Skip to main content.

Job Scheduling < Migration

Talend blog

Talend Open Data Solution

Talend blog

Open Source BI in the Real World - MySQL Keynote Slides and Video: Mark Madsen delivered a keynote session at the MySQL conference last month, and this session featured Talend customer Monolith Software who presented how they are using open source technology. You can view a video of the full keynote on Mark’s blog. (...)
18 June 2009
Talend Awards 2009 winners announced: After much deliberation, the Talend Awards Jury returned its verdict. This year we have 3 winners, one in each category: In the Best Return on Investment/Best Business Gain category is Ontario, Canada-based Cymat Technologies Ltd. Cymat, an innovative materials technology company, receives (...)
18 June 2009
On Thursday, tune into DM Radio for “Open-Source Business Intelligence: Moving Up?”: I have the privilege of being invited to speak on this week’s episode of DM Radio, along with my colleagues from Jaspersoft, Penatho, and Jitterbit. The topic will be Open-Source Business Intelligence: Moving Up? Details are below, sign up now! The show will also be available on (...)
16 June 2009
Follow @talend on Twitter: Talend is now on Twitter! Follow @talend to get updates on events, webinars, relevant articles, etc. related to data integration. Here is a sample of recent twits from @talend: Just completed a live webinar on data integration, for replay see our webinars on demand here: http://bit.ly/mVElP (...)
14 June 2009
Accenture commits to open source software… quietly: We’re a communications civilization. Hype is everywhere. Just look at “green”. Today, in the IT sector, everything is green. With open source software the hype is similar. And innovation is an excellent vehicle for hype. So, when you find a company that isn’t (...)
14 June 2009
Life must be tough for Pentaho's marketing…: Come on guys, picking “Talend” as a keyword on Google Adwords is one thing - actually, it proves that Talend is a household name… but paying for advertising on our SourceForge download page! You are really that much out of options for lead generation? I mean, I hope Talend (...)
12 June 2009
Community: hype or enabler?: Matt Asay initiated a good debate about the role of the community in open source software development. He based his reflections on a survey by Packt Publishing reporting that “70% of software developers said that they have donated time, money, or both to open source projects” (...)
11 June 2009
Dinosaurs are still around… but for how long?: We came across a very funny page on a proprietary vendor’s web site: “Why do companies and organizations look to MicroStrategy for best-in-class reporting and business intelligence?” We particularly liked Reason 4: 4. Better than open source “Unlike some code in open (...)
25 May 2009
Talend Integration Suite MPx, extreme scalability for data integration: Yesterday we announced Talend Integration Suite MPx, a highly scalable, massively parallel data integration platform that scales to the highest volumes of data. Talend Integration Suite MPx is designed to meet the highest and most demanding data integration needs. Developed in cooperation with (...)
20 May 2009
Informatica - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Heard anything about Informatica lately? The news I get isn’t very good. Amid speculation of a takeover and rumors of irrelevance, it seems that the historical leader of proprietary data integration technologies is more than ever at a crossroads. On one hand, the Redwood City company (...)
13 May 2009
Version 3.1 is now available: I am proud to inform you of the release of version 3.1. This new version is the fruit of the hard work our our R&D team, but also of the inputs and feature requests of the Talend Community, and - let’s not forget it - of the involvement of the community in the development process (...)
6 May 2009
SAP Enterprise Support: Round 2: After months of tough negotiation, the various SAP user groups and SAP buried the hatchet and finally came to an agreement. As InfoWorld reported: “SAP has ceded to pressure from user groups and agreed to slow the rate at which it applies a new tariff for software support.” The (...)
5 May 2009
Talend / Smart i customer FIDM testimonial video: Back in November we announced that Talend Integration Suite had been selected as the data integration piece of Smart i - a BI appliance based on IBM’s System i (AS/400) platform. This appliance, designed and supported by our partners Systech and Key Information System, is a plug-and-play (...)
30 April 2009
Open Source Software biggest myths: Matthew Aslett of The 451 Group recently published an online poll on the CAOS Theory blog about the biggest myths surrounding open source software. The first results are in. “In no way are the results to be considered scientific (the final two options provide evidence of the informality (...)
29 April 2009
Talend News feed goes live: I am happy to announce that we have just implemented a new unique source of news for the Talend Community. The Talend News section is a single place where you can go to receive updates about many events and programs in Talend’s corporate life. This feed aggregates: Posts in the Talend (...)
22 April 2009
Announcing recent customer implementations: Over the course of the past few weeks, we have announced a number of interesting customer implementations of Talend’s open source data integration technologies. I’d like to focus on a few of these: California-based SupplyFrame, an online component information service for the (...)
17 April 2009
Free and Open Source Software Business Models: One of the most popular themes recently, both in blogs and the press, concerns the different business models adopted by open source vendors. Matthew Aslett with The 451 Group, has written widely on this subject, particularly through the CAOS blog and with the publication last October of the (...)
24 March 2009
Goldman Sachs lowers its forecast on global IT spending: Last November, Goldman Sachs published the 43rd edition of it’s annual report covering IT spending. Based on a survey of 100 decision makers from Global 1000 companies, it predicted a decrease of 4% in global IT spending and a 5% decrease overall in developed countries.This week, (...)
18 March 2009
TDWI's upcoming report and webinar on operational data integration: For the past couple months, we have been working closely with TDWI’s Philip Russom on a report that is due for release in a few weeks, focusing on operational data integration (as opposed to analytical data integration, or ETL). Operational data integration is a domain where Talend plays (...)
18 March 2009
€1 billion invested by venture capitalists in France in 2008: Every six months l’Indicateur Chausson Finance identifies the investments that French venture capital firms have made in new technologies in France and Europe. According to information collected from 52 venture capital firms in France, €556 million ($708 million) were invested in (...)
12 March 2009
Announcing the Second Talend Awards: After last year’s successful event, we are announcing the Second Talend Awards! The goal of the Talend Awards is to recognize Talend users that have achieved a high return on investment or an exceptional performance on a project. To participate, submissions must be received by March (...)
11 March 2009
Fundraising in December - Finishing Up (Post #5): This is the fifth and last post of a series about Talend’s recent Round C Fundraising. Previous Post: Fundraising in November - Inking the Deal There’s a risk even after you’ve signed a term sheet, but it’s minimized. It’s not a major hurdle, like valuation, but (...)
6 March 2009
A tribute to the Open Core Business Model: Brian Gentile, Jaspersoft’s CEO, recently published a post stating his opinion that the Open Core Business Model is the “Best Opportunity for Community and Commercial Success.” The concept of Open Core was created by Andrew Lampitt—then Director of Business (...)
5 March 2009
Fundraising in November - Inking the Deal (Post #4): This is the fourth post of a series about Talend’s recent Round C Fundraising. Previous Post: Fundraising in October - Leveraging the Market This was the final dash to the finish line and we were negotiating in what we thought of at the time as the worst of the financial crisis. The (...)
4 March 2009
British and Finnish governments want to strengthen the use of “free”: Every day, Europe proves to be extremely fertile ground for open source technologies. In 2002, Portugal adopted a directive aimed at developing open source technologies; Croatia did the same in 2006. In 2007, the European Commission published a study on the economic impact of open source, (...)
2 March 2009
Fundraising in October - Leveraging the Market (Post #3): This is the third post of a series about Talend’s recent Round C Fundraising. Previous Post: Fundraising in September - Face Time As the financial crisis accelerated, we continued our Roadshow all over the world. Our news was good. We closed a very interesting Q3 in terms of results and (...)
27 February 2009
Ramblings about TDWI in Las Vegas: Another TDWI… another conference in Las Vegas… a slow event, more lightly attended than usual. Given travel restrictions, no wonder. Still, lots of traction for open source. After all, we are all about optimizing costs. Couple highlights - some serious, some less: Mark Madsen (...)
27 February 2009
Fundraising in September - Face Time (Post #2): This is the second post of a series about Talend’s recent Round C Fundraising. Previous Post: Reflecting on our Recent Series C Fundraising - Introduction The beginning of this process is usually very complex - getting the first appointment, getting a chance to pitch. After months of (...)
22 February 2009
Fundraising in September - Face Time (Post #2): This is the second post of a series about Talend’s recent Round C Fundraising. Previous Post: Reflecting on our Recent Series C Fundraising - Introduction The beginning of this process is usually very complex - getting the first appointment, getting a chance to pitch. After months of (...)
22 February 2009
Reflecting on our Recent Series C Fundraising - Introduction (Post #1): This is the first post of a series about Talend’s recent Round C Fundraising. Read the other posts in this series: Fundraising in September - Face Time (more to come soon) There’s never a time that a CEO doesn’t think about funding, but we started our actual fundraising (...)
17 February 2009
Reflecting on our Recent Series C Fundraising - Introduction (Post #1): This is the first post of a series about Talend’s recent Round C Fundraising. Read the other posts in this series: Fundraising in September - Face Time Fundraising in October - Leveraging the Market Fundraising in November - Inking the Deal Fundraising in December - Finishing Up (...)
17 February 2009
To President Obama: Please Consider Open Source: Along with other CEOs and leaders from the open source community, I signed last week a letter that was addressed to President Obama, urging him to mandate the consideration of the source of an application solution (open or closed) as part of the government’s technology acquisition (...)
16 February 2009
To President Obama: Please Consider Open Source: Along with other CEOs and leaders from the open source community, I signed last week a letter that was addressed to President Obama, urging him to mandate the consideration of the source of an application solution (open or closed) as part of the government’s technology acquisition (...)
16 February 2009
The Crisis: A Catalyst for Innovation: Tom Berquist, Executive Vice President and CFO of Ingres delivered a speech at the Open Source Meets Business Forum held in Nuremberg in late January. His main message was that the current global economic crisis shouldn’t impact open source much in 2009. Tom believes that because of (...)
5 February 2009
The Crisis: A Catalyst for Innovation: Tom Berquist, Executive Vice President and CFO of Ingres delivered a speech at the Open Source Meets Business Forum held in Nuremberg in late January. His main message was that the current global economic crisis shouldn’t impact open source much in 2009. Tom believes that because of (...)
5 February 2009
Gartner forecasts for Business Intelligence: In late 2008, Gartner published a research paper entitled Key Issues for Business Intelligence and Performance Management Initiatives, which discusses barriers to the development of this technology, including establishing a BI strategy and architecture, and integration. The firm’s (...)
29 January 2009
Gartner forecasts for Business Intelligence: In late 2008, Gartner published a research paper entitled Key Issues for Business Intelligence and Performance Management Initiatives, which discusses barriers to the development of this technology, including establishing a BI strategy and architecture, and integration. The firm’s (...)
29 January 2009
test: Technorati Profile
27 January 2009
Talend Secures $12 Million in Funding: Talend has just raised a new round of funding. Round C, for a total of $12 million, was led by Balderton Capital, one of the leading Venture Capital firms in the world. Most notably, Balderton was an early investor in MySQL, one of the most successful open source vendors. Historic Talend (...)
26 January 2009
Talend Secures $12 Million in Funding: Talend has just raised a new round of funding. Round C, for a total of $12 million, was led by Balderton Capital, one of the leading Venture Capital firms in the world. Most notably, Balderton was an early investor in MySQL, one of the most successful open source vendors. Historic Talend (...)
26 January 2009
The Talend Roadshow Crosses the Atlantic, and the Channel: After a very successful first quarter of existence, during which over 500 people were trained at no cost in continental Europe, we are exporting the Talend Discovery Roadshow to the US and the UK. So what is this Roadshow? We believe that the best way to demonstrate to our potential users the (...)
9 January 2009
The Talend Roadshow Crosses the Atlantic, and the Channel: After a very successful first quarter of existence, during which over 500 people were trained at no cost in continental Europe, we are exporting the Talend Discovery Roadshow to the US and the UK. So what is this Roadshow? We believe that the best way to demonstrate to our potential users the (...)
9 January 2009
A Christmas gift from our Community :): We’ve just found out about a program developed by a customer migrating their DataStage (IBM Infosphere) projects to Talend. They were looking for a solution to make the migration as automatized as possible and developed two programs that greatly improved efficiency. And, in the true open (...)
23 December 2008
A Christmas gift from our Community :): We’ve just found out about a program developed by a customer migrating their DataStage (IBM Infosphere) projects to Talend. They were looking for a solution to make the migration as automatized as possible and developed two programs that greatly improved efficiency. And, in the true open (...)
23 December 2008
Jaspersoft’s financing round: yes, we can!: Congratulations are in order for the Jaspersoft team, under the leadership of Brian Gentile, who have announced earlier this month that they have secured $12.5m in venture funding from Adams Street Partners and Red Hat. This announcement is significant for Jaspersoft and for the whole open (...)
21 December 2008
Jaspersoft’s financing round: yes, we can!: Congratulations are in order for the Jaspersoft team, under the leadership of Brian Gentile, who have announced earlier this month that they have secured $12.5m in venture funding from Adams Street Partners and Red Hat. This announcement is significant for Jaspersoft and for the whole open (...)
21 December 2008
Open Source - Shelter from the Storm: We’ve all heard more than we want to about proliferating layoffs. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been touched in some way - either they’ve been affected themselves, or they know someone who has. And this is a bad time to be out of work. TechCrunch has been tracking (...)
19 December 2008
Open Source - Shelter from the Storm: We’ve all heard more than we want to about proliferating layoffs. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been touched in some way - either they’ve been affected themselves, or they know someone who has. And this is a bad time to be out of work. TechCrunch has been tracking (...)
19 December 2008
More on my appointment as Chairman of AFDEL’s open source subcommittee: “The human being was not meant to belong to a herd, like cattle, but to a hive, like the bee.” – Emmanuel Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. NOTE: I don’t usually blog about specifically French topics - thanks to the rest of you for your patience. A (...)
12 December 2008
More on my appointment as Chairman of AFDEL’s open source subcommittee: “The human being was not meant to belong to a herd, like cattle, but to a hive, like the bee.” – Emmanuel Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. NOTE: I don’t usually blog about specifically French topics - thanks to the rest of you for your patience. A (...)
12 December 2008
Is Free BI the Right Direction?: Why not? One of the strengths of open source software is the partner network that exists to provide customers with customized packages that address their most fundamental requirements. The work we do with Jaspersoft (Talend is providing JasperETL under an OEM agreement) is a perfect example (...)
8 December 2008
Is Free BI the Right Direction?: Why not? One of the strengths of open source software is the partner network that exists to provide customers with customized packages that address their most fundamental requirements. The work we do with Jaspersoft (Talend is providing JasperETL under an OEM agreement) is a perfect example (...)
8 December 2008
85% of companies rely on open source technologies - and soon it will be 100%!: A worldwide Gartner survey conducted this summer with 274 companies from various disciplines claims that 85% of companies now use open source components in their information systems, and that the 15% who have not yet adopted such technologies will within a year. Although this is very positive (...)
3 December 2008
85% of companies rely on open source technologies - and soon it will be 100%!: A worldwide Gartner survey conducted this summer with 274 companies from various disciplines claims that 85% of companies now use open source components in their information systems, and that the 15% who have not yet adopted such technologies will within a year. Although this is very positive (...)
3 December 2008
InfoWorld reviews Talend Open Studio in Test Center: Leading IT publication InfoWorld published yesterday an excellent review of two open source data integration solutions: Talend Open Studio and Jitterbit. Talend Open Studio comes out of the review with a score of 9 (out of 10) and a mention of “Excellent” A few selected quotes (...)
3 December 2008
InfoWorld reviews Talend Open Studio in Test Center: Leading IT publication InfoWorld published yesterday an excellent review of two open source data integration solutions: Talend Open Studio and Jitterbit. Talend Open Studio comes out of the review with a score of 9 (out of 10) and a mention of “Excellent” A few selected quotes (...)
3 December 2008
Aberdeen published study on SMBs, webinar planned: Analyst firm Aberdeen Group recently published a study on the use of data integration and BI in SMBs. Talend underwrote this report, because we found that the analysis and conclusions presented by Aberdeen analysts David Hatch and Michael Lock were very much aligned with our view of the (...)
21 November 2008
Aberdeen published study on SMBs, webinar planned: Analyst firm Aberdeen Group recently published a study on the use of data integration and BI in SMBs. Talend underwrote this report, because we found that the analysis and conclusions presented by Aberdeen analysts David Hatch and Michael Lock were very much aligned with our view of the (...)
21 November 2008
Talend customer Rubbermaid Levolor featured in IT press: Several publications have recently reported on how our customer Levolor, a division of Rubbermaid, is using Talend Integration Suite to replace manual coding of their data integration processes. Loraine Lawson from IT Business Edge published Lessons Learned in Switching from Hand-Coding to a (...)
20 November 2008
Talend customer Rubbermaid Levolor featured in IT press: Several publications have recently reported on how our customer Levolor, a division of Rubbermaid, is using Talend Integration Suite to replace manual coding of their data integration processes. Loraine Lawson from IT Business Edge published Lessons Learned in Switching from Hand-Coding to a (...)
20 November 2008
OEM implementations of Talend: In the past few weeks several of our partners have announced new implementations or versions of existing implementations of Talend, embedded in their products. Our GIS partner, Camptocamp, announced version 1.3 of Spatial Data Integrator, an Open Source Spatial ETL. SDI, developed by (...)
19 November 2008
OEM implementations of Talend: In the past few weeks several of our partners have announced new implementations or versions of existing implementations of Talend, embedded in their products. Our GIS partner, Camptocamp, announced version 1.3 of Spatial Data Integrator, an Open Source Spatial ETL. SDI, developed by (...)
19 November 2008
Talend Certification is now available: We officially announced last week the start of a formal Talend Certification program. This Certification is awarded to individuals who successfully complete a comprehensive online test covering all aspects of the use of Talend Open Studio in real-life situations. This program is the result of (...)
17 November 2008
Talend Certification is now available: We officially announced last week the start of a formal Talend Certification program. This Certification is awarded to individuals who successfully complete a comprehensive online test covering all aspects of the use of Talend Open Studio in real-life situations. This program is the result of (...)
17 November 2008
Putting financial crisis in context: I agree with Michael Wheeler’s recent remark. In an Open Solutions Alliance newsletter, the CIO and Finance Officer of Redmayne-Bentley said “Our view is that there must be fantastic opportunities for long-term investors among various software companies with at least a foothold in (...)
8 November 2008
Putting financial crisis in context: I agree with Michael Wheeler’s recent remark. In an Open Solutions Alliance newsletter, the CIO and Finance Officer of Redmayne-Bentley said “Our view is that there must be fantastic opportunities for long-term investors among various software companies with at least a foothold in (...)
8 November 2008
Events, announcements this week: of open source and proprietary…: This week was again a rich one for Talend. 3 events: TDWI in New Orleans, CRM Expo in Nuremberg (Germany), and Sugar CRM Acceleration Summit in San Francisco. TDWI was rich in announcements for open source: ParAccel, JasperSoft and Talend Collaborate to Deliver Integrated High Performance (...)
7 November 2008
Events, announcements this week: of open source and proprietary…: This week was again a rich one for Talend. 3 events: TDWI in New Orleans, CRM Expo in Nuremberg (Germany), and Sugar CRM Acceleration Summit in San Francisco. TDWI was rich in announcements for open source: ParAccel, JasperSoft and Talend Collaborate to Deliver Integrated High Performance (...)
7 November 2008
Open source solutions, R&D, and vendor contributions: “In 2002, David A. Wheeler published a well-regarded study that examined the Software Lines of Code (SLOC) present in a typical Linux distribution (Red Hat Linux 7.1). His findings? At that time it would cost over $1.2 billion to develop a Linux distribution by conventional proprietary (...)
6 November 2008
Open source helps navigate a down-market: These are tough times. Economies have tanked while debt is rising. Real estate is down; loans of any kind are hard to get; the unemployment rate is up; disposable income is increasingly limited - and corporations are changing the way they do business. In effect, these are good times for open (...)
30 October 2008
A comment on Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant for Data Integration: Last month, Gartner released their latest Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. No surprise, Gartner’s analyses are still very conservative. Their analysts use mostly their rearview mirror, to look at what happened behind them, whereas they should have a radar to see what’s (...)
29 October 2008
Update from Munich, Germany: Despite a thinner than usual crowd at Systems, our colleagues from Talend Germany and Cecile from the European marketing team are reporting a good event for Talend. A lot more people are coming to the booth (as in looking for it, as opposed to stumbling upon it by chance) and are on a mission (...)
24 October 2008
Talend’s Recent Innovation and Accolades: Talend’s Recent Innovation and Accolades I’ll conclude my review of the main events in Talend’s recent history with the innovation and products announcements we made between January and September 2008: We announced the availability of Talend Data Quality, the first product (...)
24 October 2008
New customers reference section on Talend’s web site: The new Customers section of Talend’s web site features dozens of case studies of customers of Talend, with the reasons why they have chosen open source data integration and the benefits they are deriving from it. Check it out. (...)
24 October 2008
Talend Expands Partners Base: I’ve already talked about the Talend Customer base and adoption expansion. Today, I’ll focus on the numerous partnerships we’ve built over the course of the past few months. Talend developed several dozen partnerships to expand its ecosystem of technology partners and (...)
22 October 2008
Customer interview by Loraine Lawson: Lessons Learned in Switching from Hand-Coding to a Data Integration Tool: Loraine Lawson from IT Business Edge interviewed Talend Integration Suite customer John Shafer from Levolor. In this in-depth interview, Shafer explains how and why his company switched from hand-coded data integration to Talend’s open source data integration solution. He discusses risk (...)
22 October 2008
Teradata users conference in Las Vegas: Last week Teradata was holding their annual user conference at the Mandala Bay in Las Vegas. For the first time, Talend sponsored this conference and we announced our partnership with Teradata. Overall, a great event: Open source is now recognized as an enterprise solution, as shown by the (...)
22 October 2008
Talend Open Studio v3.0 is available: We just released version 3.0 of Talend Open Studio. There are many new features in this release, including: Native support for SAP Support of advanced Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) mode Dependencies analysis Many new components and connectors (over 400 total) You can check the full (...)
22 October 2008
Talend wins a BeyeNETWORK Vision Award for Business Impact: The news was posted today - the BeyeNETWORK announced the winners of their its annual Vision Award for Business Impact. In keeping with its mission to provide a global vision for business intelligence (BI) and beyond, this award recognizes the efforts of companies that have successfully used BI (...)
21 October 2008
Talend webinars are now available on demand: Many of our webinar attendees had asked for it, there were a few technical challenges, but we finally posted several of our past webinars online for on-demand replay. Simply visit http://www.talend.com/webinar/archive/index.php to view the list of webinars that are available on demand. Then (...)
21 October 2008
Talend Expands Customer Base and Adoption: The autumn is a very special time for Talend; the season marks the launching of Talend Open Studio in October 2006. And what a road it’s been these past 2 years! Over the next few posts, I’ll take advantage of this anniversary period to give you a progress report on several topics (...)
20 October 2008
Master Data Management - too often overlooked: A highly strategic set of processes and tools for defining and managing non-transactional data entities, Master Data Management (MDM) is often poorly implemented. As defined by Wikipedia, MDM has the objective of providing processes for collecting, aggregating, matching, consolidating, (...)
14 October 2008
A change in the way we see software…: The world is moving toward a different way of consuming products. Consider transportation. The Ford Model T democratized the car and made it more accessible. Generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, it was known as the car that “put America on wheels.” People (...)
9 October 2008
Excellent data profiling tutorial: Dylan Jones, the community manager of Data Quality Pro.com, posted last week an excellent tutorial on data profiling: Data Profiling for Beginners. The tutorial provides a basic introduction to some of the common terms and techniques of data profiling, using Talend Open Profiler and a free (...)
8 October 2008
First Open World Forum: Paris, December 1st & 2nd: Open World now has its own Forum! And it’s happening in Paris on December 1st and 2nd at the Maison de la Chimie. Take a look at the Forum’s Web Site which says: “At the hub of the FLOSS movement, the Open World Forum provides an international venue where FLOSS community (...)
2 October 2008
Crisis, what crisis?: Don’t get me wrong, my stock savings are sadly taking a beating right now and there is no doubt that we are in a financial and economical crisis on both sides of the Atlantic. However, that has not impacted Talend’s impressive growth so far and I was wondering why. Here are a few (...)
2 October 2008
New repository of white papers and analyst reports: We have just deployed a new White Paper Library that contains a wealth of valuable documents for (potential) users of data integration: white papers, analyst reports, case studies, etc. All can be downloaded from a single location. A few examples of what you can find in this reference (...)
1 October 2008
Talend Webinars: 5000 and counting: 5000 and counting… this is the number of registrants to the 52 webinars Talend has organized so far, in 3 languages and many different time zones. The themes were varied: ETL, migration, SOA, cleansing, real-time, SAP, etc. When we launched our webinar program in early 2008, we knew (...)
29 September 2008
Is this all Marketing and no Substance?: Stephen Swoyer wrote a long piece in Enterprise Systems Journal in which has asked marketing folks for SAS and IBM what they think of Talend’s marketing message. Unsurprisingly, they don’t agree with our claims that legacy data integration tools are - legacy. Their story is - (...)
19 September 2008
Talend kicks off a Discovery Roadshow: The best way to demonstrate to our potential users the value that Talend’s technology can bring to them is to have them try it themselves. So we are getting on the road and organizing a series of free technical workshops in a number of cities in France, Switzerland and Belgium. During 3 (...)
19 September 2008
Of Free Chromium and Protons: Two topics you couldn’t avoid last week relate to open source. One is Google’s launch of Chrome, its own Web browser. The other is the news that CERN started up the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). Last week, Google unveiled its new browser with a cartoon book campaign. In the days (...)
15 September 2008
Subsidizing open source, or just creating the right environment?: As a follow up on my post about InfoWorld’s recent article Open source lessons from the French, I wanted to react to this post by Matt Asay. Matt debates with a dilemna: shoud governments fund open source, or not? His (rightful) conclusion is that it’s not governments role to do (...)
2 September 2008
Adopting the Open-Core Licensing term?: My friend Andrew Lampitt of Jaspersoft crafted a new term that I think makes a lot of sense for the commercial open source business model that vendors like Talend, Jaspersoft and several other embody. In his post, Open-Core Licensing (OCL): Is this Version of the Dual License Open Source (...)
2 September 2008
Software maintenance: are users rioting?: Dennis Howlett recently wrote an aggressive post in his Irregular Enterprise blog. According to him, the traditional software maintenance pricing model is dead. Dennis is convinced that enterprises are rejecting this pricing model when they realize the incredibly high profit margins of (...)
31 August 2008
Open Source: French Companies Rule!: Yesterday’s InfoWorld home page boasted a great piece: Open source lessons from the French. Bertrand was interviewed by the editor Tom Kaneshige on the topic - after all Talend is probably one of the best examples of a successful French software vendor this decade. Bertrand is quoted (...)
29 August 2008
Launching the first open source data quality solution: This week,Talend did to data quality (DQ) what it did to data integration (DI) almost two years ago. We announced the first open source data quality solution. And the same way open source has stormed the data integration market, it will also storm the data quality market. Proprietary vendors (...)
23 August 2008
LinuxWorld: another Tux Droid winner!: At LinuxWorld last week, we raffled a Tux Droid. Our friendly talking and singing penguin was won by Jerry H. from Cupertino, CA. Congratulations, Jerry! By the way, LinuxWorld was a great show for Talend. Talend Open Profiler, the first open source data profiler, was expected by the (...)
12 August 2008
Welcoming Jean-Luc Solans: It is my pleasure to announce that software industry veteran Jean-Luc Solans has just joined the Talend Executive Team. Jean-Luc brings us 20 years of software sales and marketing experience in the US and Europe. Most recently he was on a sabbatical during which he cruised his bike from (...)
24 July 2008
Talend Open Profiler gets rave reviews: Last week, Lora Bentley from IT Business Edge published an interview she did with me when we announced Talend Open Profiler. We covered many topics, ranging from the need for data quality to the value that open source brings to this field. Let’s not forget that Talend Open Profiler is (...)
23 July 2008
And the winner is… France: I recently mentioned the Open Source Tour of Europe that Matt Aslett from The 451 Group did. For these of you who did not go and check the winner’s name on Matt’s blog, read on (even if you know the winner, read on, it’s still interesting). The 4 semi-finalists were Germany, (...)
23 July 2008
The proof that they don’t care (and that they can): To follow up on Bertrand’s recent post Price increases: because they can, and as if to prove us right, SAP attempted last week a massive switchover of the former BO customers to SAP’s technical support system. And this was a catastrophic failure, with thousands of customers unable (...)
21 July 2008
Relevance can be measured by your competitors’ Google campaigns…: I tried searching for the keyword talend in Google. Natural search results were expected, with Talend’s Web site occupying the first positions. More interesting were the sponsored links (Google’s “Adwords” - the ones that are shown on top on the colored background, and (...)
15 July 2008
Will Talend be the next $1B acquisition?: There is something to be said about recognition by the market and your peers. First, the SourceForge community nominates us for an Award in the category “Most Likely to be the Next $1 billion Acquisition” (see Yves’ post - and please vote for Talend Open Studio or (...)
9 July 2008
Open Source European Championship: Taking as a pretext the Euro 2008 soccer (or football, as we say in Europe!) championship which saw Spain win the title, Matt Aslett from The 451 Group studied in detail open source adoption in the 16 countries that had qualified. Matt looked at several criteria (projects, national policies (...)
7 July 2008
Talend is a Finalist in the SourceForge Awards! (VOTE NOW): Thanks to a terrific community that nominated Talend Open Studio, I am proud to inform you that Talend has been nominated a finalist in the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards, in the category “Most Likely to be the Next $1 billion Acquisition”. This is a great recognition of (...)
4 July 2008
Talend Open Profiler, the first open source data profiling solution: We have just released Talend Open Profiler - the first open source data profiler. Put simply, data profiling is the process of examining the data available in existing data sources and collecting statistics and information about this data. Data profiling - while an interesting discipline in (...)
23 June 2008
Price increases: because they can: Following suit to SAP, Oracle has just increased their prices 15 to 20%. Why? Because… they can! SAP, Oracle, IBM have spent billions of dollars over the past 3 years to build the most comprehensive software stack they could. Along the way, they have also acquired hundreds of (...)
23 June 2008
“Parallel” online communities are growing: Over the past few months, we have started to see a dramatic increase on the amount of web traffic and chatter related to Talend, on non-sanctioned Talend sites. By non-sanctioned, I certainly do not imply anything negative - just that these sites are not controlled by Talend and are mostly the (...)
20 June 2008
Talend opens Benelux office: Talend has just opened an office covering the Benelux market, and I am pleased to introduce my new colleague Marc Lejeune, who has recently joined Talend as Business Development Manager. He is in charge of working with the Talend Community and partners in Belgium, The Netherlands and (...)
17 June 2008
Change Data Capture explained: Talend announced last week Talend Integration Suite 2.4, the first ever open source data integration product that includes built-in Change Data Capture. As you may know, Change Data Capture streamlines real-time data integration for enterprises because it detects changed records in real time (...)
17 June 2008
Invited at the 2008 Morgan Stanley CTO Summit: Out of 400 applicants, only 30 were selected. I am talking about up and coming IT companies, startups for the most, who were nominated to participate to the 2008 Morgan Stanley CTO Summit (you need to be nominated, not everyone can send their file). Hosted by Jonathan Saxe, Morgan (...)
16 June 2008
The TalendForge Planet has reached its orbit: Many of Talend’s technical staff members maintain personal blogs that they use to discuss technical topics related to open source data integration, or the technologies underlying Talend’s products. The TalendForge Planet is a new blog aggregator, where all relevant posts from these (...)
12 June 2008
SourceForge.net Community Awards nominations: vote now!: SourceForge.net has created the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards, and they need your nominations! To put it in their own words: “Hey! You! Are you sick of letting the big hardware companies, tech blogs, and mainstream media decide which open source projects deserve widespread (...)
11 June 2008
Version 2.4 is out: We announced yesterday that Talend Open Studio v2.4 is now available, with Talend On Demand v2.4 and Talend Integration Suite v2.4 to follow suit in approximately two weeks. I already posted about the features of this new version when we came out with the Release Candidate. What was not (...)
10 June 2008
Releasing “Practical open source data integration”: a case studies guide: We published last week the first edition of Practical Open Source Data Integration: Case Studies & Implementation Examples. Over the past few years, open source has indeed established itself as a key component of the overall data integration market. Many organizations have adopted this (...)
3 June 2008
Talend at LinuxTag in Berlin and TDWI in Munich: The tradeshows/conferences calendar made it so that two very important events in Germany were happening two weeks in a row: Last week was the LinuxTag conference in Berlin, the annual meeting of Open Source developers and business users. Talend exhibited at the event and we also hosted a (...)
3 June 2008
Rubbing elbows with the Prime Minister: On Wednesday last week I was invited (along with 4 other fellows entrepreneurs) to participate to a round table with France’s Prime Minister François Fillon, and his Minister for Digital Economy, Eric Besson. This took place at La Cantine in Paris. This was a really terrific experience! (...)
2 June 2008
What do SAP and Open Source Data Integration Have in Common?: At first sight, not a lot, would you say. SAP is the archetype of proprietary software, with a proprietary and incredibly complex database schema, lots of proprietary APIs, a complex and expensive certification cycle… and yet, like open source data integration, it helps large enterprises (...)
28 May 2008
TDWI Tux Droid Winner: And the winner is… Jeffrey W. of Chicago, IL. Congratulations, Jeffrey, you will receive shortly a cute cyber-penguin that talks, moves, flaps its wings, plays music, reads email and RSS feeds, and many more. Yves
28 May 2008
Openbravo’s $12m Round: I would like to congratulate my friends at Openbravo for raising the largest ever round for open source ERP. Openbravo just raised $12m from three high profile VCs. A further proof that the open source market is not only doing very well, but also attracting top capital from discerning (...)
27 May 2008
Tux Droid Winners: I am really really late for this announcement and I am sorry for this. Here are the Tux Droid winners for the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, and the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco. We wanted to notify the winners first, and one of them took a little long to respond. I (...)
26 May 2008
Open source software becomes more reliable every day: The US Department of Homeland Security (you know, the TSA guys who ask you to take your shoes off, prohibit you to carry a replacement battery for your laptop, and like to search through your dirty laundry) does also useful stuff such as evaluating America’s vulnerabilities in various (...)
23 May 2008
Please check out Talend Open Studio v2.4 RC: I am proud to inform you that Talend Open Studio 2.4.0 Release Candidate is now available. This version contains all the features of Talend Open Studio 2.4.0 and we need community members to track all problems that might exist in your Open Source data integration tool, before its release. (...)
23 May 2008
Talend’s site goes multilingual: We finalized today the fifth language supported on Talend’s Web site. You will now be able to check out information about the leading open source data integration solution in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. This truly reflects Talend’s global reach - open source is (...)
16 May 2008
New Strategic Partnership with ParAccel: We announced this week a strategic partnership with columnar database appliance vendor ParAccel. This young company (they launched 6 months ago) offers one of the best price performance ratio in the DW appliance market. And they are a great partner to work with! ParAccel and Talend share a (...)
16 May 2008