Archive for October, 2010
 This week, Talend held its first Tweet Jam. No, we did not cook a pound of tweets with a pound of sugar and poured it in pots, but we certainly saw some steam on Twitter as many Tweeps out there contributed their ideas about open source data integration and data quality, using the hashtag #talendtj. If you want to see all tweets from this Tweet Jam, follow this link (but hurry, as Twitter does not archive tweets for very long).
Among the esteemed Tweeps who contributed to this success, we were honored to count @hlsdk (Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen, the author of Liliendahl on Data Quality), @ocdqblog (Jim Harris, the author of the Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality Blog), as well as several people who had hands on experience either with Talend or other data management solutions (thanks @drmirror, @ssalvatierra, @dakoller, @FOSSwiki, @osbiblog and others for either participating or retweeting content).
Among the points we debated:
- Can you have data integration without data quality?
- Are free and open sources of reference data becoming more important in your projects?
- How has the evolution of data management changed the way you work on projects?
- Has the integration of data in the information system changed with open source?
- What are your reasons for choosing open source data integration?
- How do you use data integration in your company?
Very interesting too that Henrik wrote a post following the Tweet Jam, covering one these questions: Free and Open Sources of Reference Data. Thanks also to Christian for his post on OSBI-blog (in German): Erster Tweetjam von Talend.
On the Talend side, @stevesarsfield (Steve Sarsfield, our Product Marketing Manager for Data Quality and also a blogger and author himself), played a big role. Steve is the author of the Data Governance and Data Quality Insider, and is well respected into the field. I myself (@ydemontcheuil) answered a few questions and of course our marketing and social media crew helped a lot to coordinate the flow (thanks @pcoffre, @Cecile_Talend, @ccornavin!).
Back to Twitter as a social media and a communication vector – it has proven to be a fantastic channel for Talend. With almost 1600 followers of @Talend, I believe we are one of the leaders in our space. This is an efficient way to put the news out there – and this is fun too! I have personally taken up Twitter, whereas my personal blog did not get updated very often, too time consuming.
Another example of the traction we have on Twitter: when we presented our strategy to the Boulder BI Brain Trust two weeks ago, most of these analysts are active Tweeps. From what I was given to understand, this particular BBBT session beat the record for the Tweet volume – over 225! By the way, the podcast I recorded with Claudia Imhoff at the BBBT is available here.
If you are not following @Talend on Twitter, now is the time!
@ydemontcheuil
Talend was a sponsor of Hadoop World which took place this week in New York. Organized by our good friends at Cloudera, this event was a tremendous success by all counts. It attracted over 1,500 attendees, a record for such a “young” event. Speakers and keynoters were the cream of the crop, with luminaries such as Tim O’Reilly and high profile users like Bank of America, eBay or Yahoo.
 For Talend, it was also a special event. We unveiled a strategic technology partnership with Cloudera and presented the latest version of our solutions, which provide advanced support for Hadoop. Thanks to its deep integration with HDFS, Hive and Sqoop, Talend Integration Suite is the first enterprise-grade data integration solution that can natively leverage the power and scalability of Hadoop to execute data transformations. Instead of simply writing data into Hadoop like most tools on this market do, Talend actually uses Hadoop to its full potential for maximum scalability.
We look forward to continuing our close relationship with Cloudera. They are the providers of the leading Hadoop distribution, Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop (CDH) and possess unmatched expertise in the solution. Together, we form a winning team to provide the best solutions to our users.
Yves
 It’s unusual for a vendor to be invited by the user group of its largest competitor! Well, the German Informatica User Group, DING, invited Talend as “Guest of Honor” (Ehrengast) to the DING Autumn Conference in Frankfurt on October 5, 2010. Approximately 40 Informatica customers participated in the conference and were very interested in seeing Talend present its open source solutions for Data Integration, Data Quality and especially Master Data Management.
Of course the cost effectiveness of these solutions is especially attractive to companies who are routinely ripped off by proprietary vendors… but the integrated and unified platform for data management is another interesting aspect for them.
Talend is the first vendor – other than Informatica – to be invited to a DING conference. After the success of this session, Talend was invited to become an official member of DING!
Yves
Last week I had the privilege of attending the Open Source Think Tank organized by Olliance Group and DLA Piper in Paris. Over two days, some of the greatest minds in open source in Europe were joined by a fair number of their US colleagues and discussed many topics, from the legal implication of open source licenses to some very specific case studies involving Airbus and the Danish Government, to software M&A and to Cloud computing and its impact on open source. Overall, a very rich and diverse environment and lots of great interactions.
The same week, the third edition of the Open World Forum was held in Paris. The event, still managed by volunteers, is becoming more professional by the year. I enjoyed the Open Analyst Summit which featured Matt Aslett, Jeff Hammond and Matthieu Poujol, as well as some of the sessions on open source marketing & communities. The highlight for Talend was probably the Demo Cup, during which we had to demo innovation in less than 8 minutes! Not an easy feat, but we won an Open Innovation Award.
On Friday (October 8th), we will be in Boulder, Colorado to brief the Boulder BI Brain Trust – BBBT for short. This highly respected institution is a group of independent analysts who are getting together every other week to receive in-depth updates from vendors. The fame of the BBBT has long spread beyond the Colorado borders, even the US borders, and some analysts are usually attending from all Texas, California, Massachusetts, The Netherlands, South Africa, and more! This promises to be an interesting morning of interactions.
And let’s not forget that we have a new version coming out soon (since we are on a 6-month release cycle, I am not blowing away any secret here). I can’t reveal yet the key major new features of version 4.1, but let me say that this version is going to make a blast and change the way some people look at data management. And who says new version, says press & analyst briefings. Along with my colleagues in product marketing, we have been busy explaining the new features and their benefits – more phone calls and face to face meetings. Stay tuned for this announcement next week!
These are busy times. But interactions with our peers, with the analyst and press community, and with our community at large, are one of the aspects of the job that I enjoy the most.
Yves
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