Talend is an ETL tool for Data Integration. It provides software solutions for data preparation, data quality, data integration, application integration, data management and big data. Talend has a separate product for all these solutions. Data integration and big data products are widely used. This tutorial helps you to learn all the fundamentals of Talend tool for data integration and big data with examples.

Audience

This tutorial is for beginner’s who are aspiring to become an ETL expert. It is also ideal for Big Data professionals who are looking to use an ETL tool with Big Data ecosystem.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial, you should be familiar with basic Data warehousing concepts as well as fundamentals of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load). If you are a beginner to any of these concepts, we suggest you to go through tutorials based on these concepts first to gain a solid understanding of Talend.

Introduction

Talend is a software integration platform which provides solutions for Data integration, Data quality, Data management, Data Preparation and Big Data. The demand for ETL professionals with knowledge on Talend is high. Also, it is the only ETL tool with all the plugins to integrate with Big Data ecosystem easily.

According to Gartner, Talend falls in Leaders magic quadrant for Data Integration tools.

Talend offers various commercial products as listed below −

• Talend Data Quality
• Talend Data Integration
• Talend Data Preparation
• Talend Cloud
• Talend Big Data
• Talend MDM (Master Data Management) Platform
• Talend Data Services Platform
• Talend Metadata Manager
• Talend Data Fabric

Talend also offers Open Studio, which is an open source free tool used widely for Data Integration and Big Data