Before we fill you in on all the latest happenings at Talend, we want to thank you for your interest and support for the company and our products.  After almost eighteen months of availability, our flagship product, Talend Open Studio, has already been downloaded almost a quarter of a million times!  This tremendous interest in our open source data integration solutions is also supported by an incredibly active community - your community.
 

New Strategic Partnerships

As Talend's footprint and position in the overall data integration keep increasing, so does Talend's partners ecosystem. Over the past weeks, a number of strategic partners have shown their commitment to Talend's open source data integration solutions.
 

Vertica Systems is the market innovator for affordable, high-performance database management systems. Vertica has developed blindingly fast database technology for storing and querying very large databases using industry-standard hardware. This partnership will provide customers with the first integrated operational analytics data management platform.
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Talend and Microsoft are working together in Microsoft's Open Source Lab in Redmond, Wash. to optimize performance of Talend's software products on the Windows platform, to optimize support for the Microsoft Dynamics applications, and to enhance support for Microsoft SQL Server.  Talend, as an early adopter of Microsoft Windows 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008, is committed to the full support of these platforms as soon as they are generally available.
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Knowledge Relay, a leading provider of business visualization and reporting solutions, OEMs Talend's data integration technologies in its Enterprise Visualization Suite technology to provide a comprehensive solution to manage the flow and exchange of BI information throughout the enterprise.
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Analyst White Paper: The Evolution of Integration, by Bill Inmon

As information systems grow in complexity and volume, the need for scalability and versatility of data integration increases.

In this White Paper, Bill Inmon explains how data integration grows from simple data movement to complex transformation functions, and how modern, pervasive and scalable data integration technology enables organizations of all sizes to deploy data integration technology, without the usual restrictions imposed by the deployment costs of traditional integration products.

Bill Inmon, world-renowned expert, speaker and author on data warehousing, is widely recognized as the "Father of Data Warehousing".

Download your White Paper now!

Talend Open Studio v2.3

Version 2.3 of Talend Open Studio was released in February.  It brings numerous functional enhancements and reinforces Talend's positioning as leader of the Open Source data integration market.

Among the new features of Talend Open Studio v2.3:

• Reinforcement of Web Services architecture
• Significant performance improvements
• New connectors and components:
  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • Mondrian, Palo, Weka
  • Vertica
  • iReports, PNG graphs generation
  • Slowly Changing Dimensions (types 1, 2 & 3) for IBM DB2, Ingres, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Sybase ASE
  • groovy scripts, Java classes loading, operating system sockets

Download the new version today!

Press Highlights

Here are highlights from recent articles and press coverage of Talend by leading IT publications worldwide, and awards obtained by Talend.

In February, Talend received an award of "Young Innovative Company", from the hands of the French Secretary of Research, Ms Valerie Pecresse.  This award was sponsored by leading IT publication 01 Informatique.
 

An Entrepreneur Portrait of Bertrand Diard, Talend's CEO and co-founder, was posted by French e-zine NetEco. In this piece Bertrand explains not only the genesis of Talend but also what drives him as an entrepreneur.
 

The Business Intelligence Network posted a Solutions Spotlight in which they interviewed Talend's VP of Marketing, Yves de Montcheuil, on Talend, its value proposition for users, and differentiators.
 

Computerworld published a nice piece featuring Talend's customer ETAI: ETAI avoids data traffic jam with open source.

Upcoming Events

This coming Spring event calendar will be a busy one for Talend!  You will be able to meet us at many trade shows and conferences, including:

• MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, Calif. (April 14-18)
• JavaOne in San Francisco, Calif. (May 6-9)
• TDWI in Chicago, Ill. (May 11-16) and in Munich, Germany (June 2-5)
• LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany (May 28-31)

For more information, and for an up-to-date list of Talend's events, visit Talend's Event Calendar.

  Stay tuned...