Don’t Let Your Emails Bounce Back!

When was the last time one of your emails bounced back - Perhaps yesterday or maybe even in the last hour? In a world where email has obviously become a crucial communication channel, the lack of email validation and verification in customer email lists can be a major hurdle for your company. This is why Talend 6 introduces a component for assessing the quality of emails in existing files and databases, and even validating addresses before they 記事を読む

Letting Your Data Quality Software Understand Your Data

When profiling your data, sometimes you just don’t know which columns you should look into or what you should validate in them. How much would it help if your data profiling software understood your data and helped you select the relevant quality indicators? This is exactly what the new Talend 6 semantic wizard is designed to do in Talend Studio! You will also be able to use Semantic Discovery to enrich your Ontology repository with semantic 記事を読む

IT stuff for free! – 3 Zero-Cost Integration Projects

According to Gartner forecasts, IT spend is likely to be close to $4 trillion in 2015. It’s probably very welcoming then to hear that you can still complete some IT projects for free. Case in point: D 記事を読む

Explore the Talend 6 Studio and Its Exciting Productivity Features

In Talend 6, I must really applaud our teams for the new and exciting productivity features added to the Talend Studio. Just check the look and feel of the Studio: it has been significantly revamped with a new design and many new features that make development much faster. Take a look at the faceted search to let you find components more quickly or how they have improved the ways to create transitions between your components. Now that's productivity! 記事を読む

A Surprisingly Simple but Effective Masking System

I used to watch the TV show Zorro as a kid — fantastic stuff.  While it never put me off watching, I do distinctly recall thinking how absolutely ludicrous it was that nobody could figure out that Zorro was actually nobleman, Don Diego de la Vega. Come on people, they have the same moustache for Pete’s sake! But here’s the thing, Zorro had that mask, a simple but apparently effective disguise that obscured him just enough to fool a 記事を読む

Three Key Takeaways from Amazon re:Invent 2015

Upon returning from AWS re:Invent, a jam-packed cloud computing frenzy in Las Vegas, I was a) pumped up about the impact that cloud environments can have for all of our customers and beyond; and b) left thinking about what key messages really stood out. There was a lot to take in—but one thing was abundantly clear: AWS has done a remarkable job of making the move to public cloud seem inevitable: taking things like security off of the table, 記事を読む

Surprising Data Warehouse Lessons from a Scrabble Genius

Lessons in data warehousing and cloud data integration can come from unexpected places. Consider: the latest French-language Scrabble champion doesn’t speak French. New Zealander Nigel Richards just won the international French World Scrabble® Championship without speaking the language at all, even using many obscure words that the average French speaker doesn’t know. The secret to his su 記事を読む

Spaghetti alla Cloud: Prevent IT Indigestion today! (Part II)

In part I of this two-part post, we learned why the IT architecture supporting modern business feels bloated when cloud computing was supposed to be a liberating, game-changing paradigm instead, and why it is critical to address this issue as soon as possible. Solutions for Cloud Integration Cloud Service Integration solutions, also known as iPaaS (for integration Platform-as-a-Service), are a new generation of native Cloud offering 記事を読む

Self-Service is Great for Fro-Yo but is it Right for Integration?

I had cause to visit a self-service frozen yogurt wonder emporium on a recent visit to the U.S. It was delightful and, at first, a tad overwhelming – so many flavors to choose from, so many toppings. Needless to say, I over indulged (goodbye, ideal running weight). Based on the number of similar establishments I saw during the rest of my stay, people seem to like control and convenience of the self-service business model. And, whether you look at ba 記事を読む

Agatha Christie and the Challenge of Cloud Integration

Many classic detective novels progress in a familiar way: the hero, Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple for instance, has an incomplete understanding of how the crime played out and must painstakingly collect information from witnesses - filtering out lies from truth - until the big picture falls into place. In Agatha Christie’s best-selling novels, such as Murder on the Orient Express, this often leads to bringing all the characters together in the 記事を読む