Last week, Lora Bentley from IT Business Edge published an interview she did with me when we announced Talend Open Profiler. We covered many topics, ranging from the need for data quality to the value that open source brings to this field. Let’s not forget that Talend Open Profiler is the first open source data quality option! Check out the interview.

And on Friday, James Koopman published on linux.com a product review of Talend Open Profiler: Explore your database with Talend Open Profiler. Very nice piece, all the more since James wrote it withouth us knowing about it, and thus without asking us any question. Of course, James found a couple limitations to Talend Open Profiler - that’s what versions 1.0 are for, if we had all features in the initial version there would not be room for growth in the future. To cover one specific critic of the review - yes, support for additional databases is being developed and will be released soon. Here is James’ conclusion that I’d like to share:
“Data analysts, DBAs, and business professionals constantly investigate the validity of data. Usually the investigation requires not only a specialized skill set but also a highly paid technical professional or expensive tool set. Talend Open Profiler effectively brings the data closer to business users through a common interface with analysts and DBAs.”

Yves