Great to see the team from Talend here in Boulder today. Big turn out from the Brain Trust members at least 12 people sitting in on the session today. Fabrice Bonan COO and Co founder along with Yves de Montcheuil VP of Marketing are here from France along with Vincent Pineau GM America's.
Talend is the leader in open source data integration solutions. They have quickly grown into a worldwide company with offices in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Milan, London Tokyo, Beijing and more. The company launched on 2006 so they have made significant head way in a short time. Talend Open Studio the companies premier solution is downloaded at a rate of 1 copy per minute presently there are 450,000 users of the solution and Talend has converted 1,500 to paying clients. In open source communities this is a common split of customer types and adoption.
Its interesting to see that Talend has so many clients in such a short time. They are growing at a rate of 100 per month so it seems that they are becoming a thorn in the side of their traditional software competition. This is great news for the ongoing success of open source solution models. Open source is leaving behind its heritage of being a shadow project tool and now is gaining traction in the enterprise arena.
Over the past four years Talend has matured from Open Studio Ver 1.0 into a full featured solution suite that includes data quality, profiling and MDM functionality. Talend has a unique way of licensing their solution you only pay for number of developers on the project as you scale up or down you only pay for the added development team members. Additionally the Talend data connectors are free to users providing significant cost savings plus there are no annual maintenance charges with Taland these two features alone makes a compelling case to investigate Talend when you are in need of DI/DQ/MDM solution.
Talend did an excellent job demonstrating various use case scenarios for all major function areas of the platform. The newest version has taken many steps forward over Ver 3. Much of the road map and upcoming product release information is under NDA for now but check the Talend site this coming Tuesday for more details.
Thanks to Fabrice, Yves and Vincent for visiting us in Boulder today it was time well spent.
