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Jitterbit 3 expands open source data integration

By Sean Michael Kerner on June 10, 2009 9:48 AM

From the 'complex things we need to do' files:

In a perfect world, data would all be easily transportable and consumable. The world is not perfect, and that's why the work that open source data integration vendor Jitterbit does, is valuable to many organizations. I first wrote about Jitterbit around the time of their 1.0 release in 2006 ,and now they're gearing up with their 3.0 release.

What has changed in the last three years is that Jitterbit now has some big name customers including NASA, and Continental Airlines and their software is scaling to meet the demand of larger organizations and more complex types of data integration

Jitterbit 3.0 now has support for multi-user environments as well as the ability to stream data via HTTP.

What is helping to drive Jitterbit's business forward is the cloud.

"The lion's share of our business today is coming from organizations that are adopting some kind of cloud computing," Ilan Sehayek, CTO of Jitterbit told me.

That makes a lot of sense. Cloud infrastructures by their nature are distributed and have a build-in need to pull data for multiple sources.

While Jitterbit is open source, the core of the Jitterbit project is still being developed by paid Jitterbit staffers, though the community does contribute in other ways. Sharam Sasson, Jitterbit founder and CEO told me that Jitterbit benefits from the community by way of bug reports and feature requests as well as Jitterpack contributions.

Data integration is also achieved in Jitterbit via a feature called "Jitterpacks," which are pre-packaged integrations including configuration information to quickly integrate data types and sources. Sasson said that consultants with expertise in certain areas come up with their own Jitterpack that are then contributed back, helping the community as a whole. Sounds like a decent model to me.

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