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Without long term perspective since the acquisition of Hummingbird by Open Text, around 600 worldwide Genio customers becomes a target for Talend and its open source ETL.
Talend is an open source vendor of the same named ETL tool. It announced this week a migration package specially designed for Genio customers, an ETL from Leonard’s Logic acquired by Hummingbird, itself acquired by Open Text.
« For companies using obsolete tools like Genio, a migration project to a new ETL can be risky and should mean a redevelopment of all their integration architecture », explain Yves de Montcheuil, Marketing Director at Talend. « It is never easy to switch from an ETL to another; you should often take all processes one after the other and recode it ».
The customer’s IT service can face a collective memory problem if all processes, developed sometimes many years before, are not or poor documented.
Talend propose a package of a specially developed migration tool and expertise based on Talend knowledge of ETL tools.
The first step is an audit, of around three days, to analyze Genio repository, collect information about processes and evaluate labor cost to migrate all of them.
Then the migration itself, using the tool developed by Talend and of course their ETL. This tool can drill down into Genio repository to collect metadata and automatically migrate them to the Talend repository.
Usage of Talend ETL is of course needed but the customer can choose any available version including the open source one.
Three main Genio’s customers are actually migrating but prefer their name not to be revealed before they can really avoid Genio from their IT system.
According to Talend this process can save between 50 and 70 % of migration cost of for traditional ETL migration project. Based on this success Talend is evaluating the development of new migration tools from Sunopsis (Oracle) and DataStage (IBM).
According to a French daily newspaper published on Saturday, Le Figaro, Business Objects mandated Goldman Sachs bank to search for potential candidates to an acquisition of the number one BI vendor.
The newspaper, without revealing sources, write that five candidates have been approached and that one of them could enter in an exclusive negotiation phase during a couple of weeks. In this list of five, SAP could be on the top of the podium but IBM could be interested. Even if nothing is said about the three others, nobody imagine that companies like Oracle or Microsoft could not look at the figures.
Regarding a market capitalization of around 3 billion dollars this deal is reserved to a short list of large international software vendors.
Last week, Business Objects have announced its new suite EPM XI, compilation of its last acquisitions (Cartesis, ALG Software, SRC…) to create a first global suite of products designed for Business Performance Management in large organizations. A new product viewed a major by financial analyst Oddo which see Business Objects as a main leader in BPM due to the organic growth of this market and a lowest competition following multiple acquisitions last months in this market.
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