Book Review : Getting Started with Talend Open Studio for Data Integration

Getting Started with Talend Open Studio for Data Integration

Book Details

Language : English
Paperback : 320 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : November 2012
ISBN : 1849514720
ISBN 13 : 9781849514729
Author(s) : Jonathan Bowen
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Data, Open Source

More details are here http://www.packtpub.com/getting-started-with-talend-open-studio-for-data-integration/book

Information systems business becoming increasingly complex. They are composed of different systems that need to communicate among themselves. Ask a developer to code routines for data integration is no longer a viable option so the rules change often and codes are not robust enough as those offered by the data integration tools. Talend (one of the leading open source integration) provides a data integration tool called Talend Open Source for data integration.
There are few books on data integration. However Talend made ​​enough effort and provided enough documentation on its products. This book far from being a copy an paste of official documentation addresses the problem from a different angle. The official documentation is a guide to the components while this book is more oriented use cases. This book is a step by step guide you can read from top to bottom if you are a beginner or go to specific chapters.

This book has 12 chapters that show the most potential with examples of jobs to support
Chapter 1: Knowing Talend Open Studio
Chapter 2: Working with Talend Open Studio
Chapter 3: Transforming Files
Chapter 4: Working with Databases
Chapter 5: Filtering, Sorting, and Other Processing Techniques
Chapter 6: Managing Files
Chapter 7: Job Orchestration
Chapter 8: Managing Jobs
Chapter 9: Global Variables and Contexts
Chapter 10: Worked Examples

The last chapter of the book covers the use of routines and the creation of new components.
This book (http://www.packtpub.com/getting-started-with-talend-open-studio-for-data-integration/book) is a must read if you want to make the integration of data with TALEND.

Review co-writed with Horacio 🙂