1.1 What is Talend Studio?

Talend provides data, application and business process integration solutions that enable
organizations to effectively leverage all of their information assets. Talend unites integration
projects and technologies to accelerate the time-to-value for the business.
Talends flexible architecture easily adapts to future IT platforms, for big data environments.
Talends unified solutions include Data Integration, Data Quality, Master Data Management,
Enterprise Service Bus and Business Process Management. Talends platform is built around a
common set of easy-to-use tools implemented across all products to maximize the skills of
integration teams.
Talend offers a flexible open source based platform, unlike traditional vendors offering closed
and disjointed solutions, supported by a predictable and scalable value-based subscription
model.
Talend Open Studio for Data Integration can be leveraged by an organization for:

synchronization or replication of databases

right-time or batch exchanges of data
ETL (Extract/Transform/Load) for analytics
data migration
complex data transformation and loading
data quality exercises
big data