This week we were at TDWI, supporting our partner JasperSoft who is providing JasperETL, Powered by Talend, as part of their Jasper BI Suite. JasperSoft actually launched version 2 of their suite at TDWI.
We met many users from small and large organizations, and it is clear from talking to these people that open source is really catching up in the BI space. Many users are looking for a way out of the closed source, non-flexible and overpriced proprietary solutions; and a lot of organizations who are new to BI are considering going the open source route. Since ETL is a critical component of the BI stack, we at Talend have a clear role to play there.
There were also a number of analysts who show lots of interest in open source - for example Mark Madsen ran a full day class on open source BI. We also spoke with other recognized industry experts including Claudia Imhoff, Shawn Rogers, David Loshin… They are all seeing open source quickly gaining adoption in the BI world.
Talend was also invited to record a Podcast with the Business Intelligence Network, in which I was quizzed by Ron Powell on topics that include Talend’s vision of the data integration market, open source adoption in the enterprise, which role the Open Solutions Alliance can play, etc. If you want to listen, it’s here (MP3, 7 minutes).

Yves