Talend Integration Suite: a universal integration solution for Eurofins Group

Talend's solution becomes the integration tool of the entire Eurofins Group, for local as well as enterprise-wide projects

SURESNES, France - February 26, 2008 - Talend, the first provider of Open Source data integration sofware, has today announced that Eurofins, one of the leading companies in bio analysis, uses Talend Integration Suite to meets its various integration needs.

Founded by 4 persons in 1987, Eurofins is a French and German company ranked among the first providers in the world of bio analysis; it is specialized in analytical services for the environment as well as pharmaceutical and food industries. Its growth is mostly performed through mergers and acquisitions of laboratories specialized in various types of analyses.

“Until 2005, in order to streamline processes, each new laboratory which joined Eurofins was equipped with the same information system. But we realized that this strategy could be problematic for employees as well as customers. The management has thus decided to permit diversity among production systems, by replacing only some components and by developing interfaces to integrate other applications with the HQ's information system,” explained Eric Bello, Coordinator for the system integration.

This change of strategy has generated tremendous integration needs. Indeed, Eurofins had to juggle with multi-cultural, multi-domain and multi-format issues. For instance, the firm had to take into account integration needs in real-time (ongoing collaboration between the information systems) and batch (load of the online portal and visualization by clients of their analyses results).

To meet those various integration needs, Eurofins has first decided to resort to a proprietary solution. “After analyzing what was offered on the market, we had chosen Sunopsis. Unfortunately, this decision had occurred just before this technology was acquired by Oracle,” said Pierre-Eric Menuet, EAI Project leader at Eurofins. “We have quickly been pushed to abandon this solution for two reasons: first, our growth model turned out to be incompatible with the new pricing model of Oracle based on a cost per target CPU. Secondly, we realized that Oracle Data Integrator didn't quite meet our 'real-time' integration needs and we had to do some specific developments - which didn't fit our wish for standardization and would have made maintenance more complex.”

Eurofins has thus chosen Talend Open Studio because it's easy to use and to learn. Besides, the fact that the code is open helps to manage the tool and even to participate in its evolution through code contributions. In a subsequent step, Eurofins has decided to go into high gear and has implemented Talend Integration Suite: “We needed a collaborative layer because many developers often work together on the same projects,” described Eric Bello. “We also wanted to develop a shared and centralized repository in order to inventory our data flows and to run impact analysis, which are used for the management of change. In view of this enterprise development, Talend Integration Suite brings additional services. This solution is becoming the official integration tool of the whole Eurofins group, an all-purpose solution that allows both to feed project information at the group level but also to meet many daily needs of flow automation and data integration.”

Talend Integration Suite is today being deployed for all local projects, but also for enterprise-wide projects (operational, CRM or ERP) and many benefits have already been identified by Eurofins' integration team: user-friendliness, acceleration of the development cycles, quality of support services and exchanges with the Talend community, the vast range of connectors, the re-use of rules thanks to the component library and the shared repository, execution speed and performance.

About Eurofins

Eurofins Scientific is a French and German company ranked among the first global suppliers on the bio analysis market and specialized in the analytical services for the environment, the pharmaceutical and food industries. The group has more than 6000 employees, a network of over 100 laboratories in 27 countries and a portfolio of about 25000 analytical methods to validate the traceability, the authenticity, the origin, the safety, the identity and the purity of biological substances and numerous products. The Group invests so that their customers are assured to have the best possible level of quality and safety on all the markets they are present on.
The Eurofins group is a global leader on the life sciences sector and pursues a strategy of development which is based on the extension of its technologies and its geographical presence. Via R&D programs, licensing agreements or acquisitions, the group integrates the last technological developments which allow Eurofins to offer to their customers a set of unprecedented analytical solutions on the market.

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