Archive for August, 2007
This week at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, we introduced Talend Integration Suite to the market. Talend Integration Suite is a subscription service that extends Talend Open Studio with technical support and additional features to support enteprise development and deployment.
The feedback we are getting both from the users community and the press/analyst community is excellent (see for example this LinuxWorld article: Open source lands in the enterprise with both feet). For the former, it does not come as a surprise since all of these features were asked for, and expected, by users. For the latter - no surprise either. Indeed, over the past couple years, the open source landscape has evolved tremendously. A number of software vendors have emerged, that have built a business around supporting and enhancing open source solutions. Some started with already existing projects, others, like Talend, develop a product, donate it to the community, and continue to support, maintain and enhance it. In order to work better with one another, about 20 of these vendors participate into the Open Solutions Alliance - always with the goal of providing better solutions to the market, and solutions that work well with one another.
Just to clarify - Talend Open Studio, the widely adopted open source data integration technology, downloaded over 100,000 times (download it now!), remains under the GPL v2 license - we are not changing that. Talend Integration Suite is simply an extension to Talend Open Studio, with additional enterprise features, detailed in this post from Fabrice. It also includes technical support out of the box, and is provided as an annual subscription.
So don’t hesitate, check out the new features of Talend Integration Suite!
Yves
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
A month after celebrating our 100,000 downloads, a few weeks after releasing Talend Open Studio v2.1, now is time to welcome Talend Integration Suite to the market!
I want to start this post with congratulations to the Talend R&D team, and to the community that provided its invaluable feedback, without which it would have been difficult to build Talend Integration Suite. Kudos to everyone!
So what is Talend Integration Suite? It’s an extension of Talend Open Studio, with many enteprise-grade features for development and deployment.
First (very important) point: no change of environment is required for the developers, who still use Talend Open Studio to build their jobs.
Second point: Talend Integration Suite is a series of optional modules, that are packaged into different editions of the solution. The modules focus on 3 major enterprise areas:
- Facilitate collaboration and promote best practices
- Manage enterprise-scale deployments
- Centralize monitoring of integration processes
 Today, we are putting into GA the following modules:
- Shared Repository, to share all projects and metadata in a central repository (deployed internally). You will have recognized here a theme similar to Talend On Demand, our SaaS data integration solution. That makes sense, since it’s the same technology stack - except you deploy it behind your firewall, and you fully control it.
- Distant Run, to execute remotely a job from the Job Designer interface. This will come very handy for testing jobs on remote systems, and for running jobs upon request on different systems.
- Activity Monitoring Console, an Eclipse plugin (part of Talend Open Studio or standalone) that provides a single, centralized way of monitoring job events, execution times, data volumes…
There will be many more options for Talend Integration Suite - stay tuned!
Fabrice
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