Talend and Centurio CRM Announce Partnership

Leading On-Demand CRM Vendor in the Nordic Market Joins the Talend Alliance Program to Add Unmatched Data Integration Technology to its Portfolio

LOS ALTOS, Calif., & STOCKHOLM, Sweden - March 5, 2008 - Talend, the first provider of open source data integration software, today announced that Centurio CRM, one of the leading vendors of On-Demand CRM in the Nordic region, has signed a strategic partnership within the Talend Alliance Program. Under the terms of the partnership Centurio CRM will leverage Talend's data integration solution to migrate and consolidate data from legacy applications, and to synchronize data between systems, for Centurio CRM deployments on behalf of their customers.

The integration capabilities provided by Talend's solutions comprise of open source ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) functionality for including Centurio CRM On-Demand data in Business Intelligence (BI) applications, synchronization and replication of its data with other systems, and migration to Centurio CRM On-Demand. Centurio CRM's platform is based on SugarCRM's leading commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes.

“Talend offers a strong solution which provides high performance and advanced features for any data integration project,” said Michael Duffy, CEO of Centurio CRM. “We are pleased to be a platinum partner of Talend's, enabling us to give the Nordic market the absolute best platform in terms of data integration technology.”

“Our partnership with Centurio CRM demonstrates Talend's expanding growth into the Nordic market,” said François Méro, Talend's general manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa. “We are committed to working with our partners to deliver solutions that meet the demands of customers in all markets, ensuring successful execution of business operations.”

With its intuitive easy-to-use graphical environment, Talend's data integration solutions simplify development and speed up deployment while empowering enterprise information management teams to select the architecture that makes sense for their unique needs. Unlike commercial data integration software that requires steep initial investment and relies heavily on IT resources for full-time management of software maintenance and upgrades, Talend Open Studio is provided at no cost under a GPL license while Talend Integration Suite and Talend On Demand are offered as a subscription. Furthermore, the ramp-up costs and ongoing development and maintenance costs are sharply reduced by the solution's embracing of open standards and architectural options.

As a Platinum Talend partner, Centurio CRM receives technical, sales and marketing support from Talend on all of the data integration projects the company runs on behalf of its clients.

About Centurio CRM

Centurio CRM is one of the leading vendors of On-Demand CRM in the Nordic region. Centurio CRM On-Demand is delivered from a high-security datacenter in Sweden that offers our clients the highest security and availability 24/7/365. Centurio CRM assists company management in their efforts to consolidate their position on the market by performance improvement in sales, marketing and support. Through our service areas in training, professional services and support we help our clients to enhance the usefulness of the On-Demand CRM-platform. For more information, visit www.centuriocrm.se

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