Talend Open Studio receives honorable mention for Computerworld Horizon Award

Panel of Independent CIOs Recognizes Talend for Excellence in Innovative Open Source Data Integration Technology

PALO ALTO, Calif. - August 21, 2007 - Talend, the first provider of open source data integration software, today announced that International Data Group’s (IDG) Computerworld magazine, the premier source of IT industry news and analysis, selected Talend Open Studio as an honorable mention of its third annual Computerworld Horizon Awards for cutting-edge technologies. Talend Open Studio, the industry’s first pure open source data integration solution, was selected for the award out of over 250 submissions by an independent panel of senior IT executives.

"Computerworld established the Computerworld Horizon Awards Program to elevate industry recognition of organizations leading the way with technical advances that will affect enterprise customers", said Don Tennant, editor in chief of Computerworld. "With this recognition, Talend joins a select group of innovators focused on bringing new thinking and solutions out of the lab and into the market to the benefit of all."

Talend Open Studio, the industry’s first pure open source data integration solution, combines metadata-driven design and execution, with an easy-to-use graphical development environment, to deliver better scalability at a lower total cost of ownership than traditional data integration or Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) solutions. Talend’s technology and business vision shatters the traditional proprietary model and provides the flexibility required to meet the needs of all organizations – regardless of their size, level of expertise or budgetary constraints. Talend Open Studio has been downloaded by more than 100,000 global users in just ten months of availability.

"It is truly an honor to be recognized by a prestigious publication as well as by so many IT and open source influencers", said Yves de Montcheuil, vice president of marketing of Talend. "It validates the growing appeal and advantages of enterprise solutions that leverage open source as an alternative to costly, closed products. As our solutions continue to experience unprecedented traction, we are focusing on simplifying developments and speeding deployments while empowering the information management teams to select the architecture that makes sense, all without the steep investment and black-box aspects associated with commercial offerings."

The Horizon Award winners are profiled in a special report in the August 20 issue of Computerworld.
View the full list of winners and honorable mentions.

The Computerworld Horizon Awards were established in 2005 to inform readers of the most cutting-edge technologies that are "on the horizon" from research labs and private companies. The program is accompanied by a special report in Computerworld magazine and online at http://www.computerworld.com/horizon. The feature will look at this year’s winning technologies, which include G.Ho.st’s Global Hosted Operating System; Cleversafe Inc.’s Dispersed Storage™ Software; Stanford University’s EyePoint; Symantec Corporation’s Symantec Identity Initiative; ZINK Imaging, LCC ZINK; HP’s Memory Spot; Northwestern University and NEC Labs America CRAMES: Compressed RAM for Embedded Systems; Eleksen Group plc Wearable Display Module; 'Linguistic Agents Ltd. Streaming Logic; and The University of Southern California’s Streaming Logic.

Computerworld is the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld’s award-winning Web site (www.computerworld.com), weekly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world’s largest (40+ edition) global IT media network. In the past five years alone, Computerworld has won more than 100 awards, including Folio Magazine’s 2006 Gold EDDIE Award for the best technology/computing magazine, the 2004 and 2006 Magazine of the Year Award, and 2006 Best Overall Web Publication from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). In addition, in 2007 Computerworld’s editor-in-chief Don Tennant received the prestigious Timothy White Award from American Business Media. Computerworld leads the industry with an online audience of over 2 million unique monthly visitors and a print audience of 1,252,000 readers each week (IntelliQuest CIMS Fall 2006).

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