Rick Daniel Barton - Talend Open Studio Cookbook

Rick Barton is a freelance consultant who has specialized in data integration and ETL for the last 13 years as part of an IT career spanning over 25 years.

After gaining a degree in Computer Systems from Cardiff University, he began his career as a firmware programmer before moving into Mainframe data processing and then into ETL tools in 1999.

He has provided technical consultancy to some of the UKs largest companies, including banks and telecommunications companies, and was a founding partner of a Big Data integration consultancy.

Four years ago he moved back into freelance development and has been working almost exclusively with Talend Open Studio and Talend Integration Suite, on multiple projects, of various sizes, in UK. It is on these projects that he has learned many of the lessons that can be found in this, his first book.

I would like to thank my wife Ange for support and my children, Alice and Ed for putting up with my weekend writing sessions.

Id also like to thank the guys at Packt for keeping me motivated and productive and for making it so easy to get started. Their professionalism and most especially their confidence in me, has allowed me to do something I never thought I would.

Robert Baumgartner has a degree in Business Informatics from Austria, Europe, where he is living today. He began his career in 2002 as a business intelligence consultant working for different service companies. After this he was working in the paper industry sector as a consultant and project manager for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. In 2009 he founded his company datenpola service integrator specialist in selected open source software products focusing on business intelligence and ERP. Robert is an open source enthusiast who held several speeches at open source events. The products he is working on are OpenERP, Talend Data Integration, and JasperReports. He is contributing to the open source community by sharing his knowledge with blog entries at his company blog http://www.datenpol.at/blog and he commits software to github like the OpenERP Talend Connector component which can be found at https://github.com/baumgaro/OpenERP-Talend-Component.

Mustapha EL HASSAK is a computer sciences fanatic since many years, he obtained a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics in 2003 then attended university to study Information Technology. After five years of study, he joined the largest investment bank in Morocco as an IT engineer. After that he worked in EAI, an IT services company specialized in insurance, as a senior developer responsible of data migration. He has always worked with Talend Open Studio and sometimes with Business Objects. This is the first time he is working on a book, but he wrote several articles in French and English about Talend on his personal blog.

I would like to thank my parents, Khadija and Hassan, Said, my brother and Asmae, my sister for their support over the years. And I express my gratitude to Halima, my wife for her continued support and encouragement. Finally, I would like to thank Sirine, my little girl.

Viral Patel holds Masters in Information Technology (Professional) from University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He loves playing with Data. His area of interest and current work includes Data Analytics, Data Mining, and Data warehousing. He holds Certification in Talend Open Studio and Talend Enterprise Data Integration. He has more than four years of experience in Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Data warehousing.

He currently works as ETL Consultant for Steria India Limited. It is an European MNC providing consulting services in various sectors. Prior to Steria, he was working as BI Consultant where he has successfully implemented BI/DW cycle and provided consultation to various clients.

I would like to thank my grandfather Vallabhbhai, father Manubhai (who is my role model), mother Geetaben, my wife Hina, my sister Toral and my lovely son Vraj. Without their love and support, I would be incomplete in my life. I thank them all for being in my life and supporting me.

Stphane Planquart is a Lead Developer with a long expertise in Data Management. He started to program when he was ten years old. In twenty years, he worked on C, C++, Java, Python, Oracle, DB2, MySql, PostgreSQL. From the last ten years, he worked on distinct types of projects like the database of the largest warehouse logistics in Europe where he designed the data-warehouse and new client/server application. He worked also on an ETL for the electric grid of France or 3D program for a web browser. Now he works on the application of a payment system in Europe where he designs database and API.

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