#17 - November 2009

   
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A word from Talend’s VP of Strategy & Business Development

Companies are becoming more careful with their data and now regard it as a strategic resource. Whatever their size, they seek to develop a “single version of truth” to obtain a reliable and unified view of their customers, partners, employees, and others. However, even today most companies operate diverse portfolios with fragmented data that is often inaccurate, incomplete, or inconsistent, residing in various application silos. Master Data Management (MDM) offers an effective means of linking all data to a to an enterprise repository for easy management.

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A word from Talend's VP of Strategy & Biz Dev
Partner Interview: WDCi Group, Powered by Talend
Products Update
New Talend Partners and Customers
New White Papers
Webinars

Join the Talend Discovery Roadshow!

Upcoming Events
From Talend's Blog

 

 

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Partner Interview - WDCi Group, Powered by Talend

"In the past six months alone, Talend has seen a 100% increase in the adoption of its technology by software vendors under its OEM program, Powered by Talend. These recent partnerships reaffirm Talend’s position as the global leader in open source data integration and further validate the suitability of open source enterprise solutions for embedding in third-party software solutions. Deborah Brook is the CEO of the WDCi Group, an Australian-based company specialized in connecting systems, providing end-to-end solutions for identity, integration, data transformation and SOA requirements, both on-premise and on-demand."

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Please Take The 451 Group's CAOS Open Source Adoption Survey

Independent analyst firm The 451 Group is running a short survey about end user attitudes to the potential financial benefits of open source software.  Please take five minutes to complete a few questions.

In return for your assistance, you will receive (directly from The 451 Group) a copy of the research results, and an invite to a special 451 Group Webinar at which they discuss these results. All responses are confidential.

 

Announcing the First Open Source Master Data Management Solution

In September, Talend acquired all rights to the Master Data Management (MDM) technology developed by Amalto Technologies. As a result of this acquisition, Talend will be the first company to offer an open source MDM solution, providing organizations with the exact features and benefits found in proprietary MDM solutions, at a fraction of the cost.

Until now, the MDM market has been dominated by a handful of mega software vendors and a few niche players - all of them proprietary and all of them commanding premium prices. Talend will not only be the first open source vendor in this space, but also the first provider of a fully integrated stack including Master Data Management, Data Integration and Data Quality.
 

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Launching Talend Open Studio & Talend Integration Suite v3.2  

The new and extended features in Talend Open Studio & Talend Integration Suite 3.2 give business users greater control in the definition of data integration processes, extend integration capabilities to IT operations, and improve the overall impact of data integration throughout the organization.

The key new features of Talend Integration Suite 3.2 include:
Business Rules-Driven Integration: A new embedded rules engine allows business users to define rules interpreted at run-time. Users can change the behavior of the data integration processes by redefining rules through a user friendly interface, without involving IT. This new capability leverages the award-winning JBoss Rules technology.
Error Recovery Management: Data integration processes can now include recovery checkpoints. In case of failure, processes can be resumed from one of the checkpoints. Dynamic instructions can also be provided to IT operations, instructing them how to react to specific error conditions.
Migration and Replication Automation: New features automatically create migration and/or replication processes based on metadata discovery while supporting heterogeneous environments, greatly accelerating migration and replication tasks.
Log-Based Changed Data Capture: Data Capture based on database logs is now supported for Oracle, DB2/400 (IBM System i) and Microsoft SQL Server.

You can view the complete list of new features in Talend Open Studio on the TalendForge Forum.

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New Talend Partners and Customers

California-based Fashion Institute of Design merchandising expands its current reporting functionality with Smart i, a Business Intelligence appliance based on IBM’s System i, that includes Talend Integration Suite as its built-in ETL tool

The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) is dedicated to educating students for the Fashion, Graphics, Interior Design, and Entertainment industries. Since FIDM’s inception in downtown Los Angeles in 1969, the college has grown to four dynamic campuses with a co-ed student body of 6,000 full-time students from 30 countries and more than 30,000 graduates. The college’s Resource and Research Center is the largest specialized fashion library in the Western United States, offering students access to print, online and electronic resources, as well as visual and creative materials.

“The solution has created a much higher level of satisfaction for FIDM executives. Basically we can access reports much faster and without any manual interface. Today our database isn’t any larger but the ETL processing is 2 to 3 times faster than before. It’s a huge benefit for us going forward.”

Roxanne Reynolds-Lair, CIO

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Bypassing an unreliable information system, the Clermont-Ferrand Hospital improved invoicing by correlating data on hospital stays

The Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand employs 6,000 employees deployed over three sites, giving residents of the Auvergne region a capacity of 1,900 beds. The hospital serves over 1.3 million people in three specific hospitalization areas: short stay, psychiatry, and after-care and rehabilitation. The immediate problem was that the hospital’s global information system was based on a highly fragmented architecture which, over time, became more and more cumbersome.

“At first Talend Open Studio handled our loading and extraction needs, but quickly became our basic tool for transformations. It serves not only for verifying the quality and consistency of the data, but also for locating missing data.”

Jean-Christophe Jourdy, Department of Medical Information

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The UK-based Housing association Accent Group has selected Talend Integration Suite to improve information management and efficiently migrate data from the association's legacy systems, as part of an on-going internal data integration project

Accent Group has been investing in communities for more than 40 years and manages its homes and residents' services through its three subsidiaries, Accent Foundation, Accent Nene and Accent Peerless.

“Talend Integration Suite will provide Accent Group with one common tool for managing its variety of disparate systems such as its anti social management system or its rent collection application. A major selling point for us was that it is open source, meaning that it can integrate with our IBM iSeries legacy systems and different platforms. It can also exact data from any file format and at a dramatically lower cost than proprietary software. There is a strong open source community that can help us to develop and improve our current applications and this support will be a real benefit for us.”

Andy Gowdy, MBCS CITP, Legacy System Manager

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New White Papers

Leveraging Open Source Data Quality, Practical Examples

Poor-quality data affects all data-related projects and refers to the state of completeness, validity, consistency, timeliness and accuracy that makes data appropriate for a specific use.

This Technical White Paper presents the main challenges of data quality and drills into specific uses of data profiling and data cleansing. It highlights, through 32 distinct use cases, how open source data quality technology can be used to alleviate issues related to poor-quality data.

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Webinars

webinarsTalend's free Webinars cover both product information and open source data integration technology.

For all topics and dates visit our Webinars page.

If you missed a past Webinar, you can view replays of selected topics. Recordings last approximately one hour and include a presentation of the topic, a product demonstration, and a live Q&A session. Click on the Webinar title to access the recording:

Change Data Capture with Talend Open Studio and Talend Integration Suite
Business Intelligence in the Cloud: Agile Analytics for Powerful, Easy and Nimble BI
ELT: High Performance Loading for your Data Warehouse
How to Use the Right Tools for Operational Data Integration - a webinar featuring Mark Madsen

Real-time ETL and CDC Needs, without Breaking the Bank

Many more topics are available. Please visit our On Demand Webinars page.

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Join the Talend Discovery Roadshow!

The Talend Roadshow is a tremendous success with over 1,000 users trained in just six months! Recent feedback proves that the best way to demonstrate the value of Talend's technology to potential users is to have them try it themselves. In these free 3-hour technical workshops participants will receive complimentary training on Talend Open Studio - and will leave with a USB key containing the data integration jobs they just developed.

So far 90 workshops have been provided in 10 countries, with more locations planned. Check out the calendar and sign up:

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Upcoming Events

For information, and for an up-to-date list of Talend's events, visit Talend's Event Calendar.

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From Talend's Blog

Talend's blog contains a large amount of information about the company and the data integration market. Check out these recent posts.

Linking technology and society
Powered by Talend: the Power of OEM
Joining the Board of BonitaSoft
A Cloud Doesn’t Always Mean Bad Weather
Enhancing Indicators
Success for the First Talend Partner Summit

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