Window Blinds Maker Levolor Chooses Talend

Talend Integration Suite Helps Manage Floods of Data Quickly and Affordably at Newell-Rubbermaid Division

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - December 15, 2008 - Levolor, a manufacturer of window blinds, shades and draperies, has chosen Talend’s open source data integration software to integrate Web and phone orders with outgoing shipment reports and other data. Talend Integration Suite enables Levolor, a division of Newell-Rubbermaid, to manage large volumes of data quickly and easily at an affordable price.

Talend Integration Suite’s easy-to-read dashboard allows more people at Levolor to monitor the company’s data. Before, only a few Levolor programmers monitored the complicated data flows, creating work-stopping bottlenecks when they were out. Talend Integration Suite also reduces diagnostic processes to minutes, eliminating the line-by-line analysis of code that used to take hours.

“Talend simplified our data integration while still enabling us to write source code for complicated processes,” said John Shafer, EBusiness application developer for Levolor. “Talend Integration Suite allowed us to adopt a standard data integration package that could be reused every time at a price that was a lot lower than proprietary data integration companies. We anticipate saving 25 percent in support time each year by using Talend.”

“Levolor’s experience proves that the low development cost, ease of use and powerful features of Talend Integration Suite are a good fit for any business,” said Vincent Pineau, Talend's vice president and general manager, Americas. “The economic downturn has doomed software vendors that do not offer flexibility to the customer at an optimized price. Talend’s open source approach makes enterprise-class data integration affordable to organizations of all sizes, particularly in these tough economic times.”

About Levolor

Founded in 1914, Levolor has set the standard in window fashions, design innovation, product quality and customer satisfaction. Revolutionizing the industry by being the first to offer cordless custom blinds, as well as being the first to bring color to blinds, Levolor continues to pioneer window décor and remains the most recognized name in the industry. Products, including custom, stock and sizable blinds and shades, basic and decorative drapery hardware and custom drapery, offer consumers more options than ever to complete their windows.

Today the company is a division of Newell-Rubbermaid. a global marketer of consumer and commercial products and a powerful brand family including Sharpie™, Paper Mate™, Parker™, Waterman™, Rubbermaid™, Calphalon™, Graco™, Levolor™, Kirsch™, BernzOmatic™, Vise-Grip™, IRWIN™ and Lenox™.

Levolor is headquartered in High Point, NC. Newell Rubbermaid is headquartered in Atlanta, GA and employs over 20,000 employees worldwide. For more information, visit www.levolor.com.

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