Talend supports Enterprise Integration Patterns to mediate messages between services, to perform transformation, message filtering, data enrichment or load balancing

Talend supports Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIPs) – a standard set of integration components used to address common integration needs.

Exchange data across applications with varying data formats, manipulate message payload (including encryption, compression and encoding transformations) and format messages across heterogeneous transport protocols data types.

Through the Service Locator, Talend provides automatic and transparent failover and load balancing via dynamic endpoint registration and lookup. Service Locator maintains the availability of the service to help meet demands and service level agreements (SLAs) and by this provides the important loosely coupling between ESB consumers with the ESB providers.

The smallest unit of the ESB is a lightweight container into which legacy system adaptors can be integrated or application services run. Talend ESB is not dependant on a specific transport technology. Rather, it can use the most appropriate transport mechanism available, thus ensuring interoperability with customers’ systems that do not use Talend ESB. In cases in which asynchronous transport is called for Talend ESB uses a messaging system while keeping both systems independent. Talend ESB also supports the ability to add quality of service policies including security, reliability, transactionality and configure them as needed.

Easily create client and server SOAP interfaces based on a WSDL description (WSDL-first Web Services). SOAP is an acronym for Simple Object Access Protocol. SOAP defines a protocol for message exchange between applications. The latest version of the SOAP specification may be found here. WSDL is an acronym for Web Services Description Language. WSDL defines a XML-based language for describing web service interfaces, including SOAP interfaces. The latest version of the WSDL specification may be found here.

Trust can be difficult to establish within and across IT domains. Talend ESB provides a Security Token Service (STS), which allows ‘trust’ to be established between parties using the latest security standards for Web Services. The STS Framework issues interoperable security tokens to negotiate claims between consumers, services providers and 3rd parties, establishing trust and authentication. By abstracting authentication through brokers, you can establish secure connections through a common trusted entity in situations where parties cannot establish trust directly.

Accurate identification of potential duplicate records is a core function of Talend MDM. The approach with Talend is to simplify the process and provide a set of tools that allow you to match whatever data you are mastering. Further, the open platform allows you to insert custom algorithms to calculate match scores. Surviving a master record through automated and manual process are also included.

Components are provided that allows you to identify and remove duplicates, complete and correct values and properly format hub data.

Talend MDM includes components that allow you to define and implement business rules in order to survive data from multiple records. Custom and pre built rules can be configured for conditions such as most recent value, most reliable source or most regular values.

Enable the business user to import or export master data into hub from web interface.

Talend MDM can align your master data with a hierarchy from an external system or database to augment the master data with information from a trusted reliable source third party data provider.

Talend MDM includes components that allow you to define and implement business rules in order to survive data from multiple records. Custom and pre built rules can be configured for conditions such as most recent value, most reliable source or most regular values.

Design and deploy custom forms for any master data. Move pre-bound fields on a form to arrange them in optimized order. Create columns to maximize space and apply custom javascript or css. Customization of the web UI improves adoption in the business audience for MDM. Custom forms allow for a consistent look and feel for an organization.

Complete history of all hub activity is recorded and accessible through an intuitive search tool. The audit information is also easily exported.

Roles based access control (RBAC) security is a foundation feature of Talend MDM. The constructs allow to design and enforce not just read/write access to groups and individuals but also allows for provisioning of data. Further, configuration of the web UI, access to data sources and the translation of elements can all be controlled by the roles based access constructs in the product. (CE is limited to one user/one role)

The Grid Conductor module (accessible through the Job conductor) optimizes the scalability and availability of the integration processes by ensuring an optimal use of the execution grid.
The grid conductor relies on the definition of virtual servers, which group available resources, regardless of the system type (CPU, OS...).