Evolution Toward Holistic Integration - Interview with Yves de Montcheuil, VP of Marketing, Talend

One year after the acquisition of Sopera, Talend released Talend v5, a holistic integration platform for the enterprise. In this interview, Yves de Montcheuil describes what has changed and what has not, and explains what holistic integration is.
 

How much has changed at Talend since the acquisition of Sopera?

Yves: The acquisition of Sopera in late 2010 has started a deep transformation of Talend’s product portfolio – a transformation that culminated this past November with the release of Talend v5, a holistic integration platform for the enterprise.

But on the other hand the founding principles of Talend remain intact. Our original mission was to democratize integration, to bring integration technologies to companies of all sizes and for all their projects. The broadening of our scope has not altered this course.  

How deep was the transformation of the product portfolio?

Yves: Roughly one year ago, Talend was a very successful pure play data management vendor. We had built a unified data management platform by adding data quality and MDM products to our core data integration capabilities, but everything we were doing was focused on the data – moving, transforming, cleansing, governing, mastering data.

In a market increasingly driven toward convergence, we embarked on a journey to extend our data capabilities and provide the extensive integration capabilities that the market is requiring today.

In Talend v5, users will continue to find the same ease of use, performance and openness that has always driven Talend’s products. But they will also find a much broader technology portfolio, with added Enterprise Service Bus and Business Process Management products, all based on the Unified Platform technology foundation.

What do you mean by “holistic integration”?

Yves: The Merriam Webster dictionary defines “holistic” as: “relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts - [for example:] holistic medicine attempts to treat both the mind and the body; holistic ecology views humans and the environment as a single system.”

Holistic integration brings together all enterprise integration needs, including data, applications and business processes, as a complete system - as opposed to disjointed technologies.

Talend v5 enables IT organizations to converge traditionally disparate integration efforts and practices through a common set of products, tools and best practices. When an organization deploys Talend v5, it deploys essentially one platform, regardless of the integration need: data integration, application integration, process integration.

What about users who need only a limited set of capabilities?

Yves: The platform approach does not mean that Talend v5 is bloatware. Each product within the platform remains best of breed and will also work independently of the others. For example, customers who only need an ETL for BI, or simply an ESB, will of course not need to deploy the entire platform, but just Talend Enterprise Data Integration or Talend Enterprise ESB (for example).

The bottom line is: Talend continues to address individual project needs, and at the same time evolves to cover the needs of convergence required by IT organizations today.

Yves de Montcheuil - VP of Marketing, Talend

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