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Talend is an open source data integration software vendor which produces several data integration and data quality products, including Talend Open Studio.

Talend's products support various enterprise-wide data integration and data quality needs such as data warehousing, business intelligence, data migration, data synchronization, data consolidation, operational data integration, data profiling, data cleansing, and master data management.

History
Talend was founded in 2005 by Bertrand Diard and Fabrice Bonan. It was at the time the first commercial open source vendor of open source data integration. Other vendors have since entered this market, including Apatar, Jitterbit, Pentaho, and SnapLogic. Non open source data integration vendors include Ab Initio, expressor, 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 three 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.

Data Integration
Talend's data integration products include:
 * Talend Open Studio, the community version, provided under the GPL v2 license and freely downloadable
 * Talend Integration Suite, the enterprise version, provided under a commercial subscription license. Talend Integration Suite exists in 3 editions: Team Edition, Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition
 * Talend On Demand, the Software as a Service version
 * Talend Integration Suite MPx, a massively parallel data integration platform
 * Talend Integration Suite RTx, a real-time data integration platform

Data Quality
Talend's data quality products include:
 * Talend Open Profiler, an open source data profiling tool provided under the GPL v2 license and freely downloadable
 * Talend Data Quality, the enterprise data quality platform that includes data profiling and data cleansing features

Customers
In July 2009, Talend had 600 paying customers for its enterprise products. These include companies such as AOL, Virgin Mobile , Sony , Car & Boat Media, Accor, SNCF and others.

License
Talend uses the Open Core model. It provides core functionality under the GPL v2 open source license, 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 balancing, monitoring)
 * Technical support
 * IP indemnification (legal protection)

Analysts & Industry Recognition
Talend was first listed in Gartner's Magic Quadrant reports for data integration in 2008, and for data quality in 2009.

In October 2008, Talend became infamous in the enterprise IT world for overtly criticizing Gartner's magic quadrants. Gartner's analyst Andreas Bitterer responded on his blog and several other analysts and industry gurus chimed in.

Talend received the following awards and accolades:
 * Finalist Sourceforge Community Awards
 * AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner
 * CRN Emerging Technology Vendor
 * InfoWorld 2009 Technology of the Year
 * BeyeNETWORK 2008 Vision Award for Business Impact in Data Integration
 * Computerworld Horizon Award