Talend Spring ’18 (Talend 7.0) was Talend’s biggest release yet. With improvements to Cloud, big data, governance and developer productivity, Talend Spring ’18 is everything you need to manage your company’s data lifecycle. For those that missed the live webinar, you can view it here.

A common practice in any development team is to conduct code reviews, or at least it should be. This is a process where multiple developers inspect written code and discuss its design, implementation, and structure to increase quality and accuracy. Whether you subscribe to the notion of formal reviews or a more lightweight method (such as pair programming), code reviews have proven to be effective at finding defects and/or insufficiencies before they hit production.

In this article, we are going to show how easy it is for Talend to integrate with enterprise password vaults like Cyberark. By doing this no-developer has direct access to sensitive passwords, Talend need not know password during compile(design) time, and password management (change/update password) is done outside of Talend. This saves administrators time as well as improves the security of the overall environment.

In an always-on, competitive business environment, organizations are looking to gain an edge through digital transformation. Subsequently, many companies feel a sense of urgency to transform across all areas of their enterprise—from manufacturing to business operations—in the constant pursuit of continuous innovation and process efficiency.

Digital Transformation, the application of digital capabilities across the organization to uncover new monetization opportunities, is the path that any company wishing to survive in today’s world must follow. Sectors like agriculture, healthcare, banking, retail, and transportation are exploring challenges and opportunities that have come with the digital revolution. As a result of this, new business models have emerged while IT departments have become the focus of digital transformation.

Cloud-based platforms have become a standard component within most enterprise IT infrastructures, however, many organizations find they cannot source everything they need from a single provider. As a result, increasing numbers are adopting a multi-cloud strategy in an effort to better meet their business requirements.

We all know we are at the peak of the hype cycle for…wait for it – Blockchain! We are also already aware of some of the benefits of blockchain - but can blockchain be applicable to traditional data management? Though real-world blockchain implementations in the enterprise are minimal so far, I do believe there is a ton of potential to solve some of the problems that businesses face.

Kubernetes provides the ability to easily deploy and run containerized applications in cloud, on-premise, or hybrid environments. Kubernetes has gained a lot of attention recently and it has become a platform for innovation in containerized applications. One technology which has probably helped Kubernetes grow a lot is Helm, which provides the means to package, install, and manage Kubernetes applications.

Few industries have been revolutionized by big data as much as healthcare. In this episode, we talked about: Gene mapping, Creating new drugs, Real-time health data, Organ donation

With increasing needs for data analytics and ever more stringent laws concerning data security and privacy (looking at you, GDPR), data governance has become a business imperative for any data-driven company. Master Data Management (MDM) is an essential part of any data governance strategy, it is commonly defined as the comprehensive method used to consistently define and manage the critical data of an organization to provide a single point of reference.