Visionary AND Cool… Talend is Getting Recognition

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Note: I almost put “finally” into the title, but thought better – don’t want to start another blog fight with my friend Andy. Plus, it would be unfair and incorrect.

Earlier this month, Gartner published their report “Cool Vendors in Application and Integration Platforms, 2011”. This Cool Vendors report singles out emerging vendors that address the application and integration platform markets by providing core enabling and integrated application infrastructure offerings. See our announcement there.

Talend is among the few vendors that Gartner identified as being “Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.” Yes, these are the conditions to be Cool nowadays.

Now, without disclosing the content of the report (which would be a copyright violation), it’s probably OK for me to reveal that the reason why Gartner thought we are cool, is linked to our acquisition of Sopera in late 2010, and the recent announcements around our vision and plans for a unified integration platform, that brings together data management and application integration.* We briefed on our plans Gartner analyst Jess Thompson (who wrote the Talend section of this report), and it’s clear he understands the value proposition of this unification and how unique it is.

Before being Cool however, Talend was already a Visionary.* For two years in a row, Gartner positioned us in the Visionaries quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Data Integration. This was cool in itself but did not make us a Cool Vendor – now done.

I was boasting recently about our Wall of Fame – now we have another accolade to hang on it.

Yves




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