Interview mit Fabrice Bonan, Mitgründer von Talend

Samstag, 26. November 2011, 13:01 Uhr

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Vor mehr als 5 Jahren wurde Talend von Fabrice Bonan und Betrand Diard im französischen Surennes gegründet. Fabrice Bonan gab sich auf dem Talend Community Day am 11.10. in Frankfurt die Ehre, referierte über den Werdegang von Talend und gab auch Einblicke in die nähere Zukunft. Zusätzlich zu seiner Präsentation hatte ich die Möglichkeit mich persönlich mit ihm zu unterhalten und den ein oder anderen interessanten Einblick zu erhalten, was wir in Bälde von Talend erwarten dürfen.

My conversation with Fabrice Bonan, co-founder of Talend, at Talend Community Day 2011 on 11th october in Frankfurt:


1. Why did you decide to develop and publish an open source data integration tool more than 5 years ago? It was pioneer work in BI sector.

At that time data integration tools were very expensive, hard to learn and hard to extend. Furthermore they were like a closed blackbox for the user who didn’t have any chance to customize or extend it because everything was proprietary and hidden. Therefore many companies could not afford data integration or they were using in-house developed tools. But why should everyone reinvent the wheel when looking for a data integration solution? So we decided to provide a solution with a better price-value relationship and base it on open source so that a community can test it and deploy it for free. Our first version got very positive feedback, the download numbers were better than we dreamt and the community provided a lot of add-ons and ideas. This was the start of a successful business.


2. Talend started with a data integration tool. When did you have the plan of the horizontal extension with data quality, master data management and so on?

Long time ago ETL itself was enough for most companies but these times are gone and as more and more customers were using our data integration it was clear, that we have to deliver a full suite of data management to be successful. The idea to add on data quality and master data management came early as customers were asking for it.

The data quality tool has been developed and was released in 2008; MDM and the Unified Platform came in 2010; the Enterprise Service Bus in 2011, and now we are cloud ready, support Big Data and on and on it goes. I think data management will get bigger and bigger. But at the end of the day all our products and extensions are customer-driven.

 

3. What are the highlights of Talend 5.0 that will be released in November 2011?

There will be a lot of improvements which I cannot tell right now. But one thing is for sure: there will be a strong highlight on the Enterprise Service Bus and important innovations in Cloud and Big Data.


4. What are the topics for the future you talked about during the event?

There are three big topics that we see for the next future. It’s cloud computing, working with big data (with Apache Hadoop for instance) and the Talend Unified Platform, with should be a sole interface for all our products and enable more power, more productivity and more consistency in the development and deployment of integration.


Thank you for this conversation, Fabrice. I’m looking forward to the launch of Talend 5.0 in november.

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