Talend Integration Suite Selected as ETL for Smart i Applianceâ„¢

Cutting-edge Business Intelligence solution enables managers to fight tough market conditions with superior analytical tools

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - November 17, 2008 - Talend, the first provider of open source data integration software, today announced that the Smart i Applianceâ„¢ for Business Intelligence, introduced at the IBM Information on Demand conference by Key Information Systems, an IT systems integrator and Premier IBM Business Partner, includes Talend Integration Suite as its embedded Extract Transform and Load (ETL) software.

Smart i is the result of a collaboration between Key Information Systems as integrator, Systech Solutions as implementer, Talend as provider of open source Extract Transform and Load (ETL) software, and IBM as provider of DB2 Web Query software and the hardware appliance that contains the standalone BI product.

The Smart i Appliance is a plug-and-play Business Intelligence appliance that runs on all models of IBM’s System i product group and new Power Systems group. It is BI that works in a simple, affordable, open source Business Intelligence appliance.

The Smart i Appliance is a Business Intelligence solution for IBM's midrange market, priced from under $50,000, with an estimated payback period as short as three to six months, delivering a first-year ROI between 20 and 25 percent.

Lief Morin, president of Key Information Systems, said: “Our customers are telling us they don't want pieces they have to assemble. They want a bundled, low-cost BI appliance including training and cube implementation that plugs seamlessly into databases. Also, they want to leverage their existing investments in DB2 and their System i. So we designed an attractive low-cost, load-and-go Business Intelligence appliance for immediate use. It makes BI accessible to every company.”

Alberto Saavedra, national sales director at Systech Solutions, said: “Smart i provides an affordable BI alternative for companies with System i based ERPs that would normally have to implement Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse infrastructures by integrating expensive ETL and reporting tools on non-System i platforms. Instead, it all comes already integrated, tested and packaged on an IBM i group server or IBM’s new Power Systems server platform.”

Doug Mack, IBM’s Power Systems marketing manager, said: “DB2 Web Query and the Smart i Appliance are really designed to leverage what customers have come to love about their IBM i based systems (AS/400, iSeries, System i, Power Systems): delivering business value with simplicity, flexibility, and minimal management requirements. With Smart i, customers can quickly and cost effectively implement a true Business Intelligence solution that reduces complexity and risk and keeps it simple!”

Vincent Pineau, Talend’s vice president and general manager, Americas, said: “The Smart i Appliance is a Godsend to thousands of AS/400 users worldwide, and Talend is very pleased to be part of the solution. Because our product is being preinstalled natively on each iSeries box, we enable data integration/ETL to be faster, more scalable and more cost-effective for users of the appliance everywhere.”

A free BI needs assessment and executive overview of Smart i are available through any member of the Smart i Alliance:

• Key Information Systems – A Premier IBM Business Partner and systems integrator.
• Systech Solutions – A leading Business Intelligence systems integrato
• Talend – A leading open source data integrator that provides ETL tools plus migration of data from any platform to a System i.
• IBM Corporation – The leader in servers, storage and systems software.

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