Likelihood to Recommend Well suited: A tiny-mid sized company with no immediate plans of growing the volume of their data processing, that can afford long response times from support. Also it helps if you are not prone to put your hands on Linux and Spark configuration. In fact, it can make things go really faster if you also work with the bundle-in Jupyter. And, if you need to perform some diagnostics and / or administrative tasks, that's full of tools to find an understand the Root Cause. Ideal for non experts. Less appropriate: Big Data company, intense on demand cluster creation, mission critical, costs reduction, latest versions of libraries required, sophisticate customizations required.
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Multiple systems to interface for a task in the company (example: to sell an item your POS must communicate with the inventory software, then to accounting, then to service, etc). When a task must bring information from several external services. When you have to deal with multiple APIs. Not recommended for:
Data transformation (although Talend has a software for that that works with Talend ESB) Read full review Pros Data is presented without interfering others (IT or other dept). Data is managed properly and is available for retrievable any time. Legacy use of CD/DVD and Pendrive are not required. Read full review Up to 900 connectors included in the license with no extra cost Graphical UI to develop the Web Services You can begin with the community version to evaluate or start implementing a very uncomplicated ESB The Talend ESB Admin Control is very powerful with dashboards and reports to keep your IF working smoothly Read full review Cons The only problem I have come across is when loading large volumes of data I sometimes get an error message, I assume this means something is corrupt from within. I would love a way for this to be resolved without having to start over. Read full review You have to log in to each module separately 900 connectors is a lot, but if you have a custom app to interface, you have to develop your connector Read full review Usability Azure HDInsight is usable on the top of Azure Data Lake and gives us the benefit of analyzing large scale data workload in Hadoop. Usability and support from Microsoft are outstanding.
Read full review Support Rating Inexpert, isolated teams... not good for support an excessively complex platform. Lots of weeks or months for a complex problem troubleshoot. Many time lost stuck on MindTree, before the case was finally escalated with Microsoft!
Read full review Alternatives Considered At this time I have not used any other similar products... I am open to it but Azure HDInsight and its components really work well for our organization.
Read full review First, it is a lot of cheaper than the closest competitor. Second, Talend ESB is in the same league as other stronger brands. Third, the functions and modules are a 360 solution to implement an ESB. Talend has a different approach to license since it is based on programmers and run times, not to users of cores.
Read full review Return on Investment ROI is of course there, as no legacy software for data presentation. No manual intervention for data retrieval. Data is available anywhere as requested. Read full review Considerably cheaper than oracle service bus As I said before, you can run a POC using the community version of Talend Studio. Built from Open Source/ well-proven technologies, and a big community to support those technologies. Read full review ScreenShots