Talend ETL with SAP

Sindhu Shree
Posted by Sindhu Shree June 22, 2022

Talend ETL with SAP

 

Talend is an ELT tool used for Data Integration. Software solutions like data preparation, data quality, data integration, application integration, data management and big data are provided by the tool. Talend is a collection of all the products for the services mentioned above. Among the various products that Talend offers, these are a few: Talend Data Quality, Talend Data Integration, Talend Data Preparation, Talend Cloud, Talend Big Data, Talend Master Data Management (MDM), Talend Data Services Platform, Talend Metadata Manager, Talend Data Fabric, Talend Platforms, Talend Enterprise and Talend Open Studio.

In order to draw efficient decisions, an organization needs to assemble the data from all or required data sources. Not just assembling, the data needs to be unified in a convenient way, in a format that aids in quicker analysis. This process of Data Integration calls for the need of tools like Talend. Talend is one of the leading tools in the industry to provide real-time decisions that are more data driven. It has a huge capacity of processing 1 TB of data in real-time, 1000 data integration jobs are executed, and the data warehouse is updated every 5 minutes. All this leads to the quicker analysis of the trend from the customer data.

Few of the efficient features that Talend provides are:

  1. Enables faster development and deployment as majority of the tasks are automated.
  2. The products of Talend are open sourced, which makes it budget friendly.
  3. All the products under one roof makes it a go-to solution for the entire needs of the organization.
  4. The built-in connectors, features for data integration and synchronization, automatically converting jobs to Java code makes it more reliable.
  5. Connections can be established across multiple data sources like RDBMS, SaaS, and also with systems like SAP, CRM and Dropbox.
  6. The Talend Open Studio is one of the best ELT tools used for data integration. It is a developer tool that allows one to drag and drop components to create and run jobs.
  7. Talend also provides real time statistics while analyzing the data and thus more accurate and quick results can be obtained.
  8. Faster designing, efficient management, easy scalability, early cleansing, better collaboration, Agile Integration are few of the other key features to prefer Talend as an ELT tool.

 

A well-established fact is that SAP is a leading provider of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software in the industry. SAP stands for Systems, Applications and Products. Talend acts as a data integration tool by integrating data from various systems and moving them into data warehouses. Let’s explore how SAP can be used to achieve the same.

SAP is primarily used as an ERP software. Talend in SAP helps to integrate data between SAP systems and other business-critical applications.

The advantages in integrating them are as below:

  1. Data in any format, coming from any source can be integrated.
  2. Data transformation to and from any SAP supported or non-SAP system can be performed easily. Also, data manipulation activities like duplication or aggregation can be performed as well.
  3. Data can be read from an SAP environment, which includes Tables or BAPIs.

 

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