This week was a busy one: 3 days in Vegas for the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration (AADI) Summit, and the launch of Talend v5. I have already commented on the latter, but wanted to share a few thoughts and comments about the Summit.

The first fleeting thought is a bit of disappointment on the amount of online social interactions.  There were not nearly enough Tweeps at this event. Few analysts cared to tweet their thoughts – with the notable exception of @ted_friedman and @merv. And even vendors, who are usually all about trying to look good by tweeting bits and pieces, did not seem very engaged. I think that with the few tweets I posted, I got on the big screen too often (see below).

Now, not all good interactions are online, right? Otherwise, what would be the point of traveling to Vegas (apart from the gambling, I mean). And from that standpoint, the conference was great. We had many great discussions with a number of analysts who are covering our space – the broad integration market – and got excellent feedback from all of them on our new holistic integration positioning: bringing together data, application and process integration. I am very grateful to Jess Thompson, Yefim Natis, Anne-Thomas Manes, Massimo Pezzini, Ted Friedman, Benoit Lheureux, Jim Sinur, Dan Sholler, Merv Adrian and others for the time they spent with us and their feedback. That’s a lot of people we met but Talend’s scope is clearly expanding and spanning more and more markets. Continue reading ‘Impressions from Gartner’s AADI Summit’