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25
Jul

A few interesting articles on open source data integration

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Today Sean Michael Kerner published an interesting piece on InternetNews.com: Open Source ETL Takes On Proprietary Intelligence. Sean comments that the real target of open source vendors like Talend is to take share from the proprietary incumbents - not fight with other open source vendors (which may or may not be in the exact same space). Also quoted is Philip Howard from Bloor Research, who says (in substance) that Talend is a general-purpose (data integration) product which has a broader market opportunity. Also mentioned in this piece is our partner (and OSA co-founding member) JasperSoft, who incorporates Talend’s solution (rebranded as JasperETL, Powered by Talend) in their Jasper BI Suite.

Speaking of Philip Howard, I also enjoyed reading his article Open Source ETL in IT-Director - in which he says that “Talend may have entered the open source ETL market late but it looks to me like it will soon be the clear market leader in this space if it isn’t already.” I kinda agree with his vision…

A third article, published last week by Red Herring’s Eydie Cubarrubia, in which she comments on our Talend On Demand Software-as-a-Service offering, “an indication that it is possible to combine open-source software with an on-demand delivery model.”

Stay tuned for more…

Yves

24
Jul

Second round of funding

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We announced last week that we have secured $3.5 million in Series B financing. The funding round, contributed by AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners, our historical financial partners, will help us expand our lead in the open source data integration market by continuing to fuel additional product development, aggressive sales and marketing programs, and a global expansion of operations.

This year has so far been a banner year for Talend, in which we leveraged our initial momentum in Europe by establishing ourselves as an authentic alternative to costly proprietary solutions.

Our phenomenal growth clearly confirms that the market was ready for such an alternative. Today, open source is becoming a strategic orientation for tomorrow’s information systems. This situation is confirming the choices we made when we started Talend, of shattering the traditional proprietary model. And even if proprietary vendors are making it easier for us by keeping opaque business and technical practices, we are staying focused and are ramping up our operations to support our growth.

I am also proud that our historical partners AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners are renewing their trust in our model and team, and want to thank them again for their support.

I also want to thank our community - users, developers, testers, partners - without them, we wouldn’t be where we are today. We will continue to develop our solutions to better match their needs, working days and nights to deliver more powerful open source data integration!

Bertrand

24
Jul

Over 100,000 downloads of Talend Open Studio (and counting…)

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hundred-thousand-downloads1.jpgA couple weeks ago we broke the 100,000 downloads barrier. I would have blogged about this before, had I not been too busy with a new version, a couple press releases, an important tradeshow coming up (make sure to visit us at LinuxWorld in San Francisco - booth #1308-A, part of the OSA pavilion)… no excuse, I know.

Anyway - Talend Open Studio 1.0 was released 9 months ago - in October 2006. Since then, we’ve released 3 other versions: 1.1, 2.0, and 2.1. We have also released the first Software as a Service data integration offering - Talend On Demand.

Of course, none of this would have been possible without the support and feedback from the community, and we are all proud of the tremendous response and adoption curve we have seen in the user community. 100,000 downloads in 9 months - if you count business days only, that’s over a download per minute! Every minute, a new user is downloading Talend Open Studio and is opening the door of Open Source data integration (just to clarify: the 100,000 count is new downloads only, version upgrades are counted separately).

Open Source is spreading like wildfire in all domains of Information Technology. Data integration is no exception. Talend’s mission - democratize data integration, allow companies of all sizes to use a professional data integration solution, for all their integration needs - is definitely on the right track.

I’ll close this post with another number: 3,000. That’s the number of customers that the market leader in proprietary data integration says it has. Food for thought…

Oh, and if you haven’t downloaded Talend Open Studio yet - do it now!

Yves

12
Jul

General availability of Talend Open Studio v2.1

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I am proud to inform all the Talend community members that version 2.1 of Talend Open Studio is now in production and can be downloaded from our site. I want to thank all the people who contributed to this release - the Talend R&D team, the external contributors, our extensive beta testers community, etc.

Fabrice listed in a recent post the numerous new features of v2.1, so I won’t do this again here. I want to focus more on the significance of this version. This time we are not introducing any revolutionary concept such as the Java code generation or ELT architecture (like we did with v2.0). Rather, we are reinforcing the foundations of our data integration solution to make it more enterprise grade in several domains:
- In the data warehousing domain, with powerful support for advanced concepts such as Slowly Changing Dimensions and integration with SpagoBI.
- In the general data processing domain, with fuzzy logic matching using advanced algorithms, normalization and denormalization of data, as well as more join types.
- In the security domain, with support for encrypted protocols and files.
- In the connectivity domain, version 2.1 also features our new business connectors for Salesforce.com and SugarCRM (they have been available for a while in our source control system but are now integrated into the release), additional database connectivity, reinforced XML and Web Services support, database transaction management… the whole concept of data integration being to facilitate the interoperability of systems, Talend Open Studio is connecting to more and more different technologies! This is one of the reasons why Talend co-founded the Open Solutions Alliance.
- In the real-time domain, support for Message-Oriented Middleware and integration with the Spagic SOA platform reinforce the real-time dimensions, with Talend Open Studio now handling both the pull and push modes.

Overall, it might only be a “dot release” - but it’s quite a rich one. I encourage you to check it out and as always, provide feedback to help us make our products always better.

Yves

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