Last week we announced that the Rail Testing Agency, the testing and engineering laboratory of SNCF, the French Railways operator, has chosen Talend Open Studio to rationalize its data transfers. There is a nice twist to this, since SNCF has recently broken the world’s land speed record for railed vehicles at 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph). So everything is high-speed at SNCF - trains, and data integration!

SNCF said they chose Talend Open Studio for three main reasons:
- it fits their functional needs and could be deployed very quickly (the high speed again…)
- it is Open Source and is compatible with their budget constraints
- Talend could offer a service package that would allow them to ramp up and become self-sufficient very quickly

And indeed, for many organizations, Talend Open Studio is the only alternative to custom development of integration processes. To continue with the train analogy, Talend Open Studio is the TGV (High Speed Train) of data integration, whereas custom developments are closer to the steam engine in performance and efficiency.

Stay tuned for more high speed customers from Talend!

Yves