Talend
Encyclopedia
Talend is an open source
software vendor that provides data integration
, data management
and enterprise application integration
software and solutions. Headquartered in Suresnes, France and Los Altos, California, Talend has offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and a global network of technical and services partners. Customers include eBay
, Virgin Mobile
, Sony Online Entertainment
, Deutsche Post
and Allianz
.
Talend is an Apache Software Foundation
sponsor and many of its engineers are major contributors to Apache including CXF, Camel, ServiceMix, Karaf, Santuario, and ActiveMQ. The company has also joined the Java Community Process
(JCP) and is a Strategic Developer Member of the Eclipse Foundation
, a Corporate Member of OW2, and has active involvement in the OASIS project.
Talend is notable for being one of the largest companies with an open source business model.
Talend has 400 employees in 13 offices across 8 countries.
vendor of data integration software. Other vendors have since entered this market, including Apatar
, Jitterbit, Pentaho
, and SnapLogic
. Non open source data integration vendors include Ab Initio, SAS Institute
, Pervasive Software
, IBM
, Informatica
, and SAP
.
Talend's first product, Talend Open Studio
, was launched in October 2006. In January 2008, it had been downloaded over 1 million times. In July 2009, the product totaled 5 million downloads and over 300,000 users.
Talend is backed by four venture capital
firms. The first two rounds of funding were provided by AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners. In January 2009, Bernard Liautaud, the founder of Business Objects, led a $12 million round C for his firm Balderton Capital
. In November 2010, Silver Lake Sumeru
led a $34 million round and Talend announced at the same time the acquisition of Sopera, a strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation
.
Also in November 2010 Talend announced the acquisition of Sopera, an open source application integration vendor and a strategy member of the Eclipse Foundation. In May 2011 Talend introduced its Unified Integration Platform -- an important milestone subsequent to the acquisition. In June 2011 the company also released Talend Cloud to support all forms of Cloud-based computing.
Today Talend has more than 2500 paying customers including eBay, Virgin Mobile, Sony Online Entertainment, Deutsche Post and Allianz.
. Talend is also a contributor to key open source projects, and a member of the Eclipse Foundation
and the Apache Software Foundation
(ASF).
Talend sponsors the Apache Software Foundation which has been instrumental in fostering open source adoption and providing structure to build successful open source communities.
Talend is part of the Java Community Process
(JCP) and is a Strategic Developer Member of the Eclipse Foundation, a Corporate Member of OW2, and has active involvement in the OASIS project.
Java
is the development language of Talend’s products and solutions.
business model
. It provides core functionality under the GPL v2 and Apache open source licenses, and value added features and services under a commercial subscription license.
The commercial subscription license includes:
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
software vendor that provides data integration
Data integration
Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of these data.This process becomes significant in a variety of situations, which include both commercial and scientific domains...
, data management
Data management
Data management comprises all the disciplines related to managing data as a valuable resource.- Overview :The official definition provided by DAMA International, the professional organization for those in the data management profession, is: "Data Resource Management is the development and execution...
and enterprise application integration
Enterprise application integration
Enterprise Application Integration is defined as the use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications.- Overview :...
software and solutions. Headquartered in Suresnes, France and Los Altos, California, Talend has offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and a global network of technical and services partners. Customers include eBay
EBay
eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...
, Virgin Mobile
Virgin Mobile
Virgin Mobile is a brand used by many mobile phone service providers across the globe; its headquarters are based in the United Kingdom. Virgin Mobile has local operations in Australia, Canada, France, India, South Africa, Greece, United Kingdom and the United States. It briefly also had operations...
, Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment is a game development and game publishing division of Sony that is best known for creating massively multiplayer online games, including EverQuest, EverQuest II, The Matrix Online, PlanetSide, Star Wars Galaxies, Free Realms, and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, DC Universe...
, Deutsche Post
Deutsche Post
Deutsche Post AG, operating under the trade name Deutsche Post DHL, is the world's largest logistics group. With its headquarters in Bonn, the corporation has 467,088 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide and generated revenue of € 51.48 billion in 2010...
and Allianz
Allianz
SE is a global financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core business and focus is insurance. As of 2010, it was the world's 12th-largest financial services group and 23rd-largest company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine.Its Allianz Global Investors...
.
Talend is an Apache Software Foundation
Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U.S., in June 1999.The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers...
sponsor and many of its engineers are major contributors to Apache including CXF, Camel, ServiceMix, Karaf, Santuario, and ActiveMQ. The company has also joined the Java Community Process
Java Community Process
The Java Community Process or JCP, established in 1998, is a formalized process that allows interested parties to get involved in the definition of future versions and features of the Java platform....
(JCP) and is a Strategic Developer Member of the Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse Foundation
The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the open-source Eclipse Projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services...
, a Corporate Member of OW2, and has active involvement in the OASIS project.
Talend is notable for being one of the largest companies with an open source business model.
Talend has 400 employees in 13 offices across 8 countries.
History
Talend was founded in 2005 by Bertrand Diard and Fabrice Bonan. It was the first commercial open sourceCommercial Open Source Software
The phrase Commercial open source software is used as a euphemism for Proprietary Open Source Software that contains some elements of free and open source software in order to legitimately claim to be "open source", however sometimes also limits availability of some generally enhanced...
vendor of data integration software. Other vendors have since entered this market, including Apatar
Apatar
Apatar is an open source ETL and data integration software application.-History:Apatar open source project was founded in 2005 . The first version of the tool was released under the GPLv2 license at www.sourceforge.net in February 2007. In April 2007, Apatar alpha version was demonstrated to its...
, Jitterbit, Pentaho
Pentaho
The Pentaho BI Suite is open source Business Intelligence suite with integrated reporting, dashboard, data mining, workflow and ETL capabilities. Pentaho is headquartered in Orlando, USA.- Overview :...
, and SnapLogic
SnapLogic
SnapLogic is a commercial software company that provides data and application integration tools for connecting Cloud data sources, SAAS applications and on-premise business applications. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, USA, SnapLogic was founded in 2006...
. Non open source data integration vendors include Ab Initio, SAS Institute
SAS Institute
SAS Institute Inc. , headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, USA, has been a major producer of software since it was founded in 1976 by Anthony Barr, James Goodnight, John Sall and Jane Helwig...
, Pervasive Software
Pervasive Software
Pervasive Software develops and distributes data infrastructure software and ETL tools that integrate, analyze, secure, manage and harvest data from disparate sources. Pervasive Data Integrator and Pervasive Data Profiler are the flagship integration products, and the Pervasive PSQL relational...
, IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
, Informatica
Informatica
Informatica Corporation is a NASDAQ listed company with ticker INFA. Founded in 1993, its headquarters is in Redwood City, California. Founded by Diaz Nesamoney and Gaurav Dhillon...
, and SAP
SAP AG
SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...
.
Talend's first product, Talend Open Studio
Talend Open Studio
Talend Open Studio is an open source data integration product developed by Talend and designed to combine, convert and update data in various locations across a business.- History :...
, was launched in October 2006. In January 2008, it had been downloaded over 1 million times. In July 2009, the product totaled 5 million downloads and over 300,000 users.
Talend is backed by four venture capital
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
firms. The first two rounds of funding were provided by AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners. In January 2009, Bernard Liautaud, the founder of Business Objects, led a $12 million round C for his firm Balderton Capital
Benchmark Capital
Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups. In 1997, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999. Other high-profile investments include Ariba, Juniper Networks, Red...
. In November 2010, Silver Lake Sumeru
Silver Lake Partners
Silver Lake is a US-based private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in technology, technology-enabled and related industries...
led a $34 million round and Talend announced at the same time the acquisition of Sopera, a strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse Foundation
The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the open-source Eclipse Projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services...
.
Also in November 2010 Talend announced the acquisition of Sopera, an open source application integration vendor and a strategy member of the Eclipse Foundation. In May 2011 Talend introduced its Unified Integration Platform -- an important milestone subsequent to the acquisition. In June 2011 the company also released Talend Cloud to support all forms of Cloud-based computing.
Today Talend has more than 2500 paying customers including eBay, Virgin Mobile, Sony Online Entertainment, Deutsche Post and Allianz.
Data Management
- Talend Open Studio: an open source solution for data integration to improve the efficiency of data integration job design through a graphical development environment.
- Talend Integration Suite: a subscription service that extends Talend Open Studio with technical support and enterprise-class features.
- Talend Open Profiler: an open source data profiling tool that examines the content, structure and quality of complex data structures.
- Talend Data Quality: an open source data quality product that cleanses inaccurate and inconsistent data, identifies and resolves duplicate records and provides the capability to augment and enhance data.
- Talend MDM Community Edition & Enterprise Edition: a set of functions for master data management that provides functionality for integration, quality, governance, mastering and collaborating on enterprise data.
- Talend Integration Express: a hosted service that extends Talend Open Studio with technical support and additional features for teamwork and productivity.
Application Integration
- Talend ASF: delivers enterprise service management capability on an Apache open source foundation.
- Talend ESB Standard Edition & Enterprise Edition: an enterprise service bus and a standards-based connectivity layer used to integrate distributed systems across functional, enterprise and geographic boundaries. It is powered by the Apache CXF, Apache Camel and Apache ActiveMQ open source integration projects.
- Talend ESB Studio: an Eclipse-based tooling environment for modeling, configuring and deploying integration solutions using Talend ESB.
- Talend Service Factory: based on the Apache projects for web services and OSGi, Talend Service Factory provides a single, pre-configured package to enable developers to build and deploy SOAP and REST Web Services on Tomcat, Jetty, Equinox, Felix or other JEE Web Servers.
- Talend Integration Factor: a fully supported, production ready distribution based on Apache Camel.
- Talend Integration Factory: a single installation package certified for a wide variety of Java production environments.
Cloud Based Integration
- Talend Cloud: a unified platform for data integration, data quality, master data management and enterprise service bus that enables integration in cloud deployments and hybrid environments.
Community
Talend publishes the code of its core modules under the GNU Public License or the Apache LicenseApache License
The Apache License is a copyfree free software license authored by the Apache Software Foundation . The Apache License requires preservation of the copyright notice and disclaimer....
. Talend is also a contributor to key open source projects, and a member of the Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse Foundation
The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the open-source Eclipse Projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services...
and the Apache Software Foundation
Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U.S., in June 1999.The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers...
(ASF).
Talend sponsors the Apache Software Foundation which has been instrumental in fostering open source adoption and providing structure to build successful open source communities.
Talend is part of the Java Community Process
Java Community Process
The Java Community Process or JCP, established in 1998, is a formalized process that allows interested parties to get involved in the definition of future versions and features of the Java platform....
(JCP) and is a Strategic Developer Member of the Eclipse Foundation, a Corporate Member of OW2, and has active involvement in the OASIS project.
Java
Java
Java is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...
is the development language of Talend’s products and solutions.
Partners
- ClouderaClouderaCloudera Inc. is a Palo Alto-based enterprise software company which provides Apache Hadoop-based software and services. It contributes to Hadoop and related Apache projects and provides a distribution for Hadoop for the enterprise. Cloudera has two products: and...
- Jaspersoft
- Teredata
- NetezzaNetezzaNetezza designs and markets high-performance data warehouse appliances and advanced analytics applications for uses including enterprise data warehousing, business intelligence, predictive analytics and business continuity planning....
- GreenplumGreenplumGreenplum is a database software company in San Mateo, California, specializing in enterprise data cloud solutions for large-scale data warehousing and analytics...
- VerticaVerticaVertica Systems is an analytic database management software company. Vertica was founded in 2005 by database researcher Michael Stonebraker, and Andrew Palmer; its President and CEO is Christopher P. Lynch. HP announced it would acquire the company in February 2011. On March 22, 2011, HP completed...
Competitors
Talend competitors include but are not limited to:- Application Integration: IBMIBMInternational Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
, OracleOracleIn Classical Antiquity, an oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. As such it is a form of divination....
, Software AGSoftware AGFounded in 1969, Software AG is an enterprise software company with over 10,000 enterprise customers in over 70 countries. The company is the second largest software vendor in Germany, the fourth in Europe and among the top 25 globally...
, TIBCO, Progress SoftwareProgress SoftwareProgress Software Corporation , formerly Data Language Corporation, is an American software company that sells business application infrastructure software. Its best known product is the OpenEdge ABL , which was developed in the early 1980s. The best known application written in Progress is... - Data Management: InformaticaInformaticaInformatica Corporation is a NASDAQ listed company with ticker INFA. Founded in 1993, its headquarters is in Redwood City, California. Founded by Diaz Nesamoney and Gaurav Dhillon...
, IBMIBMInternational Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
, OracleOracleIn Classical Antiquity, an oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. As such it is a form of divination....
, Red HatRed HatRed Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide....
, - ESB: MulesoftMuleSoftMuleSoft, formerly MuleSource, is a provider of software, support, and services for open source service oriented architecture infrastructure software. It was founded by Ross Mason, the creator of the Mule project, MuleSoft Tcat Server, as well as support, and services for Apache Tomcat...
, Fusesource, WSO2WSO2WSO2 is an open source application development software company focused on providing service-oriented architecture solutions for professional developers...
License
Talend uses the open coreOpen core
Open core is a business model where an open source product is also made available commercially with non-open-source additions...
business model
Business model
A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value...
. It provides core functionality under the GPL v2 and Apache open source licenses, and value added features and services under a commercial subscription license.
The commercial subscription license includes:
- Access to value added features (such as teamwork, load balancingLoad balancing (computing)Load balancing is a computer networking methodology to distribute workload across multiple computers or a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, disk drives, or other resources, to achieve optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid...
, monitoringNetwork monitoringThe term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages...
) - Technical support
- IP indemnification (legal protection)