BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued) vs. Talend Open Studio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)
Score 5.3 out of 10
N/A
BusinessObjects Data Integrator was an ETL tool, acquired by BusinessObjects from the company Acta, where the tool was known as ActaWorks. After SAP's acquisition of BusinessObjects, the tool was discontinued.N/A
Talend Open Studio
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Talend Open Studio is an open source integration software, used to build basic data pipelines or execute simple ETL and data integration tasks, get graphical profiles of data, and manage files from a locally installed, open-source environment.N/A
Pricing
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)Talend Open Studio
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)Talend Open Studio
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)Talend Open Studio
Considered Both Products
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)
Chose BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)
It is a good package tool with SAP BO set of product line.
Talend Open Studio
Chose Talend Open Studio
Manages to combine simplicity of use and versatility with good stability in execution.
Chose Talend Open Studio
Talend Open studio is free and anybody can quickly ramp up and start working on it. We do not need to have strong ETL skills to start using it. Exploring the intricacies takes skill. Doing basic integrations is quite easy with Talend compared to Oracle Data Integrator or other …
Chose Talend Open Studio
Oracle JDeveloper for BPEL is a very nice tool, but way to expensive. It has a tight integration with Oracle DB and more advanced features.
JBOSS ESB Developer studio is very, very close in terms of functionality, but again, expensive.
Chose Talend Open Studio
Informatica has a limited number of components that you can use. This places a heavy limitation on the capabilities of Informatica. On the other hand, Talend allows you to create your own custom components using Java. For businesses that need to perform a wide variety of data …
Chose Talend Open Studio
SSIS is a great tool in itself and more easier. But, debugging is better done in Talend.
Chose Talend Open Studio
It solved my specific problem of needing a standard way to integrate with databases, web services and file transfers. The price is right (free). And the tool has been very stable in my experience.
Chose Talend Open Studio
I prefer to use Talend Open Studio over SQL server integration services because of the ease of use and wider connection library opportunities. By leveraging Talend Open Studio we are able to connect to a much wider set of source data as well as rapidly designing and deploying …
Chose Talend Open Studio
In terms of systems integration and ETL I have used SQL Server SSIS, SQL Server (Jobs, BCP, Procs, XP_CmdShell, etc.) and custom code using Microsoft .NET. While certain other technologies do have their place, in this realm Talend is consistently the better tool. It is a much …
Features
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)Talend Open Studio
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)
10.0
Ratings
18% above category average
Talend Open Studio
7.5
Ratings
11% below category average
Connect to traditional data sources10.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL10.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)
10.0
Ratings
20% above category average
Talend Open Studio
7.0
Ratings
15% below category average
Simple transformations10.00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Complex transformations10.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)
7.6
Ratings
5% below category average
Talend Open Studio
7.5
Ratings
6% below category average
Data model creation7.00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Metadata management7.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Business rules and workflow8.00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Collaboration8.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Testing and debugging8.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)
8.0
Ratings
2% below category average
Talend Open Studio
6.5
Ratings
22% below category average
Integration with data quality tools8.00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools8.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)Talend Open Studio
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.9
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
3.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
4.9
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)Talend Open Studio
Likelihood to Recommend
Great tool for ETL with the ability to integrate with SAP products seamlessly. Supports Big data integration.
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It is certainly suitable for agile and innovative projects. For developments that require particular steps and with a simple debug. On the other hand, it is not very suitable for producing flows that move large amounts of data and that require a lot of resources and great stability.
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Pros
  • Processing business validations on the input data set.
  • Scheduling and notification using the Admin console tool.
  • Code management across group of developers.
  • Simple deployment process across environment.
  • Ability to deploy stand alone jobs to automate task. Integration with OS and support for variety of data bases.
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  • It does provide a lot of predefined functionality out of the box along with providing the facility to use complex java code for developers.
  • Mainly like it for small data utilities. It does provide a lot of control for developers.
  • Pricing is, of course, a major plus :)
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Cons
  • Writing custom components is a complex process.
  • Along with ETL BODI should have some data quality integration.
  • Ready documentation of the code and inbuilt commenting on components.
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  • The community is not that up to date and forum is not that great in response. Probably we should make people aware of the tool more on how to use and its implementations.
  • Talend crashes when transforming a lot of data (millions of rows).
  • Proper training documentation is a must for talend which is currently lagging. This will help users to learn more about Talend and use it effectively.
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Likelihood to Renew
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There is no licence requirement for Talend Open Studio. So, this is not relevant question. However, if you are asking whether we will use Talend in future. Yes. We will continue to use it. It's very powerful free tool which caters to all our extra, transform, load capabilities. We just love Talend for it's great functionality and ease of use.
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Usability
It is a good ETL tool to use if you are SAP shop and looking for a simple and elegant solution for automation.
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Talend Open Studio is based on Eclipse and is full of redundant procedures to do one thing, like when installing libraries. Sometimes I cannot manually download the libraries that it can't find.
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Performance
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Many times, Talend freezes. When you give a cancel command, it takes several minutes to stop. It also takes a great toll on our PC with 16 GB of ram and I7 CPU, even in idle status. If you are downloading Maven Jar/Libraries, you cannot do anything and have to wait until the task is finished.
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Support Rating
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There is only one support staff on a forum created by Talend, which hides behind a nickname and does not show his name. They only ask base questions like: -Talend version - Are you in a proxy? -Do you have all the libraries installed? -It is a Jar missing? (how could I know?) -Follow this link on our site or "please ask your administrators" They then wash their hands of my issues.
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Alternatives Considered
It is a good package tool with SAP BO set of product line
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Informatica has a limited number of components that you can use. This places a heavy limitation on the capabilities of Informatica. On the other hand, Talend allows you to create your own custom components using Java. For businesses that need to perform a wide variety of data operations, it can be quite useful to have the option of creating your own custom components to satisfy business needs.
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Return on Investment
  • It was a packaged purchase of BO toolset including BOXI and BODI.
  • Optimized performance for integrating different data sources.
  • Simple and easy setup and maintenance cost.
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  • Being Open Source, your costs on the IDE side are zero.
  • There are a lot of programmers with knowledge in Eclipse, they will be comfy using TOS. The development process will be faster.
  • Once you develop your Service Bus using TOS, you can connect easily with other Talend products, like DTS, Big Data analysis tools, etc.
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