Talend Unified Platform


Dramatically increase IT productivity with the only unified platform for application, data and process integration

Talend delivers the only unified platform that makes data management and application integration easier by providing a unified environment for managing the entire lifecycle across enterprise boundaries. The Talend unified platform combines common graphical tooling, repository, deployment, execution and monitoring capabilities, allowing organizations to rapidly take advantage of more applications and data resources than ever before.


What's New in Talend v5

Talend Unified Platform Overview

According to Forrester, “Taking a more holistic approach to integration challenges enables enterprises to increase the success rates of integration projects,” and that’s what Talend is facilitating through its unified platform. Talend employs the same unified platform for its data integration, data quality, master data management (MDM), application integration and process management solutions.

Talend bridges silos, allowing integration solutions to play a key role in making the right data available to the right consumer at the right time. Using best-in-class open source technology, Talend’s unified platform consists of common graphical tooling, repository, deployment, execution and monitoring capabilities.

Key Capabilities

Easy-to-use Graphical Tooling

A single, Eclipse-based tooling environment allows users to model, configure, test and deploy solutions that combine data integration, data quality, MDM, application integration and business process management. This speeds time to deployment by eliminating lengthy learning curves and making developers more productive.

Repository

A common metadata and artifact repository allows team members to store and share integration artifacts for collaboration on projects across teams, further encapsulated software development best practices.

Deployment

Users can more rapidly respond to requirements by deploying and managing upgrades through a centralized, browser-based deployment console. Users can access multiple repositories and manage the promotion of software bundles between them, to support different development, test and production environments.

Execution

Talend provides a lightweight runtime environment that can be tailored to meet user needs, supporting deployment into distributed containers , for batch processing, message routing, web services and REST applications.

Monitoring

A single, browser-based console facilitates the administration of production integration environments by providing activity monitoring and service locator capabilities.

Talend Unified Platform Benefits

The Talend Unified Platform offers a much greater return on investment (ROI) when more than one discipline is used by providing common tooling, artifact storage, deployment, execution and monitoring capabilities. Consolidating the overall architecture on a single user interface, code base and security model eliminates “one-off” integrations, leverages a common IT infrastructure, and minimizes application development and support costs.

The benefits of a unified approach include:

  • Lower time-to-value by dramatically reducing implementation and setup time as compared with the rollout of separate solutions
  • Speed time-to-market by allowing developers to focus on meeting user requirements rather than getting the various application components to work together
  • Increased ease-of-use and reduced training costs, because data management and application integration are exposed through common user interfaces
  • Lower operating and maintenance costs through simplified upgrades delivered as single packages
  • Higher productivity because users can perform all integration-related functions from one environment
  • Improved user experience and higher adoption rates through graphical user interfaces with a common look and feel

Talend Unified Platform Features

Eclipse-based Tooling

Single Eclipse-based tooling environment eliminates the lengthy learning curve typical of most integration tools and allows developers to quickly and more easily build integration Jobs, handle data profiles projects, build a master data Hub, implement Web services, data services, REST applications and messaging routes.

Visibility into Live Statistics

Visibility into live statistics of data job or message flow activity within a specific integration route enables rapid prototyping for developers, dramatically reducing development and testing cycles.

Deployment Manager

Users can more rapidly respond to integration requirements by deploying and managing upgrades through a centralized deployment console. Users can schedule the running of Integration Jobs and match batch oriented reporting.

Team Collaboration

A common repository provides collaboration between team members by allowing them to store and share information while preserving version integrity throughout the lifecycle of the integration project.

Role-based Access Control

Talend Administration Center supports role-based access control (RBAC) such that only users with the appropriate privileges can setup and deploy ESB instances, using the secured repository.

Integrated Artifact Repository

The Talend Repository facilitates best practices and collaboration in integration projects by storing ESB development and operations artifacts – such as projects, integration patterns, metadata and other items – and allowing them to be shared among a team of developers or software development administrators. Talend Repository encapsulates Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, by allowing multiple repositories to be deployed. Software artifacts are versioned and can be promoted between repositories, depending on the stage within the development lifecycle process.

Administration Center

The Talend Administration Center is a graphical console that facilitates the administration of production integration environments, by providing activity monitoring and analysis tooling, to introspect and report on integration Jobs, Web services, Master Data hubs and REST applications.

System Monitoring

Administrators can monitor the activity of any Job, Service, or applications. Common metrics are used across the different running processes and allow system administrators to respond in real-time to alerts from their running systems.


 

Talend is a major global vendor of open source integration software. With its open, innovative, and affordable technologies, Talend enables organizations of any size to reap the benefits of enterprise grade solutions for data integration tasks like data profiling, data conversion, master data management, or operating an ETL data warehouse. For organizations needing an application integration solution, Talend can provide everything from a lightweight and flexible enterprise service bus open source product to an end-to-end SOA suite that supports all facets of SOA development, deployment, and management.
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