Open Source and Mobile Financial Services

I was researching the product suite offered by Talend at the request of a client.  It seems to be a very rich and robust solution and is based on open source which makes it that much more interesting. 

Talend offers many products and services but at a high level the solution is comprised of Data Integration, Data Migration, Data Synchronization and ETL for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing.

Several telecommunication companies including Virgin Mobile and AOL have implemented their solutions and Virgin Mobile gives an in-depth endorsement of the product specifically about how it can keep costs low for an MVNO.

After reviewing the testimonials I ran across the Talend blog discussion about Gartner recently included the solution in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

The author states they are the only open source player in the Magic Quadrant for Data Integration which I believe is true but it got me thinking about other Magic Quadrant that Gartner puts out. 

Are there any Mobile Financial Service (MFS) related products or solutions based on Open Source currently in a Gartner Quadrant? 

Actually, I am curious if anyone has experience with MFS solutions based on Open Source in general.   With budgets getting squeezed and ROI being scrutinized is anyone leveraging Open Source to reduce the overall cost of a implementation?

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Posted on: Tuesday, December 8, 2009