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Talend: Talend Global Survey Concludes that Open Source Data Integration is Indeed Enterprise Ready Over 1000 global respondents highlight the validity of open source data integration
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
RDATE:05022009
Enterprise data integration needs are growing exponentially over time,
as is the interest in open source technologies and the adoption of open
source solutions, according to a global research study conducted by
Talend, the recognised leader of open source data integration solutions.
The data used in this analysis was collected from over 1000
respondents, in majority from the U.S. (56.5%), followed by Europe
(35.2%), with the rest of the responses (8.3%) originating in the rest
of the World.
Dramatic changes in the global economy has imposed strict cost controls
on IT Managers, both in terms of staff and software, at a time when
data integration represents an increasingly larger percentage of the
enterprise IT budget.
"As companies merge, acquire new applications and build their IT
platforms by incorporating disparate applications with legacy systems,
information systems are becoming more and more heterogeneous. As a
result, data integration tools are now indispensable if enterprise IT
departments are to properly manage the flows of data across the
information system," said Yves de Montcheuil, Talend's Vice President
of Marketing.
In this context, Mr. de Montcheuil believes that open source solutions
offer a very compelling argument. "Open source tools can automate and
maintain tasks formerly requiring manual scripts, and the existing
skills of the IT implementation team easily transfer to an open source
offering. Nor do IT departments have to justify significant up-front
fees, a key consideration in today's economic climate." Key findings
of the research include:
Operational data integration, whether batch or real-time, is a good fit
for open source solutions. As business tempos speed up, real-time and
nearly real-time operational data integration projects will prevail
over bulk transfer projects. At the date of the survey, 40.0% of
participants used open source tools to manage their batch operational
data integration tasks, compared to only 22.9% for real-time projects,
but the latter is a much faster growing segment.
Data loading (41.9%) and data migration (26.5%) are the second and
third most popular types of project. Both of these are indeed good
candidates for open source solutions, as they are typically one-offs,
with no ongoing purpose that would justify a long-term investment in an
expensive proprietary tool.
Data synchronisation (19.1%) is also a popular type of project
conducted by open source data integration users.
"Open source data integration solutions clearly offer a greater breadth
of functional coverage and more flexibility in terms of adoption,
deployment, and maintenance, than equivalent proprietary offerings"
said Mr de Montcheuil.
Survey participants proved to use a combination of commercial
applications, open source solutions, and databases utilities to meet
their data integration needs. The statistics demonstrate that using
open source and commercial solutions in combination is commonplace
(31.2% of respondents), and that the two can, and do, coexist on the
same platform. In fact, open source solutions are often complementary
to an existing proprietary solution that, for functional or cost
reasons, is unable to address a specific need.
Open Source Data
Integration vs. Proprietary Solutions
In an ongoing effort to lower their data integration software total
cost of ownership (TCO), many enterprises are now considering open
source solutions, not just for one-time projects, but also for their
ongoing mission-critical processes, to replace or complement their
expensive CPU-dependent solutions.
"Open source solutions are a real alternative to the proprietary world.
Key players have made major strides toward improving the usability and
user-friendliness of open source technologies, which used to be a weak
spot for these applications," continued Mr de Montcheuil. "In just a
few short years, open source products have evolved into
enterprise-ready solutions. Today, open source solutions are
feature-rich and do meet the most complex user requirements."
The survey results reflect these expectations.
Respondents felt most strongly about ease of use (59%) and performance
(53.9%) as the most important aspects of an open source data
integration solution.
Licensing cost is not the gating criterion for enterprises turning to
open source solutions. It actually comes fourth after performance, ease
of use, and no vendor lock-in (42.5%), with only 42.1% respondents
considering it very important.
Access to the source code comes last on most priority lists when
enterprises are choosing open source tools.
60.5% of respondents want a scheduling tool that lets them consolidate
and centralise their technical processes.
57.8% of users need a dashboard to centrally monitor processes as they
execute. Because enterprise users often work in teams and need to share
data on large-scale projects, 54.9% consider a shared repository
essential.
Finally, 38.4% of enterprise users want an administration tool to
centrally manage users and projects.
Conclusion
The results of the survey clearly show that open source data
integration solutions have matured to a strategic vantage point, making
the technology suitable for mission-critical enterprise use in every
arena. The advantages of open source over proprietary software are
obvious in the response distribution for the key domains, and open
source is as powerful as its proprietary counterparts.
"Open source solutions are continually evolving to meet market
requirements. The TCO is significantly better than proprietary
solutions and users confirm the ease of use and performance of these
products," concludes Mr de Montcheuil.
A White Paper summarising these findings are showing graphs can be
downloaded from:
http://www.talend.com/document-download.php?doc=landosdi
About Talend
Talend is the recognised market leader in open source data integration.
More than 400 paying customers around the globe, including Yahoo!,
Virgin Mobile, Sony and Swiss Life, use the Talend Integration Suite of
products and services to optimise the costs of data integration, ETL
and data quality. With over 3.3 million lifetime downloads and 700,000
core product downloads, Talend's solutions are the most widely used and
deployed data integration solutions in the world. The company has major
offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and a global network of
technical and services partners.
CONTACT: Melissa Powell, Spreckley Partners Ltd
Tel: +44 (0)20 7388 9988
e-mail: powell@spreckley.co.uk
Talend
WWW: http://www.talend.com
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