 Hi everyone. I'm Sam Cahane. This is theCUBE on the ground at the Talon Beer and Big Data event at the Harpoon Brewery in South Boston, Massachusetts. Not a bad spot for an event. I'm here with Dan Allen, the senior ETL developer at Cashstar. Dan, first time in theCUBE. Thanks for coming. Yeah, thanks for having me. So you're in from Portland, and you're just talking. Dan just went to my favorite restaurant, Duck Fat. What do you suggest for anyone who goes to Portland? What should they get at Duck Fat? Well, I mean, the fries are amazing, because they fry them in Duck Fat. And so they're like, melt in your mouth. They're amazing. So everyone, make sure to go to Portland, go to Duck Fat. So Dan, you work for Cashstar. Can you tell us about the company? Yeah, we're an electronic gifting company. We work with some of the biggest retailers in the country, Home Depot, Target, places like that. And we just provide their e-gifting experience. Fantastic. And you are a Talon user, is that correct? Yes, yep. So can you tell us what was the problem you were having, and then why did you decide to use Talon? Yeah, so we're a small-ish company. We're only a few years old. And we have a lot of clients who need reports. And they were originally doing all that reporting directly out of our transactional systems. And as we grew, we realized we had a need for a data warehouse. And as our systems expanded, it became apparent we needed data integration software, because we weren't just reading everything out of one database or one system. So that's when we started looking into Talon. Okay, so at the event, what are you hoping to learn? Why did you come down from Portland? Well, we're hoping to learn more about some of Talon's new offerings with big data and unstructured data and hopefully figuring out how we can utilize some of that stuff to learn some more about our clients and our users and how they're experiencing our pages and things like that. Okay, and I want to back up a little bit. Sure. So before you started using Talon, was there an evaluation process? What other vendors were you looking at? Well, we explored a few other vendors. We looked at Informatica, which was way out of our price range. We looked at Pentaho, and that really didn't seem to serve the needs that we had. Before that, we were just doing straight up Java. Straight up Java. Just pure Java. Yeah, exactly. And what type of results have you seen? Extraordinary. So we were using the Talon Open Studio, and then we transitioned to the enterprise platform. And by using some of the dynamic schema components, we've been able to streamline a ton of the data integration that we do. Great. So any words for the viewers about CacheStar or Talon that you want to leave them with? Sure. You can look over in the eye if you want. All right. Talon is a great tool and for the price and for what you get for that price. I don't think that there's anybody that can beat it. And that's coming from somebody who previously worked at an Informatica shop. So I think it's a pretty extraordinary tool, and everything comes straight out of the box. And I think that that's great. Dan, that's a strong testimonial. Thank you. Congratulations on all your success. Awesome. Thank you. I'm Sam Cahane. Thank you.