You are allowed to access Talend Activity Monitoring Console from your Talend Studio and from the Talend Administration Center Web application. Integration Actions are divided into standard types: Source Integration Action, Step Integration Action, Target Integration Action and a single Job. The tAction components are used to do different operations on data. Talend provides you with a sample project which includes the following out-of-the-box items you can import in the Studio: Integration Actions, context parameters and a subjob which creates log messages and collects logs and exceptions in Integration Actions. You learn how to split the royalties Job into Integration Actions, which are functional Jobs packaged for the Talend Integration Cloud web application. Integration Actions are Jobs which include tAction components. You publish these Integration Actions to the Cloud to allow web users to build Flows using one, some or all of your published Actions. Talend Integration Cloud consists of:The Talend Integration Cloud web application which enables data and file transfer, data integration and access to shared data sources for web users.Talend Studio which is plugged into the Talend Integration Cloud web application for developers to publish Jobs and Integration Actions to the Cloud. You can use any integration Job created in the Studio in the Talend Integration Cloud web application to automate data transformation and data exchange in the Cloud. To allow web users in your organization to work with the Actions you design in Talend Studio, you must publish the Job or Actions you create to the Talend Integration Cloud web application. Once you have created and tested your Flow, you are ready to go live. Before going live, you check your setup is correct: Is the file stored on the Dropbox at the correct location? Is the data successfully transferred from the downloaded file for further processing? Are royalty records separated from the other records? Last but not least: Are the royalties uploaded to Dropbox? In Talend Integration Cloud, you can import preconfigured Sample Flows with corresponding Integration Actions from the Home page. Sample Flows are available to help you get started with the Talend Integration Cloud web application and see what types of operations you can perform. For more information on the available Samples, see the Talend Integration Cloud Cookbooks. Talend Integration Cloud is an integration solution delivered as a cloud service which enables data and file transfer, data integration and access to shared data sources. It consists of Talend Studio and the Talend Integration Cloud web application. Context parameters are parameters you can pass to the Integration Action at runtime by using context variables. Context variables are values you can change between different environments, development and production for example, or you can change as your environment changes such as passwords, ports and so on. You can create Jobs to test Integration Actions during development to make sure they function as expected before you published them to Talend Integration Cloud web application or to the Talend Exchange. In the Studio, you can design your Integration Action to allow the users of the Talend Integration Cloud web application to add external files and directories necessary to the execution of the Action or Flow. You can design your Integration Action in the Studio to allow the use of a temporary folder during Flow execution in Talend Integration Cloud web application. The temporary folder is available to all Integration Actions used in a Flow in the web application. You can define a webhook context parameter in the Source Integration Action to allow the web user to generate unique URLs of Flows from the web application. These URLs allow external applications (Salesforce, Box, Dropbox and so on) to trigger the execution of a Flow on any data change. Context parameters are parameters you can pass to the Integration Action at runtime by using context variables. You can add metadata and/or an icon of your choice to Integration Actions to have more readable Flows in the Cloud. From the Operations page, you are able to visualize, filter and analyze the activity of your Flows in real time. It allows you to access the chronology of Flow executions and gathers information about execution history, status (successful, problematic or failed Flows), duration and logs. Talend Integration Cloud offers you the possibility to perform advanced Big Data operations that allows you to access, load, read large and complex data sets using advanced databases and technologies such as HDFS, HBase, Hive or MongoDB. To be able to use a connection to an application such as Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. in your Flows, you need to create the connection either from the Flow Builder or the Manage pages of the Talend Integration Cloud web application and/or from the Studio. For more information on how to create a connection from the Studio, see the Talend Studio Developer Guide. To be able to create a Flow Template, you need to create a Flow and save it as a Flow template. This Flow Template is a generic Flow in which some Actions or parameters need to be updated before it can be used. Once created, this Flow Template can be reused by other users that want to address the same use case. Talend Integration Cloud offers you the possibility to perform advanced operations that allows you to manage (create, update, delete, search, etc.) data schemas on several databases such as Amazon MySQL, MongoDB, Redshift or other database systems. Talend Integration Cloud offers you the possibility to perform advanced Data Quality operations that allows you to profile, cleanse and transform your data according to your needs. Some Actions in Talend Integration Cloud offer you the possibility to set user-defined schema, that is to say to edit the schema along the Flow. In these Actions, options are provided in the Talend Integration Cloud interface that allow you to add and map input and output columns according to your needs. From the Operations page of the Talend Integration Cloud web application, you have the possibility to create Execution plans that allow you to outline the dependencies among different Flows. From this page, you can define a Flow execution plan and then add different Flows to this plan in a specific order. To be able to test or execute your Flow, you need to select the runtime in which it will be executed from the Flow Builder page of the Talend Integration Cloud web application. From the Operations page of the Talend Integration Cloud web application, you can create Execution plans that are dedicated to the way you want to handle failed executions. This type of Execution Plan is to be nested within another Execution Plan as a failure handler. Talend Integration Cloud offers you the possibility to perform advanced operations that allows you to upload, download, list and manage files located on several types of file systems such as FTP, HDFS or cloud applications. From the Flow details page, you are able to visualize and download the logs corresponding to the Flow you have previously designed and executed. These logs gather business and technical information about the execution of Flows. You can use these logs to analyze, debug your Flows or send them to the Support for additional assistance. Talend Integration Cloud offers an advanced mapping module, the Mapper, that allows you to map the input and output schemas of your Actions and to use advanced functions to process data at the same time. To be able to run Flows on a Remote Engine, an Admin user must have previously added it and paired it with Talend Integration Cloud using a pre-authorized key. The Remote Engine allows you to access data in on-premises applications and databases, and ensures secure outbound communications between the cloud and the Remote Engine as data is not staged in Talend Integration Cloud. Talend Integration Cloud offers you the possibility to perform advanced mapping and transformations using Actions with a tHMap component and related Talend Data Mapper map definitions. These advanced tools help you simplify the integration of complex data by mapping across any data formats including transformations between Java and complex XML data, JSON, flat files or EDI applications. If you migrate to a newer version of Talend Integration Cloud, you might need to upgrade the Actions of your Flow to be able to test or execute it again. To do so, you need to replace the outdated Action with a new one that has been published from the current Talend Studio or that you can directly retrieve from Talend Exchange on the Flow Builder page. A Remote Engine Cluster is a group of Remote Engines with failover capabilities. When you execute a Flow on such cluster, and if some engines of the cluster are down or temporarily unavailable, the execution request will be sent to the engine of the cluster that is available. Talend Data Stewardship Console enables you to create one or multiple separate new tasks after choosing the source record(s) you want to include in the new task(s). If you have chosen to install Talend Data Stewardship Console when installing the MDM server, the data stewardship console will be integrated in Talend MDM Web User Interface. This allows you to access the console through the Data Stewardship menu in the Govern area of the Menu panel. Talend provides a Big Data demo project that includes a number of easy-to-use sample Jobs. You can import this demo project into your Talend studio to help familiarize yourself with Talend studio and understand the various features and functions of Talend components. A Storm Job is designed the same way as any other Talend Job but using the dedicated Storm interface and Storm components. Likewise, you need to follow a simple template to use the components. You can install the MDM server using a graphical installer. By default, you create and manage users in MDM from within the Talend MDM Web User Interface. However, it is also possible to configure MDM to authenticate MDM users via Talend Administration Center or to integrate an existing directory of users using the LDAP protocol, which avoids the need to create a new set of users from scratch and minimises maintenance tasks relating to user management by centralizing them in a single place. MDM system objects, master data records and staging data records (if any) are stored in different databases. Depending on your installation, these may be relational or XML databases, or a combination of the two (although XML database support is now deprecated). You can export your data from an XML database and reimport it in a relational database, or you can export your data from one relational database and migrate it to another relational database. Talend MDM Web User Interface allows you to access the specified data container and data model, so that you can query, extract and edit master data. In Talend MDM Web User Interface, the Master Data Browser and Staging Data Browser menus allow you to search and browse master data records and staging data records pertaining to a specific entity in the data container selected. You can also save and reuse your search criteria. In Talend MDM Web User Interface, the Master Data Browser menu and the Staging Data Browser menu allow you to manage the master data records and staging data records pertaining to a specific entity in the selected data container. In Talend MDM Web User Interface, the [Journal] page provides a list of log files with descriptions of every event associated with each data record in the MDM hub. This page is useful if you want to search for changes based on the data model, source, operation type or operation time, rather than by a specific data record, for example. Talend MDM implementations where master data records are stored in a SQL database include a Staging Area in which data is stored pending validation. This Staging Area is a mirror of the SQL storage area containing the master data records, but with fewer constraints in its schema. In the Talend products, project sources management is mainly handled by Subversion (SVN) and or GIT, which are complex version control systems that enable users to have different copies of the same project in different branches and tags. Hadoop supports many different file compression formats that bring benefits such as reducing the space required to store files and speeding up data transfer. In a Job, you can directly deal with compressed files using the file system related components such as tHDFSInput or tFileInputDelimited. In the Repository tree view, the Hadoop cluster node in the Metadata folder groups under it the metadata of the connections to the Hadoop elements such as HDFS, Hive or HBase. It allows you to centralize the connection properties you set for a given Hadoop distribution and then to reuse those properties to create separate connections to each Hadoop element. In the Repository tree view, the NoSQL Connections node in the Metadata folder groups the metadata of the connections to NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, MongoDB, and Neo4j. It allows you to centralize the connection properties you set and then to reuse them in your Job designs that involve NoSQL database components - Cassandra, MongoDB, and Neo4j components. Using components created or adjusted for MapReduce, a Talend MapReduce Job generates native MapReduce code and is able to perform data transformation directly on a Hadoop cluster. Talend Oozie allows you to schedule executions of Jobs you have designed with the Studio. Using the Spark-specific components, a Talend Spark Job makes use of the Spark framework to process RDDs (Resilient Distributed Datasets) on top of a given Spark cluster. XStream provides a framework for sharing real-time data changes with outstanding performance and usability between Oracle databases and other systems such as non-Oracle databases and third party software applications. XStream consists of two major features: XStream Out and XStream In. Numeric routines allow you to return whole or decimal numbers in order to use them as settings in one or more Job components. To add numeric IDs, for instance. In the AS/400 Redo/Archive log mode, the Studio runs its AS/400-dedicated RUNCDC program to read and analyze journals and receivers, extract change information from the source table, update the CDC table (the change table) and make queries on the changes. Both the long name and the short name of a source table are used but only the short name is used to name the CDC table. In Talend ESB Studio, a Job or a subjob is composed of a group of components logically linked to one another via connections. You need to use the connections to define how the components in use are coordinated. This section will describe the types of connections and their related settings. The Parallelization vertical tab allows you to configure parameters for partitioning a data flow into multiple threads, so as to handle those threads in parallel for better performance. The options that appear in this tab vary depending on the sequence of the row connection in the flow. In addition, different icons will appear in the row connection according to the options you selected. The Multi thread execution feature allows you to run mutliple Subjobs that are active in the workspace in parallel. A parallelization-enabled Iterate connection allows the component that receives threads from the connection to read those threads in parallel. The Studio uses the tParallelize component to orchestrate the parallel executions of Subjobs that are active within a Job. Parallel data writing refers to the concept of speeding-up the execution of a Job by dividing the data flow into multiple fragments that can be written simultaneously. In Talend Studio, parallelization of data flows means to partition an input data flow of a Subjob into parallel processes and to simultaneously execute them, so as to gain better performance. These processes are executed always in a same machine. In the Integration perspective of Talend Studio, you can configure the Runtime settings of a Service, which will be applied when the service is deployed in the Runtime container. The match analysis enables you to compare a set of columns in databases or in delimited files and create groups of similar records using blocking and matching keys and/or survivorship rules. You can import match rules from the studio repository and use them in the match editor to test them on your data. You can also export match rules from the match editor and save them in the studio repository. In data quality, match rules are used to compare a set of columns and create groups of similar records using blocking and matching keys and/or survivorship functions. You can use context variables in the report editor to define the datamart connection where to store report results. You can use context variables in the analysis editor to filter the data on which to run the analysis, or to decide the number of concurrent connections to the database allowed by the analysis. You can define context variables from the Profiling perspective to connect to data sources and decide to run an analysis with a specific context. Talend Studio allows you to persist master data in one or several containers within a single MDM Hub. Data containers are then "partitioned" to help you organize the master data, typically by domains. Data models are the central component of Talend MDM. They only define the master entities you want to manage while master data records themselves are stored in data containers. In MDM, match rules are used to decide whether two or more data records match, and how to handle them if they do. The MDM Repository enables you to work with your objects, including data models, jobs, processes, and stored procedures, in a repository that is separate from the MDM Server database. mdm_context is a Java object that acts as the "wire" connecting the MDM Server and the workflow engine. It contains the Update report and the full record in XML format, and can be used with a complete set of methods to access individual elements for each XPath in order to get/set values, resolve a foreign key, check workflow access rights, perform lookups in MDM and more. It is an essential element for triggering a workflow process from within MDM and must be included in every workflow. Clustering is the process of grouping a set of similar physical systems (often servers). In the ESB Conductor page of Talend Administration Center, an execution task gathers the deployment and execution phases of Services, Routes, data service Jobs and other generic OSGi features. You can launch this task, from this single web-based application. In the ESB Conductor page of Talend Administration Center, a profile gathers resources and/or configurations that you can apply throughout all your Talend Runtimes. Talend Administration Center allows you to add servers hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance, to schedule Job executions on this instance and to manage the instance start-up and shutdown. In the Big Data Streaming page of Talend Administration Center, an execution task gathers the script generation, deployment and execution phases of Big Data Streaming Jobs, that is to say, the Spark Streaming Jobs and the Storm Jobs. You can launch this task, from this single web-based application. In the Job Conductor page of Talend Administration Center, an execution task gathers the script generation, deployment and execution phases of data integration Jobs. You can launch this task, from this single web-based application, using a simple or a CRON trigger. The Timeline page allows you to access the chronology of task executions and provides you with information updated in real time. From Talend Administration Center, you can access an extended event logging module. This Logging page allows you to collect and classify time-stamped logs related to Data Integration, ESB or MDM events and make them easy to explore. On the Backup page, you can schedule the backup of your databases (administration center database, Audit database, Talend Activity Monitoring Console database, etc.) and SVN repositories. From the User Groups page of Talend Administration Center, you can organize existing users in groups based on their type (Data Integration/ESB, Data Quality, Master Data Management, Data Preparation, Data Stewradship). Once created, these groups can be assigned to projects of the same type. Talend Administration Center provides the Real time statistics module which allows you to view the task execution statistics directly in the Administration Center.