Hi, my name is Dylan Jones.

I am the founder of Data Quality Pro.com and Data Migration Pro.com, free professional communities and education resources dedicated to data quality and data migration professionals.

The sites are for people who wish to take their career or business to the next level so you will find everything from career advice to expert articles and tutorials on all range of data quality and data migration subjects.

On Data Quality Pro for example we have recently released a free 21-page tutorial on how to use Talend Open Profiler.

We've also given away a free data quality pattern analyser, a version for Oracle (which is great for working with Open Profiler) and the other version is for Microsoft Access.

You can get the free Talend Open Profiler tutorial and Data Quality Pro data quality tools here:

• Talend Open Profiler Tutorial: http://www.dataqualitypro.com/data-profiling-tutorial
• Data Quality Pattern Analyser for MS-Access: http://www.dataqualitypro.com/pattern-analyser-access
• Data Quality Pattern Analyser for Oracle: http://www.dataqualitypro.com/pattern-analyser-oracle

This means you now have a free toolkit to discover and manage defective data in your data management projects.

I must say, I've really been impressed with the direction Talend have taken with Open Profiler.

For such a young product it has a wide variety of beneficial features that will support anyone undertaking data initiatives such as data integration, business intelligence, data quality improvement or data migration.

Data profiling is one of the pillars of effective data quality management. By using the Talend Open Profiler in a structured approach that we introduce in the first tutorial (further tutorials to follow), you are getting a huge amount of value for what is essentially a free data quality tool.

I would really welcome your views on what data quality topics or tutorials you would like to see in our communities and I'll do my best to get them published.

Please contact me if you have any suggestions (click here)

Thank you,
Dylan

Founder & Editor

Data Quality Pro: http://www.dataqualitypro.com

Data Migration Pro: http://www.datamigrationpro.com

My name is Volker, I live in Germany and work in the IT-department of a financial institute.

Even if we don't use Talend Open Studio in our company I was so impressed with the functionalities it offers that I decided to support the community about one year ago.

What is so special about Talend Open Studio that I took this decision to support it?

For years now, I've been working at improving my department's development processes and, doing this, I've been dealing with many different issues.

For example:

Imagine you have a bug tracking database, a list of requirements from your sponsor (they often use "state of the art" tools like Excel) and a list of planned releases on a web page. Now you want to figure out which requirement belongs to which release and which bugs are associated with them. So just connect the different systems and documents, do some magic and have fun with your new, valorized data. By the way, the magic is done by Talend Open Studio...

And why Talend Open Studio and nothing else?

I often need to write scripts for parsing, converting, importing and exporting tasks, I'd say, even more often than the number of components in Talend Open Studio (and there are a lot).

I obviously thought about creating a generic system or framework that would do the job, but I didn't quite find the time for it. And I found out that many ideas I've had about this, were actually already offered in Talend Open Studio. So why would I reinvent the wheel again?

Talend Open Studio has many features that make it very flexible and hence interesting:

• It is scalable very easily with your own components
• The functions are not reduced to "simple ETL", you can also handle files, send mail, execute dynamic system commands and much more
• Talend Open Studio is a code generator, you don't have to care about specific servers or heavyweight runtimes.
• All this is hidden behind an intuitive GUI which also offers enhanced documentation, meta-management and different runtime contexts.

Last but not least, when I am not working at the office, or giving you some advice in the talend forums I'm very likely to spend time with my wife and our two daughters. And although I only mentioned them now, they come first in my life.

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See you!
Volker

My name is Olivier and I'm an engineering student.
Last year, I did an internship with a service provider company where I had to analyse different Open Source Business Intelligence tools including Talend Open Studio.

Since this internship took place, I've used Talend Open Studio for everything! I use it for professional tasks: for data migration and ETL; but also for personal project like: creating a personal feed reader, sending mail/SMS regularly, managing some contact lists, sharing some files automatically with friends.

I'm fond of Talend because it seems to have unlimited functionalities. I've spent the last two months developing new components and, with a minimum knowledge of java, I was able to add new functionalities, to help my clients and to perform my own projects.

I've spent a lot of time asking and answering questions in the forum. I think the Talend Community is one of the most important things for users and developers. It's comforting to know that someone certainly knows the answer to my question.
I hope that I will be able to keep helping you!

You can find in the Ecosystem, some components I developed for the Talend Community:

• tFileOutputPDF
• tJPGMetadata
• tBarChart
• tSendSMS
• tPieChart

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And if you have time, take a look at my blog (FR): http://blog.ece.fr/olivier_de_rochebouet

Olivier de R. / Proxiad www.proxiad.com