Last night Talend co-hosted a networking reception at Café Dune in Paris, themed “Let’s do Open Source Business Intelligence!” There were over 60 participants, including representatives from companies such as Sony Music, EDF, AOL, SMC, etc.

The evening started with several excellent presentations:

• Our training partner Anaska, specialized on Open Source products training, demonstrated a synchronization between a Web site and SugarCRM.
• Altic, an Open Source Systems Integrator and a Talend partner, presented the project they implemented for hospitality giant Accor. This project consists of extracting reservation and cancellation information from emails, storing them in a MySQL data warehouse, and using SpagoBI for reporting on the data.
• Then Talend’s CTO Cédric showed an EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) solution built with Talend (receiving and processing orders in real-time through EDI)
• And of course Silicon Sentier organized and coordinated the evening.

We followed the presentation with an Open Bar that offered over 20 different types of mojitos… and lots of good networking!

Fabrice