Talend CEO Reports on Customer Advisory Board Highlights
March 27, 2014
The article titled CEO Field Report from the Customer Advisory Board on the Talend blog relates highlights from the CAB meeting. Talend CEO Mike Tuchen explained that the meeting was mainly with CTOs and chief architects from companies using Talend for their main integration solution. Tuchen was surprised to learn of pressure being put on companies by consulting firms such as Gartner. The article explains,
“In Gartner’s Magic Quadrants for both Data Integration and Data Quality we’re (Talend) in the Visionary quadrant, a couple pixels south of the Leader’s quadrant. As a result, nearly all of the customers there related stories about how some of the big legacy vendors who are in the Leaders quadrant have repeatedly tried to win back their business, resorting to sowing FUD with their colleagues and their CIOs once they realized that they couldn’t unseat us directly.”
Tuchen laughed off this troubling information, since it was his own customer’s wondering aloud ““Why is <our buyer> making this risky bet on Talend rather than working our safe proven solution?” Tuchen responded with gratitude and pride in his own customers loyalty and enthusiasm. He also holds some certainty that once top analysts begin to hear such stories from their own clients “the issue will take care of itself.” It is an interesting angle on how consulting firms attempt to pressure companies.
Chelsea Kerwin, March 27, 2014
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