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Desperate Genio customers can find a migration solution with Talend

Without long term perspective since the acquisition of Hummingbird by Open Text, around 600 worldwide Genio customers becomes a target for Talend and its open source ETL.

Talend is an open source vendor of the same named ETL tool. It announced this week a migration package specially designed for Genio customers, an ETL from Leonard’s Logic acquired by Hummingbird, itself acquired by Open Text.
« For companies using obsolete tools like Genio, a migration project to a new ETL can be risky and should mean a redevelopment of all their integration architecture », explain Yves de Montcheuil, Marketing Director at Talend. « It is never easy to switch from an ETL to another; you should often take all processes one after the other and recode it ».
The customer’s IT service can face a collective memory problem if all processes, developed sometimes many years before, are not or poor documented.
Talend propose a package of a specially developed migration tool and expertise based on Talend knowledge of ETL tools.
The first step is an audit, of around three days, to analyze Genio repository, collect information about processes and evaluate labor cost to migrate all of them.
Then the migration itself, using the tool developed by Talend and of course their ETL. This tool can drill down into Genio repository to collect metadata and automatically migrate them to the Talend repository.
Usage of Talend ETL is of course needed but the customer can choose any available version including the open source one.
Three main Genio’s customers are actually migrating but prefer their name not to be revealed before they can really avoid Genio from their IT system.
According to Talend this process can save between 50 and 70 % of migration cost of for traditional ETL migration project. Based on this success Talend is evaluating the development of new migration tools from Sunopsis (Oracle) and DataStage (IBM).

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