Talend Open Studio Reviews

We have been using Talend for ETF functions in connection with our RDBMS system.

We are in the process of moving from RDBMS to Big Data, so we may not be using Talend in the future.

This is a user-friendly solution that is easy to use.

We need to use a more complete solution that includes data governance, data quality, data lineage, data classification, and data security. At a minimum, they should include some data quality rules and functionality, and perhaps some login features.

Technical support and customer service need to be improved.

There is no log available.

We have been using Talend Open Studio for about two years.

We have had no issues with stability.

Scalability hasn't been a problem.

We have never received responses to our queries from the company, so we are totally unsatisfied with the support.

We are using the Community version of Talend, which has some limited functionality.

The paid version of this solution has a very high price, but even with the limitations, the Community version works fine.

Overall, this is a good solution. Of course, there is lots of room for improvement.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Our primary use case is for creating an information hub for the bank database. 

It's a good tool. It has the ability to take apart and install whatever we need. It's very good for data, transformation, and loading. 

We don't get continuous replication of the data. This is something that should be improved. Other competitors have it but for this solution continuous replication is lagging. 

I have been using Data Fabric for the past year. 

It's quite good for processing big data. We don't have any issues with stability. 

Scalability is quite good. 

We have contacted their technical support. It's good. We have a Talend expert in-house who handles most of the problems we need help with. 

The initial setup is very straightforward for us. We have one file size as it is. 

Pricing is on a yearly basis. 

If you want an information hub, this is a good solution but if you want continuous replication, I wouldn't recommend this solution. Talend is a good tool for data parsing. 

I'd rate it an eight out of ten. Not a ten because of the continuous replication.

I'm a board member of our company and we are a customer of Talend. Our primary use case at the moment is working on data migration projects, migrating data from different databases and consolidating them. 

The most valuable feature is being able to create custom ETL jobs. We're sold on the customization part of it.

There is room for improvement in the performance - it gets the job done but it can be a bit slow, but then it is a free product. For now, it does the job that we need and we're quite happy with it.

I've been using the solution for over a year. 

In terms of stability, I find that from time to time, the memory is not enough. I think it's a hardware issue. 

For now, our requirements aren't that big and we didn't buy the solution for that aspect of it. If we do need to scale, we'll just add another workstation for additional jobs.

We haven't availed ourselves of technical support yet so I don't know. 

Setup was fairly simple, it took about half a day. 

We used internet sources for implementation. Two of us worked on it and only one person is required for maintenance. 

I would rate this product a seven out of 10. 

We use this product for broader data synchronization, data storage, data transformation, data integration, and other data processing.  

The feature I like most of all in Talend Studio is the ability to use it to ensure data quality. I like the product because it presents an easy and understandable way to implement data quality features. I license the product specifically because of its ability to handle that type of routine.  

I do not have so many issues with the product itself but when I do and I contact technical support, the technical support has not always been very good. At times I have had to wait too long to get a solution from them — sometimes even months rather than days. Technical support should definitely be improved.  

I think the user interface is an advantage in Talend Open Studio because it is really very good. However, while I am working I sometimes notice a bunch of very minor faults or omissions in the functionality. I see them while working and I don't keep a list so I can not go into many details. But there are a lot of very minor glitches and functional inconsistencies that do not affect the results very much, but if they can be fixed it will improve the system and utility. For example, if I make an FTP connection, I can not use a context variable to define parameters. This feature is just not available and it should be. If such minor gaps are fixed, it would be a much better product and quicker and easier to use.  

One other thing that can be improved is that it would be good to have more information on the internet for users to assist with problem-solving and use. I think that there is a lot of information out there but at the same time, it seems like a lot of the information is not the most relevant to what a user really needs. I would advise people coming to the product as new users to read the documentation thoroughly and as much as possible, but I would also hope that the standard and quality of that documentation will be improved by Talend.  

 I have been working with this product for approximately six months.  

We currently have approximately 10 users who are using this solution in our company. In the future we may have plans to increase this usage but that depends on how our needs grow. It does not seem like scaling usage will be an issue.  

The customer support is one of the biggest issues I have with the product. The support itself is not always very quick to resolve issues, and that itself is a problem. But also the available information for the product needs to be improved. There is a lot of information, but not all of it is very good.  

The initial setup for Talend Open Studio is pretty straightforward. The deployment of any particular job does not take too long. It would be approximately one month in almost every situation.  

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this solution as an eight out of ten. To give the product a higher score they would have to improve several things. This would start with improving technical support.  

As far as advice that I have for people considering this solution, I think that this is a very good product which will be able to resolve most peoples' business needs. I recommend it for use depending on your business needs and situation.  

I use Open Studio for operational data in the telecom industry. We were working with the data, connecting or joining the tables between different data sources with a very large volume. We perform data preparation and transformation and then look deeper into the details.

This is not my core tool, but when we have customers who are going to be working with open-source tools then we propose this for ETL use cases.

The most valuable feature is the variety of connectors that are available for integration with different databases.

The drag-and-drop feature in the interface is very good.

The open-source community for this solution has a lot of users, so it is very strong.

Having additional training materials, such as a video tutorial, would be an improvement. I used the online guide, which is very good but it is quite long. If there were a video and a training syllabus then it would be good.

I have been using Talend Open Studio for about one year.

I had some issues with stability when I first installed Talend and I think that it was to do with the difference between Java versions. I struggled for a little bit but since then, everything has been going great.

Because I am working on the open-source version, it does not make sense to assess scalability. If I were working on the licensed version then it would matter.

There are two or three of us in the company who uses it.

I had a few problems during the initial setup. I had to configure some environment variables within my machine in order to be able to start working with Talend. I think that it had to do with confusion between Talend and the Java version that I had installed.

The deployment is almost nothing. You just click on the icon and it will launch.

Here in Asia, the on-premises deployment is preferred. 

I deployed Talend on my own.

This is an open-source solution.

This is a good solution but I would prefer it if it were easier to find information on how to use it, such as training videos.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

We use the Professional version of Talend for data integration between our IBM mainframe and Oracle to populate the Enterprise data warehouse.

It handles feeds from heterogeneous sources such as MS SQL, PostgreSQL, and flat files.

This solution has improved our overall time to value for data ingestion.

The most valuable features of this solution are slowly changing dimension components, ELT support, and Bulk loading support.

Inter-version compatibility is a problem, and migration projects between versions are required. The migration between version 5 and 6 was particularly painful for us as numerous components we had used were "end of life" in 5 and not present in 6, because of Java version upgrade issues, I think.  We had not re-generated the executable from previous upgrades, so had to put some code through what effectively was a two version upgrade, to ensure we cleared the Java version issue.

We have been using this solution for twelve years.

We use Talend for the collection of data from many different sources. We use it mostly as a data integrator.

Talend as an ETL tool is very powerful. It allows for a lot of connections to any database source. The connectivity was one of the main reasons we started working with Talend.

It's easy and user-friendly. It has most of what I want as a technical or nontechnical. Anything I need, I can find it in Open Studio.

You can use Talend as a stand-alone application without customization to collect data and generate reports over dashboards. It's got great functionality.

There used to be many Youtube channels that offered Talend training, but now there don't seem to be any. The solution should offer more online training resources.

The solution is stable.

We have no problem with the scalability of the solution. We plan to increase usage in the future.

The initial setup is very straightforward. It doesn't take long to implement the solution. It depends on the size of your data but at most, it will take a few minutes if your workflow is small.

The pricing is okay. They could improve their pricing model, however.

We use the on-premises deployment model.

I would rate the solution nine out of ten.

We primarily use the solution just to pull the data from the source to the landing zone. We are using the administrative console as well.

The profiling perspective needs improvement. Instead of using it in the studio, we are using a different tool which is also provided by Talend. It's redundant. They should remove that from studio to make it more lightweight or improve upon its interface.

The two things that Talend lacks is an MDM and the CDC. I know Talend has both of them, but both of them are not exactly usable in actual scenarios. I know that Talend has some integrations with other companies for MDM, but I'm not sure what they're doing for CDC. Maybe Talend can work something out regarding the CDC feature. I know the solution has its own CDC, but they're not focused on it as much as people would like them to be. I would like to know what their plans for it are or if they plan to partner with another organization to market it.

Currently, the solution is stable. However, three or four years back, it used to be a bit unstable. The software is quite stable as well.

The solution has quite a good range of scalability. The jobs are quite scalable since we have now integrated them with Docker so we can follow all the principles of microservices. 

We have a license for five users. We have someone focused on data quality. Someone else is looking into the solution as a tester, and testers are working on the stewardship tool to correct the data and verify it with the business. Then there are two free developers who are solely working on the Open Studio to turn out code. 

We do have plans to increase usage.

I don't have any complaints with technical support. They've been very responsive.

We previously used to use a wide variety of solutions, including Informatica.

The initial setup was quite straightforward. The deployment took between two and three days. 

We deployed it in our Unix boxes using a third-party tool called Jenkins.

The whole deployment model is automated and it happens every three weeks. There are just two people needed for maintenance.

We are the consultants. We handled the implementation ourselves for our clients.

There are costs above the standard licensing fee, for example, if you need storage space.

We evaluated other options, such as Azure Data Factory.

We are using the AWS public cloud deployment model.

I would recommend the product. As long as you follow the best practices you will get what you want out of it.

I would rate the solution eight out of ten.