Boomi vs. Talend – Overview
About Boomi Data Integration
Boomi Data Integration is a fully-managed SaaS platform, which provides a unified solution for data ingestion, transformation, and workflow orchestration. The biggest differentiator is Boomi’s approach to modern data Integration including a platform that was natively built for the cloud with log based CDC to reduce management efforts and offer ease of use to accelerate reliable data pipelines delivery.
About Talend
Talend, a Qlik company, has delivered open-source – born data integration since 2005. Following Qlik’s acquisition (closed May 16 2023), Talend now operates within Qlik’s Data Integration & Quality portfolio. Engineering centers remain in Redwood City (CA) while corporate headquarters align with Qlik in Philadelphia. Talend provides a cloud replatformed ETL solution (Qlik Talend Cloud) plus desktop Studio and remote engines for hybrid deployments.
Boomi Data Integration vs. Talend – Features
ETL / ELT Tool |
Boomi Data Integration |
Talend |
| Cloud native and fully managed | Yes | Hybrid – web control plane; run-time in Talend Cloud or customer-managed engine |
| Native connectors | 200+ | ~300 |
| Connect to any API source | Yes – by using the ‘Data Connector Agent,’ which can build connectors directly from API documentation and allows optional customization through YAML output. | Complex, often pro-Java code required |
| Built-in workflow orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Python transformations | Yes | Yes |
| Reverse ETL | Yes | Yes |
| Data Model templates (kits) | 100+ pre-built workflow templates with data models, pipelines, transformations, schemas, and orchestration | No |
| G2 Rank | 4.7 / 5.0 | 4.0 / 5.0 |
| Agentic AI Activation | Built-in AI Agent Management including the ability to create and govern agents | Not available – requires 3rd party solution |
| SAP Data | Easy to use SAP dedicated interface to seamlessly extract all of SAP data. | SAP data integration setup can be complex and may require technical expertise |
Product
Boomi Data Integration
Boomi Data Integration’s SaaS offering provides several modern data stack products in a single modern platform. This includes ELT (data ingestion) with over 200+ no-code fully-managed connectors, advanced workflow orchestration, Data transformations via SQL and/or Python, reverse ETL (data activation), and data operations (full support for the development lifecycle/DataOps).
Talend
Talend’s solutions include everything from data ingestion and data validation to complex data orchestration and testing APIs for data output. You must download and install the Talend application onto your desktop in order to perform most processes and the transformations are primarily GUI based in opposed to SQL first approach.
Talend’s products include:
Talend Cloud Data Integration and Talend Cloud Pipeline (included in Talend Cloud)
Talend Cloud Data Integration and Cloud Pipeline function as part of their web application, which doesn’t require the application server to be self hosted, but it’s mainly considered a workflow orchestration tool. Jobs must still be built on their associated desktop tool and then uploaded to the web application for scheduling.
Talend Data Fabric (includes Talend Cloud Pipeline)
Talend Data Fabric is Talend’s fully-featured solution, where users must host everything from the application server to the desktop software. The solution comes with a host of functions, including certain AI/ML capabilities, data ingestion, and more.
Boomi Data Integration vs. Talend – Support
Boomi Data Integration
Boomi Data Integration offers 24/7 global support as well as onboarding services and dedicated customer success services, which vary by plan. Support is engineering led and year over year, Boomi Data Integration has been awarded “Easiest to do Business with” by G2 in the category of ETL tools.
Boomi Data Integration’s G2 user rating for quality of support is 9.410, the highest in its category with an industry average of 6.9/10 for ETL tools on G2.
Talend
Talend offers support through their documentation, Talend community, as well as through an online ticketing system.
Talend’s Data Integration G2 user rating for quality of support is 6.9/10 with an industry average of 8.6/10 for on-premise data integration tools on G2.
Boomi Data Integration vs. Talend – G2 User Reviews
Capability |
Boomi Data Integration |
Talend |
| Overall G2 Ranking | 4.7 | 4.0 |
| Meets Requirements | 9.3 | 8.4 |
| Ease of Use | 9.5 | 7.5 |
| Ease of Setup | 9.2 | 7.3 |
| Ease of Admin | 9.1 | 7.4 |
| Quality of Support | 9.4 | 6.9 |
| Has the product been a good partner in doing business? | 9.6 | 7.7 |
| Product Direction | 9.3 | 8.9 |
| Extraction | 9.6 | 8.7 |
| Loading | 9.5 | 9.2 |
| Transformation | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| Automation | 9.5 | 9.0 |
| Scalability | 9.3 | 8.7 |
Boomi Data Integration vs. Talend – Summary
Talend
Talend is worth considering for large, enterprise teams, supported by seasoned Java developers. The tool offers a suite of data management solutions for different use cases, but long learning curves, mediocre support and pricing remains a key consideration with per seat pricing and infrastructure overhead costs.
Key benefits when evaluating Talend include:
- Robust data orchestration capabilities
- Some AI/ML capabilities, allowing data scientists to execute trained ML models
- Data governance
- Big data streaming
- The ability to treat sources as destinations
Limitations of Talend include:
- Desktop design reliance
- Infrastructure overhead
- Complex configuration and workflow creation
- Non-native connectors
- Long learning curves
Boomi
Boomi is a modern data platform, designed for beginners and experts alike. Non-software experts such as BI or data analysts can easily connect to data sources without coding knowledge. Experts such as data engineers or analytics engineers can create advanced data pipelines and workflows with the power and flexibility of a custom-coded solution via SQL or Python.
Ease of use within Boomi ensures workflows are simple to build and adapt, while Talend workflows have been known to become overly complex and difficult to maintain over time.
Unlike Talend, Boomi is a complete SaaS tool, so you don’t need to worry about maintenance, architecture upgrades, etc. Boomi offers simple data consumption-based pricing with unlimited users on every plan, whereas Talend prices per seat.
Boomi’s modern approach to data management allows data teams to accelerate and deliver data to business users 7.5X faster, with fewer engineers and at a lower cost.
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