• The Four Hundred
  • Subscribe
  • Media Kit
  • Contributors
  • About Us
  • Contact
Menu
  • The Four Hundred
  • Subscribe
  • Media Kit
  • Contributors
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Talend Helps British Housing Authority Integrate Windows and i5/OS Data

    September 29, 2009 Alex Woodie

    The Accent Group, a British association that provides housing to more than 50,000 residents, is successfully using Talend‘s open-source tools to solve data integration issues stemming from its use of disparate iSeries and Windows servers, Talend announced last week.

    The Accent Group is a registered social landlord that provides nearly 20,000 homes across the UK through its three registered social landlords, called Accent Foundation, Accent Nene, and Accent Peerless.

    The organization, which is based in Shipley, West Yorkshire, relies on a mix of IBM iSeries and Windows servers to keep track of business and to meet regulatory obligations. However, the use of different systems and data warehousing platforms has caused its share of headaches for the group, which funds a standing data integration project to deal with the differences in data types and their underlying incompatibilities.

    Before implementing the Talend Integration Suite, it would take up to a month to create reports required by the Tenant Services Authority and the National Register of Social Housing, says Francois Mero, general manager of Talend’s EMEA business unit.

    Following the implementation of the product–commonly referred to as an extract, transform, and load (ETL) tool–the same work could be completed in a day. That has made the job of Andy Gowdy, Accent’s legacy system manager, much easier.

    “Talend Integration Suite will provide Accent Group with one common tool for managing its variety of disparate systems, such as its anti-social management system, or its rent collection application,” Gowdy states in a press release.

    A major selling point for Accent was that Talend is open source, “meaning that it can integrate with our IBM iSeries legacy systems and different platforms,” Gowdy says. “It can also extract data from any file format and at a dramatically lower cost than proprietary software.”

    Talend–which develops core ETL functionality using the open source method but also sells licensees to higher-end versions of the software, as well as services–introduced support for i5/OS about two years ago. Since then, the software has been deployed in a handful of i OS shops.

    Talend’s product also provides ETL functionality for the Smart i, a pre-packaged business intelligence bundle based on IBM‘s DB2 Web Query software, and put together by Key Information Systems and Systech.

    RELATED STORIES

    Talend Goes Real Time with Data Integration Software

    Talend Says Its Open Source Approach for Integration Tools Has Been Validated

    A Bumblebee for BI–Now That’s Just ‘Smart’

    Talend Adds i5/OS Support to Open Source ETL Tool



                         Post this story to del.icio.us
                   Post this story to Digg
        Post this story to Slashdot

    Share this:

    • Reddit
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Email

    Tags:

    Sponsored by
    Midrange Dynamics North America

    With MDRapid, you can drastically reduce application downtime from hours to minutes. Deploying database changes quickly, even for multi-million and multi-billion record files, MDRapid is easy to integrate into day-to-day operations, allowing change and innovation to be continuous while reducing major business risks.

    Learn more.

    Share this:

    • Reddit
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Email

    Sponsored Links

    System i Developer:  RPG & DB2 Summit in Minneapolis, October 13-15; 3 days of serious training
    Manta Technologies:  Fall Sale on i training courses! Order by October 15 and SAVE 25%
    Halcyon Software:  Automated operations software for IBM i i5/OS - for as little as $25 a day!

    IT Jungle Store Top Book Picks

    Easy Steps to Internet Programming for AS/400, iSeries, and System i: List Price, $49.95
    The iSeries Express Web Implementer's Guide: List Price, $49.95
    The System i RPG & RPG IV Tutorial and Lab Exercises: List Price, $59.95
    The System i Pocket RPG & RPG IV Guide: List Price, $69.95
    The iSeries Pocket Database Guide: List Price, $59.00
    The iSeries Pocket SQL Guide: List Price, $59.00
    The iSeries Pocket Query Guide: List Price, $49.00
    The iSeries Pocket WebFacing Primer: List Price, $39.00
    Migrating to WebSphere Express for iSeries: List Price, $49.00
    Getting Started With WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries: List Price, $89.00
    Getting Started with WebSphere Express for iSeries: List Price, $49.00
    Can the AS/400 Survive IBM?: List Price, $49.00
    Chip Wars: List Price, $29.95

    Zend, IBM, and Microsoft Shoot for the Clouds with PHP Subprocedure Return Values–Food for Thought

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Volume 9, Number 35 -- September 29, 2009
THIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY:

looksoftware
PowerTech
Patrick Townsend Security Solutions
East Coast Computer
S4i Systems

Table of Contents

  • Lawson Finds Search Software a Good Fit for M3
  • LANSA Gives aXes Screen Modernization Tool a Makeover
  • JAMS Brings Scheduling and File Transfer Capabilities to i OS
  • Trucking News: TMW Brings More Applications to i OS
  • VAI Adds Desserts to Food Distribution Package
  • FalconStor Touts Big VTL Win at Insurance Company
  • Friedman Expands Offerings for Windows Manufacturers Beyond i OS
  • CYBRA Inks Deal with Chinese Government for RFID Project
  • Retalix Taps S4i Systems for i OS Electronic Document Management
  • Talend Helps British Housing Authority Integrate Windows and i5/OS Data

Content archive

  • The Four Hundred
  • Four Hundred Stuff
  • Four Hundred Guru

Recent Posts

  • Big Blue Raises IBM i License Transfer Fees, Other Prices
  • Keep The IBM i Youth Movement Going With More Training, Better Tools
  • Remain Begins Migrating DevOps Tools To VS Code
  • IBM Readies LTO-10 Tape Drives And Libraries
  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 23
  • SEU’s Fate, An IBM i V8, And The Odds Of A Power13
  • Tandberg Bankruptcy Leaves A Hole In IBM Power Storage
  • RPG Code Generation And The Agentic Future Of IBM i
  • A Bunch Of IBM i-Power Systems Things To Be Aware Of
  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Numbers 21 And 22

Subscribe

To get news from IT Jungle sent to your inbox every week, subscribe to our newsletter.

Pages

  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Contributors
  • Four Hundred Monitor
  • IBM i PTF Guide
  • Media Kit
  • Subscribe

Search

Copyright © 2025 IT Jungle