Talend Data Integration Reviews & Insights

Score10 out of 10

73 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Talend Data Integration are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Business Problems Solved

Talend has been widely used in various industries for a range of data-related tasks. In the Telecom industry, Talend has been instrumental in extracting and transforming data from mediation systems, enabling the creation of reports such as Prepaid recharge master and credit limit enhancement. Users have also integrated Talend with Tableau to generate region-wise revenue dashboards for senior management, providing valuable insights into business performance.

Talend Cloud has served as a comprehensive data mart solution, facilitating data migration and providing cloud extension capabilities. Users have praised the data pipeline visualization feature of Talend Cloud, which has made it easier to understand and manage complex data flows. Additionally, Talend has been employed to implement an Enterprise Data Warehouse for Supply Chain information, enabling the creation of an evolved reporting system. The flexibility of Talend has been particularly valuable in extracting and processing data, including running data science algorithms for predicting selling forecasts and raw materials supply.

Organizations have successfully consolidated data from multiple databases using Talend, including Oracle Database, Salesforce, Sugar CRM, SQL DB, FTP, Netezza, and Files. Users have found it useful in integrating data between different departments with varying data structures, improving overall efficiency and identifying bottlenecks. Talend has also been effective in building corporate data warehouse solutions by centralizing company intelligence from different sources and databases.

The ease of use, debug, and deployment of Talend have been prominently praised by users, along with its compatibility across different operating systems. Its versatility in handling ETL processes has resulted in its widespread adoption across organizations for integrating various systems and migrating data. Furthermore, Talend Product Intelligence has proven valuable for consolidating user research data and providing analytics metrics for product teams.

Some users have expressed frustration with the limitations of the free version of Talend, particularly regarding source control and functionality in the Eclipse environment. However, overall feedback highlights that Talend is known for its readability, ease of use, and the ability to interact more with data. Users have migrated from other ETL tools to Talend and trained their employees to use it. Its robustness and versatility have made it a go-to choice for transforming data from non-relational databases into relational databases.

In summary, Talend's use cases span various industries and tasks, including data extraction and transformation, data migration, building data warehouses, integrating systems, and providing valuable analytics capabilities. Its compatibility across different operating systems and ease of use make it a popular choice among users.

Reviews

19 Reviews

Talend Data integration at ease.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 16, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Data integration is a key to our organization's analytics needs. After applying business logic and transformation, we integrate data from multiple applications and store that in a typical data warehouse. So, Talend Data integration helps us solve this use case. Also, we integrate data between applications for business use cases; this is also taken care of by Talend.

Pros

End-to-end ETL flow with transformation.
It is easy to create a pipeline with available in-built components.
Connectors are available for many applications.
Data quality checks are made simple.
Manual data transformation can be done using Java coding.

Cons

Connectors for new applications in the market.
Default template jobs for a quick start.
More default data quality components.

Likelihood to Recommend

This tool fits all kinds of organizations and helps to integrate data between many applications. We can use this tool as data integration is a key feature for all organizations. It is also available in the cloud, which makes the integration more seamless. The firm can opt for the required tools when there are no data integration needs.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Intelligent, and talented.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 1, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Its super important to know and understand how a product is performing, after its release, with the consumers who get their hands on it. This is where Talend Product Intelligence comes in. It provides data for analytics. With metrics like active users, most used features etc, this is exactly what was needed.

Pros

Analytics on the consumers and their usage habits
Also helps understand what part of the product is working for the customer and what isnt
Understanding the product from the consumers perspective helps build a company that grows exponentially

Cons

With things like analytics, theres always room for improvement. The goalposts are ever shifting.
A deeper dive into the analytics can be provided with reports and graphs and what not as possibilities

Likelihood to Recommend

You make a product. You’re not sure how the market will react to it. Talend Product Intelligence enters the picture.Suddenly you know your consumers likes, dislikes, how they use your product, what gravitates then or what pushes them away. Its great research into however you can tweak and fix your products to grow as a company.

Verified User

Supervisor in Marketing (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Enterprise and complex platform with Talend

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 25, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Talend to implement an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that could contain all Supply Chain information in order to create an evolved reporting system. Moreover, we needed a flexible tool to extract and elaborate data, but also run external processes like data science algorithms that had to predict selling forecasts and raw materials supply to create some new KPIs for the production office.

Pros

Extract from source systems
Elaborate data
Run external processes
Can be used in a cloud solution

Cons

Support not as strong as other vendors.
If you want to use it in the best way you need to be able to do some programming.
With ETL component you cannot join tables from different schemas.

Likelihood to Recommend

Talend is a complete tool with a lot of flexibility for the development and execution of complex tasks. Before we did not trust it so much as it did not have an enterprise solution, while now we feel free to propose it to customers. The graphic view is a little old, and it seems a tool more indicated to be programmed by a data engineer as you need to be able to write some code as well if you want to obtain complex results, while an easy approach as ETL could be managed by a developer.

Silvia Guardini

Manager in Information Technology at SDG Group Italy (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Integration with any source

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 21, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Talend to transform data from non-relational databases into relational databases. Talend is extremely robust and versatile, so much so that we have even migrated from other ETL tools and trained employees in order to use Talend. It is versatile in the sense of readability, it can read many more types of files and you are able to interact much more with the data.

Pros

Being robust
Versatile
Usability
User Interface

Cons

Speed

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are ingesting heavy data, Talend is the right tool for you. If you are just casually transforming data, then a less high-end tool would be better suited. Talend does a really good job of taking heavy data from multiple sources and allowing you to manipulate it easily.

Verified User

Analyst (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Amplify product intelligence with Talend

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 21, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are basically bringing data from multiple places to the EDW using Talend. We are stitching data from multiple places to have a unified business view so that we can understand the overall business performance.We primarily use it to consolidate data from several different databases. E.g. we used Oracle Database, Salesforce, Sugar CRM, SQL DB, MQ, FTP, Netezza, and Files using Talend Data Integration. We also migrate a lot of data between the system on a one-time basis.

Pros

We used Talend to ETLing the data from myriad sources such Oracle Database, Clarify, Salesforce, Sugar CRM, SQL DB, MQ, Stibo Step, FTP, Netezza, and Files.
We leverage Talend transformation capabilities for stitching the data , unions and join
We successfully created the final unified set that can be used by business

Cons

We were able to produce Good visualization by created curated data sets but it takes lot of time.
Talend has a ok user experience but there is ample scope of improvement in documentation and CX.
Talend can help uses by providing better error messages

Likelihood to Recommend

Talend is a top quality product when it comes to below

Transforming the data from one form to another
Ingesting the data from multiple places
Joining or unionizing the data
Building destination data set

Talend is not well suited when it comes to below

Custom coding to do wrangle data

Nitika Dhingra

Data Modeler in Information Technology at Safeway (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

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Awesome Product intelligence tool.

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

July 20, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Talend is helping us in getting the data extracted from mediation (Telecom) and transforming it into reports like Prepaid recharge master and credit limit enhancement. Products are also configured and used as a lookup for charging. We have also integrated Talend Product Intelligence with Tableau for region-wise revenue dashboards. For senior management.

Pros

Helps data transformation for dashboard creations.
Helps in decision making.
Helps detecting revenue leakage.

Cons

Pricing for sure can be the area for improvement.
Real time processing is slow as compared to other tools like Abinitio.
While developing batches, it crashes a lot. It may be the issue with me, but I wanted to highlight it.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would not suggest it for real-time processing as it seems slow to me, however, processing bath files or product mapping, it's a good tool to use.

Shishir Chadha

Director in Information Technology at Exusia (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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Talented Talend for your enterprise!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 20, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Talend is used at EWS to integrate data between our MS SQL Reporting Server (ERP & Exact Global) and Cloud Apps like Cropin & SalesForce. We implemented it in 2018 and it’s proved to be highly efficient & reliable while working on large datasets replacing the custom (.NET coded) solution. It is used as a middleware to pass data of Farmers/Growers, Contracts & Fields from Reporting Server (ERP) to Cropin and Yield Estimations, Sowing, Transplanting & First Receiving Dates from Cropin to Reporting Server. In other Use cases, it integrates Reporting Server & Exact Global with SalesForce to pass Customer's Information and credit limits, Products & Price List, Accounts & Inventory information.

Pros

Highly efficient
Reliable while handling large datasets
Integrates on-Prem systems with Cloud systems seamlessly

Cons

More intuitive UX
Increased visibility would serve the product well too

Likelihood to Recommend

It’s a great middleware integration suite product to integrate on-prem with Cloud-native apps e2e seamlessly and with high efficiency and reliability while handling large datasets, interfacing data instead of manual interventions, thereby replacing clunky custom-coded solutions. It’s a critical connector for business operations at EWS and hence super important as a solution.

Anjum Arora

Group ICT Head - Technology & Applications in Information Technology at East-West Seed (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Holistic product intelligence

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 19, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Talend Product Intelligence is mainly used as a data integrator for user research on all our internal products. As a part of the product team, I tend to receive feedback on different products from different users at different life stages. It was getting increasingly inefficient to keep track of user research data in an isolated way. Talend Product Intelligence helps us put it all together in one place.

Pros

Compatibility with and conversion among data formats
Compatibility with BI solutions
Community support

Cons

Lack of documentation on some part of the product
Could be resource-light, needs more processing power
Pricing can be improved

Likelihood to Recommend

Talend Product Intelligence is recommended for managing end-to-end intelligence around the entire product suite, not just in research but also from the products that are actively used. From UX research to customer experience measurement for products across the lifecycle. From user logs to product surveys, Talend Product Intelligence helps manage the data repository and seamlessly connects with your cloud, data sources, as well as BI front-ends like Tableau, Power BI, Google Looker, etc.

Verified User

General Manager (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Talend is a great tool

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 8, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Talend Data is used to load data from different data sources such as SAP HANA, APIs, MS SQL, Excel sheets, etc. The aim is to extract the data from one/multiple sources, transform the same and then load it into the target data source. Talend is a very efficient tool for data preparation.

Pros

Extract data from different type of sources - Great connectivity options available.
Transform the data using multiple functions/components within Talend Data.
Load the data into different types of target tables.
One can also customize the code for specific use cases.

Cons

Scheduling options are limited.
Using Machine Learning is not very easy.
Documentation provided by Talend can be better.

Likelihood to Recommend

Talend is a great tool for data preparation as wells as integration. One can connect to multiple databases such as Oracle, MS SQL, SAP HANA, etc., and can transform/prepare the data as per the business requirements. Further, data can be easily loaded into a different database as per the requirement. The machine learning feature is not very easy to use.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Best Open Source Data Integration Tool

Rating: 8 out of 10

June 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the commercial Talend Data Integration and some open studio versions of their various tool sets. We primarily use it to consolidate data from several different databases. We are up to 30 across the four subject areas we refresh daily in our data lake / warehouse. The tools allow ease of access to various databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, and Snowflake while providing access to blob storage on AWS and Google Cloud Platform.

Pros

Talend Data Integration allows us to quickly build data integrations without a tremendous amount of custom coding (some Java and JavaScript knowledge is still required).
I like the UI and it's very intuitive. Jobs are visual, allowing the team members to see the flow of the data, without having to read through the Java code that is generated.
Dynamically table creation from new source.

Cons

Using contexts with both connections and variables causes some troubles. CLOBs and dates with timestamps have issues.
The server-side should be completely revamped. The documentation is lacking within the product. They need to get better at all aspects of describing how it works and how to use it.
Consumes more CPU and Memory. I feel it's bit less efficient.

Likelihood to Recommend

The same way you design data integration job can be used to design services. It is easy to enhance by custom components and can adapt to all requirements. Talend Data Integration connects to [a] multitude of data sources and streaming service. Very easy interface to design complex applications without spending much time on coding. Easy to learn and master. Talend constantly strives to better itself by adding more features and functionalities.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience