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Whether your team members are technologists new to Talend products or are recognized Talend experts, Talend Academy offers the right tools to help them be successful. In this article, we guide you through a typical Talend Academy journey and show you how your team can get the most out of Talend Academy.
On your Talend Academy journey, your first decision will be to designate your power user for the organization. This role is strategic to the ramp-up of the team.
Your power user defines the ideal learning path for your team based on their projects or initiatives. To help the power user design the ideal fast-track program and build the list of recommended training, they can browse the full Talend Academy catalog, search by key words, or use Talend Academy recommended learning paths by role.
Various tools are available to help them identify the training modules and learning plans the team should work through. To help power users come up-to-speed even faster, an orientation to Talend Academy is worthwhile. Orientations range from 30 to 45 minutes depending on the audience (power user, or power user and learners). Our Talend Academy Adoption Specialist or your account team will reach out to your power user to help them get started as part of your onboarding.
Once identified, the power user becomes the primary Talend Academy contact, assigns the training modules and learning plans to the group, and determines the pace and deadlines required by the current projects or initiatives. Then they track the team’s progress from a dashboard or from various reports.
The next step is to get your team to start learning on Talend Academy.
Reading Talend documentation or articles on the Community, or participating in work sessions with their peers, does not ensure that team members acquire the skills to efficiently contribute to a project.
Training modules and learning plans allow learners to study any topic, any time. Once they have access to the platform, learners can spin up Talend Academy-provided individual training environments with a single click. Training environments are preconfigured virtual machines, with an installation of Talend Data Fabric and all the files and third-party software required for hands-on practice. In addition to this environment, the learner has access to videos and slides to learn the concepts, and to online instructions that offer all the explanations, screenshots, and detailed steps to successfully complete the hands-on exercises. In this prebuilt training environment, learners can safely experiment with Talend products without the fear of breaking their team’s development or production environments.
As a complement to self-paced learning, Talend offers instructor-led courses. In these in-person or virtual sessions, a Talend expert instructor guides the team in their first steps using Talend products, sharing in-depth knowledge, best practices, and field experience. Designed around practical exercises, instructor-led courses are an opportunity for your team to talk to an experienced Talend implementation professional and get answers to all the questions they may have during the class.
After following the training modules and learning plans recommended by their power user, or after an instructor-led training, team members can learn more about different products and features as they have full access to the training catalog. They can also challenge their knowledge by completing a quiz. Upon successful completion of the quiz, they can download an end of course certificate.
Now that they have acquired the fundamental skills for using Talend products successfully, it’s time to start building expertise.
Once your team is comfortable with Talend products, they can take advantage of the business-oriented use cases available on Talend Academy. They guide learners through various scenarios and explain how to resolve them using Talend products with third-party software. Use cases are highly detailed, and most provide a virtual environment to experiment on the products. They also include files and Talend Jobs to replicate them in your own environment.
On the Talend Community, you and your team can learn from other experienced Talend users by being active on the forums or by reading Community Knowledge articles. This is a great complement to Talend Academy and the Talend Documentation as you take a deep dive into Talend products and features.
For successful implementation, make sure you have Talend experts on your team.
Throughout their Talend Academy journey to becoming Talend experts, your team will have various ways to be recognized for their expertise. Talend awards badges to Talend Academy users as they complete various criteria that demonstrate their skills.
On completion of several learning plans, learners will receive a Practitioner badge validating they have the first level of Talend Expertise on a specific product. Learn more by reading Talend's badging program is here!
Talend offers certification exams that assess product usage knowledge and the underlying methods required to successfully implement quality projects. To be successful, we expect test takers to have approximately six months of hands-on experience with the product. Those who pass the exams earn the Certified badge.
Read more about Talend exams on the certification page.
Completing a performance-based professional exam is rewarded with a Professional badge. Successful candidates are recognized by Talend as experienced users, able to implement a complex project end-to-end.
Talend products constantly evolve to exceed our customers’ expectations. So, to get the most out of Talend products, your Talend experts must be knowledgeable on the latest features and products. For this purpose, short training modules on the latest new products and features can help your team maintain their level of knowledge and expertise with Talend products.
Implementation accelerators include solution templates, toolkits, frameworks, common services, and third-party integrations. They were developed based on field experience to address Talend customers’ implementation challenges. By leveraging them, your team benefits from Talend expertise and best practices, significantly accelerating project implementation. Learn more by reading Implementation Accelerators: Fueling your need for speed!
Examples of implementation accelerators:
Solution template
CI/CD Toolkit
Metadata Framework
Reusable Matching Framework
Talend Academy is the key to a successful implementation and your software investment. After an initial phase of training, your team members will use Talend products more often, will leverage more features, and will use the product more independently.
They will also be fully capable of accelerating their project implementation by leveraging Talend frameworks, solution templates, and other tools.
Along their journey, they will be awarded badges that prove their Talend expertise and celebrate their journey to becoming a recognized Talend expert.
Contact your Account Executive to get started on Talend Academy.