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What you can expect

  • Pricing, modeled for your setup.
    We'll walk you through how capacity-based licensing works in practice and run the numbers against your current data volumes and team size, so you can make a direct comparison, not an abstract one.

  • A look at CloverDX for your use cases.
    We'll focus on the platform capabilities most relevant to you: complex transformations, error handling, pipeline orchestration, and anything specific to how your team works with data today.

  • Deployment and migration guidance.
    Whether you're on-premise, cloud, or hybrid, we'll talk through what a move to CloverDX would involve for your team, including what stays, what changes, and what the timeline looks like in practice.

  • A no-obligation demo.
    We're not about pushy sales conversations. We prefer honest, open communication that gives you all the information you need.

How CloverDX compares with Talend

How CloverDX compares with Talend

2 platforms, 4 differences that matter once your pipelines get serious.

Pricing that doesn't grow with your data
Clean version control, not a workaround
Deploy on your terms, not a roadmap's
AI that's already shipped, not just announced

Pricing that doesn't grow with your data

Talend prices Qlik Talend Cloud across up to three separate meters, the volume of data moved, the number of job executions, and job duration, spread across four tiers. There's no published list pricing, so getting an actual number means requesting a custom quote. Because the model has three separate variables, it's hard to know what next year's bill will look like based on what you're paying today.

CloverDX licenses by server cores and Designer seats. Not by data volume, job execution count, or job duration. As your data grows, your platform costs stay exactly where they were. No usage-based escalation, no surprise renewal quote.

 

Clean version control, not a workaround

Talend Studio compiles your visual job design into generated Java code, and that generated code, not your original design, is what runs. In practice, a small, logical change can produce a large, noisy diff in the code underneath, and generated files can embed changing keys that break clean comparisons between versions, a documented friction point for teams running standard Git workflows.

CloverDX is engine-based: the design itself, stored as plain text and XML, is what the CloverDX engine executes directly. A small change produces a small, readable diff, so code review, rollback, and collaboration work the way your team already expects them to.

Deploy on your terms, not a roadmap's

Talend remains hybrid-capable through Talend Data Fabric. But Qlik's product investment and messaging are centered on the cloud-first Qlik Talend Cloud, and that's where new capability lands first. If on-premise or hybrid deployment is a long-term requirement rather than a checkbox, it matters whether that's a platform's primary focus or a maintained option next to a cloud-first roadmap.

CloverDX is architecture-agnostic from the ground up: bare metal, virtual machines, Docker, Kubernetes, any major operating system, with on-premise and hybrid deployment as the platform's starting point, not an alternate path.

 

AI that's already shipped, not just announced

Talend has announced an AI Assistant for Talend Studio is targeted on the roadmap. As of the most recent Talend Studio release notes available at the time of writing, it hadn't appeared in a shipped release.

CloverDX has run AI as production pipeline logic, classification, anonymization, and LLM-driven transformation, since 2025, and launched a Designer AI Assistant in CloverDX 7.5 (June 2026), built on a multi-agent system that plans, builds, tests, and documents a solution from specification. Every AI capability is BYOK or BYOM: you hold the provider contract, CloverDX takes no cut and is never in the data path of your AI calls, and with BYOM, your data never leaves your own environment.

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CloverDX case studies

CloverDX case study - Zywave
How Zywave freed up engineer time by up to a third with data automation

Insurtech company Zywave wanted to free up the time it was taking the engineering team to migrate new customers onto their platform. 

The process had previously involved a lot of manual steps, but now with everything managed with workflows built in CloverDX, onboarding is faster, the team has more time, and things are easier to maintain. 

"The onboarding process is our first chance at making a good impression with our customers after the dollars are already spent. And CloverDX gives us a tool to be able to move faster. Being able to reduce by 20% the time it takes for us to do those conversions for new customers is a huge benefit for us.”
- Bryan Kahlig, Senior Director, Product Development at Zywave 

Ortec Finance - CloverDX Case Study
How Ortec Finance reduced repetitive manual data processes by up to 90% with CloverDX

Delivering quarterly reports for Ortec Finance’s clients used to be a huge amount of manual effort, taking up valuable consultants’ time and causing stress as deadlines approached.

But now with CloverDX they’ve automated all the data processes that go into building reports, replacing manual, unconnected steps with streamlined, automated workflows.

“It's really the click of a button and we run the system. Instead of having typically a 4 or 5 day process of people preparing the data, running the models, checking the results and building the reports to send to the clients, we’ve reduced that to half a day or less.”
- Thomas Hage, Senior Consultant at Ortec Finance

Locations

North & South
America

CloverDX Inc.
2311 Wilson Blvd
3rd Floor
Arlington, VA 22201
USA

+1 (703) 259-8585

EMEA &
APAC

Javlin LTD / CloverDX
91-94 Lower Marsh 
London SE1 7AB
United Kingdom

+44 (0) 203 789 2070

Czech
Republic

CloverDX a.s.
Vinohradska 174
130 00 Prague
Czech Republic


+420 277 003 200

Dev &
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CloverDX a.s.
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602 00 Brno
Czech Republic

+420 277 003 200

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