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Talend Aligns With Microsoft on DevOps

Talend has made its integration platform natively available on the Microsoft Azure cloud to provide DevOps teams employing Azure DevOps with an easier approach to creating pipelines and integrating data.

Vincent Lam, head of cloud product marketing for Talend, said the company is now making available 900 connectors and components to DevOps teams that use the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform Microsoft offers as a service.

By providing deep hooks into the Azure platform, Lam says Talend is looking to make it easier for teams to build applications by relying on an integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) environment to access data stored in Microsoft cloud services such as Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Store and Azure HDInsight.

From a DevOps perspective, the Azure DevOps Orchestration engine has now been integrated with Talend’s zero-install continuous integration capability, which it created as part of an effort to integrate its integration service with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins. That effort made it possible to leverage CI orchestration tools to automatically build unit tests and package Talend jobs in an artifact repository. That capability has now been extended to Azure DevOps.

Not every organization that uses Azure will employ Azure DevOps because they may have already standardized on another CI/CD platform, which they prefer to deploy and manage. However, because Azure lowers the barrier to entry for employing DevOps to build applications, Talend is now seeing a lot of demand for an iPaaS environment on Azure, Lam said.

Regardless of platform, as organizations start to build cloud-native applications based on microservices, many of them underestimate the integration challenges they will face. Each microservice has its own application programming interface that needs to be built and supported, which in turn is driving more convergence of DevOps platforms and iPaaS environments to help manage the APIs on which those microservices depend. As a result, IT organizations today need to apply more forethought to their overall API strategy, said Lam.

Talend is not the only provider of an integration platform to appreciate the role that DevOps processes and the rise of microservices are having on driving increased consumption of integration services. But it’s not clear whether access to integration services will become more democratized across IT organizations. Rather than continuing to rely on “centers of excellence” to centrally manage integration projects, many IT organizations have come to realize DevOps teams need to be able to access integration capabilities on demand. To facilitate that process, vendors such as Talend are making a concerted effort to couple integration platforms tightly with various DevOps platforms.

It remains to be seen to what degree integration platforms will remain standalone platforms versus becoming a capability to be invoked within the context of a CI/CD pipeline. Given the volume of monolithic applications that still depend on centrally managed integration platforms, it may be a while before the integration platform becomes subsumed in DevOps platforms. In the meantime, however, the line between DevOps and integration platforms will surely get more blurry.

— Mike Vizard

October 23, 2019
Talend Leads Innovation for OpenAPI Visual Design Support
Advancements to API Services deliver state-of-the-art compatibility with third-party technologies in the Spring ’19 release of Talend Data Fabric

Redwood City, CA – April 30, 2019 – Talend (NASDAQ: TLND), a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, today announced support for OpenAPI specification (OAS) version 3.0 as part of its Spring ’19 release of Talend Data Fabric. The new API service advancements included with Talend Cloud provide full API development lifecycle support, enabling significant time savings in building and maintaining APIs in an integrated environment. This API foundation serves as a standard and scalable way for companies to make data available to more users inside and outside an organization and to create new products and services that can drive new business models, revenue, and profitability.

“As a founding member of the OpenAPI Initiative, Talend continues to lead the innovation around visual API design,” said Jerome Louvel, VP of Product Management at Talend. “Given the growth of APIs driven by microservices and digital initiatives, support for an environment that increases DevOps teams’ productivity while enabling collaboration with less technical API stakeholders becomes critically important. With this release, we can also ensure that customers have a smooth upgrade path to OAS 3.0 from previous versions or alternative formats.”

OAS 3.0 Support Drives Speed and Compatibility

Talend Cloud is an integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) that makes it easy to collect, govern, transform, and share data. Highlights of OAS 3.0 support in Talend Cloud include:
- Data type composition, e.g. merge different customer information (such as profile, contact and preferences into a unified view of a customer)
- Data type polymorphism
- Documentation of new security schemes (such as OpenID Connect or JWT)
- Reusable API components (e.g. create a component that describes how to paginate results and use it across multiple API operations)
- Default response and status ranges (e.g. for “any error” on this operation, “this particular” response will be returned)
- Convert API definitions to and from other formats (e.g RAML and Swagger)
- Visual implementation of APIs as mini and microservices
These new features are usable on existing API definitions. Through a quick import, customers can seamlessly transition to OAS 3.0 from Swagger 2 as well as from RAML.

Additional Cloud Enhancements to Spring ‘19

In addition to new API services, the Spring ’19 release of Talend Data Fabric includes new features for its management console, data prep and stewardship capabilities, including:
- Enhanced support for Amazon API Gateway
- Enhanced support for Azure API Management
- Automated service deployment through Talend Cloud APIs
- Authentication via personal access tokens
- A new web-based graphical designer to create end-to-end pipelines to preview and transform your data
- Improved efficiency for dataset cleansing and standardization
For more information on this offering, check out the webinar demo here or sign up for a cloud trial here.

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About Talend

Talend (NASDAQ: TLND), a leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, enables companies to transform by delivering trusted data at the speed of business. Talend Data Fabric offers a single suite of apps that shortens the time to trusted data by solving some of the most complex aspects of the data value chain. Users can collect data across systems, govern it to ensure proper use, transform it to new formats and improve quality, and share it with internal and external stakeholders.

Over 3,000 global enterprise customers choose Talend to rely on trusted data to make business decisions with confidence. Talend has been recognized as a leader in its field by leading analyst firms and industry publications including Forbes, InfoWorld and SD Times. For more information, please visit www.talend.com and follow us on Twitter: @Talend.
April 30, 2019
Talend Fall ’18 Enables Enterprises to Deliver Insight-Ready Data at Scale

Major integration platform update adds advanced catalog and API development capabilities and dramatically accelerates machine learning at scale

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and LONDON – October 16, 2018 – Talend (NASDAQ: TLND), a global leader in cloud data integration solutions, today announced a major update to Talend Data Fabric, the company’s unified data platform for data integration across complex, multi-cloud and on-premises environments. Announced at Talend Connect UK, Talend’s Fall 2018 release delivers insight-ready data at scale with new features including Data Catalog, which creates a single source of trusted data, and Cloud Application Programming Interface (API) Services, which speeds access to standardized data for building data-as-a-service applications and increasing productivity. Talend’s new release also accelerates running machine learning algorithms at scale with extended serverless big data support.

“Data is at the heart of digital transformation, yet the promise of data remains elusive for many companies,” said Ciaran Dynes, SVP of Products, Talend. “For businesses to survive and succeed in this ever-evolving, expanding and complex data landscape, there is a need to optimally automate every step of the data value chain and enable self-service for more data consumers. With this release, Talend helps enterprises dramatically improve how they can organize, process, and share data, which in turn enables organizations to collaborate and innovate on insight-ready data at scale.”

“As part of our cloud-first strategy, Talend has enabled us to create a governed data lake with self-service access for business units and clients in an effort to monetize new services and generate additional revenues,” said Abderrahmane Belarfaoui, CDO, Euronext. “We compete in a highly regulated industry and face many requirements that push the processing, agility and cost of IT platforms. Using Talend, we have the confidence that our data is compliant, organized and highly sharable, with the efficiency and speed we require in order to stay ahead of the competition.”

As part of the new Talend Data Fabric, Talend adds an API delivery platform enabling data-driven businesses to simplify data access. Talend Cloud API Services provides full API development lifecycle support from API design to test and deployment, enabling significant time savings in building and maintaining APIs. This API foundation serves as a standard and scalable way for companies to make data available to more users inside and outside an organization and to create new products and services that can drive new business models, revenue and profitability.

“In this new era of digital transformation, nearly every organizational role is using data daily to inform decisions and actions,” said Stewart Bond, Research Director, Data Integration and Data Integrity Software, IDC. “Data cataloging software is experiencing a higher than market growth rate because it is filling a gap in the intelligence required to help organizations discover data and derive better insights to inform decisions and drive actions.”

To organize data at scale, Talend adds new Data Catalog capabilities that enable a single source of trusted data. The Data Catalog automatically crawls all data, whether it is in a data lake, on-premises or in the cloud; profiles and classifies all the data; automatically finds and suggests relationships between data, and provides easy search-based access so end users can leverage trusted data when they need it to make immediate business decisions.

The Fall 2018 Talend Data Fabric also accelerates running machine learning models at scale with native, extended serverless big data support for Microsoft Azure Databricks as well as Qubole in AWS cloud environments. Talend’s self-service Apache Spark processing makes it easy to spin up a cluster and control costs by just paying for what is used through serverless and spot instances. The new capabilities help to automate insight and enables businesses to process more data at lower costs.

The comprehensive Talend Data Fabric delivers a unified platform for data integration across public, private,and hybrid cloud, as well as on-premises environments, and facilitates greater collaboration between IT and business teams. Combined with an open, native and extensible architecture for rapidly embracing market innovations, Talend enables customers to cost-effectively meet the demands of ever-increasing data volumes, users and use cases.

The Fall 2018 update to the Talend Data Fabric will be available in November for free to customers with up-to-date paid subscriptions. For information on new features and capabilities, please visit https://www.talend.com/products/whats-new. Additionally, a webinar detailing the Fall 2018 update will take place on Nov. 8. Register here to join.

October 16, 2018