Talend Open Studio Reviews

I use Open Studio for the day-to-day management of our data architecture warehouse. 

Open Studio's best features are that it's user-friendly, even for beginners, and very easy to implement.

Open Studio's pipelines could be improved. It's also lagging behind as the market moves toward the cloud and needs to provide better serviceability. In the next release, Open Studio should include cloud storage as an input.

I've been using Open Studio for four to five years.

Open Studio's stability isn't great - it seems to need a patch every month and has a lot of security issues.

Talend's technical support isn't very good and not worth the money we spend on it.

Neutral

The initial setup is pretty easy.

Open Studio has a basic license and additional costs for services, including customer support and technical assistance.

I would recommend Open Studio for data operations, but potential customers should be aware of the lack of support and technical expertise Talend provides. I rate Open Studio as six out of ten.

Public Cloud

Microsoft Azure

Integration jobs.                                                                                    

Faster and reliable integration jobs.                                                                                

• Automating jobs                                                                      
• Ease of use                 
  

TAC could be improved.                                                                              

One to three years.

Easy to use, low learning curve, scalability, all basic features for ETL, price

It was a fundamental tool for the Data Warehouse development team. With Talend Open Studio, all the ETL process are documented and well implemented.

The Enterprise Version needs to be more similar to the Talend Open Studio. There are so many differences and so we needed time to learn and become familiar with the enterprise version, which was not so great for us.

1 year

Yes. First we use Talend Open Studio but afterwards we bought Talend Enterprise. We found that we need to create new team profiles. This was something that we had not predict before, the need to use the Talend Admin Center (TAC). We don’t have yet that yet and of course getting it requires effort, adds on costs and more time to develop.

Not yet

Not yet

Customer Service: Low here, at Mozambique.Technical Support: Low here, at Mozambique.

We used Microsoft Integration Services but due to budget restrictions and technical issues we prefer Talend.

Installing Talend Open Studio was easy, but you need support for the setup of the Enterprise version.

In-house.

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services

Don’t precipitate the acquisition of the Enterprise version. Using Talend Open Studio for small companies is enough, but for big companies analyze first very carefully the cost and effort to switch to Enterprise version.

We were using the entire Talend solution for the last client, but it was only for integration between the databases and the data warehouse. It was a standard ETL job. We have Talend Open Studio deployed on our desktop, but we used the Talend cloud service for our clients.

Talend lets you do everything — mapping, workflow, and orchestration — in a single place. 

Talend should improve the log and error handling to better track the errors you find during development. Sometimes it's challenging to see what's causing an issue, and tracking that on Talend is complicated. 

I've been working with Talend for around two years. I'm no expert, but I have enough knowledge to create an entire solution using the tool.

Talend support is good. 

Since I'm only a developer, I didn't have much information about the installation.

The price is low. It's always good

I rate Talend Open Studion eight out of 10. Talend can do everything that you want to do, but to do the more complex tasks, you need extensive knowledge of IT processes. You need to know what you're doing or you won't' be able to do anything in Talend.

One use case for Talend Data Management is using it for data integration from multiple data sources and then to build our customer's golden record.

The data integration aspect of the solution is excellent.

The product's data preparation features are very good.

There's very useful data stewardship within the product.

From a technical standpoint, the solution itself is pretty good.

There are very good pre-built connectors in Talend, which is good for many clients or businesses, as, in most cases, companies are dealing with multiple data sources from multiple technologies. That is where a tool like Talend is extremely helpful. 

While I can't really speak to technical aspects that need improvement, I can say that the marketing of the solution is not the best. They need to really improve how they present the solution to potential clients.

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.

For example, if you see all the other modern products - like Snowflake or Cloudera - and go to their sites, you will have various types of documentation, including data charts and other things you can get readily access. However, if you go to the Talend site, you won't get this kind of marketing material, which is always required.

It's especially difficult when you're writing a proposal. You need to have the technical specifications. All of these modern solutions are quite advanced in terms of their documentation. You go to their site, and you will get a lot of brochures, reports, and other items. This gives you a detailed understanding of the solutions, and all of the specifications, and technicalities, and other things. For Talend, unfortunately, there's a lag in that aspect. 

From a data management or data engineering perspective, they could stabilize their new features more. 

It would be ideal if they could consider adding prescriptive or predictive models into their components, such as an alternate data IQ.

We don't use the solution directly per se. We're a solutions provider.

The solution offers very good stability. We haven't really had any issues with glitches or bugs. There aren't problems with the solution crashing or freezing on clients. It's been good.

The solution is good at scalability With their big data integration products, they're actually handling a huge data set and the scalability of it is good. They're well-positioned to scale for the client.

Technical support is pretty good. I would rate them at an eight out of ten. We've been satisfied with the level of support provided overall.

The initial setup was straightforward. It was not complex at all.

Deployment times vary according to the size of the client or their needs. If it's for a big client and big project, it could be six months of implementation time. Smaller jobs may only take one month of implementation. It all depends.

We tend to implement this solution for our clients.

I've briefly looked at Azure Data Factory and have been seeking out comparisons between these two options.

We are the solution provider. We are the company that implements such solutions as Talend. We are not the user of the solutions themselves necessarily. We are the reseller as well as implementation partners and the implementing partner of Talend. We have resources who work on these tools and who implement solutions for our customers. 

The version of the solution we use varies from client to client, especially for Talend. They have multiple products, including Talend Data Management and Talend's Data Integration Pipeline. A lot of our customers are using the open-source version of Talend. Some are using the licensed version. From those, some are using it for the data stewardship. 

We deploy both cloud and on-premises models as required.

Overall, we've been happy with the product. From a data management perspective, the data preparation, data stewardship and the other features that Talend has, including the MDM, are all extremely important for today's organization.

Overall, I would rate the solution at a seven out of ten.

On-premises

We are a system integrator and this is one of the products that we implement for our clients.

The most valuable features are the ETL tools.

The user interface could be made simpler.

If I am comparing to MuleSoft, there are several things that are easier, such as the integration, as well as any connection to the database, or other data source.

In the next release, I would like to see the same simplicity for many of the same functionalities.

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

The stability is good. My colleagues in Canada recommended the use of this product in banking systems because of the stability.

We have not been in contact with technical support. Any problems that we have had so far, we have been able to solve by searching with Google.

We did not use a similar solution prior to Talend Open Studio, although we are planning on switching to MuleSoft.

The initial setup is not complex. It takes approximately one week to deploy.

We have our own team for the maintenance of Talend Open Studio.

From the start, we were planning on using MuleSoft, but they don't sell to residents of Mongolia.

We used the MuleSoft community edition, and for me, it's better than Talend. In my opinion, Mule is more user-friendly and Talend can be complex. 

Our backup plan was Talend.

My advice for anybody who is considering this product is that I recommend it and they should try using it. It's not bad and if they know Java and it might be simple for them. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

On-premises

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. 

I use this solution for development purposes. This solution is installed on my PC. For the project that we're currently working on, I am the only user.

Talend can connect to multiple data sources, including relational data sources, ERP, CRM, and others. 

Talent consumes a lot of resources on my PC. Also, the support could be better. 

I have been using Talend Open Studio since April 2020. 

There are always new versions being released — new updates. Periodically, we upgrade it to avoid any old bugs. 

As it's open-source, there is no commercial support. We just use the forums and ask the community when we need help.

The initial setup was very easy. 

I installed it myself. 

We use the open-source version. It does the job well for nothing — without cost. That's the advantage of this product.

I would recommend Talend. It's open-source and it's a good product. Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give Talend a rating of seven.