Earlier this week, along with our partners RightScale, Jaspersoft and Vertica, we announced the availability of a complete turnkey BI solution on the Cloud.

The value of this solution is obvious: get an instant deployment of an infinitely scalable, enterprise grade BI stack, at a very affordable cost and without long term commitment.  Assembled with the best products in their respective fields, by long-time partners used to work together, the Cloud BI solution makes enterprise BI available to anyone.

Sounds exactly the opposite of what you’re used to getting from traditional players?  Well, there is a reason for this: it is exactly the opposite.

We leveraged the CloudWorld expo in San Francisco this week to announce the solution, and we also made a lot of media outreach (see what happens when you unleash four great PR firms on an announcement…).  Among the appeared coverage, I like:

• Open-Source, Proprietary Vendors Partner on Cloud BI, by Chris Kanaracus from IDG - also syndicated to several other titles
• Business Intelligence moves to the cloud, by Dave Rosenberg from CNET News
• Gang of Four Creates Cloud BI Stack, by Maureen O’Gara on Cloud Computing Journal
• Open and proprietary ISVs discover love in the cloud, by Gavin Clarke from The Register
• Fab four join forces for BI in the cloud, by Jason Stamper on CBR

All these articles do a great job at covering the news and analyzing the benefits.  But I have to say that as far as titles are concerned I like what our two British friends did.  A bit or romantism, a Beattles analogy - pretty nice.

There was also a bit of controversy from Dana Blankenhorn with If you have a proprietary partner is it still open source?  Dana, of course, agrees that “This partnership delivers a BI solution that lowers costs and offers more flexibility.“  Isn’t that what matters?  And for the record, it’s not because you partner with proprietary vendors that your loose your soul.  Otherwise we’d all be dementors.

Check it out: www.talend.com/cloud.  We offer a free 30-day trial.

Welcome to the Cloud!

Yves