Become a Talend Ambassador
Talend announces the Second Talend Awards! In the first edition, a jury comprised of members of Talend’s technical and marketing divisions and senior management, designated winners in two categories, “Best Technical Use” and “Best Return on Investment/Best Business Gain”. Please, read the press release announcing the Talend Awards winner...
2 commentsFree, Dual Licensing, Massviolence, logo…
Below, 6 articles from the page bookmarks published in April and May 2008. Un logiciel du « domaine public » est-il un logiciel libre ? Utilisé par Firefox, Google Gears ou Adobe, le moteur de base de données SQLite rencontre un grand succès actuellement notamment pour ses capacités à travailler hors connexion. Or il se trouve que SQ...
0 commentMarch 2008: Talend in the Press
This last month, severals interesting articles appeared in the web, talking about Talend and/or Open Source. The 15 Open Source Business Influencers [Source: http://www.talend.com] eWeek.com recently published their list of the people driving the commercial open source IT revolution. Next to icons such as Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, o...
0 commentAn alternative to Google Analytics
Piwik is an Open Source solution to measure your website audience, that is a true alternative to Google Analytics and Xiti! One first big difference is that contrary to the two latter Piwik keeps your visitors’ data on your own server. That means you can be assured that nobody else gets access to them! It is undoubtedly a good point as tracking a...
3 commentsNew release Talend Open Studio 2.3, Training on Talend Open Studio updated
Talend Open Studio v2.3.1 has just been released. Please download it now and check all that this new release has to offer! What's New? Reinforcement of Web Services architecture, with the full support of the WSDL standard, numerous new components and connectors: Microsoft Dynamics, Mondrian, Palo, Weka, Vertica, iReports, etc. Support ...
0 commentMagic Quadrant for Business Intelligence
The analyst Gartner published a few days ago the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence 2008. The graph presents a global view of Gartner's opinion about the main software vendors that should be considered by organizations seeking to develop business intelligence (BI) applications. Buyers should evaluate vendors in 2 directions: Ability to Ex...
0 commentTraining as an indicator
To define the public interest in different softwares, most studies are based on the financial result of their respective providers. The costs for installation, training, expertise and technical support are added to that of the licenses. In the Open Source market, the licences aren't linked to a cost. The autonomy of users and the existence of r...
1 commentTalend Awards: Win the latest iPod Touch!
This week Talend initiate a challenge rewarding the users of our data integration solutions: the Talend Awards. The goal of the Talend Awards is to reward interesting and high performance projects developed by Talend users, and to emphasize the gains they achieve. Talend Awards will be awarded in three categories: “best technical prowess”, ...
2 commentsFree collaborative tools for elearning
There are more and more collaborative services that claim to be web2.0 and dedicated to individuals and small companies. Here are four of them: free and with similar features to the most famous virtual classes. SparkAngels SparkAngels claims to be the first online coaching service. It is a collaborative tool limited to two people: a user and ...
2 commentsPublication of presentations at distance
Callexia is a software that allows to publish real-time powerpoint presentations at distance. That is once again to synchronize your screen and that of one or more participants. The presentation at distance often requires a phone call or even an audioconference organization. Useful in the case of prospection, support or project management. Here ...
0 commentTalend Integration Suite is out!
Talend Open Studio is distributed for free under GPL2 License by the company Talend. It enables to generate Perl or Java scripts dedicated to the data integration. Talend Integration Suite is the first Open Source enterprise data integration solution, designed to support multi-user development, and to scale to the highest levels of data ...
0 commentWho uses the Talend solutions?
The HomePage of talend.com is updated. An animation displays which users and partners use the Talend solutions! See Also: http://www.talend.com/.../reference.php http://www.talend.com/partners/ ...
0 commentBrowse a website offline
I have been using HTTrack for 7 years now. It is an offline browser utility, allowing you to download a website from the internet to a local directory, one of the first GPL sofwares I got to know. HTTrack works with Windows and Linux. You can both launch it through a graphical wizard or with a command line version. Default parameters allow powe...
4 commentsTalend On Demand: « Software as a Service »
Talend Open Studio enables to generate Perl or Java scripts dedicated to the data integration. Talend Open Studio will store the development project directly on your hard drive. It enables the export and the import to differents sticks that are part of the project: it makes it possible for several users to collaborate. Yet for further true collabor...
0 commentOpen Source software: a professional source code editor
To develop Talend Open Studio, we are using Eclipse. If you are looking for a lighter solution to edit faster a file on Windows, this article is for you! Crimson Editor is a professional source code editor for Windows. More source code editors are available, but this software is perhaps the only open source solution to include all essential func...
1 commentDokeos: an open source & elearning solution
Dokeos is a training solution that is available in open source - Learning Management System. Dokeos also is the name for the related company. They offer among others a functionality for a virtual classroom they host... and rent. Yet it is possible to install the plugin (in free licence too) if you wish to get a Flash server. I've been watching ...
13 commentsA free platform of synchronous collaboration!
http://vyew.com is a free synchronous collaboration. Once you registered, you can get access to a personal space where you can manage appointments. Except for the Flash plugin, there is no technical installation required. The platform allows to benefit from various solutions like elearning. No video but the main functionalities for a virtual class...
0 commentOpenWengo: phone via Internet
Wengo is a phone operator via Internet, a service that uses VoIP. Based on an open source software and/or a "box", the operator offers an unlimited phone solution at a very small price: 7€ a month. You can use it with a phone number or a pseudo. The WengoPhone software offers functionalities of communicating tools compatible with many other me...
1 commentLet me introduce WAMP5!
LAMP is an acronym often associated to the Web applications… because it makes it possible to publish contents on the web while using free tools. But what does LAMP mean? Linux: operating system (more precisely the free data-processing core) Apache: free server HTTP (to host a website) Mysql: free server of databases Php (or Perl): fr...
0 commentFor once, at the back of the room…
It is several weeks since the Talend Open Studio's training integrated the innovations of the v2 - out since April 23. The training documents are up to date, our partners' training centers are integrating it gradually and I'm taking part in the first training session on that new version as an observer. Today, I am in Anaska, a training center d...
1 commentTalend Open Studio v2.0 is out now!
The Talend Open Studio v2.0 is now avalaible on www.talend.com. Regular comments from Talend community users made it possible to understand the needs of the firms and to anticipate the evolution of the software. On the menu of the v2.0 : The generation of scripts in Java or Perl language. Until now scripts were written solely in Perl languag...
0 commentTraining / Open source software
Through the past years I was experimented solely in proprietary software. Several months have passed since I started working on Talend Open Studio through developing and now training. Here are my observations. Cooperation between the R&D team and the Training team It is much easier when as part of the Training team you truly cooperate wit...
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