DIGITAL DISRUPTION
TALEND BEGAN LIFE over a decade ago targeting the issue of data integration within large enterprises . The founders focused on traditional data warehouses and databases to see how they could be better connected after noting that vendors weren ’ t serving the market well with bloated software tools . It took the macro-level trends of the time , like open source and other frameworks such as Eclipse at IBM , and inspired by the movements towards developers doing things for themselves through free and open source , Talend offered a free tool companies could download to solve data integration problems .
“ From there expansion skyrocketed into the adjacent areas of data quality , data governance , application and integration ,” explains Talend ’ s Ciaran Dynes , Senior VP of Product Management . “ Fast forward to the rise of big data , and in the light of internet-scale companies like Google and Yahoo also pushing the technology into the open source community , Talend was well placed to solve data problems at scale . Now , we are a leader in Magic Quadrant and Forrester ’ s Wave entering the next wave of innovation , which asks :
how do you use cloud technology to process data at scale ? Cloud is going to offer a fundamentally cheaper process so businesses of all sizes can benefit and we can focus on helping them get the best value from the data they have .”
Dynes maintains , with much of the IT world constrained , serverless processing is one of the key enablers right now . “ The sheer complexity of running something so that it ’ s
24 April 2018