We announced yesterday a new OEM partnership with open source geospatial vendor and integrator Camptocamp. This partnership is significant for Talend, for several reasons:

- Camptocamp is a reference member of the geospatial community, and up until now there was no open source spatial ETL - the market was dominated by a proprietary vendor. Spatial Data Integrator - a Camptocamp product, Powered by Talend - is in a unique position to quickly gain market share.

- It also proves Talend’s ability to go beyond the conventional data integration market - the one where we work with plain old data from databases, files, ERP, CRM, LDAP directories, you name it. The geospatial domain works with very specialized data structures, and addresses very specific needs. The unique versatility of Talend Open Studio made it easy for Camptocamp to augment its capabilities with geospatial components. And beyond geospatial, there are a wealth of other specialized areas in which Talend can get involved.

- The geospatial domain is very sensitive to open source, as proven by the 1,300 people who made it all the way to Victoria, BC this week for the FOSS4G conference where we are exhibiting and announcing the partnership. I am telling you, Victoria is beautiful (so are saying the people who went beyond the airport/hotel/convention center), but it’s pretty far away from many places…

I am sure this launch is the start of a very successful relationship, both for Camptocamp and Talend.

Yves