Talend & Sopera: a Logical Combination

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Last week, we announced that Talend had acquired Sopera, the leading open source ESB provider.* This acquisition marks an important milestone in the growth of Talend: from a pure play data management vendor, we are now growing into adjacent markets and taking the company to the next step.

First, Sopera’s application integration technology is a perfect complement to Talend’s existing technology stack. Not only are they both based on the same Eclipse environment, but they also leverage the same open standards.* And of course, they are both open source.

Second, the application integration and the data management markets are very close and are converging.* Most industry analysts agree that these technologies are meant to be used together in IT organizations.* And we have numerous proof points of this happening already, thanks to the joint customers that Talend and Sopera were sharing through their existing partnership.

Third, everyone knows that in enterprise M&A, 1+1 never equals 2.* In our case, we will prove that 1+1=3, 4, maybe even 5!* How?* By leveraging all our technology stack.* We are in a unique position to deliver a complete, integrated middleware solution.* It would be like combining Informatica and Tibco, or making Oracle’s serial acquisitions actually work together - but in an open mode, with the customer’s best interests in mind (unlikely in the case of these proprietary vendors).

What’s next?* In a couple weeks, we’ll be announcing the roadmap of our new application integration division.* Stay tuned!

Fabrice




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