Talend introduces the industry's first Java Open Source data integration solution

Talend Open Studio v2.0 Provides Higher Flexibility and Performance over Proprietary Solutions, Changing the Economics of Data Integration for Organizations of All Sizes

PALO ALTO, Calif. - April 23, 2007 - Talend, the first provider of open source data integration software, today announced the availability of Talend Open Studio version 2.0, the company's flagship open source data integration solution. Talend Open Studio offers expanded language support, native connectors to a broader range of applications and expanded flexibility with ELT (Extract, Load and Transform) architecture support. The launch of Talend Open Studio v2.0 comes on the heels of the company's official launch in the U.S. to help support an incredibly fast adoption rate, with more than 60,000 global downloads of the product after just six months of availability.

Companies of all sizes are faced with exponential growth in the volume and heterogeneity of data they need to manage and control. At the same time, competitive pressure to have agile and high performance operations requires enterprises to ensure the seamless interoperability of applications and databases, and the fluidity of data throughout their information systems. Adding to the challenges facing IT departments today is the fact that data integration has historically been approached differently by the varying departments in an organization, some of which have purchased expensive proprietary solutions from different vendors.  In the past few years, the market has undergone massive consolidation, leaving very few alternatives for organizations seeking an affordable and flexible way to solve the data integration challenge.

Talend is changing the economics of data integration by providing a more scalable, higher-performance and less-expensive open source alternative to the traditional, proprietary data integration suites.

With its intuitive easy-to-use graphical environment, Talend Open Studio simplifies development and speeds up deployment while empowering enterprise information management teams to select the architecture that makes sense for their unique needs. Unlike commercial data integration software that requires steep initial investment and relies heavily on IT resources for full-time management of software maintenance and upgrades, Talend Open Studio is provided at no cost under a GPL license. Furthermore, the ramp-up costs and ongoing development and maintenance costs are sharply reduced by the solution's embracing of open standards and architectural options.

“Integration is the foundation of successful interoperability between applications and databases of all kinds,” said Bill Inmon, data warehouse consultant for Inmon Consulting Systems. “The integration market has long needed technology that has applicability to organizations of all sizes.  By providing an open source alternative to current proprietary offerings, Talend is clearly answering a pressing demand in the marketplace for simpler to use, less expensive solutions.”

Available for download free of charge, new features of Talend Open Studio v2.0 include: 

• Java Language Generation-Talend Open Studio v2.0 is the first data integration product that generates data integration processes in Java. This capability leverages the high performance and wide adoption of the Java language, and delivers an industry-first to organizations looking to deploy data integration tools in a Java environment.
  
  
• Expanded Flexibility with ELT Support-Talend Open Studio v2.0 offers organizations the ability to address a wide array of data integration projects and use cases by providing customers with the option to perform traditional Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) functions as well as Extract, Load and Transform (ELT) functions that leverage database engines to execute high-volume data transformations. Combined with the grid deployment architecture of Talend Open Studio that enables organizations to use inexpensive commodity hardware to execute data integration processes, the ELT ability provides more options to run the data integration jobs where and how they are the most optimized.
  
  
• More than 100 Native Connectors, Support for Major ERP & CRM-Talend Open Studio v2.0 offers customers more than 100 native connectors to solutions that include leading ERP and CRM, all commercial and open source databases, files or all formats, Web Services, etc. This wide array of connectors, unmatched by any other proprietary integration solution, is the key to the successful interoperability of applications and databases; it allows bridging diverse data structures at performance rates that surpass that of competitive, high-cost solutions.

“Prior to launching the first version of Open Studio in late 2006, we took every step to make sure that we would bring a feature-rich, intuitive product to market that would exceed the performance of existing proprietary solutions,” said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend. “60,000 users have downloaded Talend Open Studio in just six months, giving us a strong indication that we are satisfying the data integration needs of some of the most data-intensive organizations at a price and performance that proprietary vendors cannot match. In fact, in a recent survey, 47 percent of Talend Open Studio users indicated that despite investment into commercial data integration solutions, they are choosing to deploy Talend's open source data integration solution for new projects. The new version of Talend Open Studio v2.0 further widens the performance and flexibility gap and continues the democratization of the data integration market.”

 

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 is the first company to provide open source etl software tools for the ETL market. The company's solutions break rank with the market by supplying open, innovative and more powerful software. Talend's software is distributed under open source license. The company's flagship product, Talend Open Studio, has been downloaded over 30,000 times in less than four months. Their objective is to reach 100,000 downloads by the end of June 2007.
Talend has signed partnership agreements with key industry players, including MySQL (MySQL Network Certified Partner), JasperSoft and Engineering. With operations in Europe, the United States and China, the company provides support, training and consulting services for its solution. More information about Talend: www.talend.com.