Best practices for utilizing Talend Data Catalog in your ETL/ELT processes

Talend Data Catalog provides intelligent data discovery that delivers a single source of trusted data into a centralized data catalog, as well as the capability for doing impact analysis and/or tracing lineage by harvesting Talend Data Integration Jobs. For example, you can find the use of a specific attribute or column from the source to the destination of the data flow within the scope of a Talend Data Integration Job.

This document explores the methods to design Talend Data Integration Jobs that help maximize the benefits of using Talend Data Catalog, focusing primarily on a Windows file system and relational databases as either data source or target storage for data.