’s products, and whether you are interested by the visibility, by sharing your accomplishments, of by winning an iPod Touch, nominate your project for the Talend Awards now!

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Talend developers make it possible to have a new version every three months … and the first version have been publish on september 2006 … now, Talend Open Studio version 2.2 provides support for event-based action triggering, as well as SOA functionality enabling users to expose data integration processes as Web Services : it’s now the time to update our training offer !

To master all the skills to take full advantage of Talend Open Studio, the first level course is now organized in a three-day session !

Dedicated to Talend Open Studio users, this course provides all the skills required to take full advantage of the tool, regardless the scope of the user’s needs. Look’s the table of content :

1. Presentation

• ETL : an overview of proprietary and Open Source tools
• Operational and Business Intelligence integration
• Presentation and Installation of Talend Open Studio

2. Modeling the needs and documenting on the project

• Use the Business Modeler
• Organize the model links/ Implement the assignments
• Manage the documentation and the version

3. Using the Job Designer to generate code

• Create a job: best practices
• Generate test data sets

4. Using the entry/exit

• Manage file access (XML, positional, delimited…)
• Manage database access (ODBC & native connection)
• Use SqlBuilder to generate and federate SQL requests

5. Federating metadata in the Repository

• Federate connecting chains
• Federate schemes (data streams structure)

6. Transforming and enriching data

• Use the various transformation components
• Do data mapping with a graphical tool (joint via tMap)
• Qualify data with the help of filters
• Generate multiple releases and manage refusals

7. Manipulating the advanced components

• Manipulate the data linked to Internet (mail, ftp, web services…)
• Manipulate third-party application data (SugarSRM, SalesForce…)
• Define execution contexts (development, production)

8. Using development features

• Inject Java or Perl code in your jobs
• Manage errors
• Manage the refusals linked to the data structure (type checking)
• Log execution statistics of your jobs
• Federate your code (java classes, Perl routines)
• Reuse the existing classes and modules

9. Debugging, inputting and optimizing jobs

• Generate technical documentation
• Use the internal debugger
• Optimize jobs
• Input jobs and present them as webservices

10. Participating in the Talend Community

• Use the Community tools (Forum, Ecosystem, BugTracker)
• Exchange with Community members

For more informations, please visit http://www.talend.com

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In InDetail product reviews, Bloor’s analysts write about advantages and drawbacks of specific technologies, and how they are positioned in the overall market.

Bloor’s Research Director Philip Howard has taken a close look at the features of Talend Open Studio, its advantages and drawbacks. This 11-page analyst study will help IT staff and decision makers get an independent angle on the leading open source data integration solution.

Download this independent analyst study today and discover:

• The key features of Talend Open Studio
• The advantages of code generation vs. data integration engine
• The interest of combining the ETL and ELT approaches
• The value of metadata driven integration

“In our view, Talend is the most enterprise oriented of the open source data integration vendors.”
Philip Howard, Bloor Research

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