We announced this week Talend Integration Suite, the first open source enterprise data integration solution, available as a subscription. Talend Integration Suite builds on Talend Open Studio and extends it with enterprise development and deployment options, as well as technical support.
I am proud to say that Talend Integration Suite is the fruit of relentless work from our hard working R&D team, but also of valuable feedback from our user community.

Actually, a few month ago, I met with the CIO of a large New York bank. His feedback was essentially this: his teams were using our product and were loving it - for its power, its ease of use, and of course the open source approach. He had seen what the product could do, and agreed that it was really powerful. But this CIO’s issue was the lack of enterprise features: teamwork, deployment, etc. He told me he would not allow Talend Open Studio to be deployed any further without these features - but that ne needed them so badly that he was ready to pay for their development.

Because this type of feedback was not the only one we got, we decided to build these enterprise features, and to leverage this development by offering it to all organizations who need it - not just to this bank.

Talend Integration Suite is a very significant milestone for Talend and the market, for several reasons:
- As I said before, it is the first and only alternative to costly proprietary data integration products. With Talend Integration Suite, we are on par with (if not better than) products such as Informatica’s or IBM’s as far as enterprise capabilities. But we still come at a fraction of their cost!
- With Talend Integration Suite, we are introducing a subscription mode. Talend Open Studio is and remains a “pure” open source product, licensed under GPL v2. The extensions of Talend Integration Suite, on the other hand, fall into the so-called “commercial open source” category: the source code is still visible and the way the product works is completely transparent, the annual usage fee includes technical support and the right to use these additional features.
As a comparison, this approach has also been adopted by a number of our partners, including JasperSoft or Ingres (both Powered by Talend partners and OSA members), MySQL or SugarCRM (both Talend Technology Partners), and many others.

I hope you will take a look at Talend Integration Suite and find its groundbreaking features useful for your organization!

Bertrand