Bryan Hearron is a Principal Consultant at iOLAP, Inc. with extensive big data integration and architecture experience across multiple technologies throughout many organizations. He joined iOLAP in 2008 after serving 6 years at Neiman Marcus working for their enterprise data warehouse, customer loyalty program, and marketing business units. Specializations include Netezza, Teradata, and Open Platform Hadoop.

USE CASE Leverage the Talend random data generator to spawn records onto a CUSTOMER table residing on the Netezza emulator. Additionally, leverage Talend’s Netezza specific functions for loading to Netezza. BUSINESS CASE Recently, a client wanted to compare some of the leading data integration tools on the market for their ability to integrate with Netezza. Coming from an Oracle solution most of their existing code was written for singleton transactions and the client needed to take advantage of MPP’s ability to bulk load and bulk transform their data sets. Since Talend’s data integration tool contains a library of Netezza specific