One can learn talend by himself if he knows some other ETL tools pretty easily. Talend itself has provided tutorials http://www.talendbyexample.com/talend-studio-reference.html http://www.talendforge.org/tutorials/menu.php http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-rmm/s12/TalendOpenStudio_DI_UG_50b_EN.pdf http://diethardsteiner.blogspot.in/2012/02/talend-open-studio-how-to-set-up.html Talend - official website Talend Tutorials Talend Open Studio - Free Download Talend Community Talend Certification Program ETL Benchmark Favours DataStage and Talend ETL tools Hope It Helps.