Over the past few weeks, Talend’s recognition went a notch higher with several interesting events:

• Last week, Talend received an award of “Young Innovative Company”, from the hands of the French Secretary of Research, Ms Valerie Pecresse. Fabrice represented Talend at this ceremony - see his post on this blog.
• An Entrepreneur Portrait of Bertrand was posted by French e-zine NetEco - if you understand French, I really encourage you to review it, it’s a pretty good piece where Bertrand explains not only the genesis of Talend but also what drives him as an entrepreneur.
• A Solutions Spotlight I did with my old friend Ron Powell of the Business Intelligence Network also went live last week (this one is in English).
• Julien Codorniou at Microsoft - one of our sponsors there, along with Sam Ramji - posted on his blog to talk about the partnership between the two companies. Interesting quote from Julien: “The fact is that we really don’t care about Talend’s business model. They develop and sell software that runs on windows, everywhere in the world, and they’re gaining in popularity. (150000 downloads so far). Our interest is to maximize the experience on our platforms, and this partnership is driven by two things: customer satisfaction and Interoperability.”

I am happy to report that more is in the works - stay tuned…

Yves