Awards and Industry Recognition

Below are examples of awards and industry recognition presented to Talend, its solutions and its customers.

	For the third year in a row, Talend was positioned as a Visionary in the 2011 edition of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, reflecting Talend's ongoing commitment to innovation and delivering unmatched value to its clients.
	For the third year in a row, Infoworld named Talend a Bossie 2011 Winner, in The best open source data center and cloud software category. Talend was recognized this year because it “remains the undisputed leader in open source data management and integration” and “with native support for Apache Hadoop, Talend scales to enterprise heights with ease”.
	In its 2011 CRM Market Awards, CRM magazine recognized Talend as a Leader in the Data Quality category, explaining that “Talend was named as One to Watch last year for a reason. With the release of its unified data management platform, analysts took note. This year, the open-source technology company made its way onto our leaderboard with its respectable scores.”
	In 2011, CRN declared that “Talend is one of the largest pure-play vendors of open source software, offering a breadth of middleware solutions” and selected the company as a CRN Emerging Software Vendor.
	For the first time an open source vendor, Talend, was positioned as a Visionary in the 2011 edition of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools, reflecting Talend's ongoing commitment to innovation and the impact of open source on the market.
	In 2011, Gartner named Talend a Cool Vendor in Application and Integration Platforms. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are innovative, impactful, and intriguing. "This recognition as a 'Cool Vendor' by Gartner further confirms Talend's positioning and the substantial impact the open source model has in delivering to organizations of all sizes."
	Leading UK newspaper The Telegraph nominated Talend to the Telegraph Tech Start-Up 100: Class of 2011. Start-Up 100 is an attempt to create the most authoritative and trustworthy ranking of promising technology start-ups in Europe. After six months of careful evaluation, leading UK newspaper The Telegraph announced the hundred companies that made it into the Start-Up 100. Talend was nominated in the category Enterprise: Security, Storage, Collaboration, Databases.
	In order to recognize the fastest growing technology companies in the Silicon Valley area, Lead411 released in 2011 its Hottest Companies in Silicon Valley award. Talend was recognized as “one of the largest pure play vendors of open source software, offering a breadth of middleware solutions that address both data management and application integration needs.”
	Entrepreneurs are using open source solutions to attack a myriad of varied markets. In 2011, the Momentum Index ranked 96 venture-backed open source software companies. Talend ranked #1 with a Momentum Index of 89.5, because “The Open Source Integration company is clearly taking off. With backing from Silver Lake, and significant scale, we think Talend could be an IPO candidate.”
	At Open World Forum 2010, Talend received an Open Innovation Award for its ground breaking open source MDM solution, Talend MDM. Open Innovation Awards are awarded to “projects and solutions most likely to have a significant impact on society and on the marketplace”.
	For the second year in a row, Talend was named a Bossie 2010 Winner by Infoworld. The InfoWorld Test Center picked the top open source operating platforms and middleware of 2010. Talend was recognized for its “strong tools for ETL, business and job modeling, and impact analysis”, and for “raising the bar with the addition of master data management tools and native support for Hadoop, laying the groundwork for large-scale, 'big data' analysis”.
	In its 2010 CRM Market Awards, CRM magazine recognized Talend as One to Watch in the Data Quality category. Recipients were determined through an extensive three-month process and a proprietary rating formula that involves industry analysts, financial and corporate information, product and functionality assessments, and scores reflecting customer satisfaction.
	In 2010, Talend was selected by Information Management as one of the 40 Vendors We're Watching in 2010 for its open source integration and MDM software. Why? "We just have to give this company credit for kicking down the proprietary software door in these categories, and because proprietary software needs to learn a thing or two about community"
	In 2010, Talend has been selected as a CRN Emerging Software Vendor, positionning their solution offerings as a key differentiator.
	The 2010 VAR Guy’s Annual Open Source 50 ranked Talend #12 for for its channel program.
	Talend was selected as a Red Herring Top 100 Europe Winner for 2010, because the company "embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture." The Red Herring Top 100 award recognizes the leading private companies, celebrating their innovations and technologies across their respective industries.
	In 2010, with “its sights set on MDM” Talend received the Intelligent Enterprise Editors' Choice Award for “democratizing data integration“ and “making data integration and data quality management more affordable.”
	Talend received a Golden Decideo 2010 in the annual “Decideo Barometer”. For the first time, the community of BI users presented this award to an open source vendor. And, for the first time, a data integration tool was recognized by the survey.
	In 2009, Talend was named an Open Source Company to Watch by Network World. Why it is worth watching? "Talend started with data integration then added data quality and Master Data Management (MDM), which is the first open source MDM".
	InfoWorld's 2009 Bossies spotlight today's Top 40 open source products for business and IT pros. Talend was nominated a winner in the Best of open source platforms and middleware category, as "an excellent choice for data integration projects large or small".
	In 2009, Talend received the AlwaysOn Global 250 Award which is given to private, emerging technology companies creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets.
	In 2009, Talend has been selected by Everything Channel as a CRN Emerging Technology Vendor, for the value it provides to the channel and end-user customers.
	Talend Open Studio received the InfoWorld 2009 Technology of the Year award, in the category Best Data Integration Platform.
	In 2009, Talend received the Intelligent Enterprise Editors' Choice Award and is called "the leader" in open source data integration and ETL.
	In 2008, Talend Open Studio scores a 9 (out of 10) and a mention of "Excellent" in InfoWorld's review of open source data integration solutions.
	In 2008, Talend and customer ETAI win the Vision Award for Business Impact, awarded by the BeyeNETWORK to recognize companies that have used data integration software and technology to positively impact their organizations.
	In 2008, Talend was nominated a finalist for the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards.
	01 Informatique, the premier weekly magazine solely focused on IT industry news in France, has awarded Talend the Prix de la jeune entreprise 2008 to reward Talend's technological excellence.
	In 2007, Talend was named Open Source Company to Watch by Network World and recognized as one of the most innovative start-ups in open source.
	Talend Open Studio received an honorable mention for Computerworld's Horizon Award 2007. This award recognizes organizations leading the way with technical advances that will affect enterprise customers.

Talend is the market leader in open source data management and application integration. Talend's powerful, innovative software solutions include open source data warehouse tools and ETL tools that support modeling, design, development, ETL testing, and deployment, all through an intuitive Eclipse-based development environment. Talend's data integration product suite also features open source solutions for data quality and MDM. Talend's application integration tool suite includes a high-performance ESB with built-in enterprise integration pattern support, as well as comprehensive solutions for SOA web service development and SOA integration.

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