Today, Talend announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Stitch, a self-service cloud data integration company that provides an exceptionally quick, easy, and intuitive experience in modern cloud environments. With Stitch, Talend will be able to provide both SMB and enterprise customers with a highly efficient way to move data from cloud sources to cloud data warehouses and buy in a frictionless manner.

We’ve all dreamed of going to bed one day and waking up the next with superpowers – stronger, faster and even perhaps with the ability to fly. Yesterday that is exactly what happened to Tom Reilly and the people at Cloudera and Hortonworks. On October 2nd they went to bed as two rivals vying for leadership in the big data space. In the morning they woke up as Cloudera 2.0, a $700M firm, with a clear leadership position. “From the edge to AI”…to infinity and beyond!

July was a huge month for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the BI space. Thoughtspot raised $145 million, Salesforce acquired Datorama, Workday acquired Stories.bi and Tableau acquired Empirical Systems.

Radnor, PA - Qlik®, a leader in data analytics, today announced the acquisition of Podium Data, an enterprise-grade data management company whose solution simplifies and accelerates customers’ ability to manage, prepare and deliver analytics-ready data to every business user across a diverse data landscape. This acquistion expands Qlik’s mission, moving beyond analytics to being a provider of solutions that democratize data for every user to create a more data literate world.