“Over 80% of enterprise Business Operations leaders, including those from service delivery, manufacturing, and supply chain, say data integration is critical to their success!” – Forbes
Organizations today are modernizing their entire IT systems to achieve efficiency across business units! And the key reason why they are involved in an IT modernization project is to improve their data exchange capabilities, enhance partner relationships, and bring in new tech stacks that will drive their organizational agility!
If you are planning to dive into an IT modernization endeavor, you need to understand why modernizing your integration platform must be given prime importance!
“When your businesses continue to grow at an accelerating speed, the need to adopt newer technologies also increases! But your existing legacy integration frameworks are highly incompatible and reluctant to adopt or interact with your new technologies! Even if you try to make the systems work together, the process will only become cumbersome, and expose your enterprise to security risks!”
If you want to stay ahead in the industry and achieve a competitive edge, you need to switch to a modern data integration platform that is both scalable, secure, and feature-rich!
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Already into a thought of spearheading your data integration platform modernization? We got you! In this blog, we have explained the pitfalls of legacy data integration platforms, why you should adopt a modern data architecture, and how can Talend help you achieve a future-proof data strategy that will prevail at all odds!
The pitfalls of legacy data integration platforms!
Exorbitant Maintenance
Most of the legacy integration platforms are reaching their ‘End of Life’. If you are stuck with these platforms, you will have to spend a large amount of your organizational budget for its associated maintenance costs, which will keep increasing in the upcoming days.
Lack of proper documentation and skilled expertise
With legacy platforms, you will not be having sufficient documentation of the system transformation, updates, and patches. Without proper documentation of the transformation and updates, all your efforts to modernize and upgrade the platform will become highly cumbersome and time-consuming. Provided there are only a handful of resources who are proficient with these platforms. Even if you manage to get skilled experts, retaining them would cost a fortune for your enterprise!
Slows Down Business Efficiency
Traditional data integration platforms can slow down your business efficiency and hinder enterprise productivity at various levels. The reasons are…
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These platforms are built on frameworks that cannot integrate with newer systems. Unlike modern integration platforms, they are not equipped with adequate connectors and components to connect data from disparate sources.
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Achieving integration with newer SaaS technologies, Databases and IoT will become a challenge with these platforms.
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They do not possess enough capabilities to manage exponential data growth and process newly fed queries
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They exhibit incompatibility with both cloud and private cloud migration initiatives
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It’s impossible to leverage multi-cluster data processing environments
DevOps will become a challenge!
If you have been using legacy systems from the beginning, you may tend to have several siloed operations that are rigid and inflexible. In this case, implementing DevOps best practices, CI/CD tools, and pipelines can become a challenge for your enterprise. Eventually, this will also slow down the pace of your software delivery processes and other connected integrations.
Your data could be at risk!
Legacy platforms are highly prone to security threats! As most of these systems are reaching EOL, your vendors will no longer support you or provide much-needed updates. Even if the latest security updates are available, as mentioned earlier there will be a scarcity of skilled experts who can perform the upgradation. As a result, the platform’s security will continue to deteriorate gradually!
Why switch to a modern data integration platform?
Switching from legacy to modern data integration platforms can yield your enterprises a lot of business benefits!
Increases scalability of technologies
Streamlines implementation of new technologies.
Simplifies integration with stakeholders and applications.
Increases enterprise productivity.
Enhances organizational agility.
How can Talend help you ace the data integration game?
To scale new heights in your digital transformation initiatives, you should know how to effectively leverage your data!
Talend will help you accelerate your business process and enhance your enterprise productivity by connecting all your data sources into a clean, complete, and compliant source of truth!
Here are some of the platform’s benefits…
Enhanced collaboration and connectivity
Talend Data Integration lets you connect and manage all your data, no matter where it lives! As the platform comes with more than 800+ connectors and components, you can virtually connect any data source with any data environment, be it in the cloud or on-premises!
Faster Developments and Deployments
With Talend, you can easily develop and deploy reusable data pipelines with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface that’s 10X faster than hand coding. You can deploy new design systems faster and achieve scalability across various touchpoints with better agility, automation, testing, and security!
Maximum Flexibility for Data Integration
Legacy platforms always exhibit incompatibility to access data from disparate sources. On contrary to that with Talend, you can even access data behind secure firewalls, locked in data centers, and in secure cloud environments.
Complements Business Intelligence
To make effective data-driven business decisions you need to bring together and orchestrate all your crucial business applications under one platform! Talend empowers you to integrate data across business systems and transform them into actionable insights. Now, you can enhance the quality of your data visualization and make critical business decisions faster than you have ever imagined!
Ensures data quality at every step!
Imagine, a new data repository is added, and your employees are unaware of it! Now, won’t they have an incomplete data set that will affect the integration process? That’s why your enterprise needs an integration solution that synchronizes data and performs automated updates whenever required! With Talend, your data quality will be embedded into every step of the data integration process! As your data moves through your systems, the platform automatically discovers, and highlights issues on the go to ensure data quality at every step!
Talend for Modern IT enterprises
Talend & Snowflake – In a modern IT setup, your data warehouse is already modernized with platforms like Snowflake! But to take your data warehouse management to the next level you need to complement it with a modern integration platform like Talend.
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By leveraging Talend, you can easily extract, transform, and load your data into Snowflake.
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Talend provides integration and ensures the integrity of your Snowflake data warehouse at every stage of the data lifecycle.
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By complementing your Snowflake platform with Talend, you can “spot data quality issues, and fix them all from a single user interface, without writing a single line of code!”
Talend & Databricks – If you are using Databricks for your integration and storage needs, you may find it hard to make the most out of the platform, because they require strong expertise in coding languages like Python and SQL. On contrary to that, Talend is a ‘no-code, low-code’ platform that is designed to simplify the processes. By leveraging Talend on top Databricks you can free yourself from the complex coding processes.
By integrating Databricks and Talend you can…
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Scale data engineering jobs up or down to fit your business needs.
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Make the most out of runtime elasticity.
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Get faster access to the data you need for real-time decisions without performing any coding.
If you have long been in the thought of transforming your integration framework, this is the right time, and we are the right people!
Why rely on us for your data integration platform modernization?
With years of expertise in data platform modernization, our data engineers are savvy in all the leading data warehousing, integration, and visualization platforms like Synapse, Snowflake, Talend, Databricks, and Power BI.
No matter how old and complex your existing integration framework is! With our team by your side, you can just sit back and migrate to Talend without any fear of losing your business continuity and achieve maximum ROI!
Not just integration, by leveraging Talend, we also speed up your migration from legacy data warehousing and integration platforms like Oracle and Informatica PowerCenter to Snowflake and Databricks!
