This week I am attending the fifth Open Source Business Conference: Putting Open Source to Work, organized in San Francisco by InfoWorld. The name of the conference leaves little doubt about the content of the conferences: practical experiences, in several tracks for diverse audiences: CIOs, CEOs and CFOs, Counsel and Compliance Project Managers. Even though some people still argue against open source technologies and defend proprietary approaches, open source solutions have become key to enterprise environments. We live this fact every day.

Maybe the best proof of this deployment resides in the various strategic projects deployed by our clients, using Talend’s technologies. One of the common denominators of these projects is the need for interoperability. Structuring the inter-applications dialog, even with external partners, is a required step to increase productivity and agility of enterprises. With technologies such as ours, this is done more reliably, but also less expensively than with proprietary solutions.

All our users, issued from a broad spectrum of industries and geographies, prove than open source works well in enterprise environments, where errors or downtimes often have catastrophic consequences. Beyond cost control, they look for high performance solutions, that can rival with traditional offerings, which also explains the success of our enterprise solution Talend Integration Suite.

Bertrand