[2010-08-23] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend MDM Community Edition 4.1.0M4 is available

Download Talend MDM Community Edition 4.1.0M4.

This new 4.1.0M4 release includes new features and fixed bugs.

For a full list of new features and fixed bugs for this new release, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-08-23] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend Open Profiler 4.1.0M4 is available

Download Talend Open Profiler 4.1.0M4.

This new 4.1.0M4 release includes new features such as: new system indicators added, java indicator now accepts parameters and filter data in column set analysis (data invalid/valid against regular expressions). Also, bugs have been fixed.

For a full list of new features and fixed bugs, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-08-23] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend Open Studio 4.1.0M4 is available

Download Talend Open Studio 4.1.0M4.

New features in the 4.1.0M4 release include for Talend Open Studio: Dynamic Schema for tFileInputDelimited and tFileOutputDelimited, added Metadata type for FTP, easily shared custom components between TIS Studios and CommandlIne connected to the same Remote repository, customized exported documentation (CSS) and possibility to customize all licenses for code generated / routines for OEM.

For a full list of new features and fixed bugs, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-08-23] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend MDM Community Edition 4.1.0M3 is available

Download Talend MDM Community Edition 4.1.0M3.

This new 4.1.0M3 release is a bug fixing release.

For a full list of new features and fixed bugs for this new release, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-08-23] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend Open Profiler 4.1.0M3 is available

Download Talend Open Profiler 4.1.0M3.

This new 4.1.0M3 release includes new features such as: an option to automatically select all missing dependencies in the export wizard and allowing import from or export to a zip file. Also, bugs have been fixed.

For a full list of new features and fixed bugs, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-08-23] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend Open Studio 4.1.0M3 is available

Download Talend Open Studio 4.1.0M3.

New features in the 4.1.0M3 release include for Talend Open Studio: new tSOAP webservice component, added file sort order to filelist, update feature and build script to add external plug-ins, added the possibility to have a bootstrap to avoid login dialog and added 1,N cardinality on tFileInputMSDelimited.

For a full list of new features and fixed bugs, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-08-23] Talend Forum Announcement: Facebook: become a fan and "Like" us on our page

Talend now has a Facebook Like page.
Check the page and "like" us on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Talend/50486727973

You will be able to get the latest on us and our webinars, events, roadshows, tutorials on your Facebook account.
Also find pictures of past events and videos of tutorials and interviews.

[2010-08-03] Talend Blog: Nick White, New Addition to Talend’s Executive Team

We have just announced that Nick White has joined Talend as our new Chief Financial Officer.

Nick has extensive, senior-level finance experience in start-up, medium-sized, and high profile hardware and software companies. He was most recently CFO of SpringSource, a VC-funded open-source company that grew to 160 employees, a $30M run rate and operations in 9 countries - in 27 months.  Previously, he was the CFO at Transitive Corporation, a binary translation software company, and he has also served in senior positions at NeXT Computer, California Energy and Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers).

Nick’s experience and expertise will be especially important as we will rely on him to manage strategic issues, key to our strong ambitions. With Nick on the team, we are gearing up the organization for the next stage of our growth.  As previously announced, Talend has experienced a strong first half of 2010. During this time, we increased our paying customer base by 50%, our downloads reached 10 million, and we have now almost half a million users of our open source products.

I am very happy that Nick is joining Talend and that he will be contributing to our tremendous adventure!

Bertrand

[2010-07-29] Talend Document: Matching Technology Improves Data Quality

Matching technology plays an important role in achieving a single view of customers, parts, transactions or almost any type of data. Often used to identify duplicates and near-duplicates, matching technology is vital to providing data that is fit-for-use in enterprise applications.

This white paper outlines the basic theories and strategies of record matching. It describes the nuances of deterministic and probabilistic matching and the algorithms used to identify relationships within records. It covers the processes you can use in conjunction with matching technology to transform raw data into powerful information that drives success in enterprise applications like CRM, data warehouse and ERP.

[2010-07-15] Talend Forum Announcement: Getting Started with Talend MDM - Community Edition: Demo Content

The content for the Community Edition demo has been posted to the wiki.  This is a great place to get started with Talend MDM.

This wiki entry has all the materials necessary to setup a basic project and will help you understand some basic concepts through examples.

http://talendforge.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mdmce:demo


Thanks to Jim Walker!

[2010-07-14] Talend Blog: Is Open Source an Open Bar in the Cloud?

A tweet by Lance Walter got me thinking:

lancewalter: People like the Cloud’s disruptive “pay-per-drink” model. Reaffirms my belief that great tech ideas are often conceived in bars.

I replied quickly:

ydemontcheuil: @lancewalter #opensource: “free as in free speech, not as free beer”. #cloud: “pay per beer”. You’re right about bars. Can we get open bar?

And then I started to think.  That’s the beauty of real-time marketing: you act, then you think. And then you say, geez I wished I did not write that, it’s already replicated on millions of servers worldwide and will stain my record forever.  No biggie in this case.

So, people often think of open source as free, and then we explain that it’s free as in free speech, not free as in free beer. And everyone knows that there is no such thing as free beer - brewers are in it to make money.  When beer is free, it means that someone else is paying for it - for example when you have an open bar.

Look at the Cloud now. Lance uses the pay-per-drink analogy. This is more of a cash bar approach.  You drink all you want, you don’t need to order in advance or even plan on how much you will need to drink. And you don’t need to wait for the waiter to make rounds and take your order.  Just get to the source, use what you need when you need it.

Where does open source tie in with the Cloud?  We all know that open source powers the Cloud. Like the cash bar and open bar models, they do not oppose one another but rather complement each other nicely.

Where is that taking us?  I am not so sure now… I had a hunch this analogy was interesting.  Maybe if other people give it some thinking, we could build an interesting open source analogy, like Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar or James Dixon’s Beekeeper Model…

Yves

Disclaimer: I wasn’t drunk when I wrote this. Maybe jet lagged and sleep deprived, but definitely not drunk.

[2010-07-14] Talend Blog: Reflecting on the First Half of 2010

Half way into 2010, it’s time to pause for a minute (but not more than a minute!) and look back at these past six months.  We have put out a press release summarizing the high points of this year so far.

What does the press release say?

• Q2 was our twelfth consecutive quarter of growth - even Q1 was stronger than Q4, confirming a very strong momentum.
• We launched version 4, the first unified data management platform bringing together data integration, data quality and master data management within a single solution.
• We grew our customer base by 50% to over 1,500 customers, up from 1,000 at the beginning of the year.
• Total downloads reached 10 million, with over 450,000 users of our open source products.
• We added several prestigious awards to our already long list such as 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.

What doesn’t the press release say, but still is worth mentionning?

• It does not list customer names.  Listing customer names is always a big hassle, because we need to obtain approval on a case by case basis and get everyone to review the release.  So we went the easy way.  But we have recently announced some good customer references, and all you need to do is take a look at our rolling logos ticker on our site to understand who the other ones are.
• It does not mention geographical expansion. That’s because we officially opened two new offices in early July, so that was not technically in Q2.  And we want to save some news for September, when everyone comes back all suntanned and full of energy.  But if you want a hint on where we are expanding, I suggest taking a look at my Twitter feed - I usually don’t make random business trips just to easy sushi or pizza (OK, now I have blown it… and yes, this is so cliché).
• It does not say that we have completely redesigned our web site, making it better looking and more “pro”, but also easier to navigate with a new “adoption process” overlay.  Check it out. And - kudos to our web team, primarily Wassim and Daphné, for pulling this off.

Stay tuned for more news from Talend!  And enjoy your summer.

Yves

[2010-07-12] Talend Document: Master Reference Data - Extract Value from your Most Common Data

Reference data is the lifeblood of an organization but inconsistencies across business units or systems can lead to inefficient processes and inaccurate analytics. Most organizations understand the importance of consistent reference data but struggle to ensure consistency and to police compliance to a central reference data standard. Master reference data makes operational data more accurate, simplifies synchronization and migration projects and improves effectiveness of MDM.

Creating master reference data can be very simple. Typically, an organization will start small and then grow the master as acceptance spreads throughout the organizations. This white paper presents some key considerations for creating a reference data master.

[2010-07-07] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend MDM Community Edition 4.1.0M2 is available

Download Talend MDM Community Edition 4.1.0M2.

For a full list of new features and fixed bugs for this new release, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-07-07] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend Open Profiler 4.1.0M2 is available

Download Talend Open Profiler 4.1.0M2.

This new 4.1.0M2 release includes new features such as a new indicator in column set analysis and enabling of the use of java engine on MDM connections. Also, bugs have been fixed.

For a full list of new features and fixed bugs, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-07-07] Talend Forum Announcement: Consultant(e) Pre-sales

Talend recrute un(e) Consultant(e) Pre-sales.
N'hésitez pas à postuler sur www.talend.com!!

[2010-07-07] Talend Forum Announcement: Consultant(e) MDM

Talend recrute un(e) Consultant(e) MDM.

N'hésitez pas à postuler sur www.talend.com!!

[2010-07-07] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend Open Studio 4.1.0M2 is available

Download Talend Open Studio 4.1.0M2.

New features in the 4.1.0M2 release include in the Talend Open Studio studio: New Run/Debug View with Advanced trace debug (conditional breakpoints, tMap preview), Metadata Wizard for Advanced FileOutputXML. New components include tSOAP (manual WS call) and tHL7Output (1st version).

For a full list of new features and fixed bugs, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-07-06] Talend Blog: A CIO for the French Government

French Minister of Budget François Baroin just launched the second phase of the “General Review of Public Policies” program, aiming to modernize the French administration and to cut public spending by €10 billion.

150 new measures [in French] have been adopted for the 2011-2013 period.  Most of these are set to enhance quality of service to the public. In addition to cutting 100,000 positions in the public sector, these measures encourage a massive use of the Internet to rationalize the public’s dealings with the administration, while reducing associated costs by €300 million.

In addition, after the United States and United Kingdom, France is the third country (to my knowledge) to be announcing the nomination of a “State CIO”, whose missions will be, among others, to optimize IT Support within the whole administration and to centralize public purchase (which should bring an additional €700 million in savings). If IT back office is said to be rationalized, enhancing Internet front-office and associated applications will also help to simplify legal declarations for both enterprises and private individuals.

This nomination and 150 measures are really good news for French citizens, as the State CIO will be instrumental to anchor IT at the center of the public services, with a lot of e-administration programs to be launched or enhanced.

This news is also great for the open source world: if I understand correctly, the French government is aiming to boost quality of service while reducing costs. And to succeed, I don’t see many other alternatives than relying on open source solutions! I cannot imagine a government – which is planning to cut costs – deciding to select expensive and inflexible systems offered by proprietary vendors.

For more than 5 years, companies such as Talend have helped hundreds of public sector organizations industrialize their IT projects, cutting costs and gaining agility. It seems that it was only a beginning.

Bertrand

[2010-07-05] Talend Blog: Enterprise Open Source Software Procurement and Support Best Practices: Upcoming Webinar from the Open Source Think Tank

On Tuesday, July 15, 2010 at 11am Pacific (2pm Eastern, 8pm CET) our friends at the Olliance Group, the organizers of the Open Source Think Tank, will be moderating a very exciting Webinar on best practices in open source procurement and support.  This Webinar will feature a panel of exciting presenters, including:

• Colin Bodell, VP Web Platforms, Amazon
• Tim Golden, SVP Product Management, Bank of America
• Yuvi Kochar, CIO, The Washington Post Company

Register now!

Yves

[2010-07-01] Talend Document: Open Source Data Management in the Public Sector

Historically, public administrations have been the leading supporters of open source technology, especially - but not only - in Europe. The economic nature of these products has been one of the main factors of adoption, but as they have matured, these products offered other benefits that positioned them as viable alternatives to proprietary technology.

This White Paper presents the logic and reasons behind the adoption of open source by the public sector. It analyzes its benefits and presents concrete examples from public institutions in different countries.

[2010-07-01] Talend Blog: Tackling Big Data with Hadoop support

Earlier this week Talend announced native support for Hadoop, with immediate availability.  What does this mean?

From the technical standpoint, it means that Talend’s solutions now include the capability to not only connect to Hadoop-based data sources such as HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File system) and the Hive database, but also to run natively data transformations inside Hive.  You don’t need to get your data outside of the Hadoop-based systems to process and transform it.  This, in itself, is a major benefit for users.

One way to think of it is as the “ELT of Hadoop”.  The same way ELT allows you to run your data integration jobs inside the database engine, Talend Integration Suite runs your data integration logic inside the Hadoop architecture.  It does so by generating native Hadoop code.  (Maybe we ought to call this EHT).

From the usage standpoint, it means that organizations with large amounts of complex data are now able to fully leverage the Hadoop architecture.  Previously, there was no data integration option available for Hadoop.  You would have to extract data from Hadoop, transform it inside a data integration engine, and insert it again in Hadoop.  Not only was this costly in performance, but it was also highly inefficient – after all, Hadoop’s MapReduce architecture is especially well suited to running complex data transformations.

From an innovation standpoint, this feature once again highlights the unique innovation engine that drives open source (or that open source drives).  As far as I know, Talend is the first vendor to ship a functional data integration solution for Hadoop.  Sure, many other announcements have already been made.  With availability “in the summer” or “by end of year”.  But nothing is available today, except from Talend.

Yves

[2010-06-29] Talend Document: Testing Talend MDM Enterprise Edition - an independent software review by IAIT

Master Data Management has become increasingly important for ensuring the consistency and quality of data across the various parts of the information system. Leveraging its open source solution, Talend is set to democratize the MDM market, which has been dominated by expensive products for large companies.

IAIT performed an in-depth review of Talend MDM Enterprise Edition. They studied what this solution can do in practice and how it performs with regard to daily tasks.

In the Test Lab of IAIT, the Institute for Analysis of IT, Dr. Götz Güttich simulates heterogeneous IT environments of small and medium-sized enterprises, to test hardware and software solutions for the enterprise.

[2010-06-20] Talend Tech Blog Olivier CARBONE: Talend – Back to School

Do you know Talend, its business model, its strategies? To answer these questions, just open a book!

In December 2009 a French publisher of school books, Delagrave, contacted Talend to ask the permission to use the company as a practical case in a book dedicated to the French BTS students (equivalent to junior college).

This school book was created for the students in Business Administration.
On page 46 we find an article about Talend and then there are questions about the understanding of the company’s business model and strategy.

Talend is part of the section “Strategic or operational management” along with large companies such as Renault, Danone or EADS

Title: Management des entreprises BTS 1re année - Livre de l’élève
EAN: 9782206015651
Link: http://www.delagrave-edition.fr/Albums_Detail.cfm?ID=37892

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[2010-06-17] Talend Forum Announcement: [External Contribution] Greek User Guide documentation

Hello to all,

Thanks to the involvment of "Kosfar", one of our members, the Talend User Guide manual is now translated into Greek!
So for all of our Greek users, you have access to the Talend User Guide in Greek.

The Talendforge Wiki where we have added the link to the PDF (fourth link under Guides):
http://www.talendforge.org/wiki/doku.php?id=start

Dowload the Greek user guide (direct link to PDF):
http://www.talendforge.org/wiki/lib/exe … 32a_gr.pdf

Many thanks to Kosfar!

[2010-06-08] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend MDM Community Edition 4.0.2 is available

Download Talend MDM Community Edition 4.0.2.

This new 4.0.2 release is a bug fixing release.

For a full list of fixed bugs, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-06-08] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend Open Profiler 4.0.2 is available

Download Talend Open Profiler 4.0.2.

This new 4.0.2 release is a bug fixing release.

For a full list of fixed bugs, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-06-08] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend Open Studio 4.0.2 is available

Download Talend Open Studio 4.0.2.

This new 4.0.2 release is a bug fixing release.

For a full list of fixed bugs, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-06-06] Talend Press Release: Talend Selected as Red Herring Top 100 Europe Winner

Talend Selected as Red Herring Top 100 Europe Winner

LOS ALTOS, Calif. and SURESNES, France - June 7, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data management software, today announced that it has been selected as a Red Herring Top 100 Europe Tech Startup. The Red Herring Top 100 award recognizes the leading private companies from Europe, celebrating the startups' innovations and technologies across their respective industries.

Red Herring's Top 100 Europe list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work.

"Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat," said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. "After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across Europe to the Top 100 Winners. We believe Talend embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. Talend should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was very strong."

"Our selection as a Red Herring Top 100 Europe winner is another clear sign that Talend's open source data management solutions have become a technology standard that is helping organizations of all sizes optimize their processes and improve their bottom line," said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO, Talend. "We will continue to drive our business to maintain an unmatched pace of innovation and track record at delivering high value, cost-optimized solutions to our customers."

Red Herring's editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy, and market penetration. This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the "buzz" and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in Europe.

[2010-06-03] Talend Blog: Interoperability: the fight goes on!

The European Commission recently released its “Digital Agenda“, one of the 7 initiatives it launched to help alleviate the economic crisis and prepare the EU economy for the challenges of the next decade: “Europe needs a new action plan for making the best use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to speed up economic recovery and lay the foundations of a sustainable digital future.”

Many reactions followed. Times on Line for example, underlined the proposal of the EU to widen access to the Internet, while BBC News detailed the investments the European governments will have to make to compete with others countries like the US.

Certainly, no one will complain that European institutions consider IT as an essential productivity factor for its businesses (”Half of European productivity growth over the past 15 years was already driven by information and communications technologies“).

I will let you check out these different initiatives, ranging from “creating a Digital Single Market” to “boosting internet trust and security” and “encouraging investment in research and development”.

I still believe that this is a lot of wishful thinking (the Digital Agenda is only a recommendation). There is still uncertainty regarding open standards, which have been removed from the latest version of this document, leaving only a vague mention about interoperability (for more details: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eu-commission-will-neelie-kroess-digital-agenda-endanger-freedoms).

To understand this evolution, one needs only to review the latest Documentation on the European Interoperability Framework. The new version no longer mentions “open standards” but only “open specifications”, which (according to the document) “can be achieved without openness”.

Too bad the EU is not supporting openness more overtly.  I guess the active lobbying from proprietary vendors plays a role here.  But clients understand the value, and consortiums Talend belongs to, such as OW2, are also key players here.

Bertrand

[2010-06-02] Talend Press Release: Onboard Informatics Chooses Talend to Streamline Data Management

Onboard Informatics Chooses Talend to Streamline Data Management

Leading Real Estate Solutions Provider Uses Talend Integration Suite to Manage Large Amounts of Data Promptly and Affordably

LOS ALTOS, Calif., June 3, 2010 - Talend today announced that Onboard Informatics, the leading provider of trusted real estate solutions and Web services to some of the most innovative companies in real estate, media and technology, has chosen Talend's open source data management software to cleanse and process hundreds of Multiple Listing Service (MLS) approved data feeds on a weekly basis. Talend Integration Suite enables Onboard Informatics to manage massive volumes of data quickly and easily at an affordable price.

Onboard Informatics receives data for roughly two million MLS property listing records on a daily basis. The listings include agent and office data, and about 17 million photo files that the company uses to consolidate and standardize all data in order to efficiently provide property listings to major real estate companies and Web portals, which have MLS approval and follow all MLS compliance rules. The need for a data management solution was imperative since the company is constantly monitoring and updating definitions to accommodate changes in the real world and produce accurate information in a timely manner.

Talend Integration Suite's advanced deployment capabilities represent an important asset for the daily activity at Onboard Informatics. Being able to coordinate and schedule the execution of open source data integration, migration or synchronization processes, provides the company with a centralized execution and monitoring console. Before using Talend, Onboard programmers were hand coding and manually setting up jobs, checking in at all hours of the day to ensure they had started running on time. Talend Integration Suite not only dramatically reduces the development and maintenance of these jobs, but it also significantly accelerates the diagnostic process and the line-by-line analysis of code that could take hours in the case of execution failures.

"Thanks to Talend Integration Suite, we are seeing great results in time savings and data availability," said Joseph Rugolo, director of data operations at Onboard Informatics. "The solution has enabled us to cut our 10 hour process down to three hours. Through re-engineering and re-ordering, our data processing is much better orchestrated. We now have the ability to grab any file we need, exchange information from different data environments and work with the files themselves, before loading them."

"Onboard Informatics is a great example of a company that was able to streamline its data management processes thanks to the powerful, easy-to-use features Talend Integration Suite offers," said Vincent Pineau, Talend's vice president and general manager, Americas. "Talend's low development cost and open source approach continues to prove a good fit for any business needing an enterprise-grade data management solution."

About Onboard Informatics

Since 2001, Onboard Informatics has provided comprehensive local, regional and national real estate data solutions, powerful web tools and web services to some of the most innovative companies in real estate, publishing and technology. Onboard delivers seamless integration of property listings, community, school, neighborhood, geographic and demographic information and, transforms the complexity of data into meaningful solutions; supporting clients in achieving business objectives on web and mobile platforms. Privately held since its founding, Onboard is located in the heart of the world's financial center in the Wall Street area of New York City. For more information about Onboard Informatics or to request a demo, visit www.onboardinformatics.com.

[2010-05-25] Talend Press Release: The General Council of Gironde uses Talend Integration Suite to centralize its integration flows

The General Council of Gironde uses Talend Integration Suite to centralize its integration flows

The General Council of Gironde consolidates all its data flows to manage its operations, while automatically updating its reference data

SURESNES, France - May 25, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data management solutions, announced today that the General Council of Gironde (CG 33) uses its open source data integration solutions to improve the decision-making of elected representatives, via the centralization of integration flows and the establishment of a business intelligence warehouse.

A business intelligence system to manage department operations

As the responsibilities of the local authorities continue to expand – for example, in the context of decentralization, these authorities recently took over road management and are increasingly involved in the social lives of citizens, particularly via aid distribution, such as the Personal Autonomy Allowance or Guaranteed Minimum Income – citizens demand more transparency and efficiency.

The General Council of Gironde initiated the beginnings of an analytics process in the mid-2000s, and then hired a business intelligence specialist, Benoît Viaud, with the primary task of equipping and industrializing its business intelligence process. “For loading our future warehouse, Talend Open Studio matched our expectations,” reflects Benoît Viaud, Business Intelligence Project Manager for the General Council of Gironde. “Since it is very easy to learn, Talend’s solution enabled us to quickly validate our prototype. We then decided to migrate to Talend Integration Suite to benefit from a shared repository and facilitate teamwork.”

The domains integrated in the BI project today revolve around financial data, the Directorate of Youth and Sports and will soon include the social actions of CG 33. Talend Integration Suite allows the collection of data from business applications to monitor, for example, the instruction process for applying for grants or Personal Autonomy Allowances.

“The data comes from heterogeneous systems - Oracle and LDAP bases, internal or external flat files, etc. - and is loaded into a single database, the ODS (Operational Data Staging). Interapplication flows also allow the updating of the reference data contained in certain business applications (i.e. an employee registration number),” explains Benoît Viaud.

LDAP directory to synchronize business data and BI flows to improve decisions

In addition to the BI project, CG 33 used Talend Integration Suite to collect business data from 4 applications, then consolidate the data in an internal staff metadirectory (LDAP) which can be accessed by any CG 33 employee and contains information on their colleagues, their department affiliation, their location or even photos and access maps.

Today, Talend Integration Suite is used to centralize all the new data flows of the General Council. “The Talend solution facilitates maintenance: the flows are centralized, which simplifies their reuse and provides extended visibility. This centralization also increases security, while accelerating operation monitoring,” adds Benoît Viaud. “This gives us valuable gains in productivity and reliability, allowing us to spend more time with the users to precisely identify their needs and refine our developments.”

The user feedback has been extremely positive. “The business management teams responsible for information consolidation appreciate the benefits offered by the implementation of the Business Objects - Talend duo, particularly how much time they save in relation to using Excel spreadsheets. We plan to automate the distribution of information to elected officials to help them improve their decisions, for example through the creation of dashboards that are customized according to their needs,” concludes Benoît Viaud. “With Talend Integration Suite, we are confident that we can easily fulfill these goals.”

About the General Council of Gironde

The General Council of Gironde (CG 33) is a local government body that handles various matters, including health and social action, school construction and maintenance, non-urban and school transportation, infrastructure (roads and ports), culture (libraries and department archives), and facilities in rural areas.

Gironde is the largest department of metropolitan France covering 10,750 square kilometers and has about 1.4 million inhabitants. Bordeaux, with close to 220,000 inhabitants, is the largest of the department’s 542 municipalities. The 2nd largest employer in Gironde, CG 33 has 6,000 employees and a budget of 1.4 billion euro to carry out its operations.

[2010-05-21] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend recrute un(e) Ingénieur Support Java

Talend est une société créée en 2005 sur le secteur porteur des données Open Source. Ce leader mondial de l'intégration de données compte à ce jour plus de 200 personnes.

Société internationale, Talend possède des bureaux à travers le monde notamment aux Etats Unis, en France, en Angleterre, en Allemagne ainsi qu’en Chine.

Afin d’accompagner notre forte croissance et de promouvoir nos offres de prestations associées à nos produits, nous renforçons notre équipe technique par :

un(e) Ingénieur Support Java.

    MISSION :

- Répondre aux besoins clients et concourir à une satisfaction client de haut niveau !


    TACHES :

- Fournir un support technique par téléphone, e-mail et au travers une application interne de gestion de ticket
- Coordination des équipes de support basées aux US, en Chine et en France
- Alimenter la base de connaissance qui est utilisée par toute l’équipe support et participer au développement du service


    PROFIL :

- Formation informatique
- Bonnes compétences Java
- Connaissances Business Intelligence (modélisation dimensionnelle, Cube OLAP)
- Connaissance de nos outils ou similaires
- Maitrise d'un outil ETL est un plus
- Capacité d'apprentissage et d'adaptation à l'évolution rapide des technologies
- Sens de la communication et de l'intégration en équipe
- Flexibilité et adaptabilité à un rythme de croissance rapide

    RATTACHEMENT :

- Directeur des Services Professionnels

    REMUNERATION :

- 30/40K (fixe + variable)


Vous souhaitez évoluer dans un contexte international et accompagner la croissance de l'entreprise?

Vous désirez intégrer une équipe jeune et dynamique, dans le monde de l’intégration de données open source ?

Rejoignez nous !

    Contact :

Merci, de nous adresser votre candidature à l’adresse suivante : dloric@talend.com

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[2010-05-21] Talend Tech Blog Olivier CARBONE: New jobs opportunities at Talend

Since the early days of the company, Talend has evolved quite a lot! Talend’s products, starting with Talend Open Studio is used at a worldwide scale. Thanks to our growing community the product line is becoming better and better at each release.

You like and use our products on a daily bases, why not becoming part of Talend’s team?

We have today a Support Engineer new job opportunities that we publish to the community.

Support Engineer: your qualifications

illustration credit: splorp

You’re a service-minded and structured individual with a large technical interest and the ability to communicate fluently (written and spoken) in English and in French.

You’re open-minded and have experience from working with technical support or technical aspects of products in other ways.

You have a sound knowledge of basic computer software and hardware technology and we believe you have a keen general interest in data integration.

• Good communication skills are required.
• Experience of ETL tools like Talend Open Studio will be considered as a plus.
• Experience of SQL, Java and/or Perl will be considered as a plus.

Job Description

As Support Engineer you will be in direct contact with both end customers and partners.
Your Responsibilities: resolve tickets within the customer and obtain a high Customer Satisfaction Rating.

Your main tasks will be to:

• Provide phone, e-mail and online helpdesk support
• Coordinate the US, China and French Support Team
• Build technical knowledge base

EMEA customer services gives technical support to customers within the EMEA sales region (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Howerver, the Support Engineer works too with the US Team.
The function is centralized to Paris but there needed an extensive cooperation with the local sales offices in the region.

This role performs varying degrees of problem determination and resolution of software problems through the effective use of available technical resources, per contracted service level agreements.
The Support Engineer may also perform installs or help the customer to realize backup or migration tasks.
The Support Engineer are responsible for resolving problems and completing all related administrative duties.

As the main interface to the customer, The Support Engineer need to understand the local and regional infrastructure and key contacts - developers, server admin - in order to ensure taking action on the problem.

We have just written the first pages of a great book. If you want to be part of the adventure, make an application by sending your resume at jobs@talend.com

Please, send your mail with the subject “Support Engineer EMEA”

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[2010-05-20] Talend Press Release: April WAF uses Talend Integration Suite to optimize its real-time data integration flows and contribute to its development

April WAF uses Talend Integration Suite to optimize its real-time data integration flows and contribute to its development

The IT subsidiary of the April Group manages all data flows - internally and with its partners - for its customers with the Talend solution, developed a Java library facilitating the use of Web Services

SURESNES, France - May 18, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data management solutions, announced today that April Web Access Factory (April WAF), an IT services company specializing in the insurance field, uses Talend Integration Suite to manage the loading of its Data Warehouse and information exchanges with its partners. Additionally, April WAF participated in the development of a new component enabling the management of SOAP messages via Web Services, which reinforces the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) support offered by the Talend products.

A subsidiary of the April Group, April WAF is an IT services company specializing in the insurance field and offering solutions that enable its clients to make their services accessible on the Internet while increasing the agility of their information systems. To meet the loading needs of its Data Warehouse and information exchanges with its partners, April WAF initially deployed Talend Open Studio.

“We were first drawn to the customization possibilities offered by Talend Open Studio and the user-friendliness of the product. We started on a limited scale, and then we shifted up a gear by moving to Talend Integration Suite to benefit from its shared repository,” explains Arnaud Fournier, CEO of April WAF. “Today, all of our Data Warehouse flows and data exchanges with our partners go through the Talend solution. Talend Integration Suite became is now a strategic element of our information system that we invest in to run our business.”

Meanwhile, April WAF participated in the development of a specific Talend Integration Suite module, which is now provided in all versions of this solution. This component enables the management of all types of messages, from the most simple to the more complex (hierarchical), via Web Services based on the CXF standard.

“The objective of this Java library is to help us integrate – in batch or real-time mode – input data flows and automatically transform them to invoke SOAP Web Services to integrate various data in our information system,” explains Arnaud Fournier. “Our job consisted in providing a user friendly layer for Web Services management and the SOAP protocol, via a Web Services interface allowing to send requests and easily parse the response, all in a very intuitive graphical mode.”

The module is also used by April WAF to consolidate insurance portfolios (for example, during an acquisition), by processing the input flat files which are processed via the Web Services request. April WAF also uses the module to organize information exchanges with certain partners: online insurance comparators (via Web services) and franchise networks (provision of flat files and processing/integration in the information system). The component uses drag and drop graphic assistants which facilitate the composition and reading of a SOAP message.

“Our technology partnership with April WAF perfectly illustrates how a Talend client can contribute to product development. Our R&D teams collaborated with April WAF developers to develop the module, which we then integrated in Talend Integration Suite,” states Cédric Carbone, CTO of Talend. “Talend benefitted from April WAF’s technical and business expertise, and April WAF in turn profits from the maintenance, development and optimization capabilities provided by Talend. This collaboration perfectly embodies the exchanges that an open source vendor can generate with its users.”

About April Web Access Factory

April Web Access Factory is an IT solutions company working in the insurance sector and offering solutions that enable its clients to make their services accessible on the Internet. Convinced that the Internet is now breathing new life into the insurance industry, the company develops Web windows, e-commerce sites and portals, and offers a services platform (WAF services) allowing to increase the agility of insurance information systems. For more information, visit: www.april-waf.com

[2010-05-18] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend is recruiting a MDM Consultant in Maidenhead - UK

If you are interseted in the position please click on the link below:

http://www.talend.com/jobs/jobs-talend. … DMCONS1005

[2010-05-18] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend is recruiting a New Business Sales in Maidenhead - UK

If you are interested in the position please click on the link below:

http://www.talend.com/jobs/jobs-talend. … SSALES1005

[2010-05-18] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend is recruiting a Technical Consultant in Maidenhead - UK

If you are interested in the position please click on the link below:


http://www.talend.com/jobs/jobs-talend. … CHCONS1005

[2010-05-18] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend is recruiting an Account Manager in Germany

If you are interested in the position please click on the link below:

http://www.talend.com/jobs/jobs-talend. … CMANAG1005

[2010-05-18] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend is recruiting an Expert in Data Integration

Please click on this link if you are interested in and if you want to apply:

http://www.talend.com/jobs/jobs-talend. … =EXPBI1005

[2010-05-17] Talend Press Release: With Talend Open Studio, agnès b. consolidates its global sales analysis and forecasting

With Talend Open Studio, agnès b. consolidates its global sales analysis and forecasting

With the development of a data warehouse and domain-specific data marts, agnès b. benefits from a consolidated view of its global operations, enabling it to improve its inventory management and financial BI

SURESNES, France - May 4, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader of open source data management solutions, announced today that agnès b., an international fashion group created in 1973, uses Talend Open Studio to analyze its sales on a global scale to improve inventory management, accounting and financial BI in addition to forecasting the development of its operations.

The group, which has approximately 1,000 employees in 10 subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the United States, started the first business intelligence project in 2008, of which the main purpose was to test tools offered on the market to assess the advantages of sales data consolidation in a data warehouse.

Altic and Talend collaborate to develop a BI system using open source layers

“After inconclusive tests of another open source product, we decided to test Talend Open Studio, whose performance was much closer to what we were seeking,” explains Emmanuel Gallois, BI Manager at agnès b. “We enlisted our partner Altic to develop a prototype with PostgreSQL, JPivot and Mondrian, and Talend to load the data warehouse. The Talend solution is a truly versatile tool that meets numerous integration and automation needs. From now on, it is at the core of all of our data integration projects.”

This prototype was integrated to an open source J2EE portal solution (Liferay) and SpagoBI for data retrieval. Talend Open Studio aggregates sales numbers for all of the subsidiaries in the same data warehouse. The data is extracted from the agnès b. sales management system (AS/400) and consolidated in the central system at company headquarters. Due to geographic differences, some data is processed and standardized before being integrated.

Responsiveness and a consolidated view of agnès b’s global operations

“In this project, Talend demonstrated solid responsiveness: its R&D teams quickly developed a native connector for DB2 AS/400,” explains Marc Sallières, CEO and Founder of Altic. “Unlike a traditional vendor, which decides whether or not to integrate an improvement in a future software release and of which trade-offs are calculated purely in terms of financial returns, Talend immediately took agnès b’s request into consideration because it presented an interest for the community, reaffirming the company’s choice in adopting an open source solution.”

Aside from loading the BI warehouse, Talend Open Studio allows us to calculate the website inventory daily thanks to a bridge created between real and virtual inventory. Meanwhile, the data warehouse provides management with a more consolidated view of the group’s operations; several data marts were developed to analyze the financial aspect, the accounting/management aspect and the business aspect (sales analysis and inventory) of the operations. A data mart was entirely dedicated to the operations in Asia and divided according to country.

Emmanuel Gallois highlights the performance and reliability of the tool. “Our jobs run every day and, as of today, we haven’t encountered any problems in terms of performance or reliability. Since the creation of our data warehouse, users regularly express their appreciation. They no longer need to manually consolidate data in Excel files, which saves them a lot of time.”

“With our data warehouse and data marts, we get a consolidated view of the company’s operations and can more precisely forecast their development. In addition, we are able to quickly modify any job to respond quickly to the new demands of our management. Talend gave us the agility we were seeking,” concludes Emmanuel Gallois.

About agnès b.

Agnès b. is an international fashion company with approximately 1,000 employees in 10 subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the United States. The company has a total revenue of 200 million euro. Since its creation in 1973, the company has opened more than one hundred stores worldwide.

The designer offers a style that lives and adapts to trends, a wardrobe that fits every personality and, above all, is timeless. Agnès b. designs all of the lines herself, not to mention the watch, jewelry, accessory and sunglasses collections. A family-owned company and corporate citizen, agnès b. strives to maintain manufacturing in France as much as possible. Meanwhile, the company is well-established in Asia (Hong Kong, Japan), where it realizes a significant portion of its revenue.

About Altic

Altic is a consulting firm specializing in Open Source and Free Software solution integration. The company focuses its interests in several domains, including business intelligence IT, electronic document management and e-commerce. Since 2004, Altic has formed strong partnerships with Open Source vendors. These partnerships are built on contributions, the transfer of consistent skills, project feedback exchanges and finally the mutual respect of Open Source values.

www.altic.org

[2010-05-17] Talend Press Release: Wonderbox supports its growth with Talend solutions

Wonderbox supports its growth with Talend solutions

Data integration, operational reporting, catalog updating... Talend solutions help Wonderbox manage its growth, data updates and data quality

SURESNES, France - May 11, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader of open source data management solutions, announced today that Wonderbox, one of the market leaders of gift boxes, uses Talend open source data integration and quality solutions to integrate operational data, update its catalog, analyze global sales and increase data consistency.

The Wonderbox catalog, distributed to all of the partner websites and updated on the company’s central website, is built on extracting information from the products repository. The information collection and update process is strategic. However, for some time now, the execution time of this process has increased exponentially and each publication was taking more than 20 hours. “It became impossible to put urgent modifications online, not only was this an obstacle for our partners, but it also generated an increase in administrative tasks for us to deal with cancellations or replacements,” adds Fatih Gezen, Technical Director at Wonderbox. “Confronted with this lack of responsiveness, we asked Altic, our Systems Integrator, to drive the complete overhaul of the process.”

Talend Open Studio cuts the catalog update time by 80

Altic, a Silver partner of the Talend Alliance Program, realized that Talend Open Studio had all of the features to respond to Wonderbox’s needs. “The Talend solution was clearly the right choice for Wonderbox because of its ease of learning and its deployment speed,” comments Charly Clairmont, Technical Director at Altic. “Because of its graphic development mode, the tool is much easier to understand than a development environment and is simple to maintain, while of course being very affordable since it is distributed as open source.”

Talend Open Studio is connected to the Wonderbox application bus via Web Services, communicating with ten applications. Its integration was quickly completed by Altic, without changing the existing architecture. “The catalog update time was cut from 20 hours to only 15 minutes. From now on, we can respond to our partners’ urgent requests and always offer end clients updated information. Updating the information system is done in parallel to teamwork and results in qualitative productivity that is incomparable to what previously existed,” adds Fatih Gezen.

Ten operational Talend jobs today

The catalog update was actually the second Talend project completed by Altic for Wonderbox. The first, completed several months earlier, consisted in establishing daily operational reporting covering worldwide sales and guaranteeing complete traceability of product use. “Each stage in the life of a gift box is traced, from assembly by a partner to consumption by the end client. A very sophisticated alert system allows us to precisely monitor proper execution of each stage and hone financial management,” explains Fatih Gezen.

Wonderbox also uses Talend Open Studio to power a data mart on their B2C CRM, containing information relative to each gift box consumer and buyer – including the date and type of purchase, profile, etc. In addition, Talend Open Studio now manages all of the Wonderbox data integration jobs. The solution notably handles retailer purchase orders, each one having different formats, to launch shipping or production after validation.

In October 2009, Wonderbox migrated to Talend Integration Suite to benefit from advanced collaboration features. The company also implemented Talend Data Quality to create a set of indicators to survey and increase data consistency. For example, a first indicator concerns the monitoring and authentication of gift box numbers. A second indicator verifies client telephone coordinates to streamline the company’s marketing programs. “Wonderbox data quality management is a continuous process,” concludes Fatih Gezen. “The first results obtained confirmed our decision to use Talend. Thanks to the open source product, we became more responsive while optimizing our IT budget. We will continue to deploy Talend solutions and apply them to other domains.”

About Wonderbox

Wonderbox is one of the leaders in the gift box market in Europe. The company was started by two young entrepreneurs, Bertile Burel and Jacques-Christophe Blouzard, stemming from a simple idea: it’s becoming increasingly difficult to give a really great gift. As a result, they introduced the concept of gift boxes in France in 2004 and have continued to progressively establish relationships with partners, conceive an identity, continuously design numerous innovative gift boxes and distribute them.

Wonderbox is persistently searching for original, first-rate service offers and leisure activities. Today, the company continues to grow abroad with a presence in Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland, Portugal and Japan.

About Altic

Altic is a consulting firm specializing in Open Source and Free Software solution integration. The company focuses its interests in several domains, including business intelligence IT, electronic document management and e-commerce. Since 2004, Altic has formed strong partnerships with Open Source vendors. These partnerships are built on contributions, the transfer of consistent skills, project feedback exchanges and finally the mutual respect of Open Source values.

www.altic.org

[2010-05-12] Talend Document: Unified Data Management - A Collaboration of Data Disciplines and Business Strategies - TDWI Best Practices Report

In most organizations today, data and other information are managed in isolated silos by independent teams using various data management tools such as data quality, data integration, master data management, etc. In response to this situation, some organizations are adopting unified data management (UDM), a practice that holistically coordinates teams and integrates tools.

The purpose of this report is to help organizations plan and execute effective UDM efforts. Many need the help, because UDM is a relatively new shift in best practices for data management. Toward that end, the report drills into the business initiatives that need UDM, the data management practices and tools that support it, and the organizational structures that enable the cross-functional collaboration that’s critical to UDM success. The report also provides practical recommendations for the success of unified data management projects.

TDWI Best Practices Reports are designed to educate technical and business professionals about new technologies, concepts, or approaches that address a significant problem or issue. Research for the reports is conducted via interviews and surveys of leading-edge user companies.

[2010-05-10] Talend Press Release: Lower Hudson Regional Information Center chosses Talend to streamline data integration processes

Lower Hudson Regional Information Center chooses Talend to streamline data integration processes

Open Source Data Integration Provider Enhances Data Processes for IT Services Consortium Serving New York Schools

LOS ALTOS, Calif., May 10, 2010 - Talend today announced that the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center (LHRIC), a non-profit consortium providing educational and administrative technology services to 62 New York school districts, has selected Talend´s open source data integration solution to help manage, automate and improve the quality of its networking and application data. The LHRIC uses Talend Integration Suite to comply with requirements outlined by the School Interoperability Framework (SIF) Association, which defines the rules for data movement between applications for the K-12 education market, and report student information to the state of New York.

“The LHRIC is responsible for managing data within the schools´ student information, food services, library, emergency alert, special education and transportation systems,” said Joe Fitzgerald, LHRIC systems integration manager. “In any event, such as an emergency that warrants school dismissal, there is need for timely information that must be aggregated quickly and efficiently. Talend automates data processes so we can better manage our various databases and ensure that our student information is always up to date.”

As one of 12 Regional Information Centers in the state of New York, the LHRIC provides a variety of services, including technical services and support, Internet access, regional Internet filtering, test scoring, data warehousing, financial and student information systems, staff development, planning, project management, systems integration, and research and development. When the LHRIC needed a standardized solution that would reduce the need for multiple tools and maximize efficiency by integrating with different data sources and moving data on an event basis, it chose Talend's leading open source data integration solution over technologies such as BizTalk and Denodo. Talend Integration Suite offered unmatched functionality, a user-friendly interface, substantial connectivity and real-time data exchange-both on an event-driven basis and in batch mode-to simplify the LHRIC's data processes.

“We look forward to helping the LHRIC streamline its data processes and improve data quality for New York schools,” said Vincent Pineau, Talend's vice president and general manager, Americas. “Organizations like the LHRIC manage a vast amount of data from heterogeneous systems and applications, and are held responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date systems. Talend's open source approach provides the consistent information processing capabilities needed to optimally meet these requirements.”

About LHRIC

The Lower Hudson Regional Information Center (LHRIC) is a nonprofit consortium providing educational and administrative technology services to 62 school districts in Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland counties. It is one of 12 Regional Information Centers in New York that are part of the BOCES system.

Always on the cutting edge, the LHRIC is primarily focused on assisting districts in transforming teaching and learning through the use of technology. The LHRIC distinguishes itself from other service providers by its commitment to instructional services that are mobilized to have regional impact for students and teachers. The LHRIC coordinates closely with districts to develop services that expand the boundaries of traditional classrooms, and provides high quality, professional growth opportunities for all district personnel.

[2010-05-05] Talend Press Release: Kurtosys Systems transforms the way asset managers deliver enterprise data with the launch of their Enterprise Data Management solution

Kurtosys Systems transforms the way asset managers deliver enterprise data with the launch of their Enterprise Data Management solution

Kurtosys Systems Limited, the leading provider of Client Communication Solutions today announced the release of their Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform for asset management.

MAIDENHEAD, UK - May 6, 2010 - Developed in partnership with Talend, a market innovator in open source data integration, Kurtosys EDM provides an integrated platform for managing an organisation’s information systems, with functionality for data extraction, modelling, capture, integration, synchronisation and inter-application data exchange.

The launch of Kurtosys EDM was driven by the recognition that asset managers needed a comprehensive approach to data quality and data management processes. Introducing improvements can yield significant cost savings and efficiencies for client reporting, marketing materials production and web content management, whilst protecting an organisation's operational and reputational risk.

“With support for multi-database architectures, Kurtosys EDM makes a reality the ability to integrate high volumes of data from disparate sources into a consolidated and operational data source. Kurtosys EDM is available as a standalone solution or as an integrated module for the Kurtosys Client Communications application suite.”

Paul Lumsden, Head of Product Management at Kurtosys comments, “The requirement for effective data calculation and distribution capabilities across the asset management enterprise is a result of two continuous and fundamental operational challenges: the ongoing demand for a more pro-active analytic process for assessing investment decisions and managing risk, combined with the need for common, accurate, and timely information across all of the investment business lines for reporting and analytics. Our partnership with Talend demonstrates Kurtosys' commitment to partner with global innovators to bring forward-thinking technology solutions to our market.”

François Méro, General Manager, EMEA at Talend states - “Kurtosys brings market knowledge and expertise to Talend’s core product and offering, enabling us to penetrate further a very interesting marketplace. Our partnership brings to this market the best of the data management industry, in capability and functionality, at an optimised pricing point.”

About Kurtosys

Kurtosys is a market leading provider of client communication and reporting solutions to the asset management industry. Offering a range of business solutions including client reporting; marketing materials; web content management; secure customer portals, web based analytics and presentation management tools, Kurtosys has 50 customers serviced from their global offices located in the UK, North America, South Africa, Australia and India.

For further information, please contact Simon Rose, Executive Vice President (simon.rose@Kurtosys.com). Alternatively, please call +44 (0)20 8605 9770 or email info@Kurtosys.com.

[2010-05-05] Talend Press Release: UK Address Specialist Postcode Anywhere Joins Forces with Talend for Real-Time Address Cleansing

UK Address Specialist Postcode Anywhere Joins Forces with Talend for Real-Time Address Cleansing

New address scrubbing service comes with free data health-check and daily Royal Mail updates.

MAIDENHEAD, UK - May 6, 2010 - Open source data solutions company Talend has signed a partnership with UK address specialists Postcode Anywhere to provide pay-as-you-go address cleansing services and free data health-checks for its suite of data manipulation software.

Talend, the leading provider of open source data management software, turns complex and time-consuming data integration and data quality tasks into simple drag-and-drop processes that take minutes.

Its data cleansing tool, Talend Data Quality, eases the task of verifying and scrubbing records including addresses, phone numbers, spellings, synonyms and abbreviations.

As part of Talend Data Quality, Postcode Anywhere’s service enables users to:

• Rate any address record’s cleanliness and reliability for free against a 1001-point confidence rank
• Replace unreliable records with corresponding valid UK postal addresses from Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF(R))
• Augment address data with coordinate NHS and local government data from Royal Mail’s Postzon® database

Talend’s UK Sales Director Martin James said: “Data quality involves more than just inputting correct details. It also means getting rid of pre-existing poor, corrupted, or duplicate data - which can spread quickly across a system.”

“The consequences of poor address data are increasingly well-known. The latest IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group) research puts the cost to e-commerce of poor UK address data at £146m a year, through the cost of redirection, lost customers and replacement goods.”

“By using Talend Data Quality with Postcode Anywhere’s address cleansing service, users can combine custom reformatting processes with state-of-the-art scrubbing to ensure their business isn’t caught out by dirty data.”

Postcode Anywhere’s Sales and Marketing Director Phil Rothwell said: “In line with Talend’s ethos of freeing data processes and putting them into the hands of people who need them, Postcode Anywhere’s pay-as-you-go pricing finally makes address cleansing accessible to all.”

“Evaluating the quality of an address is effectively free, while up to 5,000 records can be cleansed for just 50 pounds Sterling. This is especially remarkable when you consider that Postcode Anywhere’s data is the best in the business, with daily updates direct from Royal Mail piped into its system.”

The new Postcode Anywhere service for Talend is supplied in the form of Talend components, directly usable in the market leading open source data quality solution, and which are free to download on the Talend Exchange at http://www.talendforge.org/exchange/.

About Postcode Anywhere

Postcode Anywhere has been providing address services for ten years and is the fastest-growing reseller of Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF). A multi-award-winning organisation, it has also appeared in successive Deloitte fast-growth European technology company lists. Postcode Anywhere supplies software and services which improve the day-to-day operations of over 8,000 organisations worldwide. Best known as a provider of address auto-fill and verification software, the company offers a range of data-driven services, including route planning and customer profiling. For more information about Postcode Anywhere, please visit www.postcodeanywhere.com.

[2010-05-03] Talend Blog: Reflecting on the Gartner Summits

Time flies, it’s already been over two weeks since the Gartner Summits (Business Intelligence, MDM & Enterprise Architecture) in Las Vegas.  But I said I would blog on these events, so here we are!

I was impressed to see how busy these three events were. Gartner asks for a lot of money from attendees and sponsors/exhibitors, but apparently that did not deter participation.  Of course, the content and opportunities to interact with peers and analysts is worth the investment.  User organizations are clearly ready to start investing again, and receiving training and strategic advice is on their agenda.  Good news.

Open source was getting lots of visibility in these events.  I attended many sessions, here are a few nuggets I picked along the way:

• In the MDM Summit opening keynote, both conference chairs John Radcliffe and Andrew White insisted upon the fact that there were two disrupting sources at work in MDM: open source, with the entrance of Talend on the market in January, and Microsoft, with the soon-to-be-released SQL Server R2 Master Data Services.
• I also went to the “Open Source in Information Management” session of the BI Summit, during which Donald Feinberg presented the alternatives available for the different parts of the BI stack. In the data integration and data quality categories, Feinberg insisted that many of the options were unviable or unproven, with the exception of Talend.  His general grips with open source were the lack of enterprise readiness, the small size of core development teams, the lack of integration between the various data management disciplines… but I think I heard “except for Talend” at least a dozen times in this session.
• The Magic Quadrant power session is always an important time during a Gartner Summit.  Four analysts were on stage, explaining each their Magic Quadrant: Mark Beyer for the Data Integration Quadrant, Ted Friedman for the Data Quality Quadrant, John Radcliffe and Andrew White each for their flavor of MDM Quadrant (Customer for the former, Product for the latter). Again, Talend was mentioned as the only open source vendor to have gained traction in these markets, as the only open source player in the Data Integration Quadrant, as a disrupting force on the market…

I could not attend all sessions, busy also with a product launch (version 4) and a funding announcement, but several of my colleagues and friends went to other sessions and confirmed the traction and visibility that open source was gaining.

Of course, all these mentions attracted people to our booth on the solution showcase, where we were busy explaining the merits of open source MDM, data integration and data quality.

Beyond the sessions and the solution showcase, these summits were a great opportunity to interact with the key Gartner analysts, and I enjoyed spending time with Andrew White, Andy Bitterer, Ted Friedman, Mark Beyer, James Richardson…  And also hearing more about this new satirical cartoon: Analysterical, the Exotic Life of Analysts (highly recommended).

Another noteworthy point is that the MDM session of the BI Summit was so packed that people were standing in the aisles or sitting on the floor!  Isn’t this a great testament to the importance of unifying data management disciplines?

Finally, you can also watch my interview about these Summits on the Talend Channel - with a great view of the Las Vegas Strip behind me.

Yves

[2010-05-02] Talend Press Release: ABA Seguros selects Talend to enhance Data Integation and Data Quality processes

ABA Seguros selects Talend to enhance Data Integation and Data Quality processes

Talend Integration Suite and Talend Data Quality Help Mexican Insurance Provider Manage Mission Critical Data

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - May 3, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data management software, today announced that ABA Seguros, a GMAC insurance company specializing in Property and Casualty (P&C) throughout Mexico, has selected Talend Integration Suite and Talend Data Quality to streamline its data management processes. Talend's integrated solutions enable ABA Seguros to efficiently process, cleanse and standardize customer and catalog data for improved business operations.

“We sought a data integration solution with strong Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) and data cleansing capabilities to manage the vast amount of information within ABA Seguros' customer and car insurance databases,” said Pedro Arturo del Castillo, solutions architect manager, ABA Seguros. “Talend's unified platform is a good fit for us; it is a scalable, reliable tool for both data integration and data quality, and offers the flexibility needed to meet all of our technical requirements.”

ABA Seguros, which has a network of agents throughout 26 locations in 16 Mexican states, needed a solution with superior data integration and data quality capabilities to help integrate its insurance information according to customer name. Doing so would enable agents, dealers and employees to easily identify all policies under a single customer, as well as sort by their own policies. The company was initially attracted to Talend's affordable licensing costs and open source approach, and found Talend's enterprise solutions' extensive functionality, along with their scalability, flexibility and reliability, unmatched in comparison to competing offerings. ABA Seguros currently utilizes Talend's extensive components palette, metadata management and data quality capabilities for ETL, data cleansing, standardization and de-duplication tasks.

The company also plans to implement Talend MDM, a comprehensive Master Data Management solution, in the near future in order to aggregate information from various systems and have one single version of the truth data.

“We are excited to work with ABA Seguros; they have a large amount of customer data to manage, and Talend offers a fast, scalable and robust solution that can ensure the highest level of data quality required by a leading insurance provider,” said Vincent Pineau, Talend vice president and general manager, Americas. “The flexibility of Talend's software is exemplified by its implementation at ABA Seguros, and this instance further corroborates its suitability for organizations of all sizes across various verticals.”

About ABA Seguros

ABA Seguros is part of GMAC Insurance and specializes in damages to cars, homes and companies. The company is established in Nuevo León, and has offices in Distrito Federal, Jalisco and 13 other Mexican states.

[2010-04-28] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend Open Profiler 4.0.1 is available

Download Talend Open Profiler 4.0.1: http://www.talend.com/download.php#profiler

This release is a bug fixing release and contains only bug fixes.

For a full list of fixed bugs, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-04-28] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend Open Studio 4.0.1 is available

Download Talend Open Studio 4.0.1

This release is a bug fixing release and contains only bug fixes.

For a full list of fixed bugs, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-04-28] Talend Document: Telesperience data sheet: driving down costs through better data integration

Data integration plays a vital role in the commercial agility and operational efficiency of enterprises. In this data sheet, UK-based analysts Telesperience summarise the findings from a primary research project into data integration in high transaction industries. Among other topics, this paper looks at what is driving data integration today, outlines the cost implications of poor data integration, examines how confident enterprises are that they can deliver data integration projects on time and to budget, and reveals what data integration goals are for 2010-11.

[2010-04-27] Talend Blog: Did you check the Talend Channel on YouTube?

Latest Talend online community, the Talend Channel on YouTube is your source of information on open source data management. Its diverse content includes:

• Interviews from Talend executives
• Discussions with partners and open source visionaries
• Demonstrations of Talend’s open source data management solutions

Among the most recent videos posted, check out:

Bertrand Diard, Talend’s Co-Founder & CEO, talks about Talend’s latest round of funding. He also gives his view on the traction Talend is getting and comments on the adoption of open source software by large companies.

Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM and open source pioneer, comments on the adoption of open source by large accounts, he explains the success of SugarCRM, gives his vision on how open source companies can be successful.

Video tutorial of Talend MDM Enterprise Edition, that includes a presentation of the complete MDM toolset, the Active Data Model and the Roles Based Access.

More videos are being added frequently.  The best way to keep up to date is to subscribe to the Talend Channel!

Yves

[2010-04-26] Talend Blog: Busy month for conferences

In the software industry, April is traditionally a busy month for conferences and shows.  This April did not fail the tradition, since Talend participated into:

• The Enterprise Intelligence Summit by Teradata in Berlin
• SugarCon, the SugarCRM user conference in San Francisco
• Gartner MDM Summit in Las Vegas
• Cloud Computing Expo in New York
• IRM’s Master Data Management Summit Europe in London

In addition, we also hosted our 2nd Partner Summit in Paris, with over 100 participants from Talend’s key SI partners, and 7 technology partners sponsoring the event.

These events are important, because they give us opportunities to meet face to face with our end users, community members, and key industry influencers. They are also a privileged time for analyzing important trends on the market.

I will be blogging more about a number of highlights from some of these events.  Stay tuned!

Yves

PS: for these of you living/working in London (or still stranded there by the ash cloud…), open source can mean free beer… join us at our Talend Happy Hours community event tomorrow, April 27.  Get free beer, snacks, and the opportunity to network with Talend and your peers. More info and sign up here.

[2010-04-18] Talend Press Release: Talend completes $8 million series D financing to accelerate adoption of open source data solutions

Talend completes $8 million series D financing to accelerate adoption of open source data solutions

Balderton Capital, AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners Extend Commitment; Strategic Investment to be Used to Deliver High Performance and Cost Optimized Solutions to Talend's Global Customers

LOS ALTOS, Calif., April 19, 2010 - Talend, the market leader in open source data solutions, today announced it has secured $8 million in Series D financing to help further develop and extend the company's breakthrough data integration, data quality and master data management (MDM) solutions. Existing investors Balderton Capital, AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners, all reaffirmed their commitment to Talend, with each company contributing to the round. With the $8 million investment, Talend has now raised $28 million.

“The recommitment of our existing investors is a giant vote of confidence for the aggressive steps we have taken in the last 12 months to expand our solutions to meet our customers' most complex data integration challenges,” said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend. “This investment will help us further accelerate the dynamics of the market by expanding our business operations and launching breakthrough products that are turning a proprietary, complex and cost-prohibitive technology market into one that is driven by solutions like Talend MDM that most organizations can afford to deploy.”

In 2009, Talend enjoyed a record year, delivering cost-optimized, high-performance data management solutions to a broadening customer base. Talend's flagship open source data solutions have been downloaded more than seven million times. Talend's paying customer base grew 140%, to well over 1,000 customers, increasing the company's market share, and solidifying the applicability of its solutions for enterprise projects of all sizes throughout the world. In addition, in November 2009, Talend was recognized by Gartner as a Visionary in their Magic Quadrant for Data Integration tools, becoming the only open source player to be included in this category.

“Talend's execution over the past year validated our decision to invest in the company, and we are reiterating, without any hesitation, our confidence in Bertrand and his team,” said Bernard Liautaud, general partner with Balderton Capital. “Open source has proven that it is ready for massive adoption in the enterprise, and a growing number of organizations of all sizes are embracing Talend's solutions as a proven, reliable and cost-efficient option for solving short and long term data management challenges.”

“The strong growth and numerous milestones that Talend has achieved over the past four years are a clear sign that organizations now expect the data integration market to deliver high performance, cost-optimized solutions that deliver rapid time-to-value. As an early investor in Talend, AGF Private Equity is proud that they have become a global force in the data integration market, in such a short timeframe," said Matthieu Baret, partner with AGF Private Equity.”

About Balderton Capital

Balderton Capital is one of the largest venture capital firms in Europe, committed to finding and helping talented entrepreneurs build great companies. Based in London, it manages $1.9 billion in committed venture capital. Since 2000, Balderton has invested in over 80 companies, principally in numerous European countries but also in the US and Asia. Balderton's investments span a wide variety of sectors including communications, consumer services, enterprise software and services, e-commerce, mobile, semiconductors, media and financial services. Balderton invests in innovative businesses and approaches investment using the principles of teamwork and an intense dedication to building companies of lasting value. The investment partners combine international and Silicon Valley operational experience with company-building expertise. Notable investments include Bebo (sold to AOL for $850m), Betfair (the online betting exchange), ScanSafe (sold to Cisco for $183m), LOVEFiLM (the home entertainment subscription service) and MySQL (sold to Sun for $1 billion).

About AGF Private Equity

AGF Private Equity, a subsidiary of the AGF insurance company, member of the Allianz Group, is specialized in non-listed investments. The company manages an investment portfolio of more than EUR 1 billion for institutional and private investors through two activities: funds of funds and venture capital investments. AGF Private Equity is among the leaders in France in managing funds of funds and is also one of the most active French investors in venture capital. AGF Private Equity has developed a unique expertise of sourcing and managing Private Equity investments and has committed EUR 900 million in about 60 funds primarily in Europe. AGF Private Equity offers institutional investors global solutions for their exposure to Private Equity through dedicated and diversified vehicles.

About Galileo Partners

Galileo Partners is an independent venture capital company; with a current fund of approximately EUR 350 million. Galileo Partners focuses on investments geared toward emerging technologies. Galileo Partners has gone through a dozen IPOs and many industrial buyouts. Its long-term performance allows the company to be continuously supported by major International investors.

[2010-04-12] Talend Press Release: Talend launches industry's first unified data management platform

Talend launches industry's first unified data management platform

Talend 4.0 Unites Data Integration, Data Quality and Master Data Management to Turbocharge Productivity of All Data Management Projects

LOS ALTOS, Calif., April 13, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data management software, today announced the release of Talend 4.0, a significant milestone for the company and the data integration market. With this major upgrade to the company's flagship data management solutions, Talend is delivering the industry's first integrated data management platform uniting data integration, data quality and master data management (MDM) within a single solution. Talend's thousands of customers can now further streamline and reduce the complexity of their critical data management projects, resulting in higher productivity, lower operational costs and greater insights into their vital informational assets.

Over the last four years, Talend has been the innovator in the data management market, delivering high-performance, cost-optimized, open source solutions that offer comparable and in many cases greater functionality than significantly more expensive and complex proprietary technologies. With the launch earlier this year of Talend MDM, Talend now offers solutions that address any data management challenge for organizations of all sizes. To complete the circle, Talend has integrated its core technologies - data integration, data quality and MDM - into one unified platform.

“Talend 4.0 reflects our laser focus on delivering the exact data management capabilities required by our customers, regardless of their vertical industry, or if they are a growing start-up or established industry giant,” said Fabrice Bonan, co-founder and chief operating officer, Talend. “By unifying our core solutions in a single platform, we are empowering our customers to consolidate disparate projects and reinvent how they conduct data management in a way that is simply not possible with any other solution on the market.”

Talend 4.0 delivers unprecedented improvements in resource optimization and utilization, and project consistency. Key features include:

• Single development studio based on Eclipse, that provides users with consistent ergonomics, fast learning curve and a high-level of reusability.
• A common metadata repository, that promotes sharing of vital information assets including user data, application metadata, business models, business rules, transformation and validation rules, connectors, data validation and workflows. Cross project data lineage and impact analysis is also available throughout the repository.
• Unified deployment environment, that includes a distributed and high availability execution paradigm, single monitoring console and real-time execution reporting.

“In the information management discipline, there is clearly a growing demand for integrated solutions to address a wide range of issues that companies in competitive industries grapple with every day,” said Ted Friedman, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner. “Organizations that take a strategic view of information infrastructure and effectively standardize on key technology components for understanding, governing, and delivering information assets will gain substantial business benefit.”

Availability

Talend v4.0 products are available immediately. Talend Open Studio, Talend Open Profiler and Talend MDM Community Edition are provided under the GPL license and can be downloaded at no charge at www.talend.com/download.php. Talend Integration Suite, Talend Data Quality and Talend MDM Enterprise Edition, which include value-added features and services are provided under a subscription license.

[2010-04-07] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend MDM Community Edition 4.0.0 is available

Download Talend MDM Community Edition 4.0.0

For a full list of new features and fixed bugs for this new 4.0.0 release, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-04-07] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend Open Profiler 4.0.0 is available

Download Talend Open Profiler 4.0.0

This new 4.0.0 release includes new features such as handling different queries for different versions of a database.

For a full list of fixed bugs and new features, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-04-07] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend Open Studio 4.0.0 is available

Download Talend Open Studio 4.0.0

This new 4.0.0 release includes new features such as new LDAP secured connection, possibility to add parameters for JDBC Connections and new tHL7Input component.

For a full list of fixed bugs and new features, check the bugtracker changelog page: http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-04-06] Talend Tech Blog Sebastiao CORREIA: How to compute a median in SQL

In Talend Open Profiler, we generate SQL queries to get statistical informations. Among the currently available indicators, the median is one of the most difficult to compute. Nevertheless this indicator is worth computing because it is more stable than the mean indicator (average). By stable, I mean that it is less influenced by extremal values. This is not the case with the average which can vary a lot when extremal values exist.

I found several ways to compute the median depending on the database type. The most simple is for example with Oracle 10g which provides a MEDIAN function, so that your query writes
SELECT MEDIAN(salary) FROM employee

But for other databases, things begin to be more tricky. Let’s take MySQL first. One way to compute the median is the following:
SELECT AVG(salary) FROM (
SELECT salary FROM employee
WHERE salary IS NOT NULL
ORDER by salary ASC
LIMIT n,p) T
where p=1 and n=N/2-1 when the number of non null rows N is even, or p=2 and n=(N-1)/2 when N is odd.

For Postgresql, the query is similar to the MySQL query and uses LIMIT too.
SELECT AVG(salary) FROM (
SELECT salary FROM employee
WHERE salary IS NOT NULL
ORDER by salary ASC
LIMIT p OFFSET n) T
This query can also be used on MySQL but not on old versions of MySQL (before 5.0).
For Oracle 9i, the MEDIAN function does not exists and we must use the PERCENTILE_CONT function:
SELECT PERCENTILE_CONT(0.5) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY salary)
FROM employee
For DB2, the following query is used in Talend Open Profiler:
SELECT AVG(salary) FROM (
SELECT salary, COUNT(*) OVER( ) total, CAST(COUNT(*) OVER( ) AS DECIMAL)/2 mid, CEIL(CAST(COUNT(*) OVER( ) AS DECIMAL)/2) next, ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY salary) rn FROM employee
) x
WHERE ( MOD(total,2) = 0 AND rn IN ( mid, mid+1 ) )
OR
( MOD(total,2) = 1 AND rn = next )
For Microsoft SQL Server, we used the TOP clause as follows
SELECT AVG(CAST(salary AS NUMERIC)) FROM (
SELECT TOP n salary FROM (
SELECT TOP m salary FROM employee
WHERE salary IS NOT NULL ORDER BY salary ASC
) AS FOO
ORDER BY salary DESC
) AS BAR

where n is given as in the MySQL case and m=n+p (p being given above for the MySQL case).

Up to now, the only way I found for computing the median on Sybase ASE is the following:
SELECT AVG(CAST (salary AS NUMERIC)) FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT salary FROM (
SELECT salary FROM employee
UNION ALL
SELECT salary FROM employee
) STT
WHERE
(SELECT COUNT(salary) FROM employee) <= (SELECT COUNT(salary) FROM (
SELECT salary FROM employee
UNION ALL
SELECT salary FROM employee
) AS SOU
WHERE SOU.salary <= STT.salary)
AND
(SELECT COUNT(salary) FROM employee) <= (SELECT COUNT(salary) FROM (
SELECT salary FROM employee
UNION ALL
SELECT salary FROM employee
) AS SUR
WHERE SUR.salary >= STT.salary) ) T
This query makes heavy use of correlated subqueries and I hope to find a more efficient way to compute a median on this database.

Median can be computed by other approaches. Temporary tables could be used or cursors. But Talend Open Profiler must only use SELECT statements because a data profiler could not have the permissions to create a table on a database and the use of cursors is too complex for this tool.

[2010-04-01] Talend Press Release: RTBF: Talend Integration Suite on the air

RTBF: Talend Integration Suite on the air

All data integration flows - including operational reporting and budgetary preparation and control - are now based on the Talend business solution

SURESNES, March 30, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration solutions, announced today that Radio Télévision Belge de la communauté Francophone (RTBF), Belgium’s leading TV channel, uses Talend Integration Suite to load an operational reporting data warehouse (financial management, progressively extending to production management, human resources, distribution and rights management). The data collected enables RTBF to better understand and analyze its activities to attract a loyal audience.

“Reporting used to be embedded in the applications. Each modification required the involvement of the IT department, which over time became increasingly cumbersome to manage. In addition, this aging technology was increasingly being replaced: for example we recently migrated our database to Oracle,” says Jean-Pierre Hoedenaeken, BI Manager at RTBF. “These interventions could take time and we were looking for a tool that could cover numerous data sources, giving us independence.”

The company studied the different alternatives offered on the market, then developed prototypes with several solutions, including Talend Open Studio. They finally chose Talend for several reasons. “First of all, the open source nature of the Talend solutions and the presence of an extremely active user community guarantee the rapid development of the solutions and consideration of the users’ requests. In addition, these solutions are characterized by their openness and extensive connectivity, which facilitate their integration into our information systems,” explains Jean-Pierre Hoedenaeken. “Also, the graphic interface is particularly easy and quick to learn, which facilitates job or data flow development, and their deployment. Finally, the Java orientation was perfect for our developers.”

Live testing of the new solution was done during a first major project: the presentation of the 2009 regional and European election results on RTBF. The project consisted in collecting data from the Ministry of the Interior and its subcontractors, then transforming the data into a format usable by television broadcast systems.

The test was conclusive; Talend Integration Suite was deployed to load the data warehouse. Thirty data sources are connected to the tool today, including the finance software (general accounting, suppliers and treasury management) and the specific applications mentioned above. Three developers today use the tool to develop data flows, with fifty users using the data warehouse daily to complete analyses. Their number will increase in the future, since the warehouse will soon include production management data.

“Another new project was completed this year,” adds Steven Ginneberge, Database Administrator at RTBF. “It consisted in building loading flows for our budgetary planning and control software, Hyperion Planning. The development of flows once again proved to be fast and easy. Maintenance and corrections are fast too, and the reloading of data after making corrections is almost instant. This was not the case with the other products that we tested.”

The ease of learning and development speed are among the main benefits noted by RTBF. “We get results very quickly, which increases our agility. Rather than adopt a cascade development method (where certain discrepancies may appear between the user’s specifications and the developer’s final product), we use a spiral development method, resulting from agile development techniques. This facilitates communication between business users and the developers and ultimately contributes to a better quality IT production. Talend Integration Suite seamlessly integrates to this approach, which is even easier thanks to its flexible programming,” says Jean-Pierre Hoedenaeken.

Finally, RTBF appreciates the contribution of the Talend global user community. “Information is easily accessible through the forums. As this community grows, more and more topics are covered, which of course allows users to save time,” concludes Jean-Pierre Hoedenaeken. “Compared to the other tools on the market, Talend is really set apart by the openness of its tools, its richness in terms of connectivity and the strength of its community. This allows us to plan the future of our projects with confidence.”

About RTBF

Radio Télévision Belge de la communauté Francophone (RTBF) is the national broadcasting organization operating in the French-speaking territory of Belgium. Controlling three television and five radio stations, RTBF also offers on-demand and interactive next generation services via the Internet. The company has 2,000 employees and earned revenue of 250 million euros in 2008. The audiovisual landscape in Belgium is very competitive: the entire population has cable and gets thirty channels, including the main French and German channels.

[2010-03-30] Talend Press Release: Eulidia joins the Talend Alliance Program

Eulidia joins the Talend Alliance Program

One of the French specialists in business intelligence joins the leader in open source data integration to provide large and mid-market companies with a new vision of open source BI projects

SURESNES, March 23, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration, announced today a partnership with Eulidia, an information management consulting firm based in Paris. Eulidia is also joining the Talend Alliance Program as a Platinum partner and will receive technical, sales and marketing assistance from Talend.

Eulidia, created in 2008 by Boris Guérin and Fabien Jongenelen, two entrepreneurs involved in the decision and e-business markets, relies today on a score of employees to achieve a revenue of 2.3 million €, half of which comes from the financial industry sector, particularly insurance. The company is also involved in the distribution and public sectors, offering a wide range of services related to BI tool selection and implementation in addition to the management of the related change.

“Since its inception, Talend has displayed a growth strategy that is consistent with our company’s policy. In addition, our Java and open source culture naturally lead us to forge strategic partnerships with companies that combine a powerful, yet easy to deploy technological product with a pure player position offering good visibility of its product development,” confirm Boris Guérin and Fabien Jongenelen, CEOs and co-founders of Eulidia. “Moreover, Talend has a strong desire to maintain close relations with its partners, enabling us to offer our clients comprehensive support for data exchange and integration problems. We are happy today to make this partnership official. Our joint commercial actions have already yielded results and we are currently in the deployment phase with several customers.”

“Eulidia perfectly demonstrates how a human-sized company can offer long-term support to its clients while providing optimum value added services,” adds François Méro, General Manager EMEA at Talend. “Talend needs experts like Eulidia to become established in companies. This is why we are proud to conclude this partnership which, I am sure, will benefit both of our companies and our shared customers.”

About Eulidia

EULIDIA, an information management consulting firm, is a “Business Performance Partner” specializing in the implementation of decision support solutions. The company aims to support business and technical management in the design and implementation of data processing and performance BI applications. The company name was inspired by the "Eulidia Yarrellii", a Chilean bird. Like this protected species, the team uses its agility and energy to sustainably nurture the development of the company. The long-term vision fits perfectly with the recommendations and implementations to which EULIDIA stakeholders are committed to guarantee the sustainability of client company systems.

For more information: www.eulidia.com

[2010-03-30] Talend Forum Announcement: For test only, Talend Open Profiler 4.0.0RC3 is available

Try this Release Candidate version: http://www.talend.com/download.php#profiler .

Discover the full list of fixed bugs on the bugtracker changelog page.

[2010-03-30] Talend Forum Announcement: For test only, Talend Open Studio 4.0.0RC3 is available

Download this Release Candidate.

Discover the full list of fixed bugs on the bugtracker changelog page.

[2010-03-26] Talend Document: Overcoming Objections to Data Governance

Data governance is an outstanding business strategy that leads your company toward greater efficiency, lower risk and increased revenue. Proper management of data underpins the success many strategic initiatives. However, it is not always easy for others to see its value.

This white paper discusses the techniques that have been successful for data champions as they "sell" the importance of data governance to their company. It examines guidelines for optimal project selection, tracking the value of data governance and techniques for overcoming objections to a data governance program.

[2010-03-16] Talend Forum Announcement: YouTube: check the Official Talend channel!

We have just launched the Official Talend Channel!
Check it out here : http://www.youtube.com/user/TalendChannel

Subscribe to the channel to get news from Talend.
Videos include interviews, tutorials and product presentations.

[2010-03-15] Talend Press Release: Talend and Petals Link sign a technology partnership and work together on a first project

Talend and Petals Link sign a technology partnership and work together on a first project

The integration of Talend Open Studio with Petals ESB meets the real-time application integration needs of companies. The two vendors are working together on an asset management project for the Ministry of Defense and will present a joint session at the Solutions Linux conference

SURESNES, France - March 9, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration solutions, announced today a technology partnership with Petals Link, the leading European open source SOA software vendor. The two companies, which will present a joint session in the OW2 track of the Solutions Linux 2010 conference on March 18, are working together on a first joint deployment for the “Technical Asset Management” project of the French Ministry of Defense.

Petals Link, created by integration and Web services specialists, aims to help companies build a smooth, flexible, agile and interoperable information system. For this, the company develops and supports all Petals software, which provide the tools necessary for an open and standardized service-oriented approach (SOA). Petals Link also offers expertise, consulting, training and coaching for information system architecture and integration issues: urbanization, SOA, process models, middleware infrastructure, administration, tools and standards.

“We are proud to sign this partnership with one of the major players in the open source world. We share with Talend the same open source ecosystem, as illustrated by our joint participation in OW2, in addition to the same desire to break away from the traditional models in our respective markets,” said Bertrand Escudié, CEO of Petals Link. “Our joint customers have both data integration and application needs. With Talend solutions, we offer the possibility to easily integrate databases in interapplication processes. We also offer a much faster method to perform transformations.”

The two companies will speak together during the OW2 track of the Solutions Linux conference in Paris on March 18. This presentation will showcase integration between the Talend and Petals ESB solutions. On the one hand, this alliance offers the best open source transformation and development solution in a SOA employed by Petals ESB. On the other hand, Petals ESB gives Talend the capability to deploy and supervise data integration jobs in an open source SOA services infrastructure. Solutions Linux, held on March 16-18, 2010 at Porte de Versailles in Paris, is the European gathering of the free software community and is celebrating its 11^th edition this year.

Meanwhile, Talend and Petals Link are now working on implementing their first joint project with the Defense Infrastructure Services (SID) of the French Ministry of Defense, which includes the infrastructure services of the three military branches (Army, Air Force and Navy). Together, the two companies are implementing a project and asset management application distributed among 80 sites that manages Ministry building plans and projects. The application integrates several databases and Web Services across different databases. Petals Link provides the SOA solution and Talend provides the integration and data transformation solution.

“With Petals Link, we are provning that our solutions can be integrated seamlessly in a SOA environment to meet the increased real-time application integration needs of our customers,” concludes François Méro, General Manager EMEA at Talend. “Innovation is one of the fundamental drivers of our two companies, as the project currently in development for the Ministry of Defense demonstrates. This technology partnership allows us to offer our users an application integration layer and strengthen our position in the service-oriented architecture market.”

About Petals Link

Petals Link, the leading European open source SOA software vendor, provides a range of innovative SOA integration solutions, Petals SOA Suite. Thanks to its innovative and partnership policies, it offers a scalable and complete open source ESB, Petals ESB, to ensure the integration of SOA advantages in your infrastructure.

Petals ESB has a global user base and numerous references in sectors such as telecommunications (Orange), Defense (DGA, Air Force) and central administrations (URSSAF, DGME).

Created in 2004, Petals Link collaborates with numerous business and academic players, and participates in various large-scope European projects. Petals Link is an active member of several groups devoted to future information system models (SOA, BPM, EDA), such as the OW2 Consortium and OSA, for example.

For more information: www.petalslink.com

[2010-03-15] Talend Forum Announcement: For test only, Talend Open Profiler 4.0.0RC1 is available

Try this Release Candidate version: http://www.talend.com/download.php#profiler .

Discover the full list of new features and fixed bugs on the bugtracker changelog page.

[2010-03-15] Talend Forum Announcement: For test only, Talend Open Studio 4.0.0RC1 is available

Download this Release Candidate.

Discover the full list of new features and fixed bugs on the bugtracker changelog page.

[2010-03-13] Talend Tech Blog Olivier CARBONE: New tutorials are available on TalendForge

Since the start of 2010, you can found frequently new video on TalendChannel and new tutorials on TalendForge.

The channel is hosted on YouTube and several videos have been already broadcasted. The creation of the Talend Channel allows Talend to broadcast interesting contents, increasing the visibility of the company through a new type of information support

The channel is going to be enriched with new interviews. To date, interviews of several of our partners and of Talend executives are available. You can also view a tutorial about the installation of Talend MDM.

Some of the tutorial published in TalendForge are extracted from the official contents of training and give you an overview about the practical exercises.

2 exercise are extract of the Talend Open Studio Foundation Course. With this 2 tutorial, you will learn how to catch statistics and warning from your job and how to store monitoring information.

2010-01-11 - Talend On Demand - Quick Start

Talend On Demand is the industry’s first data integration Software as a Service (SaaS).

It consolidates Talend Open Studio metadata and project information in an online, shared repository hosted by Talend, and allows project teams of any size to consolidate data integration work in a centralized and shared repository, facilitating collaboration, object and code reuse, and promoting development best practices.

2010-02-08 -  How to use a MultiSchema component

This tutorial explains how to use the Multi Schema Editor. In the tutorial, you will create a job reading complex multi-structured data via a tFileInputMSDelimited component.

Set up the tFileInputMSDelimited component to open a complex multi-structured file, to read its data structures (schemas) and to use Row links to send fields as defined in the different schemas to the next job components.

In this tutorial, the multi schema delimited file is read row by row and the extracted fields are displayed on the Run Job console as defined in the Multi Schema Editor.

2010-02-22 - Learn how to catch information about your jobs’ executions
With this tutorial, you will learn:

• how to catch errors messages with the Trigger / On Component Error link
• how to use the tDie and tLogCatcher components to collect error messages

2010-03-08 - Learn how to create tables to store the monitoring information.
In this tutorial, you will create a new MySQL database for the monitoring data.

The tLogCatcher, tStatCatcher, tFlowMeterCatcher need a table each to store the data.

In this exercise, you will use the tCreateTable component to create the needed table.

For more tutorial, visit the Tutorial Section of TalendForge !

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[2010-03-10] Talend Document: Building a Robust Business Case for High Quality Master Data - An Information Difference White Paper

Projects addressing data quality or master data management frequently struggle to get approved by senior management, and only around 60% of such projects proceed with a proper business case - causing high rates of cancellation and failure.

This white paper explains the key elements for building a proper, quantified business case. It presents the measures that are favored by corporate finance departments, and helps develop a strong business case for data quality and MDM projects. A number of real-life examples with quantifiable benefits are also included.

Armed with the materials in this white paper, you will be in a good position to deliver a high quality business case for your data quality or MDM project!

The Information Difference is an analyst firm focusing on Master Data Management (MDM). Its founders are pioneers who helped shape the MDM industry, with in-depth MDM global project experience.

[2010-03-09] Talend Press Release: Trader Media Group drives data quality with Talend Integration Suite

Trader Media Group drives data quality with Talend Integration Suite

Europe's largest specialist multi media publishers selects open source data integration solution

MAIDENHEAD, UK - March 10, 2010 - Talend Integration Suite, the leading open source enterprise data integration solution has been selected by Trader Media Group, Europe’s largest specialist multi media publishers, in an effort to better manage the influx of rich data needed for its line of leading automotive classified websites.

Trader Media Group produces over 70 leading classified titles and operates high-volume printing businesses. This means dealing with huge volumes of data from buyers and sellers in a variety of formats, as well as having to make automotive data in print available online.

Tim Jones, CIO - Publishing Division at Trader Media Group commented: “We receive a host of automotive data, including images, from large dealer groups, suppliers, buyers as well as bodies such as the Driving Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). We needed an open source data integration system that had the capability to integrate and migrate this data quickly, to help put buyers in touch with sellers as well as meet regulatory requirements.”

“Not only is Talend Integration Suite open source and compatible with our existing Oracle based ETL tools, it is also built in Java. This is particularly attractive as in having a team of Java developers in-house we will be able to extend our capabilities independently, which will significantly slash costs that were previously spent on updating proprietary software. The ease of developing Talend Integration Suite also means that our development resources will now have more time to focus of revenue generated tasks and customer service initiatives,” Tim added.

As the first open source enterprise data integration solution, Talend Integration Suite is designed to support multi-user development, and to scale to the highest levels of data volumes and process complexity.

The Suite extends award winning Talend Open Studio with professional grade technical support and additional features to facilitate the work of large teams and industrialise enterprise-scale deployments. Its three main applications, Business Modeler, Job Designer, and Metadata Manager, constitute the primary work environment of business users and integration process developers.

François Méro, General Manager-EMEA, Talend commented: “Managing data and achieving data quality should be at the forefront of every competitive company, especially if like Trader Media Group, having accurate rich data is paramount to the success of the business. As Europe’s largest specialist multi media publishers, the company is constantly broadening its range of service channels, and having a tool like Talend Integration Suite to ensure that all data is integrated and migrated from print to online efficiently is crucial. Talend Integration Suite will also add great business value by enabling Trader Media Group and its customers to track search trials and produce sophisticated reports for reporting and analytics.”

About Auto Trader

Visit the new website at www.autotrader.co.uk

AutoTrader.co.uk is the UK’s no 1 motoring website, with over 10.3 million monthly unique users, who carry out over 106 million searches on new and used vehicles*. The brand is building a competitive position across all effective channels including online, mobile and magazine. (*Source: Auto Trader Audit, January 2009).

AutoTrader.co.uk is owned by Trader Media Group, one of Europe’s largest specialist multi-media groups and provider of market leading websites and their associated magazines, including Top Marques, Bike Trader, Truck & Plant Trader, Ad Trader, Motorhome and Caravan Trader, Farmers Trader – all with the largest reach in their sectors, through web visitors and magazine readership.

Trader Media Group operates in the UK, Ireland, Italy and South Africa. The Group is looking to expand on its winning formula: giving trade customers the opportunity to choose all effective channels to market; building the service and relationship with dealers and manufacturers; and strengthening its portfolio of automotive and specialist classified titles.

Trader Media Group is jointly owned by Guardian Media Group and Apax Partners.

[2010-03-08] Talend Blog: The evolving CIO mind on open source

CIOs point of view on open source is clearly evolving. Four years ago, the word on the street was that open source solutions were insecure, riddled with amateurish support, and we were hearing that the viability of OSS companies was a wild bet at best… Of course the spreading of FUD by proprietary vendors did not help.

Readers of this blog know that I always feel important to make it clear that open source is not only a way to cut costs. Hence the interest I found in the report on the first Open CIO Summit, organized by the Open World Forum in Paris in late 2009.

According to this report, CIOs regard OSS more as a source of innovation than as a way to directly save budget. If open source is often portrayed as a way to cut cost, CIO Summit participants give this cliché a pounding: they consider that the main benefit of open source is to help them to innovate easily in their IT, combining various elements: a dynamic ecosystem, the availability of a broad variety of software functions, modularity, compliance with standards, easy access, customization capabilities, and of course, lower costs. With OSS, they can test alternative options, without risk.

Secondly, the main interest offered by OSS lies more on standards and flexibility than code openness. CIOs know that code openness is a guarantee of customization and security, but they feel more attracted by standards compliance to guarantee flexibility and interoperability. OSS can be customized more easily than proprietary software, and OSS vendors are faster to take into account clients needs.

Finally, the main barrier slowing down the adoption of OSS seems to be usability: user interfaces of OSS tools have to be enhanced, in terms of ergonomics and design. OSS products have the reputation to be developed by technicians for technicians. And moreover, if adoption fails, the enterprise goes back to proprietary software with no second chance for OSS… This last point is quite important, and we addressed it from day one, in the very first versions of our products. I guess we succeeded: Talend customers often underline the ease of use and speed of learning of our tools in the case studies.

The report concludes that for CIOs, OSS is more an opportunity than a risk, if the enterprise knows how to manage best practices – which is essential in a quite tough economic environment. Of course, this is nothing new for us at Talend.  But this level of awareness (92% of CIOs are now using open source solutions or tools) is clearly encouraging.

Bertrand

[2010-03-02] Talend Blog: An Interesting Survey on Open Source Business Intelligence

Our friends at Aberdeen, a leading industry research firm, are currently running a survey on the use of open source technologies for BI deployments.

They feel that many CIO’s are compelled to evaluate open source business intelligence as a way to reduce their costs, and they are trying to figure out if that is the best way to reduce total cost of ownership, or whether there are approaches using traditionally licensed BI software that yield a superior TCO.  Similarly, does the open source model bring other business benefits, such as faster innovation and a more flexible deployment approach?

This research survey will determine what strategies and actions companies are taking to:

• Reduce the total costs of ownership of BI deployments.
• Increase access to, and adoption of BI capabilities.
• Foster faster development and deployment of new BI applications, reports and views.

Whether you use open source for your business intelligence systems or not, I would encourage you to take this 10 minute survey and you’ll be able to compare your organizations use of BI resources against its peers, and learn how open source BI might bring benefits to you.  Everyone that completes the survey will receive from Aberdeen a complimentary copy of the final research reports on open source BI and total cost of ownership.  Individual responses will be kept strictly confidential and data will only be used in aggregate.

Yves

[2010-02-28] Talend Press Release: Talend and BonitaSoft sign an OEM partnership

Talend and BonitaSoft sign an OEM partnership

Talend integrates Bonita Open Solution in Talend MDM Enterprise Edition to help businesses manage and automate their data quality, MDM and data stewardship processes

SURESNES, France - February 25, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration solutions, announced today a strategic OEM partnership with BonitaSoft, the leading vendor of open source business process management solutions (BPMS). As part of this agreement, Talend will integrate Bonita Open Solution, the BonitaSoft BPM solution, as OEM in its Talend MDM Enterprise Edition product.

BonitaSoft, the leading vendor of open source business process management solutions (BPMS), was created in 2009 by the founders of the Bonita open source project. The company’s goal is to democratize BPM, that is to make an open source solution available to businesses of all sizes that is easy, powerful and capable of integrating very easily in the information system, regardless of the project’s level of complexity or criticality. The software has already been downloaded more than 225,000 times worldwide and has become, with the official launch of Bonita Open Solution 5.0 in January 2010, the leading open source solution comparable to the proprietary products on the market such as Lombardi, IBM, Oracle, Tibco or Pega.

By including Bonita Open Solution in Talend MDM Enterprise Edition, Talend is today able to offer its clients complex workflow management functions, allowing, for example, to manage a data validation process and enhance or modify existing reference data.

“MDM projects increasingly require efficient workflow and data validation process management. The fact that a player like Talend, which has succeeded in establishing itself as a leader in data integration in less than two years, chose our product for its new MDM solution is further recognition of the validity of our strategy,” states Miguel Valdes Faura, co-founder and CEO of BonitaSoft. “This partnership reinforces the ties that have connected our two companies in the past. Since our inception, Talend has supported our operations and today we are happy to provide Talend with an important technology layer for its product. We share the same taste for innovation and therefore we are going to work together in the future to further develop our respective solutions.”

“Previously only accessible to large businesses, BPM is available through BonitaSoft, which shares various similarities with Talend: open source model, same technology foundation (Java, Eclipse), rupture strategy and desire to simplify our clients’ work,” comments Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend. “The data quality, MDM and data stewardship processes require this process automation function and we have chosen to integrate the best open source BPM solution to our MDM business solution. Bonita Open Solution allows us to complete our technology product to meet our clients’ needs.”

Note: Talend and BonitaSoft will present their solutions at the Solutions Linux 2010 exhibition from March 16-18 at the C25 stand.

About BonitaSoft

BonitaSoft is the leading vendor of open source business process management solutions (BPMS). Created in 2009 by the founders of the Bonita project, the software has already been downloaded 225,000 times worldwide by businesses and organizations of all sizes, for simple and complex projects. BonitaSoft democratizes BPM by offering a quick and easy-to-implement solution for a minimal total deployment cost.

More information at: www.bonitasoft.com.

[2010-02-24] Talend Press Release: Talend and VDoc Software partnership: offering VDoc users the best integration capabilities on the market

Talend and VDoc Software partnership: offering VDoc users the best integration capabilities on the market

VDoc Software will integrate Talend Integration Suite in its collaborative application generator to respond to the growing integration needs of its clients and partners

SURESNES, France - February 11, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader of open source data integration solutions, and VDoc Software, vendor of the first business-oriented collaborative application generator, announced today a partnership aiming to seamlessly provide integration layer for VDoc Suite, using Talend Integration Suite.

VDoc Suite, which responds to intranet/extranet, document management, knowledge sharing and process automation needs, is used by more than 800 companies worldwide, from small and medium businesses with 50 employees to very large corportations. These companies increasingly need to connect the VDoc-developed business applications to the rest of their information system (management applications, CAM for CRM, etc.). This is why VDoc Software chose Talend’s integration solutions after having tested several products on the market.

“We share with Talend the same technology foundation (Eclipse, Java, etc.) as well as the same desire for openness. Moreover, their solutions are easy and fast to learn and integrate. We finished a first project with Talend Open Studio and the technical teams of two companies are now collaborating to integrate Talend Integration Suite,” confirms Pierre-Emmanuel Ruiz, Director of Operations at VDoc Software. “In both cases, we benefit from performances that meet our expectations, particularly in handling significant volumes of data and users. This technological partnership perfectly illustrates VDoc Software’s openness strategy, which relies on specialists like Talend to offer better services to its clients and partners.”

A first project involving significant data volumes has already been completed. Axemble, a partner of VDoc Software, runs the 18,000 user Mycadservice community using the VDoc platform.

VDoc and Talend are active members of the AFDEL (French Association of Software Vendors).
“The goal of the AFDEL is to develop the expertise and know-how of French software vendors. This partnership illustrates their ability to combine their technologies to respond to enterprise information technology problems,” comments Loïc Rivière, AFDEL’s Executive Director . “AFDEL is proud to have sparked various partnerships between its members following the example of these two major players in data integration and process automation getting together.”

“We are happy to conclude this partnership with a major software player and to also demonstrate our policy of openness to every segment of the software industry. VDoc Software and Talend combine their expertise and the openness of their solutions to respond to enterprise integration problems, regardless of their size,” adds François Méro, General Manager EMEA of Talend. “Either as standalone software or embedded in a broader system, our solutions offer the best and most economical integration capabilities on the market. We are happy to prove it once again with VDoc Software, which will soon offer its partners the option of automating integration tasks, therefore facilitating their clients’ day-to-day tasks.”

About AFDEL

Created in October 2005, the Association Française des Editeurs de Logiciels [French Association of Software Editors], AFDEL, has a mission to gather editors in a community and to be the mouthpiece for the software industry in France. Today, AFDEL has 150 members (Global sales: 2.5 billion €) throughout France: large international groups, including leading French companies, small and medium businesses and start ups (see the member list). The association is the French partner of the ESA (European Software Association).

Press contact: Fabrice Larrue, AFDEL - email: f.larrue@afdel.fr

About VDoc Software

VDoc Software edits the first, ready-to-use business-oriented collaborative application generator, which allows businesses to implement a collaborative organization. VDoc Suite also responds to the needs of document management, know-how sharing, process automation and collaborative work. To respond to the business needs of companies, VDoc Software created VDoc Apps, the catalog of business solutions offered by its partners for VDoc technologies. Quality management, purchase management, industrial management, IT management…municipal buildings, laboratories, small and medium businesses, hospitals, SAP, Sage or Lefebvre Software users will each find the solution most adapted to their needs in VDoc Apps. These solutions are also characterized by modularity, scalability and ease-of-use.

Used daily by more than 800 companies, VDoc Suite is sold through a network of more than 50 retail or editor partners, in license or run-time mode. For more information, visit www.vdocsoftware.com.

[2010-02-24] Talend Press Release: Talend Named a Company to Watch By UBM Techweb's Intelligent Enterprise

Talend Named a Company to Watch By UBM Techweb's Intelligent Enterprise

Company and its Open Source Data Management Solutions Cited for Democratizing Data Integration

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - February 24, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced it has been selected by InformationWeek Business Technology Network’s Intelligent Enterprise as one of the “Companies to Watch” in Information Management for the 11th Annual Editors’ Choice Awards. For the Companies to Watch category, the Editors’ Choice Awards honor vendors delivering outstanding products and services in business intelligence, enterprise applications and information management.

Talend is being recognized by Intelligent Enterprise for having “already democratized data integration with its open-source ETL engine,” and “making data integration and data-quality management more affordable” for its customers. Talend is committed to delivering data integration products that deliver to customers far greater value at much lower costs than proprietary, monolithic technologies. This is illustrated by the company’s recent entry into the Master Data Management (MDM) market, a breakthrough technology category well beyond the means of most organizations due to exorbitant software fees. Talend’s open source MDM solution, Talend MDM, is the industry’s first comprehensive solution for data integration, data quality, master data and data stewardship built on a single platform and available at a fraction of the cost of traditionally complex solutions.

“Talend’s team has worked diligently to provide data management solutions that are scalable, easy to use, and flexible enough for organizations of any size to solve their most complex business problems in a cost-effective and timely manner,” said Yves de Montcheuil, vice president of marketing, Talend. “We are honored to be recognized by the contributors and editors of Intelligent Enterprise and view this award as further validation that open source data management is mainstream and enterprise-ready.”

The Intelligent Enterprise Editors’ Choice Awards recognize technology providers that are helping practitioners lead the way in innovation and business optimization. Awards were selected based on research and assessment of the past year’s coverage and reader feedback by the publication’s editorial staff. Seven Intelligent Enterprise contributors provided extensive input, and Editor-in-Chief Doug Henschen made the final selection of award winners.

[2010-02-15] Talend Press Release: Talend Announces Record 2009 and Continues Growth in the New Year

Talend Announces Record 2009 and Continues Growth in the New Year

Company Cements Its Position As A Global Leader In Data Integration

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - February 16, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced that 2009 was a record year for the company. For the tenth consecutive quarter, Talend achieved record performance, reflecting the company’s ability to deliver cost-optimized, high-performance data management solutions to global companies of all sizes. To support the company’s success and broadening customer base, Talend continues to add new personnel across offices worldwide in the United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom and China. The company is also opening a new office in White Plains, New York to better serve its customers located in the Eastern part of the United States.

“2009 was a successful year for Talend as the company delivered tremendous growth, quarter after quarter. We continue to execute as the data integration technology leader, expanding the capabilities of our existing products, and launching new breakthrough solutions such as the first open source MDM solution on the market,” said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend. “Our customers must simultaneously control costs and maximize the value of their data and Talend’s open source data management solutions are the only ones that empower them to meet this difficult challenge. 2010 is set to be a pivotal year for Talend and will see accelerated deployment, continuous growth at the same rate as 2009 and innovation that will better and more completely serve the data management needs of our customers and users.”

Customer, Revenue and Internal Growth

Talend enters 2010 with a record increase in customer growth, revenue and an expanded employee base. Talend ended 2009 on a high point, announcing in December that Gartner Inc. had positioned the company in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools.” The report evaluated vendors based on a set of criteria that included “completeness of vision” and “ability to execute.”

Additional 2009 highlights include:

• Achieved record revenue, more then doubling from 2008. The fourth quarter of 2009 was Talend’s tenth consecutive quarter of growth.
• Grew customer base by 140% to over 1,000 customers, up from 420 at the end of 2008. Of these new customers, over 50% are Fortune 1000 companies.
• Total downloads reached seven million, with over 300,000 users of the open source products.
• Talend doubled its staff, increasing to 200 global employees. Continuing this trend, Talend has already hired 15 people in 2010 to support its rapid growth.

Talend Products

Master Data Management (MDM) has always been an expensive solution, with a lengthy ROI. On January 25 Talend released the first open-sourced MDM product. By open sourcing MDM technology, Talend is democratizing the MDM market and providing customers with the ability to master any data at a fraction of the cost of previous offerings, thus accelerating the return on their customer’s investment. This launch coincided with several large M&A announcements in the MDM field, with Siperian being acquired by Informatica and Initiate becoming part of IBM, which further underlines the strategic importance of MDM and Talend’s ability to quickly expand its capabilities.

Other products released in 2009 include:

• New versions of Talend Integration Suite and Talend Data Quality

• The latest versions of the leading enterprise open source data integration and data quality platforms include powerful capabilities for the design and deployment of enterprise-grade data management architectures.

• Talend Life Cycle Platform (LCp)

• LCp extends the enterprise capabilities of Talend’s solutions by offering features for enterprise users, including a single centralized testing platform, audit capabilities and management of complex project environments.

[2010-02-12] Talend Blog: When proprietary vendors discover the power of community (but get it wrong)

Informatica recently announced the Informatica Marketplace - “the destination for buyers looking for data integration solutions.”  Informatica developers will be able to sell Informatica-related assets on this marketplace. Looks like a community to you? 

For Informatica, it means leveraging the work of their users to expand their footprint. That’s a good opportunity - for them.

But will there be interactions and collaboration between users?  Or is it going to be like the Apple App Store?  Would you call the App Store a community?  Beyond ranking an application, there is not much interaction between users, and Apple rules everything.

A few nuggets I picked along the way:

• “You determine the price for your goods.*” – but the footnote says “*All terms and conditions subject to change at Informatica’s discretion.” So maybe Informatica will end up deciding the price of your goods. Which percentage will they keep? 30%, like Apple?
• “Retain the IP rights” – great, Informatica is not going to strip you down from your IP. In a true community that would not happen anyway.

Now, an hypothetical scenario. An Informatica partner comes up with a new connector to - say - SAP.  And wants to sell it for $5k. Knowing that Informatica sells their own SAP connector for $100k or more, do you think they are going to allow this one to be sold on their marketplace? Ever wondered why you can’t find an alternate MP3 or AVI player on the Apple AppStore (even a free one, like VLC)?

At the end of the day, it’s not a community. It’s an additional way for Informatica to make money. It will not benefit their users. It will only benefit Informatica.

And the cherry on the cake?
“If you don’t have access to the Informatica Platform for development - you can rent it by the hour on Amazon.”
Another source of revenue for Informatica: people building stuff for the marketplace.

So why did Informatica use the term community all over the place in their announcement? This is not a community.  This is a new revenue vector for Informatica.  Maybe Wall Street will like it.  But what about their users, who are already nickeled and dimed?

If you are looking for a real community, where you can exchange, interact, and truly benefit, Informatica Marketplace is not the place to go.  Try open source instead.

Yves

[2010-02-11] Talend Press Release: Ifremer navigates a sea of data with Talend Integration Suite at the helm

Ifremer navigates a sea of data with Talend Integration Suite at the helm

The institute manages dozens of data flows using Talend's open source enterprise data integration solution

SURESNES, France - February 9, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration solutions, announced today that the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer) deployed Talend Integration Suite to integrate and analyze numerous heterogeneous data (operational oceanography, ocean campaigns, halieutics, etc.), particularly including fishing activity-related data originating from various sources (administrative organizations, Ministries, European Commission, etc.).

Up until 2009, Ifremer used sub-contractors to integrate these data via Java, C and C++ developments, among others. “We realized that we could save time and money by implementing an internal data integration solution,” explains Erwan Bodéré, Information Systems Architect. “Even if we continue to subcontract the most complex projects, certain simple tasks are now completed internally, allowing us to increase flexibility and responsiveness.”

Components developed by and for Ifremer

Since Ifremer projects frequently use geographic and scientific information, two specific components were developed by the Institute. The NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) component allows the integration of data assuming this format, which is very widespread in the scientific community and autonomous of all hardware equipment. Medatlas is a component allowing the integration of hydrographic data in an autodescriptive ASCII format.

“Talend Integration Suite facilitates environment customization and offers numerous data flow creation possibilities. It is quick and easy-to-learn for engineers that are used to Java; only a few hours are necessary,” comments Erwan Bodéré. “Its second major advantage is its capacity to handle very large volumes of data; our flows can put several gigabytes of data into play.”

Among the other benefits realized today by Ifremer, specific gains include: productivity increases obtained due to internalization (increased responsiveness, acceleration of development processes and collecting feedback), ease of customization, programming and execution speed, high performances of the solution and cost control (internalization of some non-complex tasks reduces the recourse to externalization, therefore reducing costs).

“Talend Integration Suite offers us the flexibility and performance necessary for the success of our projects. Thanks to the automation and industrialization offered by the solution, we no longer worry about administrative aspects related to externalization and we seamlessly manage developments,” concludes Erwan Bodéré. “We are perfectly equipped to bring our goals to fruition: drive and promote fundamental and applied research of expert activities.”

About Ifremer

Ifremer, the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, is a public institute of industrial and commercial nature created in 1984. Placed under the joint supervision of the ministries for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Ocean; Higher Education and Research and Food; Agriculture and Fisheries, the institute contributes, through studies and expert assessments, to knowledge about the ocean and its resources, the monitoring of marine and coastal zones and the sustainable development of maritime activities.

For these goals, it designs and operates observational, experimental and monitoring tools, and manages the French oceanographic fleet (8 ships, of which there are 4 deep sea vessels, 1 manned submersible, 1 teleoperated vessel for great depths and 2 AUVs - Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) for the entire scientific community. The institute has an annual budget of nearly 235 million Euros and 1,500 employees working in 5 centers (Brittany, English Channel/North Sea, Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Pacific).

[2010-02-11] Talend Press Release: Talend and Business & Decision create a partnership to manage information capital

Talend and Business & Decision create a partnership to manage information capital

Talend and Business & Decision have joined together in a strategic Master Data Management (MDM) partnership, to implement data management solutions which support the complete data life cycle.

SURESNES, France - February 4, 2010 - Talend, recognized leader in open source data integration solutions and Business & Decision, the international Consulting and Systems Integration (CSI) Company, have today announced a strategic partnership. Business & Decision also joins the “Talend Alliance Program” as a Platinum partner and will consequently benefit from Talend’s technical, commercial and marketing assistance.

The partnership covers the whole range of Talend open source integration and data quality tools, notably Talend Integration Suite and Talend Data Quality. Business & Decision will integrate these tools into its clients’ solutions. The two companies have also chosen to extend this partnership to encompass Master Data Management (MDM), using the recently launched Talend MDM solution.

“Within the last fifteen years, IT has primarily focused on process execution. Little effort was directed to collecting, federating, governing and publishing information on a global basis. More recently, information has become a strategic asset, not only to fuel business processes and support business decisions but also to adopt new competitive advantages such as customer intimacy or business pain points such as compliance. Many companies are currently starting to establish dedicated practices to manage their master data across organizations, and even across their whole value chain. The MDM market delivers its promises, and is now ready for mainstream adoption,” comments Jean-Michel Franco, Solutions Director at Business & Decision. “The supply side of the market has to adapt to this trend, by delivering more affordable and end-to-end solutions to the mass market. Talend has expanded the MDM market. It provides an option for companies with restricted resources, eager to move forward on their MDM roadmap, even if they don’t fall into the high-end segment that most current MDM solutions target today.”

The Talend-Business & Decision partnership will initially cover France and Belgium, but the plan is to gradually extend this to an international agreement. Business & Decision will have access to privileged Talend R&D resources, to tailor these solutions to meet its clients’ needs.

“Business & Decision not only is one of the main players in the decision-making market in France, but is also at the cutting edge of the CRM, e-Business and EIM (Enterprise Information Management) markets. Thanks to this partnership, together we will continue to convert the market to make Master Data Management accessible to companies of all sizes,” comments François Méro, EMEA Director at Talend. “MDM concerns all company stakeholders, from managers to individual industry experts. Our goal is to give these companies the expertise to manage their own data quality and master data, giving our clients and users a solid competitive advantage.”

Business & Decision is now developing special “practices” with teams at Talend. The two companies have already started to work together and have several projects in the pipeline.

About Business & Decision

Business & Decision is an international Consulting and Systems Integration (CSI) company. It is a leader in Business Intelligence (BI) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and a major player in e-Business, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Enterprise Solutions as well as Management Consulting. Business & Decision contributes to the success of customer projects by driving maximum business performance. The company has a reputation for functional and technological expertise and has forged partnerships with all of the key technology vendors. Located in 19 countries, Business & Decision currently employs 2700 people worldwide. Additional information is available at www.businessdecision.com

[2010-02-10] Talend Forum Announcement: For test only, Talend Open Profiler 4.0.0M3 is available

Download and try the third milestone of Talend Open Profiler 4.0 at http://www.talend.com/download.php

Below are some new features:

- Analysis of a set of columns are enhanced
- Ability to use Java User-defined indicators
- New type of UDI (with numeric values)
- Menus to drill down into the values on pattern matching indicator

See the full changelog at http://talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

[2010-02-10] Talend Forum Announcement: For test only, Talend Open Studio 4.0.0M3 is available

Download it

This is the third milestone for Talend Open Studio 4.0.

Below are some features of this third milestone:

- OpenBravo components
- Die on Error on tMap
- Enable Informix Bulk inserts (tInformixBulkOutput).
- tELTMSSQL, tELTSybase and tELTPostgreSQL components
- Enable PreparedStatement for the all DB Row components
- MacOS X ini file points to correct launcher

Discover the full list of fixed bugs on the bugtracker changelog page.

[2010-02-09] Talend Document: Loading and Analyzing Web Data: Considerations and Recommendations - A Bloor Research White Paper

Founded in 1989, Bloor Research is one of the world's leading IT research, analysis and consultancy organizations.

In this Analyst White Paper, Research Director Philip Howard explains why web-based data, that includes not only clickstream data but also Web 2.0 user behavior information, is essential to analytic applications. He explains the complexity of incorporating this type of data in conventional analytic environments, and the technologies that are involved to optimize the process.

The white paper also describes a number of real-life use cases and their constraints and analyzes which technologies provide required capabilities.

[2010-02-06] Talend Tech Blog Olivier CARBONE: How to embed the Talend Open Studio 5′video

The 5mn Demo is now on YouTube! Feel free to embedded it on your website, blog, intranet …

See below the code:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NyUw1Zmf_-8&hl=fr_FR&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NyUw1Zmf_-8&hl=fr_FR&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

In another way, the Rapid Learning often use this kind of video. Fast, friendly, this media is a good solution to transmit information to an expert team

More vidéo: http://www.youtube.com/user/TalendChannel

Scenario:

After the declaration of a delimited file in the metadata, the video shows the design of a job to read the data included in the delimited file.

The tMap component and the Expression Builder are used to transform the data.

In a second step, a mysql connexion is declared and a join between the 2 sources is designed in the tMap.

In the last minute, the video shows the SQL Builder and the data are recorded in a mysql table.

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[2010-02-05] Talend Blog: Welcoming Open Source MDM

Talend enters a new market and everything changes - literally.  Last week, we introduced the first open source MDM solution and one week later the market landscape has undergone substantial consolidation with the two leading pure play MDM vendors being bought by larger companies.

Last spring as we were considering an extension to our product line, we carefully considered the MDM market because it is a natural extension of our historical core competencies of data integration and data quality.  We also evaluated the market conditions to see if it was ready for an open source solution.  What we found was a quickly maturing market that was gaining significant momentum.  These three factors lend well to the introduction of an open source alternative.

Our goal with Talend MDM is to democratize this space, just as we have done with data integration and thus far the reception has been amazing.  We have introduced an affordable, open source alternative at a fraction of the cost of cost-prohibitive and disjointed proprietary technologies.  In just over a week and a half we have had over 1500 downloads of the Talend MDM Community Edition.  The press and analysts and more importantly, our current customers have accepted our message and the blogosphere, twittosphere and other o-spheres are abuzz with open source MDM stories.

Then, everything changed.

Last week, Informatica bought Siperian and this week, IBM acquired Initiate Systems.  The two largest pure play vendors were consumed by bigger fish.  This changes the landscape and shrinks the battlefield.  This is business as usual in the proprietary software market; consolidation of closed, black-box technology in the hands of megavendors who control the entire data management stack chain and can dictate their terms to customers. All the while, we are immediately considered a leading pure play and are one of only a few independent MDM vendors.

This consolidation validates both the MDM market and our approach.  The two large acquisitions denote the mark in time that a baseline monetary value was placed on this growth market.  MDM is no longer a nascent market, it grew up and is here to stay.

The consolidation also validates our product strategy.  We have introduced a unique MDM solution.  It is driven by an Active Data Model and packages data integration, data quality, master data management, workflow and stewardship into a single platform.  This past week’s acquisitions represent a strategy to cobble these features together to meet the market demand.  We haven’t cobbled features together; we have united them on a single platform.

I am confident that we offer a compelling MDM technology and the initial interest has confirmed this.  Talend presents a flexible solution for the vast array of domains that need mastering and we will financially, strategically and technically help simplify the MDM business case process. Talend MDM decreases the time to value for MDM implementations and provides an ecosystem and community for sharing MDM discipline, governance, process, and organization…  it democratizes the market.

The problems that MDM addresses have been around forever and they will continue.  In fact, this MDM earthquake we are experiencing represents market maturity.  In this fundamental shift, we feel the time is right for open source MDM.

Bertrand

[2010-02-02] Talend Document: Using data integration to drive down costs and increase profits in high transaction industries - A Telesperience issues paper, sponsored by Talend

Data integration (DI) is often seen as merely a technical discipline, but this ignores the vital role it plays in helping enterprises achieve their business goals. It is essential that business managers, as well as technical staff, understand how better DI can help deliver against key commercial goals, such as helping the organization become more efficient, agile, innovative and customer centric.

Telesperience research indicates a pattern of high and increasing demand for DI from the business, as well as a recognition that DI is a key strategy for lowering costs and improving business performance. However, most enterprises also report that their DI projects over-run on either cost or time (or both) and that DI costs are either too high or more than anticipated.

This paper explains why DI is an important weapon in an enterprise's competitive arsenal by analysing how poor DI inflates costs, by revealing the current DI drivers, and by explaining how DI can contribute to commercial success.

Telesperience's Research Director Teresa Cottam says: "Our research demonstrates that companies that are able to deliver DI projects quickly, reliably and at low cost will out-perform their rivals, because they will be able to exploit new technologies and insights to gain competitive advantage and reduce their costs."

[2010-02-01] Talend Press Release: Talend Appoints Vice President of Corporate Development

Talend Appoints Vice President of Corporate Development

Software Industry Veteran Thomas Tuchscherer to Lead Corporate Development to Accelerate Company Growth

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - February 2, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced the appointment of Thomas Tuchscherer as vice president of corporate development. Tuchscherer, an enterprise software industry veteran, will be responsible for driving strategic corporate deals to expand the Company’s indirect channel, geographic presence and product portfolio. He will also focus on creating and managing strategic partnerships, and identifying new opportunities to further accelerate Talend’s rapid growth.

“Thomas is a significant addition to Talend’s executive team,” said Bertrand Diard, CEO and co-founder of Talend. “His expertise in the enterprise software market will be integral in furthering Talend’s global corporate initiatives and extending our leadership as the innovator and visionary in the data management market.”

Tuchscherer joins Talend after successful tenures at SAP and Business Objects, which was acquired by SAP in October 2007. Previously, he led corporate development at Cartesis, which was acquired by Business Objects in April 2007. With 14 years of software M&A, investment and business experience in the U.S., Europe and Asia, Tuchscherer has a long-standing record of managing partnership, corporate and product strategies. Most recently at SAP, he led the product and business strategy for the Technology Group, where he spearheaded partnerships, established new pricing models and was responsible for defining and executing product strategy.

“In 2009, various large organizations selected Talend, clearly establishing the company’s open source solutions as powerful, cost-effective alternatives to proprietary, high-priced technologies,” said Tuchscherer. “With our recent release of the first open source Master Data Management solution, we are ideally positioned to further accelerate our business growth by meeting the precise data management requirements for businesses of all sizes.”

[2010-02-01] Talend Press Release: Talend Integration Suite at the heart of Monecam's service-oriented architecture

Talend Integration Suite at the heart of Monecam's service-oriented architecture

In addition to operational data integration and processing, Monecam innovates by using the Talend solution as an ESB, before focusing on data quality

SURESNES, France - January 19, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration solutions, announced today that Monecam, the French leader in electronic banking, has implemented Talend Integration Suite to industrialize its data flows and load a data warehouse. At the same time, Monecam plans to extend its use to operate the exchanges between application services on a real-time basis (SOA) and coordinate processing between the different applications. Finally, to reinforce data consistency, the company plans on implementing Talend Data Quality.

Talend Integration Suite: a multifunctional integration solution

With a core activity based on data exchange, the Monecam group has always been on the cutting edge of data integration technology. In 2007, it launched a call for tenders for service companies, aiming to implement a data integration and calculation batch solution capable of generating reports with a certain level of customization. The concerned data originate from automatic teller machines (ATM). Two out of three responses were advocating the use of Talend solutions.

“We downloaded Talend Open Studio to test it and compare it with our existing SAP solution,” explains François Pichoud, Software Architect at Monecam. “The version we had been using was becoming outdated, but the cost for its upgrade was very expensive. We launched a comparative study with Talend Integration Suite, to conclude that at a more or less equivalent price, Talend offered many more services, including a large variety of connectors, all of which you must pay for with SAP.”

Monecam thus adopted Talend Integration Suite, first to complete a new data integration project, then to migrate and enhance legacy data flows. Over 60 data flows are concerned (independently from the data warehouse) and their migration must be completed at the end of the year. At the same time, the company needed to carry out specific processing on data replicated directly from the production base, as well as create a Data Warehouse dedicated to operational BI. Both are also powered by Talend Integration Suite.

Monecam also plans on deploying Talend Data Quality to control the quality of data in the Data Warehouse. “The coherence of data in any BI system must be controlled. To do so, we developed last year a prototype using Talend Data Quality, while evaluating other systems at the same time. In 2010 we plan to devote more resources to this challenge, while confirming our choice of Talend,” verifies François Pichoud.

Finally, Monecam established Web Services to control the reliability of its processing via a supervision console. This project involved custom developments performed by the Talend teams and subsequently incorporated into Talend’s solutions.

Moving towards a service-oriented architecture, driven by Talend

Before the success of these latest developments, Monecam studied the possibility of using Talend as an ESB (Enterprise Service Bus). “We plan to use Talend Integration Suite to carry out the exchanges between application services on a real-time basis and coordinate processing between different applications,” explains François Pichoud. “Even if we are only in the first stages of our SOA project, the objective is to gain stability and productivity.”

Today, Monecam benefits from a complete collection of components to coordinate all processing, regardless of the platform. “Talend Integration Suite increasingly became our process scheduler, saving us a lot of time thanks to the automation and therefore letting us respond better to our clients,” comments François Pichoud.

In addition to its breadth of components, Monecam considers Talend Integration Suite a multifunctional integration solution, capable of handling very diverse challenges. “The solution responds to all of our needs, even beyond simple data integration problems. What’s more, by using external libraries, we are able to save time and always respond more quickly to our clients’ demands,” concludes François Pichoud.

About Monecam

For almost 15 years, the Monecam Group has led the development of the debit card by offering products and services covering the entire spectrum of electronic banking. Realizing sales figures of 33 million € and in constant progression, the group processes one billion telecollected payment transactions and manages more than 150,000 electronic payment terminals (EPT). Displaying national references as well as banking establishments and organized commerce, the group is supported by many resources, particularly 250 employees, of which one hundred are technicians and a call center that is open 6 days a week and processes 300,000 calls per year.

Monecam, a subsidiary of CEDICAM and the Regional Banks of Crédit Agricole, elected to concentrate on three complementary services: merchant and company equipment; flow management, electronic banking and assistance services; and health (third-party payer and concentration of claim forms).

[2010-01-28] Talend Press Release: The UK government can reduce cost and risk by migrating to open source

The UK government can reduce cost and risk by migrating to open source

When will the public sector learn from the private

MAIDENHEAD, UK - January 28, 2010 - The news announced yesterday by the UK government that it expects to make savings of £3.2 billion annually from 2013/14 on made through transformation in public sector information technology has been broadly welcomed by open source specialist Talend, and more generally by the entire open source community in the UK.

Bertrand Diard, Co-founder and CEO of Talend, commented: “The announcement that the government’s ICT strategy will focus on a smarter, cheaper and greener public sector ICT infrastructure should be welcomed by both the industry and tax payer alike,”

“Under the IT Strategy the government intends to create one secure, resilient and flexible network which will enable every area of government to adapt their ICT to best deliver for the public. However it appears that they are still wedded to the ICT solutions of the past.”

“Critically for the first time, the plan intends to bring together all government departments, local government and wider public sector organisations to remove unnecessary overlaps between departments and avoid the costly duplication of IT,” he continued.

“The intention is to deliver efficiency savings by increasing the use of online services, streamlining contact with the public and reducing digital exclusion. The challenge will be to deliver just that and not just another IT White Elephant on the scale of the NHS IT Programme for Change, now costing £12 billion, £8 billion over budget and eight years late,” he added.

According to a recent policy document from the Conservative Party, Delivering Change: IT that Works, the UK government spends more per capita than any other government on ICT.

Bertrand said: “Having spent £108 billion on ICT in just eight years, it is clear that the UK government needs to assess its current spending activity. The Rowntree report “Data Nation” in March 2009 examined 46 large UK public sector databases and concluded that a quarter of the public-sector databases reviewed are almost certainly illegal under human rights or data protection law. It recommended that the current databases should be scrapped or substantially redesigned.”

“Considering that this assessment included the National DNA Database and National Identity Register, ContactPoint, it is outrageous that more than half had significant problems with privacy or effectiveness and could fall foul of a legal challenge. Service levels and security need to be significantly improved as the recent blunders could be detrimental to the nation,” added Bertrand.

In 2009, the UK government took a positive stance towards reducing IT spend by encouraging the use of open source in government IT systems. In recognition of some of open source software’s true benefits, the government updated its policy and introduced an action plan to drive the adoption of open source tools.

Bertrand responded: “The government is still resistant to open source tools despite its stated aim to adopt open source. Open source software does pass a number of complex tests to be accepted by the community. In fact, open source products are put through greater testing before GA release than proprietary based products,”

“At Talend for example, over 1,000 of our community members are involved with testing milestone beta releases. And a recent study by independent analysts has proven that open source database MySQL has ten times less defects than Oracle!” added Bertrand.

One of the major benefits of using open source software is that in having such a passionate community of followers, the software is constantly being developed and improved. In contrast, proprietary software’s code cannot be developed by its users to meet evolving business needs and can therefore become dated within a matter of months.

These arguments stress that open source is a professional and supported offering. With open source being able to integrate with legacy systems, risk is automatically reduced as organisations no longer need to spend massive amounts of IT budget on replacing major IT systems that may only be required in the short-term.

Bertrand said: “It is no longer acceptable for the UK government to continue spending such huge volumes of money on poor ICT, when there are cost effective and adequate alternatives such as open source solutions.”

“The government has been presented with the opportunity to dramatically improve the current databases and slash ICT spend by adopting open source solution where possible, enabling the public money to be put towards improving other vital areas. The next few years will prove valuable in determining whether they take this opportunity or not,” Bertrand concluded.

[2010-01-26] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend MDM Community Edition 3.2.0 is available

Download Talend MDM  Community Edition now!

Talend MDM provides the key functionalities across Data Integration, Data Quality, Master Data and Data Stewardship all through a single development environment. This unique approach allows you to install, implement and manage a single solution across all these key functional groups decreasing complexity and time to value for your MDM project.

[2010-01-24] Talend Press Release: Talend Introduces Rapid, Flexible, Open Source Master Data Management Solution

Talend Introduces Rapid, Flexible, Open Source Master Data Management Solution

Talend Offers First Comprehensive Solution for Data Integration, Data Quality, Master Data and Data Stewardship Built on a Single Platform

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - January 25, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced the availability of the first open source Master Data Management (MDM) solution. With the launch, Talend is democratizing the MDM market with an affordable, open source alternative to cost-prohibitive and disjointed proprietary technologies. Talend’s comprehensive MDM technology enables organizations to quickly implement an enterprise-wide master data hub and ensure consistent, uniform control of any master data across the organization.

To meet strategic business objectives, organizations must streamline processes, create new revenue opportunities, reduce costs and facilitate company growth. High-quality master data is extremely valuable when it is available to enterprise business processes and analytics; however, implementing a master data project is often challenging, architecturally complex, time intensive and expensive. “As user organizations gear up for the economic recovery, they still need to maintain vigilance on costs, so we expect to see continuing downward price pressures in the MDM market,” said John Radcliffe, research vice president at Gartner. “2010 will see new entrants to the MDM market, bringing in different business models and pricing structures. They will start to offer alternatives to resource constrained organizations wanting to kick off MDM initiatives.”

Talend MDM represents a fundamental shift in the MDM market. It is the first comprehensive solution for data integration, data quality, master data and data stewardship built on a single platform and available at a fraction of the cost of traditionally complex and dissociated solutions. This approach accelerates and simplifies MDM implementations while providing flexibility to expand its value over time. Talend MDM’s unique data model allows organizations to immediately model and master any data domain, beyond customer and product and systematically improve data quality across enterprise systems. The solution reduces complexity and provides the necessary data stewardship tools that help teams efficiently collaborate on master data and meet data governance requirements.

Bolloré Africa Logistics, the leading integrated logistics network in Africa, established for more than 50 years in 41 countries is an early adopter of Talend MDM. “We have chosen the Talend MDM product to meet our unique requirements for mastering and integrating our critical business data, in order to align our field offices and create more efficient processes across our operations on the African continent,” said Thomas Darbois, CIO of Bolloré Africa Logistics. “When in production, we will benefit from the flexibility and the performance of the solution, in order to manage all the various activities across our network. The unique approach of configuring data integration, data quality and master data management in a single environment, and the integration of the solution, aims to reduce our deployment times and increase our leadership.”

Key features of Talend’s new MDM open source software include:

• Active Data Model: Talend’s Active Data Model allows organizations to immediately model and master any data domain, beyond predefined models for set domains. It is the center of the master data implementation and drives integration, quality and lifecycle of the master data.
• Domain Driven Integration: Talend MDM uses data model driven events to drive when and where data is synchronized, augmented or distributed. A graphical tool provides over 400 proven components and connectors to build integration processes for the master data.
• Master Data Quality: The Active Data Model allows users to validate, resolve and augment master data. The solution delivers a robust data profiling tool and provides components for name and address standardization, callouts to external standardization services and augmentation routines.
• Data Stewardship: The collaborative interface provides a set of tools for a team to collaborate on and create a trusted and reliable set of master data and the appropriate stewardship tools to manage the process of updating and managing the master data through a lifecycle.
• Talend Studio: Talend Studio provides a single platform for managing the data model, configuring integration, administering data quality and creating stewardship workflows to enable rapid implementation and to simplify management.

“Today, master data management is a discipline that only the largest companies can afford to deploy, and even some of those are freezing their roll-outs due to high perceived entry costs” said Raphaël Benoliel, director of the enterprise information management business unit of Business & Decision, a leading Systems Integrator in the data management field. “Talend has proven their ability to transform the data integration and data quality markets into a volume business with their innovative and cost-effective solutions. We now believe that the MDM market is ready to go mainstream and welcome Talend MDM as a critical solution to bring enterprise-grade or domain-specific MDM to a larger number of companies.”

“Talend’s mission is to provide companies with breakthrough open source data management solutions and MDM is a giant step forward,” said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend. “Within the last year, we have seen a landslide of large companies adopting open source technologies to rationalize their IT deployments, as well as smaller organizations finally getting the budgetary means to adopt consistent and optimized data management for the first time. Open source drives innovation and Talend will continue to lead the market with the goal of offering the best solutions to our customers.”

Talend MDM is available immediately and exists in two editions. Talend MDM Community Edition is provided under the GPL license and can be downloaded at no charge from http://www.talend.com/download.php. Talend MDM Enterprise Edition is provided under a subscription license. For more information, please visit http://www.talend.com.

[2010-01-20] Talend Document: Open Source Master Data Management - The Time is Right

Many organizations consider high quality master data as a key strategy for accomplishing corporate objectives. Proper master data management (MDM) is indeed extremely valuable when available to enterprise business processes and analytics, however, master data projects are often politically challenging, architecturally complex, time intensive and expensive.

MDM is a natural extension to data integration and data quality. Open source MDM introduces a new, more accessible approach. It reduces implementation complexity, time to value and cost. In fact, as in many other markets, open source helps organizations overcomes obstacles and realize their goals.

This White Paper provides an explanation of why the time is right for open source MDM, and predicts the effects of open source on the MDM marketplace.

[2010-01-18] Talend Blog: The view from 2010

In hindsight, it’s easy to say that 2008 didn’t start very well, but most of us didn’t realize it until mid-September when Lehman Brothers became the first domino in a spectacular crash that has been likened to 1929. We found ourselves entering a recession, which has been rather euphemistically defined as “a pronounced deceleration of economic activity.” In other words, things screeched to a halt.

The world has been through down markets before in many arenas—housing, food shortages, medical care, employment—but it was a first for the software industry. Yes, the dot com bubble had an effect in 2001, but software essentially carried on.

Back in 2008, when I was looking ahead at the beginning of 2009 the plan was then — despite a challenging economy — to grow aggressively quarter after quarter; double the number of company employees; and continue our geographical expansion. We would continue to help our community grow and contribute more to the product, develop our OEM program to target more ISVs, small and large, in all industries, and deploy additional programs to support our channel.

How did we perform against goals?

Talend started 2009 on a high note. In January, we secured $12 million in a Series C funding round. Our revenue more than doubled. We started the year with 100 employees and now have a staff of 200. Our customer base grew from 400 to over 1000 and is now increasing at the rate of 100/month. Core product downloads more than doubled — from 700,000 to 1,500,000.

We opened a new office in the UK, reinforced our German team, continued to rampup our US operations.  In just the past 6 months we’ve seen a 100% increase in the adoption of our technology by software vendors under the OEM model through our “Powered by Talend” program. In November, Gartner positioned Talend in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools;” a clear validation of the commercial open source model in general, and of Talend in particular.

I’d say that we’re better than on-target. And that’s just from a business standpoint. Let’s look at products.

In the past year we released new major versions - 3.1 & 3.2 - of Talend Integration Suite and Talend Data Quality, incorporating significant new functionality for each. 2009 also introduced specialized products:Talend Integration Suite MPx for high scalability, Talend Integration Suite RTx for real-time integration, and our Lifecycle Platform. In September, Talend acquired the MDM technology developed by Amalto, placing Talend on track to deliver the first open source MDM solution, providing organizations the same features and benefits found in proprietary MDM solutions – at a fraction of the cost.

So where are we now, as we enter 2010?

The economy is slowly improving and Talend is now playing with the “big boys” - IBM, Oracle, Informatica, SAP, etc. We’ve proved that we’re the next generation in terms of products and innovation, and we’ve won many technical challenges in the face of our competitors. Our market is growing exponentially and our team has never been stronger or more ready.

2010 is set to be another very successful year for Talend.  We are looking forward to its challenges!

Bertrand

[2010-01-12] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend Open Profiler 3.2.3 is available

Download and try Talend Open Profiler 3.2.3 http://www.talend.com/download.php
This is a bug fixing release.

[2010-01-12] Talend Forum Announcement: Talend Open Studio 3.2.3 is available

Talend Open Studio 3.2.3 is available now, you can download it.

Bugs have been fixed. To see the change log, click here:
http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/changelog_page.php

Best regards

          shong

[2010-01-11] Talend Document: The 451 Group - Impact of Economic Conditions on Open Source Adoption

The 451 group is an independent technology-industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. The company's analysts provide critical and timely insight into the market and competitive dynamics of innovation in emerging technology segments.

This report titled Climate Change: User Perspectives on the Impact of Economic Conditions on Open Source Software Adoption, is based on a survey of more than 1,700 open source software users and customers, assessing their current attitudes on the key benefits of open source software, including cost and flexibility.

The report serves as a practical guide for understanding the financial benefits of open source. It also includes an updated version of The 451 Group's guide for calculating the financial benefits of open source in enterprise IT projects. It provides a basic financial analysis approach and calculator to identify and capture the costs and potential benefits of open source software.

Note: This report is made available to you through your relationship with Talend. It was researched and published by The 451 Group, an independent industry analyst company, and is part of The 451 Group's Commercial Adoption of Open Source service. The report is available to the named recipient only and must not be shared externally to your organization

[2009-12-21] Talend Blog: The totalitarian Wikipedia regime

Banana republic? Communist regime? Fascist regime? Which descriptor suits best Wikipedia? In any case, don’t be a dissident. Or you may just disappear. Wikipedians don’t like dissent.

In August 2007, a courageous dissident (ShawnRog) wrote an article on Talend Open Studio. And then in August 2009, another dissident (Jim380) added an article on Talend, the company. But neither ShawnRog nor Jim380 are apparatchiks. Nevertheless their contributions remained published for a little while.

Then a real Wikipedia apparatchik, Ihcoyc, decided that enough was enough, and who were these people who dared write about products and companies he did not know himself. Ihcoyc is a real Wikipedia expert specializing in religious content, and also an attorney from Indiana (per his profile). He actually wrote an essay The presumption of non-notability for Internet related, computing, and services businesses, in which he proclaims:

I presume that a business or product is unlikely to be notable if it:
- Relates to technology, software, computing, or the internet;
- Is a service or publicity business; or
- Provides goods or services to other businesses rather than the general public.

So here goes Ihcoyc, who cannot tolerate stuff he personally does not know about, and he slams the two Talend pieces with a request to delete:

The page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Talend

His claims: that references like eWeek, PCWorld or InfoWorld, or even Gartner, do not count. If it does not appear in the Indiana Bar Association Gazette, it isn’t relevant to the Wikipedia readers.

Now comes another Wikipedia apparatchik, Mukadderat, the same one who decided to delete the article on Expressor (for the same bad reasons), and strangely enough, he concurs with a terse:

delete nonnotable; one of many.

You will notice the clear explanation that Mukadderat offers.

A few dissidents then chime in. But they will not be heard, because they are Untermenschen or “SPA” – read Single Purpose Accounts, i.e. people who are only interested in one subject – IT in this case. And are tagged as such by the apparatchiks on Talend’s deletion page.

Just to make sure, the page is now tagged with an explanation: “Wikipedia is not a democracy, you can say what you want but we will do what we want”.

Another apparatchik, ThemFromSpace, got several changes of heart. He first said to keep the articles (“Keep the SPAs put in enough references to evidence that the article has the coverage to meet WP:N“). Then to merge the two articles. And finally to delete. Was pressure applied? Did he get scared to loose his editor privileges by siding with dissidents? Who knows…

The story is not over. I doubt Wikipedians will read this blog (after all, they are not interested in IT), and even if they do, it will only unnerve them more. After all, who are mere mortals to question the power of the Wikipedia self-proclaimed gods?

There is a high chance than the articles on Talend get soon deleted by a courageous Wikipedia administrator, like the aptly named “secret” who annihilated Expressor from Wikipedia (even the history of the deletion is nowhere to be found now, unless you bookmarked the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Expressor. It was still visible last week on Expressor’s page – these guys try to clean their tracks).

Apparently this happens to many small companies. Teresa from Telesperience summarized it well in her post Is Wikipedia discriminating against tech firms?

So – banana republic, fascism, or communism?

The first two types of regimes usually rely on a strong “leader” (whether he be a former sergeant or colonel from a colonial power, or a Führer or Duce – they are all the same) and use repression as a mean to avoid any challenge to their regime. If there is any ideology, it’s always rotten at the core.

Whereas communism started with a generous idea – provide for all members of a community. Of course we all know what happened to this idealism and to which excesses communism has led.

Is Wikipedia like communism? A possibly great idea, but now so corrupted that it only serves its apparatchiks and kills dissidence? 20 years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the beginning of the end for communism. What will happen to Wikipedia?

Yves

**  UPDATE December 23, 2009 **
The deletion debate is closed, reason prevailed.  A number of Wikipedians did not support this ludicrous call for deletion, and pointed to other abusive cases made by Ihcoyc.  They actually found some good references that I had never even noticed.  Proof that not all Wikipedians are corrupt.  Thanks to all who supported us.
One last word: let’s remain cautious.  Corruption is insidious.

[2009-12-14] Talend Blog: An endangered species

In a smart IT world, clients would cheer when a price drop was announced. But in our glass-half-empty world, customers only show joy when they hear that a price increase has been postponed!

This is the sad reality of the proprietary IT universe. “SAP Announces Delay in Maintenance Fee Increase” and (particularly DSAG and USF) express their delight.

As mentioned in a previous post:

“The price of maintenance is thus set at 22% of the software license price, compared to the 17% it was previously. However, this increase will not take full effect before 2015 for current customers - the cost of support will go up 3.1% annually, rather than an immediate 8%. New clients will be charged 22% as soon as they sign the contract.

In exchange, SAP agreed to jointly develop KPI benchmarking in order to measure the value of Enterprise Support (business continuity, business process improvement, protection of investment and total cost of operations) and to delay future increases until these targets are met.”

Eweek commented that on December 1 SAP announced “it will delay a decision on increasing customers’ maintenance fees until the beginning of 2010, in recognition of “ongoing pressures” on IT budgets in the aftermath of a global recession.” So, changing a maintenance fee from 18.36% to 18.9% is delayed; and that’s the good news!

In the aftermath of a global recession, we would be more inclined to suggest that they switch to open source. And it does seem that they’ve noted the trend. As Eweek reported: “SAP saw its revenues fall by 9% during the most recent quarter, due to an ecosystem-wide decrease in spending on business software.”

In response to the SAP decision, two of the user group members leading the project resigned, but “the Enterprise Support program is still on track.” So, besides the ongoing recession, what can SAP users expect? Nothing. As shown by Oracle’s decision earlier this year, the maintenance fee is set to rise to 22%. This is business-as-usual in the proprietary software world.

As I said in my earlier post: “Maintenance fees for open source solutions aren’t calculated the same way and, with no license fee, the open source alternative is far less expensive than a proprietary solution. And, finally, with free access to the source code, users can easily personalize their systems and at much less expense than contracting with SAP’s expert consultants.”

In fact, user reaction might be straightforward. They know that open source alternatives can help them cut expenses, while keeping the same level of service. And this is strengthened by Talend’s recent inclusion in the Gartner Data Integration Magic Quadrant. Open source is here to stay!

Bertrand

[2009-12-10] Talend Press Release: Decideo Barometer: Talend Wins a Golden Decideo

Decideo Barometer: Talend Wins a Golden Decideo

For the 8th consecutive year, Decideo.fr took the pulse of the business intelligence market. Talend is the first open source vendor to be awarded a “Golden Decideo”.

SURESNES, France - December 8, 2009 - Talend, the recognized leader in solutions for integrating open source databases, announced today that it has received a “Golden Decideo” in the annual Decideo survey. 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.

For the past 8 years, Decideo has taken the temperature of how companies use business intelligence. This profile promotes a better understanding of how and why companies use BI tools. The survey, conducted at the end of the year, is a real management tool for the BI market. Through a series of thirty questions, it measures practices, tools, and trends

Changing the decision making process
The 2010 edition, published today, confirms the importance of business intelligence in corporate strategy. The 90s heavily focused on backend systems, notably because of ERP. Optimization using BI tools is the major trend of the current decade and that is unlikely to change.

According to the survey results, in 2010 - despite economic uncertainty - 39% of enterprises will increase their investments in business intelligence and 53% will maintain their 2009 level.

As far as tools are concerned, after the consolidation vogue of 2007 companies have not viewed the market as definitively closed - quite the contrary. They have explored new avenues, with open source making a noteworthy appearance.

Talend: a successful emerging model
In terms of awareness, 49% of respondents voiced an opinion about Talend’s strategy, clearly demonstrating the company’s visibility in the marketplace and validating its communication efforts. For 40% of respondents, Talend’s impact on the decision support market is growing, with 47% reporting strong growth. In total, 87% of respondents believe that in the coming years Talend will be a leader in the BI arena.

“Talend is reaping the rewards of its position to provide a low-cost, open source solution, in line with market expectations” explained Philippe Nieuwbourg, publisher of the Decideo Barometer. “Everything isn’t free, or course. Some enterprise features are available at reasonable prices and services meet the professional expectations of companies entrusting a strategic part of their information systems to Talend. In addition, Talend’s marketing investment is paying off, with increased visibility and understanding in the marketplace.”

“We are pleased to see that the open source business model has been validated once again, with the Golden Decideo award,” said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend. “Since 2006, Talend has been providing an alternative to the traditional proprietary model, typically characterized by lack of openness, high costs, and a lengthy return on investment. The results of the Decideo Barometer confirm our recognition by users themselves, who understand that our solutions enable them to better control data integration and data quality, while optimizing costs.”

About Decideo.fr

With over 8,000 members, Decideo.fr is the professional community of French speaking independent users and suppliers of decision support business systems. The Decideo.fr community surveys its members each year on various topics related to the use of decision-making in their business and their perception of market participants. These results are analyzed and published annually in the “Decideo Barometer.” Decideo.fr is the only French member of b-eye-network.com.

[2009-12-09] Talend Forum Announcement: New bulk mode in Talend translation platform Babili

Hi Talend community and translation contributors,

We have just added a new feature in Babili: bulk mode.

In a few words, the bulk mode is built on 2 "modules":

1. a web form to export/import translations (and resolve conflicts)
2. a desktop application "Babili Remote" where you can translate all Talend strings offline

Learn more:

* tutorial Babili Remote Quick Start - Export translations from Babili
* tutorial Babili Remote Quick Start - Import translations into Babili







Enjoy!