Talend Named ‘Cool Vendor’ by Leading Industry Analyst Firm

Open Source Integration Company Included in “Cool Vendors in Application and Integration Platforms, 2011” by Analyst Firm

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - April 27, 2011 - Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that it has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the “Cool Vendors in Application and Integration Platforms, 2011″ report published by Gartner, Inc. The report – written by Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima, Paolo Malinverno, Jess Thompson and Yefim V. Natis – singles out emerging vendors that address the application and integration platform markets by providing core enabling and integrated application infrastructure offerings.

According to Gartner, “The attraction of free data integration and application infrastructure is far-reaching, as demonstrated by the millions of downloads of data integration and ESB OSS technology…CIOs of organizations embarking on data integration and SOA initiatives (which typically require data integration) should perform the due diligence of assessing supported OSS and traditionally licensed application infrastructure products.”

Talend is one of the largest pure-play vendors of open source software, offering a breadth of middleware solutions. Recognized for providing offerings that address the needs of diverse, but intersecting disciplines including data management, application integration, SOA and more, the company has become the leader in open source middleware. Many large organizations around the globe use Talend's products and services to optimize the costs of data integration, data quality, Master Data Management (MDM) and application integration.

“With the exponential growth of data and the ever increasing complexity of IT systems, it is becoming even more important for enterprises to ensure they are maximizing the impact of their investments in data management and application integration technologies,” said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend. “Our extensive portfolio of award-winning enterprise-ready technology is fully based on the open source principles of openness and community, while being field-tested and proven by both large and small companies around the world. We believe the recognition of Talend as a 'Cool Vendor' by Gartner further confirms our positioning and the substantial impact the open source model has in delivering to organizations of all sizes.”

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

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