Talend Data Integration Basics

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Talend Studio for Data Integration dramatically improves the efficiency of data integration Job design through an easy-to-use graphical development environment. With integrated connectors to source and target systems, it enables rapid deployment and reduces maintenance costs. It supports all types of data integration, migration, and synchronization.

 

This learning plan helps you use Talend Studio for Data Integration as quickly as possible. It focuses on the basic capabilities of Studio and how you can use it to build reliable, maintainable data integration tasks that solve practical problems, including extracting data from common database and file formats, transforming it, and integrating it into targets.

 

This learning plan serves as a prerequisite for many other Talend courses, and the skills learned apply to most products.

 

Duration: 2 days (14 hours)

 

Target audience: Anyone who wants to use Talend Studio to perform data integration tasks: software developers and development managers

 

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of computing, including familiarity with Java or another programming language, SQL, and general database concepts

 

Badge: Complete this learning plan to earn the Talend Data Integration Developer Practitioner badge. To know more about the criteria to earn this badge, refer to the Talend Academy Badging Program page.

 

Learning objectives: After completing this learning plan, you will be able to:

  • Create a project

  • Create and run a Job that reads, converts, and writes data

  • Merge data from several sources within a Job

  • Save a schema for repeated use

  • Create and use metadata and context variables within Jobs

  • Connect to, read from, and write to a database from a Job

  • Access a web service from a Job

  • Work with master Jobs and subJobs

  • Build, export, and test-run Jobs outside Studio

  • Implement basic error-handling techniques

  • Use best practices for Job and component naming, hints, and documentation

 

Training modules: To complete the learning plan, take the following training modules: