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