Let me start by saying I am not a famous sports person, I don’t have a string of world wide hit songs, I haven’t invented anything to change the world, to my knowledge I am not a member of the royal family and I do not have any delusions that I am the greatest thing […]

Overview : Within Talend Studio there are two options for job building, either as an OSGI bundle or as Standalone Job. Depending on the composition of the job one or both of these options may be available and this can be confusing, but there is a logic behind it which this article will attempt to […]

Web services are to computers what a browser is to a human, allowing  programs to interchange information via an interface accessed via a URL. By promoting modular development removing application logic to a separate unit, web services help to reduce tight coupling with associated benefits in maintainability. They do have a downside introducing multiple possible […]

As computerisation permeated business processes many disparate systems were developed to service discrete areas of the organisation. The enclosed nature of the systems became an issue when modelling the flow of information through the entire ecosystems and a reliable way of sharing records between applications became paramount. File transfer and inter-database connectivity options became common […]