Talend Expands With New OEM Partnerships

Global Partners Select Open Source Solution for Flexible and Cost-Effective Data Integration

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - September 2, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced several partnerships with U.S. and international OEM partners, including Appko, Knowledge Relay, MCF Technology Solutions, LynasLogic and WDCi Group.

In the past six months alone, Talend has seen a 100 percent increase in the adoption of its technology by software vendors under the OEM model. These recent partnerships reaffirm Talend's position as the international leader in open source data integration and further validate the suitability of open source enterprise solutions embedded in third-party software solutions.

Recently-signed partnerships include:

Appko - California-based Appko creates enterprise applications. Through its partnership with Talend, Appko integrated Talend's data integration solutions into its new product, AppEvolve. AppEvolve will enable organizations to extend their existing investments in the enterprise by enabling service based integrations (SOA), extended enterprise application functionality (RIA) and further insight with reporting and BI. AppEvolve will be launched sometime in 2010.
Knowledge Relay - California-based Knowledge Relay provides easily implemented operational business intelligence (BI) solutions. Through its partnership with Talend, Knowledge Relay has employed Talend's Integration Suite (TIS) into its business intelligence solutions allowing for multi-billion dollar projects to integrate project management data with all other desired types of data saving. The end product saves Knowledge Relay customers millions of dollars annually by providing real-time reports and dashboards not obtainable anywhere else.
MCF Technology Solutions (MCF Tech) - Ohio-based MCF Tech is a full service Web 2.0 Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, that helps organizations maximize cloud computing PaaS tools to create efficient, low cost and highly effective business process applications. MCF Tech utilizes Talend's Integration Suite for its open source data integration capabilities to provide service-based business process automation solutions. This allows MCF Tech customers to seamlessly integrate current PaaS applications with other platforms such as QuickBase, QuickBooks, WorkXpress and Wolf Framework.
LynasLogic - Brazil-based LynasLogic is a global provider of tax, auditing and financial consolidation software solutions. Through its OEM partnership with Talend, LynasLogic has utilized Talend Integration Suite to create LynasETL powered by Talend. LynasETL is part of the Lynas Application Suite and allows customers to integrate their disparate systems to and from Lynas software products.
WDCi Group - Australia and Malaysia-based WDCi Group specializes in connecting systems by providing end-to-end solutions for identity, integration, data transformation and SOA requirements, both on-premise and on-demand. Through its partnership with Talend, WDCi has developed pre-built integration solutions. The ReadyMadeETL integration solutions use Talend to deliver rapid, low-cost integration solutions to organizations of all sizes.

“Over the years, Talend's open source ETL solutions have proven to scale and flex to meet the needs of our diverse customer base, allowing Jaspersoft to provide our customers with up-to-the-minute data in a fully integrated business intelligence setting,” said Jose Morales, vice president of business development at Jaspersoft, a leading vendor of open source business intelligence solutions that embeds Talend's technology under its own brand, JasperETL. “As one of the first companies to partner with Talend, Jaspersoft has experienced first-hand the competitive advantages that Talend's solutions provide, and the flexibility Talend shows when working with its partners to ensure common success.”

“Talend's commitment to the success of our channel partners has never been stronger,” said Vincent Pineau, Talend's vice president and general manager Americas. “Our collective achievements are a testament to the global strength and quality of our partners' applications and Talend's technology. By making our partners' success a top corporate priority, Talend will become the global standard in data integration solutions.”

Talend offers customized and rebranded versions of its solutions through a tailored and flexible OEM program that lets third-party software vendors, whether they use the open source model or not, embed Talend's award winning technologies for data integration and data quality into the vendor's own product stack. For all partner program inquiries please email partners@talend.com.

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