Talend continues to drive data management market in 2010

Rapid rate of open source technology innovation matched by explosive customer and revenue expansion.

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - July 13, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data management software, today announced that it continued its unmatched level of innovation and growth in the data management market in the first half of 2010. In just the last six months, Talend released the first integrated data management platform on the market, attained high growth numbers for the twelfth straight quarter and established partnerships with several key industry leaders. The company is now ideally positioned to further extend its position in the remainder of the year as the company to watch in the data management market.

"After closing our biggest year ever in 2009, Talend has exceeded virtually every goal we set for the first half of 2010 across sales, product development, customer service and support and business development," said Bertrand Diard, CEO & cofounder of Talend. "The launch of Talend 4.0, the most powerful, versatile and open data management solution on the market, validates our position as the standard of excellence in not only the open source community, but the data management market as a whole. We will continue to push our business to keep up with the scorching pace of innovation and delivery of high value, cost-optimized solutions that have become synonymous with our name."

Customer, Revenue and Internal Growth

In 2010, Talend continues to release breakthrough products, add customers and increase revenue faster than any other company in the data management market. Key highlights in the first half of the year include:

• Grew customer base by 50% to over 1,500 customers, up from 1,000 at the beginning of the year. Of these new customers, over 45% are Fortune 1000 companies.
• Total downloads reached 10 million, with over 450,000 users of the open source products.
• Released Talend 4.0, the first integrated data management platform uniting Data Integration, Data Quality and Master Data Management (MDM) within a single solution. This product release confirms that Talend's open source approach to product development is ideal for delivering to customers the exact solutions they need to reduce the complexity of data management projects, resulting in higher productivity, lower operational costs and greater insights into their vital informational assets.
• Established or reinforced a number of key technology partnerships with companies that share Talend's approach of delivering to customers cost-optimized, breakthrough products including BonitaSoft, Cloudera, Infobright, Netezza and Vertica.
• Received a number of prestigious awards including: Network World open source company to watch, AlwaysOn Global 250, the Red Herring Top 100 Europe, The VAR Guy's Open Source 50 and InfoWorld’s Bossie Award.

"With a quick and aggressive approach, Talend has expanded from the leader in the open-source Data Integration community to become a key player in the data management market," said Shawn Rogers, vice president, business intelligence research, Enterprise Management Associates. "The traction they're experiencing in the market clearly indicates that the enterprise is ready for open source, and confirms that Talend's solutions surpass the needs of its enterprise customers."

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