Leading IT publication Computerworld published today a nice piece featuring Talend’s customer ETAI: ETAI avoids data traffic jam with open source. Computerworld editor Todd Weiss, who had been following Talend for a little while, interviewed Philippe Bobo, director of software and information systems at ETAI to find out how he was integrating many heterogeneous sources to build his auto parts catalog and service manual, which is revised 100 times per year.

A few interesting nuggets from this article:

- “ETAI tested products from Talend and three other vendors last January, settling on Talend after five weeks of trials. ETAI went with Talend because its application uses standard programming languages, offers good performance and is much faster than ETAI’s legacy software.”

- “Talend Open Studio also allows ETAI to automate the 15 labor-intensive steps needed to integrate the various databases, dramatically streamlining the process.”

- “The support from Talend is very good. We had some times when we were blocked, when we were missing a needed component and they helped create the component. I’m very happy with it.”

Enjoy the reading!

Yves