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Six Mistakes to Avoid when

Choosing a Cloud Integration Solution

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary ................................................................................. 3

Introduction ........................................................................................ 3Six Mistakes to Avoid ............................................................................... 5

Mistake #1: Mistaking a Point Solution for an Integration Strategy .......... 5

Mistake #2: Believing Cloud Integration Requires Cloud-Specific Products . 6

Mistake #3: Relying on the Big IT One-Stop Shop ............................ 7

Mistake #4: Defaulting to Integration Leaders for a Cloud Solution....... 9

Mistake #5: Underestimating the Importance of Vision ....................... 10Mistake #6: Overlooking Commercial Open Source ............................ 11

Talends Approach to Cloud Integration ...................................................... 13Talends Vision for Cloud Integration ............................................ 13

Talend Cloud: Data Management

and Application Integration for Cloud ............................................ 15

Cloud and Hybrid Deployment Options ........................................... 16

Out-of-the-Box Cloud Integration Support ....................................... 17

Talend for Cloud Integration: Make No Mistake ............................................. 18Talend, Open Core, and Commercial Open Source ............................. 19

Talends Corporate Viability ....................................................... 20

Easy, Affordable Path to Adoption ................................................ 21

Evaluate Talends Integration Solutions ......................................... 21


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Executive Summary

Cloud computing poses new operational data integrationchallenges, and vendors from across the spectrum will be

pushing cloud integration solutionsbut many of these

solutions typically come up short of expectations. This

paper:

Summarizes the new integration requirements broughtby the cloud

Examine six seemingly obvious cloud integrationchoices and explains how they come up short

Lays out Talends approach to data integration for thecloud

Introduction

Cloud computing is a reality that any senior IT manager has

to face up to, both because it has become the buzzword of

the day, and because it refers to several real inflection

points in the evolution of computing. Cloud computing can

deliver computing services in any of the following modes:

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), such as AmazonElastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple

Storage Server (S3)

Platform as a Service (PaaS), such as Amazon ElasticMapReduce, Windows Azure Platform, and Google App

Engine


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Software as a Service, such as SalesForce.com andNetSuite

Public cloud offerings such as Elastic MapReduce have in

turn opened up Big Data options for crunching data on

hundreds or thousands of nodes without a long-term

investment in infrastructure. Organizations of all sizes can

benefitincluding small and medium sized businesses for

which such technology would be out of reach.

However, as organizations adopt cloud-based solutions

alongside their existing on-premise systems, they face the

following realities:

Greater numbers of separate systems (e.g. databasesand applications)

More heterogeneous systems (e.g. databases,services and applications from different vendors,

built on different technologies)

More heterogeneous technologies for developers andadministrators to learn and manage

Multiplying points of integration among such systems Hybrid environments, that include private-cloud,

public-cloud, on-premise components and Software

as a Service

Latency, bandwidth and security issues

Effective integration solutions can make the difference

between just creating a series of new silos and turning

cloud investments into operational advantages. Without


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them, though, the benefits of cloud computing may still be

out of reach.

Established integration vendors, newcomers and cloud

providers themselves have flooded the market with new

integration options aimed at cloud customers. With so

many options, the challenge is to narrow the field.

Six Mistakes to Avoid

One way to find a cloud integration solution that works is

to rule out the ones that dontto look at choices that

seem obvious, but that can go wrong in the long term (or,

for that matter, in the short term).

Mistake #1:

Mistaking a Point Solution for an Integration

Strategy

A cloud vendor will often offer easy-to-implement point

solutions for integrating their products with your on-

premise technology. For example, Salesforce.com and

other SaaS providers offer free or low-cost connectors from

their environment to on-premise and cloud applications and

databases.

No doubt, such targeted offerings can provide effective

tactical solutions for the problems they are intended to

solve. However, they are not in themselves a step towards

or a substitute for an integration strategy, and they can

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add new complexity and moving parts that make an ad hoc

integration environment even harder to manage.

A point solution can certainly fit in around the edges of an

existing integration solution and provide a quick win, but it

means compromises on requirements like modeling,

transformation design, orchestration, traceability and

metadata. It is not a real answer for the long term.

Mistake #2:

Believing Cloud Integration Requires Cloud-

Specific Products

Pure cloud integration vendors position their solutions as

the best way to integrate from on-premise to the cloud, or

among cloud services and applications.

They support cloud-specific integrations out of the box,

and some are delivered as cloud-hosted services

themselves; these features may make initial adoption more

convenient. Some even offer some on-premise integration

functionality.

However, such offerings are not likely to match full-

featured integration tools for the on-premise case. Ongoing

investment in pure cloud integration products leads away

from any holistic integration solution. In this respect, they

are little better than the point solutions from the SaaS and

PaaS vendors.

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Mistake #3:

Relying on the Big IT One-Stop ShopIf there is no magic dust for cloud integration, then the

old-line, established IT vendors with integration offerings

become worth consideringbut this too may not work out

as well as one would hope.

The vendor who wants to sell you their whole stack

possibly including on-premise hardware, virtualization,

databases, applications and middlewareprobably has

integration solutions in their product portfolio that can

cover the whole checklist of functionality, and even

include a cloud integration story.

The fundamental problem with relying on these is an

inherent conflict of interest: selling integration may

primarily be a way to enable a broader strategy of drivingadoption of their software stack and services. Data

integration is a minor driver of revenue for a vendor with

such broad offerings. Integration customers may pay high

licensing costs, and yet find their requirements are only of

secondary concern.

This problem can manifest in many ways:

From a technical standpoint, development resourceswill be focused first on functionality that enables

the rest of the stack. Support for other use cases

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may be compromised, and keeping up with industry

trends is less important.

Sales, consulting and support will most likely beknowledgeable about their own products. When you

need help with a mix of offerings from different

vendors, the required depth may not be there.

The vendor may be less than fully committed tosupporting customers who have chosen third-party

cloud offerings for mission-critical roles.

A secondary issue is that components of these offerings

may not be well integrated. Some vendors fill out their

product portfolios by reselling third party solutions for such

critical functions as data profiling, data quality or master

data management. Integration among these offerings may

be spotty, and product direction may be unclear and

frequently in flux, because of the number of moving parts

and constituencies involved. Companies that have acquired

a full range of such products still may not have built a

unified platform from them.

Finally, long big bang release cycles and roadmap

reversals can make it hard to respond to fast-moving

technology developmentswhich in a space evolving as

quickly as cloud computing is a major liability.


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Mistake #4:

Defaulting to Integration Leaders for a Cloud

Solution

Established leaders in the integration space have moved to

offer cloud-oriented extensions to existing products, or

purely cloud-focused or even cloud-based offerings that

can tie back to their existing solutions for on-premise

integration.

While such vendors may have solid solutions, the chief issue

here is the hidden costs. One cloud computing myth is that

it can replace big-ticket fixed licensing costs for enterprise

hardware and software with usage-based pricing. To be

sure, leading vendors cloud-based or cloud-oriented

integration offerings can offer attractive pricing to get

started.

But in the face of realistic usage volumes and topologies,

pay-as-you-go can still add up. Ongoing expenses based on

growing data volumes and numbers of sources and

connectors become a kind of Data Tax. And when the

limited features of the pay-as-you-go offering are no longer

enough, vendor lock-in means that the only choices are to

pay for the full-featured on-premise offering, or to start

over again with a new vendor.

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Mistake #5:

Underestimating the Importance of VisionBriefly put, vision mattersa companys vision of the

integration market, its vision of cloud computing, and its

vision of itself and its customers. This argument is actually

at the root of all the othersmisalignment between

vendors and customers vision can set the stage for

frustration and failure.

This is especially likely to happen with long-established

vendors, whose vision may be obscured by successes in

the rear-view mirror. For example, a company long

experience serving high-end customers with big-budget

hardware and software and high-touch consulting services

may actually be well-prepared to sell an entire private

cloud, but may not be well-prepared to serve smaller

customers.

Likewise, new entrants coming from the cloud integration

space have probably not defined their corporate mission

around serving the requirements of on-premise data

management. Their roadmap may not take into account

requirements like modeling and lifecycle management,

much less capabilities like data quality or master data

management.

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Mistake #6:

Overlooking Commercial Open Source

For customers looking for relief from the Data Tax,

evaluating open source offerings is a natural choice.

Because open source software is free to deploy, it

eliminates variable costs as environments and data volumes

scale.

Many open source components are widely used as the

foundation of enterprise software and cloud efforts: Linux,

virtualization alternatives such as Xen and KVM, cloud

operating systems and infrastructure layers, databases and

application servers, and the Hadoop framework.

Open source offerings progressively democratize every

market they enter.

A much broader group of developers andorganizations gets access to enterprise-grade

products.

Open source products can develop more quickly inresponse to the communitys changing requirements.

Release cycles are shorter, feedback loops between

users and developers are tighter, and development

of new features and fixes is more transparent.

Open source creates an economy of abundanceadoption costs are so low that effective solutions can

be applied everywhere that they can add value.

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Customers still not used to open source may have

reservations about using free products for mission-

critical roles. To some, open source implies crowd-

sourced best-effort development and support, lack of

polish, and, worst of all, a product roadmap subject to the

whims of the community, or left to follow trends rather

than set them.

Commercial open source vendors like Talend are able to

address such concerns. Innovations in pricing, businessmodel and the companys structure make it possible to run

an open source company as a successful business.

Experimentation, evaluation and incremental adoption are

also easierrather than a long sales cycle with a vendor,

customers are free to simply take the open source versions

of the software and try it. (In fact, Talend, like other open

source vendors, often finds that customers have successful

internal deployments of Talend open source products long

before IT decision-makers have Talend on their radar).


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integration and easy creation of data services (an

enterprise service bus).

Pure cloud deployments will be relatively rare, asmost customers have on-premise investments.

Incremental and experimental adoption will continue

to be very common, and hybrid environments will be

the norm.

Some use cases will require processes run local tothe sources or targetswhether that means running

on premise, or in private or public clouds, in EL-Tmode in a large target database, or distributed

across many on-premise or cloud hosts as in Big Data

use cases. This will require flexible deployment

options.

Effective integration solutions must address a wide range of

requirements:

Metadata and data modeling across multiple sourcesand targets

A range of batch and real-time data delivery options Data transformation capabilities A consistent design and development environment Management of diverse hybrid topologies Centralized administration for deployment and

execution of processes

Life cycle management options


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Talend Cloud: Data Management

and Application Integration for Cloud

Talend Cloud is a comprehensive, unified platform for data

integration, data quality, master data management and

application integration, which serves traditional on-

premise, cloud-to-cloud and hybrid use cases.

All products that constitute the Talend Unified Platform

are cloud ready:

Data Integration: Talend Open Studio and TalendIntegration Suite

Data Quality: Talend Open Profiler and Talend DataQuality

Master Data Management: Talend MDM Enterprise Service Bus: Talend ESB

All of Talends products are built on the foundation of

Talends Unified Platform, with:

A single development environment based on Eclipse A shared metadata repository A common deployment capability A unified runtime environment A common monitoring framework

They offer the benefits that are the hallmark of Talends

solutions:


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Widely used and familiar to developers andadministrators

Consistent across products, and across on-premiseand cloud-based deployment modes

Validated and field-tested through hundreds ofthousands of deployments worldwide

Together, they provide a high-value, comprehensive and

unified data management platform for the cloud, thatseamlessly integrates hybrid deployments of on-premise,

public and private cloud, and SaaS applications.

Cloud and Hybrid Deployment Options

Talend Cloud provides complete deployment flexibility. Any

combination of components - data integration, data

quality, MDM and ESB - can be installed fully in the cloud,fully on premise, or in any needed hybrid combination.

Components can be deployed and run inside anymainstream virtualization solutions.

Components deployed in the cloud fully benefit fromthe flexibility and elasticity of the cloud.

Components communicate using various standardcloud-friendly protocols to ensure the overall

orchestration and integrity of the integration

processes in a secure environment.


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Talends solutions deliver the following benefits when used

in cloud and hybrid deployments:

Elasticity: Talend Cloud is lightweight and easilyembedded into applications, and supports the ability

to expand and contract deployments as required.

Performance: Talends data-oriented integrationservices, when situated in the cloud, can be located

near cloud-based sources or targets as needed to

reduce latency and maximize performance. Ubiquity: Talends support for standard Web services

and REST integration approaches makes resources

easily accessible by myriad platforms and devices.

Extensibility: Talends modular architecture andopen source model allows organizations to add,

modify or remove functionality as requirements

change over time.

Security & reliability: Talends products canmaintain security and reliability of applications down

to the individual message level, allowing

organizations to meet customer SLAs.

Out-of-the-Box Cloud Integration Support

Talend Cloud provides a series of connectors and

components specific to Cloud and SaaS applications and

technologies. Out of the box, Talend includes over 500

components for all IT technologies such as databases,

packaged applications. Cloud-specific connectors include:


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Salesforce.com NetSuite SugarCRM BIRT OnDemand Marketo Amazon RDS Amazon S3 Database.com Google Applications Google Analytics Twitter Hadoop

These provide native connectivity and support for platform-

specific integration operations, encapsulating any complex,

vendor-specific APIs. There is no per-connector cost - as

with other Talend connectors, everything is included.

New and enhanced connectors and components are added

on a regular basis by Talends R&D organization and by

open source community members. The Talend Exchange

provides the latest connectors, which can be downloaded

and installed directly from within the Talend Studio.

Talend for Cloud Integration: Make No Mistake

Talends approach to commercial open source, its

resources, its customers and its backers prove it can meet


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your comprehensive integration needs, including cloud

integration, now and for the long term.

Talend, Open Core, and Commercial Open

Source

Talends Open Core model is based on offering a core open

source product line as well as a line of commercial

extensions to these products, provided as a commercial

subscription.

The open source editions contain all essentialfunctionality for ready production deploymentsfor

example, Talend Open Studio includes all the

connectors and transformations available with the

Talend Integration Suite product. Even cloud

integration functionality is available in Talend Open

Studio. Pricing on Talends integration offerings are not

dependent on metrics such as number of sources,

variety of connectors, or number of hosts running

the software. For example, Talend Integration

Suites price is based on the number of developers

using the product. This means that pricing is

predictable, even in elastic cloud deployments.

With input from the community, Talends productmanagement drive the development of Talend

products. Community members help setting the

directions but Talend has control over the innovation

and consistency of the product, and moves quickly to


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address evolving markets like cloud integration with

disruptive, democratizing innovations in technology

and business.

Professional support, services and training areavailable globally from Talend and partners. Open

source products are supported through Talends

active discussion forums, where Talend employees

and the Talend user community actively participate

daily. Professional support is included with the

product subscriptions, and can also be purchased forthe open source products.

Talends Corporate Viability

Talend has become the recognized market leader in open

source integration. Talend brings the democratizing force

of open source to the integration market, while making

sure that its offerings can meet the needs of the most

demanding enterprise customers.

Talend has a fast-growing customer base (over 2500paying customers, and over 15 million product

downloads), spanning all geographies, multiple

industries and companies large and small.

Talend has attracted several rounds of venturefunding from leading technology investors, including

Silver Lake Sumeru, Balderton Capital, and Idinvest

Partners, and used them to fuel growth and make

strategic acquisitions.


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Talend has the resources and track record to meet

customers integration needs now and for the long term.

Easy, Affordable Path to Adoption

Talends open core model, versatile technology and

flexible, affordable subscription options mean that you can

incrementally adopt Talend as you extend your

environment with cloud-based elements, rather than going

for some big-bang redesign of your entire integration

landscape.

You can start with individual Talend products when and

where your business needs dictate and when time-to-value

makes sense, but know that whatever direction you take,

Talend will have the integration capabilities you need.

Evaluate Talends Integration Solutions

When you are ready to see how Talends integration

solutions can fit your specific plans for adopting cloud

computing, visit http://www.talend.com/cloud to find out

more.

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