Presenting SOPERA-DI and Talend EDI Components
News Update
Lately, you may have seen in our blog a couple of posts on what we are working on currently in the BPM area. We are very excited about this work and its progress. However BPM is actually only part of the picture. It is only one part of what we proudly call our SOPERA SOA Suite. The other important part is Data Integration.
Data Integration
Data Integration was and it still is a very important aspect of any successful SOA implementation. Therefore, right now we are busy working on integrating one of the best open source products for data integration: Talend Integration Suite. Talend Integration Suite is an award winning data integration suite that makes data integration transparent and easy to accomplish. The extra bonus is that it’s also Eclipse-based, just like the rest of our tooling package!
Talend Open Studio has over 350 components that integrate with almost everything… starting from SAP and Salesforce integration, up to to commercial databases and different file formats. However, not everything is covered just yet. For example, in one of our customer cases we have noted a lack of Talend components for EDI support. At the same time we found a very nice implementation of an EDI parser (it’s probably better to say EDI-to-SAX transformer). So, we decided to contribute back to the community and initiated a new open source project.
SOPERADI-Smooks
Around two months ago we started an open source project. This project’s purpose is to create open source Talend components that are compatible with EDI data. Today, we are proud to present a beta-version of the project results, together with comprehensive documentation, and a couple of screencasts that show you how to use the new beta product.
On the project web site you will find more screencasts and documentation, as well as the ready-to-deploy component. So go ahead and use it in your projects today!
More information on SOPERA and EDI components you can find here: http://blog.sopera.com/2010/07/unedifact-support-overview/.