We just announced that ETAI, a leading provider of technical information for the automotive, manufacturing and retail industries, leverages Talend Open Studio to unify its data production architecture.
This is an interesting customer for us, because ETAI’s business consists of producing and selling data.
ETAI conducted an in-depth analysis of the available solutions before choosing Talend. I was privileged to speak with Philippe Bobo, ETAI’s Director of Software and Information System. A couple things he told me are worth mentioning:
- that compared to proprietary solutions they looked at, Talend Open Studio offers greater flexibility.
- that even though Talend’s Open Source model does not cancel all costs, it alleviates them significantly, especially in the deployment phase. It also makes them easier to predict.
Obviously, Philippe Bobo confirmed one of the big advantages of the Open Source model - other ones including regaining control, and facilitating interoperability (one of the reasons why Talend co-founded the Open Solutions Alliance).
I will be posting more Talend success stories on this blog. Stay tuned!
Yves
The Open Solutions Alliance, of which Talend is a founding member, is organizing its first Hack-A-Thon at OSCON in Portland, OR (July 23-27). It will focus on single sign on (SSO).
The Hack-A-Thons are a series of events intended to drive community participation in the OSA’s interoperability efforts. Each event will focus on a specific interoperability issue, and will include a tutorial followed by a directed hands-on-keyboard session to get several open applications to integrate.
A Tuesday tutorial will precede the Hack-A-Thon gatherings on Wednesday and Thursday. Tutorial attendance is desirable but not mandatory. An engineer from an OSA member organization and other OSA members will be available to help attendees. Software on CD-ROM and other media will be available at the tutorial. This will be a good time for participants to provide feedback and requests for enhancement.
You only need a free Exhibit Hall pass to participate into the Hack-A-Thon.
Hope to see you there!
Vincent
The Open Solutions Alliance that Talend co-founded earlier this year is really making headways! We announced this week four new members: 3 vendors (Ingres, CorraTech and Open IT Works) as well as our first Customer-level member (Redmayne Bentley, a UK brokerage firm). The Customer-level membership was introduced recently to further increase the dialog between vendors and users of open solutions, and I think this is a very positive enhancement to the OSA principles.
Several board members of the OSA have also recently been interviewed by leading publications or invited to deliver presentations at key industry events, further proving the leadership role the OSA is taking in topîcs related to open source interoperability:
- Barry Klawans, podcast interview by Scott Mace, IT Conversations
- Open Source, Open Integration, and the Open Solutions Alliance - Stacey Schneider, for Enterprise Open Source Magazine
- OSA Interoperability Roadmap Takes Priorities from Customers, Vendors - Dominic Sartorio, interviewed by IT Business Edge
Talend is also actively supporting the involvement of the OSA in major open source conventions (such as OSCON in July and LinuxWorld in August).
Welcome on board, Ingres, CorraTech, Open IT Works and Redmayne Bentley! You are joining a very involved and active community!
Vincent
We launched today Talend On Demand, the industry’s first Software as a Service (SaaS) open source data integration offering.
Talend On Demand consolidates Talend Open Studio metadata and project information in an online, shared repository that we host. It allows teams of users of Talend Open Studio to consolidate data integration work in a centralized and shared repository, facilitating collaboration, object and code reuse.
It’s very easy to sign up for Talend On Demand.
Simply visit http://www.talend.com/talend-on-demand/talend-on-demand.php and click on the Sign Up Now! button.
Fabrice
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