by Angela Guess
In a recent interview, Jim Walker of Talend discussed how open source master data management solutions are affecting the market and the way that people do business. Walker said, “We’re starting to see big changes. We put surveys out to our Community Edition users, those who have downloaded our open-source MDM. We asked them how they use the tool. The main focus is customer and product domains, but we’re seeing people master other domains like suppliers, assets, and organizations of websites, and there’s a lot of reference data usage. Quite honestly, MDM and MDM tools just weren’t accessible for these types of domains before. I think they were either way too complex or way too expensive. Now with an open source alternative, people are taking the master data principles and really addressing other domains, which is a unique concept and that is really what’s changing the marketplace.”
He continued, “Now in a year and a half, we’ve seen wide scale adoption of Talend’s master data management products. Where we had seen no projects before, we’re starting to a kind of an organic growth in organizations. In the survey I mentioned, we asked our open-source adopters of Master Data Management how they’re using the software. We asked if they were working toward a project that will be live and in production. We wanted to determine if it was just curiosity, because a lot of people are just curious about master data management. We found that some of them were just evaluating, but we also found that people were implementing upwards of 60 different projects with open-source MDM.”
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