LOS ALTOS, Calif. and SURESNES, France - June 7, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data management software, today announced that it has been selected as a Red Herring Top 100 Europe Tech Startup. The Red Herring Top 100 award recognizes the leading private companies from Europe, celebrating the startups' innovations and technologies across their respective industries.

Red Herring's Top 100 Europe list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work.

"Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat," said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. "After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across Europe to the Top 100 Winners. We believe Talend embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. Talend should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was very strong."

"Our selection as a Red Herring Top 100 Europe winner is another clear sign that Talend's open source data management solutions have become a technology standard that is helping organizations of all sizes optimize their processes and improve their bottom line," said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO, Talend. "We will continue to drive our business to maintain an unmatched pace of innovation and track record at delivering high value, cost-optimized solutions to our customers."

Red Herring's editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy, and market penetration. This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the "buzz" and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in Europe.

Leading Real Estate Solutions Provider Uses Talend Integration Suite to Manage Large Amounts of Data Promptly and Affordably

LOS ALTOS, Calif., June 3, 2010 - Talend today announced that Onboard Informatics, the leading provider of trusted real estate solutions and Web services to some of the most innovative companies in real estate, media and technology, has chosen Talend's open source data management software to cleanse and process hundreds of Multiple Listing Service (MLS) approved data feeds on a weekly basis. Talend Integration Suite enables Onboard Informatics to manage massive volumes of data quickly and easily at an affordable price.

Onboard Informatics receives data for roughly two million MLS property listing records on a daily basis. The listings include agent and office data, and about 17 million photo files that the company uses to consolidate and standardize all data in order to efficiently provide property listings to major real estate companies and Web portals, which have MLS approval and follow all MLS compliance rules. The need for a data management solution was imperative since the company is constantly monitoring and updating definitions to accommodate changes in the real world and produce accurate information in a timely manner.

Talend Integration Suite's advanced deployment capabilities represent an important asset for the daily activity at Onboard Informatics. Being able to coordinate and schedule the execution of open source data integration, migration or synchronization processes, provides the company with a centralized execution and monitoring console. Before using Talend, Onboard programmers were hand coding and manually setting up jobs, checking in at all hours of the day to ensure they had started running on time. Talend Integration Suite not only dramatically reduces the development and maintenance of these jobs, but it also significantly accelerates the diagnostic process and the line-by-line analysis of code that could take hours in the case of execution failures.

"Thanks to Talend Integration Suite, we are seeing great results in time savings and data availability," said Joseph Rugolo, director of data operations at Onboard Informatics. "The solution has enabled us to cut our 10 hour process down to three hours. Through re-engineering and re-ordering, our data processing is much better orchestrated. We now have the ability to grab any file we need, exchange information from different data environments and work with the files themselves, before loading them."

"Onboard Informatics is a great example of a company that was able to streamline its data management processes thanks to the powerful, easy-to-use features Talend Integration Suite offers," said Vincent Pineau, Talend's vice president and general manager, Americas. "Talend's low development cost and open source approach continues to prove a good fit for any business needing an enterprise-grade data management solution."

About Onboard Informatics

Since 2001, Onboard Informatics has provided comprehensive local, regional and national real estate data solutions, powerful web tools and web services to some of the most innovative companies in real estate, publishing and technology. Onboard delivers seamless integration of property listings, community, school, neighborhood, geographic and demographic information and, transforms the complexity of data into meaningful solutions; supporting clients in achieving business objectives on web and mobile platforms. Privately held since its founding, Onboard is located in the heart of the world's financial center in the Wall Street area of New York City. For more information about Onboard Informatics or to request a demo, visit www.onboardinformatics.com.

The General Council of Gironde consolidates all its data flows to manage its operations, while automatically updating its reference data

SURESNES, France - May 25, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data management solutions, announced today that the General Council of Gironde (CG 33) uses its open source data integration solutions to improve the decision-making of elected representatives, via the centralization of integration flows and the establishment of a business intelligence warehouse.

A business intelligence system to manage department operations

As the responsibilities of the local authorities continue to expand – for example, in the context of decentralization, these authorities recently took over road management and are increasingly involved in the social lives of citizens, particularly via aid distribution, such as the Personal Autonomy Allowance or Guaranteed Minimum Income – citizens demand more transparency and efficiency.

The General Council of Gironde initiated the beginnings of an analytics process in the mid-2000s, and then hired a business intelligence specialist, Benoît Viaud, with the primary task of equipping and industrializing its business intelligence process. “For loading our future warehouse, Talend Open Studio matched our expectations,” reflects Benoît Viaud, Business Intelligence Project Manager for the General Council of Gironde. “Since it is very easy to learn, Talend’s solution enabled us to quickly validate our prototype. We then decided to migrate to Talend Integration Suite to benefit from a shared repository and facilitate teamwork.”

The domains integrated in the BI project today revolve around financial data, the Directorate of Youth and Sports and will soon include the social actions of CG 33. Talend Integration Suite allows the collection of data from business applications to monitor, for example, the instruction process for applying for grants or Personal Autonomy Allowances.

“The data comes from heterogeneous systems - Oracle and LDAP bases, internal or external flat files, etc. - and is loaded into a single database, the ODS (Operational Data Staging). Interapplication flows also allow the updating of the reference data contained in certain business applications (i.e. an employee registration number),” explains Benoît Viaud.

LDAP directory to synchronize business data and BI flows to improve decisions

In addition to the BI project, CG 33 used Talend Integration Suite to collect business data from 4 applications, then consolidate the data in an internal staff metadirectory (LDAP) which can be accessed by any CG 33 employee and contains information on their colleagues, their department affiliation, their location or even photos and access maps.

Today, Talend Integration Suite is used to centralize all the new data flows of the General Council. “The Talend solution facilitates maintenance: the flows are centralized, which simplifies their reuse and provides extended visibility. This centralization also increases security, while accelerating operation monitoring,” adds Benoît Viaud. “This gives us valuable gains in productivity and reliability, allowing us to spend more time with the users to precisely identify their needs and refine our developments.”

The user feedback has been extremely positive. “The business management teams responsible for information consolidation appreciate the benefits offered by the implementation of the Business Objects - Talend duo, particularly how much time they save in relation to using Excel spreadsheets. We plan to automate the distribution of information to elected officials to help them improve their decisions, for example through the creation of dashboards that are customized according to their needs,” concludes Benoît Viaud. “With Talend Integration Suite, we are confident that we can easily fulfill these goals.”

About the General Council of Gironde

The General Council of Gironde (CG 33) is a local government body that handles various matters, including health and social action, school construction and maintenance, non-urban and school transportation, infrastructure (roads and ports), culture (libraries and department archives), and facilities in rural areas.

Gironde is the largest department of metropolitan France covering 10,750 square kilometers and has about 1.4 million inhabitants. Bordeaux, with close to 220,000 inhabitants, is the largest of the department’s 542 municipalities. The 2nd largest employer in Gironde, CG 33 has 6,000 employees and a budget of 1.4 billion euro to carry out its operations.

The IT subsidiary of the April Group manages all data flows - internally and with its partners - for its customers with the Talend solution, developed a Java library facilitating the use of Web Services

SURESNES, France - May 18, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data management solutions, announced today that April Web Access Factory (April WAF), an IT services company specializing in the insurance field, uses Talend Integration Suite to manage the loading of its Data Warehouse and information exchanges with its partners. Additionally, April WAF participated in the development of a new component enabling the management of SOAP messages via Web Services, which reinforces the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) support offered by the Talend products.

A subsidiary of the April Group, April WAF is an IT services company specializing in the insurance field and offering solutions that enable its clients to make their services accessible on the Internet while increasing the agility of their information systems. To meet the loading needs of its Data Warehouse and information exchanges with its partners, April WAF initially deployed Talend Open Studio.

“We were first drawn to the customization possibilities offered by Talend Open Studio and the user-friendliness of the product. We started on a limited scale, and then we shifted up a gear by moving to Talend Integration Suite to benefit from its shared repository,” explains Arnaud Fournier, CEO of April WAF. “Today, all of our Data Warehouse flows and data exchanges with our partners go through the Talend solution. Talend Integration Suite became is now a strategic element of our information system that we invest in to run our business.”

Meanwhile, April WAF participated in the development of a specific Talend Integration Suite module, which is now provided in all versions of this solution. This component enables the management of all types of messages, from the most simple to the more complex (hierarchical), via Web Services based on the CXF standard.

“The objective of this Java library is to help us integrate – in batch or real-time mode – input data flows and automatically transform them to invoke SOAP Web Services to integrate various data in our information system,” explains Arnaud Fournier. “Our job consisted in providing a user friendly layer for Web Services management and the SOAP protocol, via a Web Services interface allowing to send requests and easily parse the response, all in a very intuitive graphical mode.”

The module is also used by April WAF to consolidate insurance portfolios (for example, during an acquisition), by processing the input flat files which are processed via the Web Services request. April WAF also uses the module to organize information exchanges with certain partners: online insurance comparators (via Web services) and franchise networks (provision of flat files and processing/integration in the information system). The component uses drag and drop graphic assistants which facilitate the composition and reading of a SOAP message.

“Our technology partnership with April WAF perfectly illustrates how a Talend client can contribute to product development. Our R&D teams collaborated with April WAF developers to develop the module, which we then integrated in Talend Integration Suite,” states Cédric Carbone, CTO of Talend. “Talend benefitted from April WAF’s technical and business expertise, and April WAF in turn profits from the maintenance, development and optimization capabilities provided by Talend. This collaboration perfectly embodies the exchanges that an open source vendor can generate with its users.”

About April Web Access Factory

April Web Access Factory is an IT solutions company working in the insurance sector and offering solutions that enable its clients to make their services accessible on the Internet. Convinced that the Internet is now breathing new life into the insurance industry, the company develops Web windows, e-commerce sites and portals, and offers a services platform (WAF services) allowing to increase the agility of insurance information systems. For more information, visit: www.april-waf.com

Data integration, operational reporting, catalog updating... Talend solutions help Wonderbox manage its growth, data updates and data quality

SURESNES, France - May 11, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader of open source data management solutions, announced today that Wonderbox, one of the market leaders of gift boxes, uses Talend open source data integration and quality solutions to integrate operational data, update its catalog, analyze global sales and increase data consistency.

The Wonderbox catalog, distributed to all of the partner websites and updated on the company’s central website, is built on extracting information from the products repository. The information collection and update process is strategic. However, for some time now, the execution time of this process has increased exponentially and each publication was taking more than 20 hours. “It became impossible to put urgent modifications online, not only was this an obstacle for our partners, but it also generated an increase in administrative tasks for us to deal with cancellations or replacements,” adds Fatih Gezen, Technical Director at Wonderbox. “Confronted with this lack of responsiveness, we asked Altic, our Systems Integrator, to drive the complete overhaul of the process.”

Talend Open Studio cuts the catalog update time by 80

Altic, a Silver partner of the Talend Alliance Program, realized that Talend Open Studio had all of the features to respond to Wonderbox’s needs. “The Talend solution was clearly the right choice for Wonderbox because of its ease of learning and its deployment speed,” comments Charly Clairmont, Technical Director at Altic. “Because of its graphic development mode, the tool is much easier to understand than a development environment and is simple to maintain, while of course being very affordable since it is distributed as open source.”

Talend Open Studio is connected to the Wonderbox application bus via Web Services, communicating with ten applications. Its integration was quickly completed by Altic, without changing the existing architecture. “The catalog update time was cut from 20 hours to only 15 minutes. From now on, we can respond to our partners’ urgent requests and always offer end clients updated information. Updating the information system is done in parallel to teamwork and results in qualitative productivity that is incomparable to what previously existed,” adds Fatih Gezen.

Ten operational Talend jobs today

The catalog update was actually the second Talend project completed by Altic for Wonderbox. The first, completed several months earlier, consisted in establishing daily operational reporting covering worldwide sales and guaranteeing complete traceability of product use. “Each stage in the life of a gift box is traced, from assembly by a partner to consumption by the end client. A very sophisticated alert system allows us to precisely monitor proper execution of each stage and hone financial management,” explains Fatih Gezen.

Wonderbox also uses Talend Open Studio to power a data mart on their B2C CRM, containing information relative to each gift box consumer and buyer – including the date and type of purchase, profile, etc. In addition, Talend Open Studio now manages all of the Wonderbox data integration jobs. The solution notably handles retailer purchase orders, each one having different formats, to launch shipping or production after validation.

In October 2009, Wonderbox migrated to Talend Integration Suite to benefit from advanced collaboration features. The company also implemented Talend Data Quality to create a set of indicators to survey and increase data consistency. For example, a first indicator concerns the monitoring and authentication of gift box numbers. A second indicator verifies client telephone coordinates to streamline the company’s marketing programs. “Wonderbox data quality management is a continuous process,” concludes Fatih Gezen. “The first results obtained confirmed our decision to use Talend. Thanks to the open source product, we became more responsive while optimizing our IT budget. We will continue to deploy Talend solutions and apply them to other domains.”

About Wonderbox

Wonderbox is one of the leaders in the gift box market in Europe. The company was started by two young entrepreneurs, Bertile Burel and Jacques-Christophe Blouzard, stemming from a simple idea: it’s becoming increasingly difficult to give a really great gift. As a result, they introduced the concept of gift boxes in France in 2004 and have continued to progressively establish relationships with partners, conceive an identity, continuously design numerous innovative gift boxes and distribute them.

Wonderbox is persistently searching for original, first-rate service offers and leisure activities. Today, the company continues to grow abroad with a presence in Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland, Portugal and Japan.

About Altic

Altic is a consulting firm specializing in Open Source and Free Software solution integration. The company focuses its interests in several domains, including business intelligence IT, electronic document management and e-commerce. Since 2004, Altic has formed strong partnerships with Open Source vendors. These partnerships are built on contributions, the transfer of consistent skills, project feedback exchanges and finally the mutual respect of Open Source values.

www.altic.org

With the development of a data warehouse and domain-specific data marts, agnès b. benefits from a consolidated view of its global operations, enabling it to improve its inventory management and financial BI

SURESNES, France - May 4, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader of open source data management solutions, announced today that agnès b., an international fashion group created in 1973, uses Talend Open Studio to analyze its sales on a global scale to improve inventory management, accounting and financial BI in addition to forecasting the development of its operations.

The group, which has approximately 1,000 employees in 10 subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the United States, started the first business intelligence project in 2008, of which the main purpose was to test tools offered on the market to assess the advantages of sales data consolidation in a data warehouse.

Altic and Talend collaborate to develop a BI system using open source layers

“After inconclusive tests of another open source product, we decided to test Talend Open Studio, whose performance was much closer to what we were seeking,” explains Emmanuel Gallois, BI Manager at agnès b. “We enlisted our partner Altic to develop a prototype with PostgreSQL, JPivot and Mondrian, and Talend to load the data warehouse. The Talend solution is a truly versatile tool that meets numerous integration and automation needs. From now on, it is at the core of all of our data integration projects.”

This prototype was integrated to an open source J2EE portal solution (Liferay) and SpagoBI for data retrieval. Talend Open Studio aggregates sales numbers for all of the subsidiaries in the same data warehouse. The data is extracted from the agnès b. sales management system (AS/400) and consolidated in the central system at company headquarters. Due to geographic differences, some data is processed and standardized before being integrated.

Responsiveness and a consolidated view of agnès b’s global operations

“In this project, Talend demonstrated solid responsiveness: its R&D teams quickly developed a native connector for DB2 AS/400,” explains Marc Sallières, CEO and Founder of Altic. “Unlike a traditional vendor, which decides whether or not to integrate an improvement in a future software release and of which trade-offs are calculated purely in terms of financial returns, Talend immediately took agnès b’s request into consideration because it presented an interest for the community, reaffirming the company’s choice in adopting an open source solution.”

Aside from loading the BI warehouse, Talend Open Studio allows us to calculate the website inventory daily thanks to a bridge created between real and virtual inventory. Meanwhile, the data warehouse provides management with a more consolidated view of the group’s operations; several data marts were developed to analyze the financial aspect, the accounting/management aspect and the business aspect (sales analysis and inventory) of the operations. A data mart was entirely dedicated to the operations in Asia and divided according to country.

Emmanuel Gallois highlights the performance and reliability of the tool. “Our jobs run every day and, as of today, we haven’t encountered any problems in terms of performance or reliability. Since the creation of our data warehouse, users regularly express their appreciation. They no longer need to manually consolidate data in Excel files, which saves them a lot of time.”

“With our data warehouse and data marts, we get a consolidated view of the company’s operations and can more precisely forecast their development. In addition, we are able to quickly modify any job to respond quickly to the new demands of our management. Talend gave us the agility we were seeking,” concludes Emmanuel Gallois.

About agnès b.

Agnès b. is an international fashion company with approximately 1,000 employees in 10 subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the United States. The company has a total revenue of 200 million euro. Since its creation in 1973, the company has opened more than one hundred stores worldwide.

The designer offers a style that lives and adapts to trends, a wardrobe that fits every personality and, above all, is timeless. Agnès b. designs all of the lines herself, not to mention the watch, jewelry, accessory and sunglasses collections. A family-owned company and corporate citizen, agnès b. strives to maintain manufacturing in France as much as possible. Meanwhile, the company is well-established in Asia (Hong Kong, Japan), where it realizes a significant portion of its revenue.

About Altic

Altic is a consulting firm specializing in Open Source and Free Software solution integration. The company focuses its interests in several domains, including business intelligence IT, electronic document management and e-commerce. Since 2004, Altic has formed strong partnerships with Open Source vendors. These partnerships are built on contributions, the transfer of consistent skills, project feedback exchanges and finally the mutual respect of Open Source values.

www.altic.org

Open Source Data Integration Provider Enhances Data Processes for IT Services Consortium Serving New York Schools

LOS ALTOS, Calif., May 10, 2010 - Talend today announced that the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center (LHRIC), a non-profit consortium providing educational and administrative technology services to 62 New York school districts, has selected Talend´s open source data integration solution to help manage, automate and improve the quality of its networking and application data. The LHRIC uses Talend Integration Suite to comply with requirements outlined by the School Interoperability Framework (SIF) Association, which defines the rules for data movement between applications for the K-12 education market, and report student information to the state of New York.

“The LHRIC is responsible for managing data within the schools´ student information, food services, library, emergency alert, special education and transportation systems,” said Joe Fitzgerald, LHRIC systems integration manager. “In any event, such as an emergency that warrants school dismissal, there is need for timely information that must be aggregated quickly and efficiently. Talend automates data processes so we can better manage our various databases and ensure that our student information is always up to date.”

As one of 12 Regional Information Centers in the state of New York, the LHRIC provides a variety of services, including technical services and support, Internet access, regional Internet filtering, test scoring, data warehousing, financial and student information systems, staff development, planning, project management, systems integration, and research and development. When the LHRIC needed a standardized solution that would reduce the need for multiple tools and maximize efficiency by integrating with different data sources and moving data on an event basis, it chose Talend's leading open source data integration solution over technologies such as BizTalk and Denodo. Talend Integration Suite offered unmatched functionality, a user-friendly interface, substantial connectivity and real-time data exchange-both on an event-driven basis and in batch mode-to simplify the LHRIC's data processes.

“We look forward to helping the LHRIC streamline its data processes and improve data quality for New York schools,” said Vincent Pineau, Talend's vice president and general manager, Americas. “Organizations like the LHRIC manage a vast amount of data from heterogeneous systems and applications, and are held responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date systems. Talend's open source approach provides the consistent information processing capabilities needed to optimally meet these requirements.”

About LHRIC

The Lower Hudson Regional Information Center (LHRIC) is a nonprofit consortium providing educational and administrative technology services to 62 school districts in Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland counties. It is one of 12 Regional Information Centers in New York that are part of the BOCES system.

Always on the cutting edge, the LHRIC is primarily focused on assisting districts in transforming teaching and learning through the use of technology. The LHRIC distinguishes itself from other service providers by its commitment to instructional services that are mobilized to have regional impact for students and teachers. The LHRIC coordinates closely with districts to develop services that expand the boundaries of traditional classrooms, and provides high quality, professional growth opportunities for all district personnel.

Kurtosys Systems Limited, the leading provider of Client Communication Solutions today announced the release of their Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform for asset management.

MAIDENHEAD, UK - May 6, 2010 - Developed in partnership with Talend, a market innovator in open source data integration, Kurtosys EDM provides an integrated platform for managing an organisation’s information systems, with functionality for data extraction, modelling, capture, integration, synchronisation and inter-application data exchange.

The launch of Kurtosys EDM was driven by the recognition that asset managers needed a comprehensive approach to data quality and data management processes. Introducing improvements can yield significant cost savings and efficiencies for client reporting, marketing materials production and web content management, whilst protecting an organisation's operational and reputational risk.

“With support for multi-database architectures, Kurtosys EDM makes a reality the ability to integrate high volumes of data from disparate sources into a consolidated and operational data source. Kurtosys EDM is available as a standalone solution or as an integrated module for the Kurtosys Client Communications application suite.”

Paul Lumsden, Head of Product Management at Kurtosys comments, “The requirement for effective data calculation and distribution capabilities across the asset management enterprise is a result of two continuous and fundamental operational challenges: the ongoing demand for a more pro-active analytic process for assessing investment decisions and managing risk, combined with the need for common, accurate, and timely information across all of the investment business lines for reporting and analytics. Our partnership with Talend demonstrates Kurtosys' commitment to partner with global innovators to bring forward-thinking technology solutions to our market.”

François Méro, General Manager, EMEA at Talend states - “Kurtosys brings market knowledge and expertise to Talend’s core product and offering, enabling us to penetrate further a very interesting marketplace. Our partnership brings to this market the best of the data management industry, in capability and functionality, at an optimised pricing point.”

About Kurtosys

Kurtosys is a market leading provider of client communication and reporting solutions to the asset management industry. Offering a range of business solutions including client reporting; marketing materials; web content management; secure customer portals, web based analytics and presentation management tools, Kurtosys has 50 customers serviced from their global offices located in the UK, North America, South Africa, Australia and India.

For further information, please contact Simon Rose, Executive Vice President (simon.rose@Kurtosys.com). Alternatively, please call +44 (0)20 8605 9770 or email info@Kurtosys.com.

New address scrubbing service comes with free data health-check and daily Royal Mail updates.

MAIDENHEAD, UK - May 6, 2010 - Open source data solutions company Talend has signed a partnership with UK address specialists Postcode Anywhere to provide pay-as-you-go address cleansing services and free data health-checks for its suite of data manipulation software.

Talend, the leading provider of open source data management software, turns complex and time-consuming data integration and data quality tasks into simple drag-and-drop processes that take minutes.

Its data cleansing tool, Talend Data Quality, eases the task of verifying and scrubbing records including addresses, phone numbers, spellings, synonyms and abbreviations.

As part of Talend Data Quality, Postcode Anywhere’s service enables users to:

• Rate any address record’s cleanliness and reliability for free against a 1001-point confidence rank
• Replace unreliable records with corresponding valid UK postal addresses from Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF(R))
• Augment address data with coordinate NHS and local government data from Royal Mail’s Postzon® database

Talend’s UK Sales Director Martin James said: “Data quality involves more than just inputting correct details. It also means getting rid of pre-existing poor, corrupted, or duplicate data - which can spread quickly across a system.”

“The consequences of poor address data are increasingly well-known. The latest IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group) research puts the cost to e-commerce of poor UK address data at £146m a year, through the cost of redirection, lost customers and replacement goods.”

“By using Talend Data Quality with Postcode Anywhere’s address cleansing service, users can combine custom reformatting processes with state-of-the-art scrubbing to ensure their business isn’t caught out by dirty data.”

Postcode Anywhere’s Sales and Marketing Director Phil Rothwell said: “In line with Talend’s ethos of freeing data processes and putting them into the hands of people who need them, Postcode Anywhere’s pay-as-you-go pricing finally makes address cleansing accessible to all.”

“Evaluating the quality of an address is effectively free, while up to 5,000 records can be cleansed for just 50 pounds Sterling. This is especially remarkable when you consider that Postcode Anywhere’s data is the best in the business, with daily updates direct from Royal Mail piped into its system.”

The new Postcode Anywhere service for Talend is supplied in the form of Talend components, directly usable in the market leading open source data quality solution, and which are free to download on the Talend Exchange at http://www.talendforge.org/exchange/.

About Postcode Anywhere

Postcode Anywhere has been providing address services for ten years and is the fastest-growing reseller of Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF). A multi-award-winning organisation, it has also appeared in successive Deloitte fast-growth European technology company lists. Postcode Anywhere supplies software and services which improve the day-to-day operations of over 8,000 organisations worldwide. Best known as a provider of address auto-fill and verification software, the company offers a range of data-driven services, including route planning and customer profiling. For more information about Postcode Anywhere, please visit www.postcodeanywhere.com.

Talend Integration Suite and Talend Data Quality Help Mexican Insurance Provider Manage Mission Critical Data

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - May 3, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data management software, today announced that ABA Seguros, a GMAC insurance company specializing in Property and Casualty (P&C) throughout Mexico, has selected Talend Integration Suite and Talend Data Quality to streamline its data management processes. Talend's integrated solutions enable ABA Seguros to efficiently process, cleanse and standardize customer and catalog data for improved business operations.

“We sought a data integration solution with strong Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) and data cleansing capabilities to manage the vast amount of information within ABA Seguros' customer and car insurance databases,” said Pedro Arturo del Castillo, solutions architect manager, ABA Seguros. “Talend's unified platform is a good fit for us; it is a scalable, reliable tool for both data integration and data quality, and offers the flexibility needed to meet all of our technical requirements.”

ABA Seguros, which has a network of agents throughout 26 locations in 16 Mexican states, needed a solution with superior data integration and data quality capabilities to help integrate its insurance information according to customer name. Doing so would enable agents, dealers and employees to easily identify all policies under a single customer, as well as sort by their own policies. The company was initially attracted to Talend's affordable licensing costs and open source approach, and found Talend's enterprise solutions' extensive functionality, along with their scalability, flexibility and reliability, unmatched in comparison to competing offerings. ABA Seguros currently utilizes Talend's extensive components palette, metadata management and data quality capabilities for ETL, data cleansing, standardization and de-duplication tasks.

The company also plans to implement Talend MDM, a comprehensive Master Data Management solution, in the near future in order to aggregate information from various systems and have one single version of the truth data.

“We are excited to work with ABA Seguros; they have a large amount of customer data to manage, and Talend offers a fast, scalable and robust solution that can ensure the highest level of data quality required by a leading insurance provider,” said Vincent Pineau, Talend vice president and general manager, Americas. “The flexibility of Talend's software is exemplified by its implementation at ABA Seguros, and this instance further corroborates its suitability for organizations of all sizes across various verticals.”

About ABA Seguros

ABA Seguros is part of GMAC Insurance and specializes in damages to cars, homes and companies. The company is established in Nuevo León, and has offices in Distrito Federal, Jalisco and 13 other Mexican states.

Balderton Capital, AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners Extend Commitment; Strategic Investment to be Used to Deliver High Performance and Cost Optimized Solutions to Talend's Global Customers

LOS ALTOS, Calif., April 19, 2010 - Talend, the market leader in open source data solutions, today announced it has secured $8 million in Series D financing to help further develop and extend the company's breakthrough data integration, data quality and master data management (MDM) solutions. Existing investors Balderton Capital, AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners, all reaffirmed their commitment to Talend, with each company contributing to the round. With the $8 million investment, Talend has now raised $28 million.

“The recommitment of our existing investors is a giant vote of confidence for the aggressive steps we have taken in the last 12 months to expand our solutions to meet our customers' most complex data integration challenges,” said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend. “This investment will help us further accelerate the dynamics of the market by expanding our business operations and launching breakthrough products that are turning a proprietary, complex and cost-prohibitive technology market into one that is driven by solutions like Talend MDM that most organizations can afford to deploy.”

In 2009, Talend enjoyed a record year, delivering cost-optimized, high-performance data management solutions to a broadening customer base. Talend's flagship open source data solutions have been downloaded more than seven million times. Talend's paying customer base grew 140%, to well over 1,000 customers, increasing the company's market share, and solidifying the applicability of its solutions for enterprise projects of all sizes throughout the world. In addition, in November 2009, Talend was recognized by Gartner as a Visionary in their Magic Quadrant for Data Integration tools, becoming the only open source player to be included in this category.

“Talend's execution over the past year validated our decision to invest in the company, and we are reiterating, without any hesitation, our confidence in Bertrand and his team,” said Bernard Liautaud, general partner with Balderton Capital. “Open source has proven that it is ready for massive adoption in the enterprise, and a growing number of organizations of all sizes are embracing Talend's solutions as a proven, reliable and cost-efficient option for solving short and long term data management challenges.”

“The strong growth and numerous milestones that Talend has achieved over the past four years are a clear sign that organizations now expect the data integration market to deliver high performance, cost-optimized solutions that deliver rapid time-to-value. As an early investor in Talend, AGF Private Equity is proud that they have become a global force in the data integration market, in such a short timeframe," said Matthieu Baret, partner with AGF Private Equity.”

About Balderton Capital

Balderton Capital is one of the largest venture capital firms in Europe, committed to finding and helping talented entrepreneurs build great companies. Based in London, it manages $1.9 billion in committed venture capital. Since 2000, Balderton has invested in over 80 companies, principally in numerous European countries but also in the US and Asia. Balderton's investments span a wide variety of sectors including communications, consumer services, enterprise software and services, e-commerce, mobile, semiconductors, media and financial services. Balderton invests in innovative businesses and approaches investment using the principles of teamwork and an intense dedication to building companies of lasting value. The investment partners combine international and Silicon Valley operational experience with company-building expertise. Notable investments include Bebo (sold to AOL for $850m), Betfair (the online betting exchange), ScanSafe (sold to Cisco for $183m), LOVEFiLM (the home entertainment subscription service) and MySQL (sold to Sun for $1 billion).

About AGF Private Equity

AGF Private Equity, a subsidiary of the AGF insurance company, member of the Allianz Group, is specialized in non-listed investments. The company manages an investment portfolio of more than EUR 1 billion for institutional and private investors through two activities: funds of funds and venture capital investments. AGF Private Equity is among the leaders in France in managing funds of funds and is also one of the most active French investors in venture capital. AGF Private Equity has developed a unique expertise of sourcing and managing Private Equity investments and has committed EUR 900 million in about 60 funds primarily in Europe. AGF Private Equity offers institutional investors global solutions for their exposure to Private Equity through dedicated and diversified vehicles.

About Galileo Partners

Galileo Partners is an independent venture capital company; with a current fund of approximately EUR 350 million. Galileo Partners focuses on investments geared toward emerging technologies. Galileo Partners has gone through a dozen IPOs and many industrial buyouts. Its long-term performance allows the company to be continuously supported by major International investors.

Talend 4.0 Unites Data Integration, Data Quality and Master Data Management to Turbocharge Productivity of All Data Management Projects

LOS ALTOS, Calif., April 13, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data management software, today announced the release of Talend 4.0, a significant milestone for the company and the data integration market. With this major upgrade to the company's flagship data management solutions, Talend is delivering the industry's first integrated data management platform uniting data integration, data quality and master data management (MDM) within a single solution. Talend's thousands of customers can now further streamline and reduce the complexity of their critical data management projects, resulting in higher productivity, lower operational costs and greater insights into their vital informational assets.

Over the last four years, Talend has been the innovator in the data management market, delivering high-performance, cost-optimized, open source solutions that offer comparable and in many cases greater functionality than significantly more expensive and complex proprietary technologies. With the launch earlier this year of Talend MDM, Talend now offers solutions that address any data management challenge for organizations of all sizes. To complete the circle, Talend has integrated its core technologies - data integration, data quality and MDM - into one unified platform.

“Talend 4.0 reflects our laser focus on delivering the exact data management capabilities required by our customers, regardless of their vertical industry, or if they are a growing start-up or established industry giant,” said Fabrice Bonan, co-founder and chief operating officer, Talend. “By unifying our core solutions in a single platform, we are empowering our customers to consolidate disparate projects and reinvent how they conduct data management in a way that is simply not possible with any other solution on the market.”

Talend 4.0 delivers unprecedented improvements in resource optimization and utilization, and project consistency. Key features include:

• Single development studio based on Eclipse, that provides users with consistent ergonomics, fast learning curve and a high-level of reusability.
• A common metadata repository, that promotes sharing of vital information assets including user data, application metadata, business models, business rules, transformation and validation rules, connectors, data validation and workflows. Cross project data lineage and impact analysis is also available throughout the repository.
• Unified deployment environment, that includes a distributed and high availability execution paradigm, single monitoring console and real-time execution reporting.

“In the information management discipline, there is clearly a growing demand for integrated solutions to address a wide range of issues that companies in competitive industries grapple with every day,” said Ted Friedman, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner. “Organizations that take a strategic view of information infrastructure and effectively standardize on key technology components for understanding, governing, and delivering information assets will gain substantial business benefit.”

Availability

Talend v4.0 products are available immediately. Talend Open Studio, Talend Open Profiler and Talend MDM Community Edition are provided under the GPL license and can be downloaded at no charge at www.talend.com/download.php. Talend Integration Suite, Talend Data Quality and Talend MDM Enterprise Edition, which include value-added features and services are provided under a subscription license.

All data integration flows - including operational reporting and budgetary preparation and control - are now based on the Talend business solution

SURESNES, March 30, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration solutions, announced today that Radio Télévision Belge de la communauté Francophone (RTBF), Belgium’s leading TV channel, uses Talend Integration Suite to load an operational reporting data warehouse (financial management, progressively extending to production management, human resources, distribution and rights management). The data collected enables RTBF to better understand and analyze its activities to attract a loyal audience.

“Reporting used to be embedded in the applications. Each modification required the involvement of the IT department, which over time became increasingly cumbersome to manage. In addition, this aging technology was increasingly being replaced: for example we recently migrated our database to Oracle,” says Jean-Pierre Hoedenaeken, BI Manager at RTBF. “These interventions could take time and we were looking for a tool that could cover numerous data sources, giving us independence.”

The company studied the different alternatives offered on the market, then developed prototypes with several solutions, including Talend Open Studio. They finally chose Talend for several reasons. “First of all, the open source nature of the Talend solutions and the presence of an extremely active user community guarantee the rapid development of the solutions and consideration of the users’ requests. In addition, these solutions are characterized by their openness and extensive connectivity, which facilitate their integration into our information systems,” explains Jean-Pierre Hoedenaeken. “Also, the graphic interface is particularly easy and quick to learn, which facilitates job or data flow development, and their deployment. Finally, the Java orientation was perfect for our developers.”

Live testing of the new solution was done during a first major project: the presentation of the 2009 regional and European election results on RTBF. The project consisted in collecting data from the Ministry of the Interior and its subcontractors, then transforming the data into a format usable by television broadcast systems.

The test was conclusive; Talend Integration Suite was deployed to load the data warehouse. Thirty data sources are connected to the tool today, including the finance software (general accounting, suppliers and treasury management) and the specific applications mentioned above. Three developers today use the tool to develop data flows, with fifty users using the data warehouse daily to complete analyses. Their number will increase in the future, since the warehouse will soon include production management data.

“Another new project was completed this year,” adds Steven Ginneberge, Database Administrator at RTBF. “It consisted in building loading flows for our budgetary planning and control software, Hyperion Planning. The development of flows once again proved to be fast and easy. Maintenance and corrections are fast too, and the reloading of data after making corrections is almost instant. This was not the case with the other products that we tested.”

The ease of learning and development speed are among the main benefits noted by RTBF. “We get results very quickly, which increases our agility. Rather than adopt a cascade development method (where certain discrepancies may appear between the user’s specifications and the developer’s final product), we use a spiral development method, resulting from agile development techniques. This facilitates communication between business users and the developers and ultimately contributes to a better quality IT production. Talend Integration Suite seamlessly integrates to this approach, which is even easier thanks to its flexible programming,” says Jean-Pierre Hoedenaeken.

Finally, RTBF appreciates the contribution of the Talend global user community. “Information is easily accessible through the forums. As this community grows, more and more topics are covered, which of course allows users to save time,” concludes Jean-Pierre Hoedenaeken. “Compared to the other tools on the market, Talend is really set apart by the openness of its tools, its richness in terms of connectivity and the strength of its community. This allows us to plan the future of our projects with confidence.”

About RTBF

Radio Télévision Belge de la communauté Francophone (RTBF) is the national broadcasting organization operating in the French-speaking territory of Belgium. Controlling three television and five radio stations, RTBF also offers on-demand and interactive next generation services via the Internet. The company has 2,000 employees and earned revenue of 250 million euros in 2008. The audiovisual landscape in Belgium is very competitive: the entire population has cable and gets thirty channels, including the main French and German channels.

One of the French specialists in business intelligence joins the leader in open source data integration to provide large and mid-market companies with a new vision of open source BI projects

SURESNES, March 23, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration, announced today a partnership with Eulidia, an information management consulting firm based in Paris. Eulidia is also joining the Talend Alliance Program as a Platinum partner and will receive technical, sales and marketing assistance from Talend.

Eulidia, created in 2008 by Boris Guérin and Fabien Jongenelen, two entrepreneurs involved in the decision and e-business markets, relies today on a score of employees to achieve a revenue of 2.3 million €, half of which comes from the financial industry sector, particularly insurance. The company is also involved in the distribution and public sectors, offering a wide range of services related to BI tool selection and implementation in addition to the management of the related change.

“Since its inception, Talend has displayed a growth strategy that is consistent with our company’s policy. In addition, our Java and open source culture naturally lead us to forge strategic partnerships with companies that combine a powerful, yet easy to deploy technological product with a pure player position offering good visibility of its product development,” confirm Boris Guérin and Fabien Jongenelen, CEOs and co-founders of Eulidia. “Moreover, Talend has a strong desire to maintain close relations with its partners, enabling us to offer our clients comprehensive support for data exchange and integration problems. We are happy today to make this partnership official. Our joint commercial actions have already yielded results and we are currently in the deployment phase with several customers.”

“Eulidia perfectly demonstrates how a human-sized company can offer long-term support to its clients while providing optimum value added services,” adds François Méro, General Manager EMEA at Talend. “Talend needs experts like Eulidia to become established in companies. This is why we are proud to conclude this partnership which, I am sure, will benefit both of our companies and our shared customers.”

About Eulidia

EULIDIA, an information management consulting firm, is a “Business Performance Partner” specializing in the implementation of decision support solutions. The company aims to support business and technical management in the design and implementation of data processing and performance BI applications. The company name was inspired by the "Eulidia Yarrellii", a Chilean bird. Like this protected species, the team uses its agility and energy to sustainably nurture the development of the company. The long-term vision fits perfectly with the recommendations and implementations to which EULIDIA stakeholders are committed to guarantee the sustainability of client company systems.

For more information: www.eulidia.com

The integration of Talend Open Studio with Petals ESB meets the real-time application integration needs of companies. The two vendors are working together on an asset management project for the Ministry of Defense and will present a joint session at the Solutions Linux conference

SURESNES, France - March 9, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration solutions, announced today a technology partnership with Petals Link, the leading European open source SOA software vendor. The two companies, which will present a joint session in the OW2 track of the Solutions Linux 2010 conference on March 18, are working together on a first joint deployment for the “Technical Asset Management” project of the French Ministry of Defense.

Petals Link, created by integration and Web services specialists, aims to help companies build a smooth, flexible, agile and interoperable information system. For this, the company develops and supports all Petals software, which provide the tools necessary for an open and standardized service-oriented approach (SOA). Petals Link also offers expertise, consulting, training and coaching for information system architecture and integration issues: urbanization, SOA, process models, middleware infrastructure, administration, tools and standards.

“We are proud to sign this partnership with one of the major players in the open source world. We share with Talend the same open source ecosystem, as illustrated by our joint participation in OW2, in addition to the same desire to break away from the traditional models in our respective markets,” said Bertrand Escudié, CEO of Petals Link. “Our joint customers have both data integration and application needs. With Talend solutions, we offer the possibility to easily integrate databases in interapplication processes. We also offer a much faster method to perform transformations.”

The two companies will speak together during the OW2 track of the Solutions Linux conference in Paris on March 18. This presentation will showcase integration between the Talend and Petals ESB solutions. On the one hand, this alliance offers the best open source transformation and development solution in a SOA employed by Petals ESB. On the other hand, Petals ESB gives Talend the capability to deploy and supervise data integration jobs in an open source SOA services infrastructure. Solutions Linux, held on March 16-18, 2010 at Porte de Versailles in Paris, is the European gathering of the free software community and is celebrating its 11^th edition this year.

Meanwhile, Talend and Petals Link are now working on implementing their first joint project with the Defense Infrastructure Services (SID) of the French Ministry of Defense, which includes the infrastructure services of the three military branches (Army, Air Force and Navy). Together, the two companies are implementing a project and asset management application distributed among 80 sites that manages Ministry building plans and projects. The application integrates several databases and Web Services across different databases. Petals Link provides the SOA solution and Talend provides the integration and data transformation solution.

“With Petals Link, we are provning that our solutions can be integrated seamlessly in a SOA environment to meet the increased real-time application integration needs of our customers,” concludes François Méro, General Manager EMEA at Talend. “Innovation is one of the fundamental drivers of our two companies, as the project currently in development for the Ministry of Defense demonstrates. This technology partnership allows us to offer our users an application integration layer and strengthen our position in the service-oriented architecture market.”

About Petals Link

Petals Link, the leading European open source SOA software vendor, provides a range of innovative SOA integration solutions, Petals SOA Suite. Thanks to its innovative and partnership policies, it offers a scalable and complete open source ESB, Petals ESB, to ensure the integration of SOA advantages in your infrastructure.

Petals ESB has a global user base and numerous references in sectors such as telecommunications (Orange), Defense (DGA, Air Force) and central administrations (URSSAF, DGME).

Created in 2004, Petals Link collaborates with numerous business and academic players, and participates in various large-scope European projects. Petals Link is an active member of several groups devoted to future information system models (SOA, BPM, EDA), such as the OW2 Consortium and OSA, for example.

For more information: www.petalslink.com

Europe's largest specialist multi media publishers selects open source data integration solution

MAIDENHEAD, UK - March 10, 2010 - Talend Integration Suite, the leading open source enterprise data integration solution has been selected by Trader Media Group, Europe’s largest specialist multi media publishers, in an effort to better manage the influx of rich data needed for its line of leading automotive classified websites.

Trader Media Group produces over 70 leading classified titles and operates high-volume printing businesses. This means dealing with huge volumes of data from buyers and sellers in a variety of formats, as well as having to make automotive data in print available online.

Tim Jones, CIO - Publishing Division at Trader Media Group commented: “We receive a host of automotive data, including images, from large dealer groups, suppliers, buyers as well as bodies such as the Driving Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). We needed an open source data integration system that had the capability to integrate and migrate this data quickly, to help put buyers in touch with sellers as well as meet regulatory requirements.”

“Not only is Talend Integration Suite open source and compatible with our existing Oracle based ETL tools, it is also built in Java. This is particularly attractive as in having a team of Java developers in-house we will be able to extend our capabilities independently, which will significantly slash costs that were previously spent on updating proprietary software. The ease of developing Talend Integration Suite also means that our development resources will now have more time to focus of revenue generated tasks and customer service initiatives,” Tim added.

As the first open source enterprise data integration solution, Talend Integration Suite is designed to support multi-user development, and to scale to the highest levels of data volumes and process complexity.

The Suite extends award winning Talend Open Studio with professional grade technical support and additional features to facilitate the work of large teams and industrialise enterprise-scale deployments. Its three main applications, Business Modeler, Job Designer, and Metadata Manager, constitute the primary work environment of business users and integration process developers.

François Méro, General Manager-EMEA, Talend commented: “Managing data and achieving data quality should be at the forefront of every competitive company, especially if like Trader Media Group, having accurate rich data is paramount to the success of the business. As Europe’s largest specialist multi media publishers, the company is constantly broadening its range of service channels, and having a tool like Talend Integration Suite to ensure that all data is integrated and migrated from print to online efficiently is crucial. Talend Integration Suite will also add great business value by enabling Trader Media Group and its customers to track search trials and produce sophisticated reports for reporting and analytics.”

About Auto Trader

Visit the new website at www.autotrader.co.uk

AutoTrader.co.uk is the UK’s no 1 motoring website, with over 10.3 million monthly unique users, who carry out over 106 million searches on new and used vehicles*. The brand is building a competitive position across all effective channels including online, mobile and magazine. (*Source: Auto Trader Audit, January 2009).

AutoTrader.co.uk is owned by Trader Media Group, one of Europe’s largest specialist multi-media groups and provider of market leading websites and their associated magazines, including Top Marques, Bike Trader, Truck & Plant Trader, Ad Trader, Motorhome and Caravan Trader, Farmers Trader – all with the largest reach in their sectors, through web visitors and magazine readership.

Trader Media Group operates in the UK, Ireland, Italy and South Africa. The Group is looking to expand on its winning formula: giving trade customers the opportunity to choose all effective channels to market; building the service and relationship with dealers and manufacturers; and strengthening its portfolio of automotive and specialist classified titles.

Trader Media Group is jointly owned by Guardian Media Group and Apax Partners.

Talend integrates Bonita Open Solution in Talend MDM Enterprise Edition to help businesses manage and automate their data quality, MDM and data stewardship processes

SURESNES, France - February 25, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration solutions, announced today a strategic OEM partnership with BonitaSoft, the leading vendor of open source business process management solutions (BPMS). As part of this agreement, Talend will integrate Bonita Open Solution, the BonitaSoft BPM solution, as OEM in its Talend MDM Enterprise Edition product.

BonitaSoft, the leading vendor of open source business process management solutions (BPMS), was created in 2009 by the founders of the Bonita open source project. The company’s goal is to democratize BPM, that is to make an open source solution available to businesses of all sizes that is easy, powerful and capable of integrating very easily in the information system, regardless of the project’s level of complexity or criticality. The software has already been downloaded more than 225,000 times worldwide and has become, with the official launch of Bonita Open Solution 5.0 in January 2010, the leading open source solution comparable to the proprietary products on the market such as Lombardi, IBM, Oracle, Tibco or Pega.

By including Bonita Open Solution in Talend MDM Enterprise Edition, Talend is today able to offer its clients complex workflow management functions, allowing, for example, to manage a data validation process and enhance or modify existing reference data.

“MDM projects increasingly require efficient workflow and data validation process management. The fact that a player like Talend, which has succeeded in establishing itself as a leader in data integration in less than two years, chose our product for its new MDM solution is further recognition of the validity of our strategy,” states Miguel Valdes Faura, co-founder and CEO of BonitaSoft. “This partnership reinforces the ties that have connected our two companies in the past. Since our inception, Talend has supported our operations and today we are happy to provide Talend with an important technology layer for its product. We share the same taste for innovation and therefore we are going to work together in the future to further develop our respective solutions.”

“Previously only accessible to large businesses, BPM is available through BonitaSoft, which shares various similarities with Talend: open source model, same technology foundation (Java, Eclipse), rupture strategy and desire to simplify our clients’ work,” comments Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend. “The data quality, MDM and data stewardship processes require this process automation function and we have chosen to integrate the best open source BPM solution to our MDM business solution. Bonita Open Solution allows us to complete our technology product to meet our clients’ needs.”

Note: Talend and BonitaSoft will present their solutions at the Solutions Linux 2010 exhibition from March 16-18 at the C25 stand.

About BonitaSoft

BonitaSoft is the leading vendor of open source business process management solutions (BPMS). Created in 2009 by the founders of the Bonita project, the software has already been downloaded 225,000 times worldwide by businesses and organizations of all sizes, for simple and complex projects. BonitaSoft democratizes BPM by offering a quick and easy-to-implement solution for a minimal total deployment cost.

More information at: www.bonitasoft.com.

VDoc Software will integrate Talend Integration Suite in its collaborative application generator to respond to the growing integration needs of its clients and partners

SURESNES, France - February 11, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader of open source data integration solutions, and VDoc Software, vendor of the first business-oriented collaborative application generator, announced today a partnership aiming to seamlessly provide integration layer for VDoc Suite, using Talend Integration Suite.

VDoc Suite, which responds to intranet/extranet, document management, knowledge sharing and process automation needs, is used by more than 800 companies worldwide, from small and medium businesses with 50 employees to very large corportations. These companies increasingly need to connect the VDoc-developed business applications to the rest of their information system (management applications, CAM for CRM, etc.). This is why VDoc Software chose Talend’s integration solutions after having tested several products on the market.

“We share with Talend the same technology foundation (Eclipse, Java, etc.) as well as the same desire for openness. Moreover, their solutions are easy and fast to learn and integrate. We finished a first project with Talend Open Studio and the technical teams of two companies are now collaborating to integrate Talend Integration Suite,” confirms Pierre-Emmanuel Ruiz, Director of Operations at VDoc Software. “In both cases, we benefit from performances that meet our expectations, particularly in handling significant volumes of data and users. This technological partnership perfectly illustrates VDoc Software’s openness strategy, which relies on specialists like Talend to offer better services to its clients and partners.”

A first project involving significant data volumes has already been completed. Axemble, a partner of VDoc Software, runs the 18,000 user Mycadservice community using the VDoc platform.

VDoc and Talend are active members of the AFDEL (French Association of Software Vendors).
“The goal of the AFDEL is to develop the expertise and know-how of French software vendors. This partnership illustrates their ability to combine their technologies to respond to enterprise information technology problems,” comments Loïc Rivière, AFDEL’s Executive Director . “AFDEL is proud to have sparked various partnerships between its members following the example of these two major players in data integration and process automation getting together.”

“We are happy to conclude this partnership with a major software player and to also demonstrate our policy of openness to every segment of the software industry. VDoc Software and Talend combine their expertise and the openness of their solutions to respond to enterprise integration problems, regardless of their size,” adds François Méro, General Manager EMEA of Talend. “Either as standalone software or embedded in a broader system, our solutions offer the best and most economical integration capabilities on the market. We are happy to prove it once again with VDoc Software, which will soon offer its partners the option of automating integration tasks, therefore facilitating their clients’ day-to-day tasks.”

About AFDEL

Created in October 2005, the Association Française des Editeurs de Logiciels [French Association of Software Editors], AFDEL, has a mission to gather editors in a community and to be the mouthpiece for the software industry in France. Today, AFDEL has 150 members (Global sales: 2.5 billion €) throughout France: large international groups, including leading French companies, small and medium businesses and start ups (see the member list). The association is the French partner of the ESA (European Software Association).

Press contact: Fabrice Larrue, AFDEL - email: f.larrue@afdel.fr

About VDoc Software

VDoc Software edits the first, ready-to-use business-oriented collaborative application generator, which allows businesses to implement a collaborative organization. VDoc Suite also responds to the needs of document management, know-how sharing, process automation and collaborative work. To respond to the business needs of companies, VDoc Software created VDoc Apps, the catalog of business solutions offered by its partners for VDoc technologies. Quality management, purchase management, industrial management, IT management…municipal buildings, laboratories, small and medium businesses, hospitals, SAP, Sage or Lefebvre Software users will each find the solution most adapted to their needs in VDoc Apps. These solutions are also characterized by modularity, scalability and ease-of-use.

Used daily by more than 800 companies, VDoc Suite is sold through a network of more than 50 retail or editor partners, in license or run-time mode. For more information, visit www.vdocsoftware.com.

Company and its Open Source Data Management Solutions Cited for Democratizing Data Integration

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - February 24, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced it has been selected by InformationWeek Business Technology Network’s Intelligent Enterprise as one of the “Companies to Watch” in Information Management for the 11th Annual Editors’ Choice Awards. For the Companies to Watch category, the Editors’ Choice Awards honor vendors delivering outstanding products and services in business intelligence, enterprise applications and information management.

Talend is being recognized by Intelligent Enterprise for having “already democratized data integration with its open-source ETL engine,” and “making data integration and data-quality management more affordable” for its customers. Talend is committed to delivering data integration products that deliver to customers far greater value at much lower costs than proprietary, monolithic technologies. This is illustrated by the company’s recent entry into the Master Data Management (MDM) market, a breakthrough technology category well beyond the means of most organizations due to exorbitant software fees. Talend’s open source MDM solution, Talend MDM, is the industry’s first comprehensive solution for data integration, data quality, master data and data stewardship built on a single platform and available at a fraction of the cost of traditionally complex solutions.

“Talend’s team has worked diligently to provide data management solutions that are scalable, easy to use, and flexible enough for organizations of any size to solve their most complex business problems in a cost-effective and timely manner,” said Yves de Montcheuil, vice president of marketing, Talend. “We are honored to be recognized by the contributors and editors of Intelligent Enterprise and view this award as further validation that open source data management is mainstream and enterprise-ready.”

The Intelligent Enterprise Editors’ Choice Awards recognize technology providers that are helping practitioners lead the way in innovation and business optimization. Awards were selected based on research and assessment of the past year’s coverage and reader feedback by the publication’s editorial staff. Seven Intelligent Enterprise contributors provided extensive input, and Editor-in-Chief Doug Henschen made the final selection of award winners.

Company Cements Its Position As A Global Leader In Data Integration

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - February 16, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced that 2009 was a record year for the company. For the tenth consecutive quarter, Talend achieved record performance, reflecting the company’s ability to deliver cost-optimized, high-performance data management solutions to global companies of all sizes. To support the company’s success and broadening customer base, Talend continues to add new personnel across offices worldwide in the United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom and China. The company is also opening a new office in White Plains, New York to better serve its customers located in the Eastern part of the United States.

“2009 was a successful year for Talend as the company delivered tremendous growth, quarter after quarter. We continue to execute as the data integration technology leader, expanding the capabilities of our existing products, and launching new breakthrough solutions such as the first open source MDM solution on the market,” said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend. “Our customers must simultaneously control costs and maximize the value of their data and Talend’s open source data management solutions are the only ones that empower them to meet this difficult challenge. 2010 is set to be a pivotal year for Talend and will see accelerated deployment, continuous growth at the same rate as 2009 and innovation that will better and more completely serve the data management needs of our customers and users.”

Customer, Revenue and Internal Growth

Talend enters 2010 with a record increase in customer growth, revenue and an expanded employee base. Talend ended 2009 on a high point, announcing in December that Gartner Inc. had positioned the company in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools.” The report evaluated vendors based on a set of criteria that included “completeness of vision” and “ability to execute.”

Additional 2009 highlights include:

• Achieved record revenue, more then doubling from 2008. The fourth quarter of 2009 was Talend’s tenth consecutive quarter of growth.
• Grew customer base by 140% to over 1,000 customers, up from 420 at the end of 2008. Of these new customers, over 50% are Fortune 1000 companies.
• Total downloads reached seven million, with over 300,000 users of the open source products.
• Talend doubled its staff, increasing to 200 global employees. Continuing this trend, Talend has already hired 15 people in 2010 to support its rapid growth.

Talend Products

Master Data Management (MDM) has always been an expensive solution, with a lengthy ROI. On January 25 Talend released the first open-sourced MDM product. By open sourcing MDM technology, Talend is democratizing the MDM market and providing customers with the ability to master any data at a fraction of the cost of previous offerings, thus accelerating the return on their customer’s investment. This launch coincided with several large M&A announcements in the MDM field, with Siperian being acquired by Informatica and Initiate becoming part of IBM, which further underlines the strategic importance of MDM and Talend’s ability to quickly expand its capabilities.

Other products released in 2009 include:

• New versions of Talend Integration Suite and Talend Data Quality

• The latest versions of the leading enterprise open source data integration and data quality platforms include powerful capabilities for the design and deployment of enterprise-grade data management architectures.

• Talend Life Cycle Platform (LCp)

• LCp extends the enterprise capabilities of Talend’s solutions by offering features for enterprise users, including a single centralized testing platform, audit capabilities and management of complex project environments.

The institute manages dozens of data flows using Talend's open source enterprise data integration solution

SURESNES, France - February 9, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration solutions, announced today that the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer) deployed Talend Integration Suite to integrate and analyze numerous heterogeneous data (operational oceanography, ocean campaigns, halieutics, etc.), particularly including fishing activity-related data originating from various sources (administrative organizations, Ministries, European Commission, etc.).

Up until 2009, Ifremer used sub-contractors to integrate these data via Java, C and C++ developments, among others. “We realized that we could save time and money by implementing an internal data integration solution,” explains Erwan Bodéré, Information Systems Architect. “Even if we continue to subcontract the most complex projects, certain simple tasks are now completed internally, allowing us to increase flexibility and responsiveness.”

Components developed by and for Ifremer

Since Ifremer projects frequently use geographic and scientific information, two specific components were developed by the Institute. The NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) component allows the integration of data assuming this format, which is very widespread in the scientific community and autonomous of all hardware equipment. Medatlas is a component allowing the integration of hydrographic data in an autodescriptive ASCII format.

“Talend Integration Suite facilitates environment customization and offers numerous data flow creation possibilities. It is quick and easy-to-learn for engineers that are used to Java; only a few hours are necessary,” comments Erwan Bodéré. “Its second major advantage is its capacity to handle very large volumes of data; our flows can put several gigabytes of data into play.”

Among the other benefits realized today by Ifremer, specific gains include: productivity increases obtained due to internalization (increased responsiveness, acceleration of development processes and collecting feedback), ease of customization, programming and execution speed, high performances of the solution and cost control (internalization of some non-complex tasks reduces the recourse to externalization, therefore reducing costs).

“Talend Integration Suite offers us the flexibility and performance necessary for the success of our projects. Thanks to the automation and industrialization offered by the solution, we no longer worry about administrative aspects related to externalization and we seamlessly manage developments,” concludes Erwan Bodéré. “We are perfectly equipped to bring our goals to fruition: drive and promote fundamental and applied research of expert activities.”

About Ifremer

Ifremer, the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, is a public institute of industrial and commercial nature created in 1984. Placed under the joint supervision of the ministries for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Ocean; Higher Education and Research and Food; Agriculture and Fisheries, the institute contributes, through studies and expert assessments, to knowledge about the ocean and its resources, the monitoring of marine and coastal zones and the sustainable development of maritime activities.

For these goals, it designs and operates observational, experimental and monitoring tools, and manages the French oceanographic fleet (8 ships, of which there are 4 deep sea vessels, 1 manned submersible, 1 teleoperated vessel for great depths and 2 AUVs - Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) for the entire scientific community. The institute has an annual budget of nearly 235 million Euros and 1,500 employees working in 5 centers (Brittany, English Channel/North Sea, Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Pacific).

Talend and Business & Decision have joined together in a strategic Master Data Management (MDM) partnership, to implement data management solutions which support the complete data life cycle.

SURESNES, France - February 4, 2010 - Talend, recognized leader in open source data integration solutions and Business & Decision, the international Consulting and Systems Integration (CSI) Company, have today announced a strategic partnership. Business & Decision also joins the “Talend Alliance Program” as a Platinum partner and will consequently benefit from Talend’s technical, commercial and marketing assistance.

The partnership covers the whole range of Talend open source integration and data quality tools, notably Talend Integration Suite and Talend Data Quality. Business & Decision will integrate these tools into its clients’ solutions. The two companies have also chosen to extend this partnership to encompass Master Data Management (MDM), using the recently launched Talend MDM solution.

“Within the last fifteen years, IT has primarily focused on process execution. Little effort was directed to collecting, federating, governing and publishing information on a global basis. More recently, information has become a strategic asset, not only to fuel business processes and support business decisions but also to adopt new competitive advantages such as customer intimacy or business pain points such as compliance. Many companies are currently starting to establish dedicated practices to manage their master data across organizations, and even across their whole value chain. The MDM market delivers its promises, and is now ready for mainstream adoption,” comments Jean-Michel Franco, Solutions Director at Business & Decision. “The supply side of the market has to adapt to this trend, by delivering more affordable and end-to-end solutions to the mass market. Talend has expanded the MDM market. It provides an option for companies with restricted resources, eager to move forward on their MDM roadmap, even if they don’t fall into the high-end segment that most current MDM solutions target today.”

The Talend-Business & Decision partnership will initially cover France and Belgium, but the plan is to gradually extend this to an international agreement. Business & Decision will have access to privileged Talend R&D resources, to tailor these solutions to meet its clients’ needs.

“Business & Decision not only is one of the main players in the decision-making market in France, but is also at the cutting edge of the CRM, e-Business and EIM (Enterprise Information Management) markets. Thanks to this partnership, together we will continue to convert the market to make Master Data Management accessible to companies of all sizes,” comments François Méro, EMEA Director at Talend. “MDM concerns all company stakeholders, from managers to individual industry experts. Our goal is to give these companies the expertise to manage their own data quality and master data, giving our clients and users a solid competitive advantage.”

Business & Decision is now developing special “practices” with teams at Talend. The two companies have already started to work together and have several projects in the pipeline.

About Business & Decision

Business & Decision is an international Consulting and Systems Integration (CSI) company. It is a leader in Business Intelligence (BI) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and a major player in e-Business, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Enterprise Solutions as well as Management Consulting. Business & Decision contributes to the success of customer projects by driving maximum business performance. The company has a reputation for functional and technological expertise and has forged partnerships with all of the key technology vendors. Located in 19 countries, Business & Decision currently employs 2700 people worldwide. Additional information is available at www.businessdecision.com

Software Industry Veteran Thomas Tuchscherer to Lead Corporate Development to Accelerate Company Growth

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - February 2, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced the appointment of Thomas Tuchscherer as vice president of corporate development. Tuchscherer, an enterprise software industry veteran, will be responsible for driving strategic corporate deals to expand the Company’s indirect channel, geographic presence and product portfolio. He will also focus on creating and managing strategic partnerships, and identifying new opportunities to further accelerate Talend’s rapid growth.

“Thomas is a significant addition to Talend’s executive team,” said Bertrand Diard, CEO and co-founder of Talend. “His expertise in the enterprise software market will be integral in furthering Talend’s global corporate initiatives and extending our leadership as the innovator and visionary in the data management market.”

Tuchscherer joins Talend after successful tenures at SAP and Business Objects, which was acquired by SAP in October 2007. Previously, he led corporate development at Cartesis, which was acquired by Business Objects in April 2007. With 14 years of software M&A, investment and business experience in the U.S., Europe and Asia, Tuchscherer has a long-standing record of managing partnership, corporate and product strategies. Most recently at SAP, he led the product and business strategy for the Technology Group, where he spearheaded partnerships, established new pricing models and was responsible for defining and executing product strategy.

“In 2009, various large organizations selected Talend, clearly establishing the company’s open source solutions as powerful, cost-effective alternatives to proprietary, high-priced technologies,” said Tuchscherer. “With our recent release of the first open source Master Data Management solution, we are ideally positioned to further accelerate our business growth by meeting the precise data management requirements for businesses of all sizes.”

In addition to operational data integration and processing, Monecam innovates by using the Talend solution as an ESB, before focusing on data quality

SURESNES, France - January 19, 2010 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration solutions, announced today that Monecam, the French leader in electronic banking, has implemented Talend Integration Suite to industrialize its data flows and load a data warehouse. At the same time, Monecam plans to extend its use to operate the exchanges between application services on a real-time basis (SOA) and coordinate processing between the different applications. Finally, to reinforce data consistency, the company plans on implementing Talend Data Quality.

Talend Integration Suite: a multifunctional integration solution

With a core activity based on data exchange, the Monecam group has always been on the cutting edge of data integration technology. In 2007, it launched a call for tenders for service companies, aiming to implement a data integration and calculation batch solution capable of generating reports with a certain level of customization. The concerned data originate from automatic teller machines (ATM). Two out of three responses were advocating the use of Talend solutions.

“We downloaded Talend Open Studio to test it and compare it with our existing SAP solution,” explains François Pichoud, Software Architect at Monecam. “The version we had been using was becoming outdated, but the cost for its upgrade was very expensive. We launched a comparative study with Talend Integration Suite, to conclude that at a more or less equivalent price, Talend offered many more services, including a large variety of connectors, all of which you must pay for with SAP.”

Monecam thus adopted Talend Integration Suite, first to complete a new data integration project, then to migrate and enhance legacy data flows. Over 60 data flows are concerned (independently from the data warehouse) and their migration must be completed at the end of the year. At the same time, the company needed to carry out specific processing on data replicated directly from the production base, as well as create a Data Warehouse dedicated to operational BI. Both are also powered by Talend Integration Suite.

Monecam also plans on deploying Talend Data Quality to control the quality of data in the Data Warehouse. “The coherence of data in any BI system must be controlled. To do so, we developed last year a prototype using Talend Data Quality, while evaluating other systems at the same time. In 2010 we plan to devote more resources to this challenge, while confirming our choice of Talend,” verifies François Pichoud.

Finally, Monecam established Web Services to control the reliability of its processing via a supervision console. This project involved custom developments performed by the Talend teams and subsequently incorporated into Talend’s solutions.

Moving towards a service-oriented architecture, driven by Talend

Before the success of these latest developments, Monecam studied the possibility of using Talend as an ESB (Enterprise Service Bus). “We plan to use Talend Integration Suite to carry out the exchanges between application services on a real-time basis and coordinate processing between different applications,” explains François Pichoud. “Even if we are only in the first stages of our SOA project, the objective is to gain stability and productivity.”

Today, Monecam benefits from a complete collection of components to coordinate all processing, regardless of the platform. “Talend Integration Suite increasingly became our process scheduler, saving us a lot of time thanks to the automation and therefore letting us respond better to our clients,” comments François Pichoud.

In addition to its breadth of components, Monecam considers Talend Integration Suite a multifunctional integration solution, capable of handling very diverse challenges. “The solution responds to all of our needs, even beyond simple data integration problems. What’s more, by using external libraries, we are able to save time and always respond more quickly to our clients’ demands,” concludes François Pichoud.

About Monecam

For almost 15 years, the Monecam Group has led the development of the debit card by offering products and services covering the entire spectrum of electronic banking. Realizing sales figures of 33 million € and in constant progression, the group processes one billion telecollected payment transactions and manages more than 150,000 electronic payment terminals (EPT). Displaying national references as well as banking establishments and organized commerce, the group is supported by many resources, particularly 250 employees, of which one hundred are technicians and a call center that is open 6 days a week and processes 300,000 calls per year.

Monecam, a subsidiary of CEDICAM and the Regional Banks of Crédit Agricole, elected to concentrate on three complementary services: merchant and company equipment; flow management, electronic banking and assistance services; and health (third-party payer and concentration of claim forms).

When will the public sector learn from the private

MAIDENHEAD, UK - January 28, 2010 - The news announced yesterday by the UK government that it expects to make savings of £3.2 billion annually from 2013/14 on made through transformation in public sector information technology has been broadly welcomed by open source specialist Talend, and more generally by the entire open source community in the UK.

Bertrand Diard, Co-founder and CEO of Talend, commented: “The announcement that the government’s ICT strategy will focus on a smarter, cheaper and greener public sector ICT infrastructure should be welcomed by both the industry and tax payer alike,”

“Under the IT Strategy the government intends to create one secure, resilient and flexible network which will enable every area of government to adapt their ICT to best deliver for the public. However it appears that they are still wedded to the ICT solutions of the past.”

“Critically for the first time, the plan intends to bring together all government departments, local government and wider public sector organisations to remove unnecessary overlaps between departments and avoid the costly duplication of IT,” he continued.

“The intention is to deliver efficiency savings by increasing the use of online services, streamlining contact with the public and reducing digital exclusion. The challenge will be to deliver just that and not just another IT White Elephant on the scale of the NHS IT Programme for Change, now costing £12 billion, £8 billion over budget and eight years late,” he added.

According to a recent policy document from the Conservative Party, Delivering Change: IT that Works, the UK government spends more per capita than any other government on ICT.

Bertrand said: “Having spent £108 billion on ICT in just eight years, it is clear that the UK government needs to assess its current spending activity. The Rowntree report “Data Nation” in March 2009 examined 46 large UK public sector databases and concluded that a quarter of the public-sector databases reviewed are almost certainly illegal under human rights or data protection law. It recommended that the current databases should be scrapped or substantially redesigned.”

“Considering that this assessment included the National DNA Database and National Identity Register, ContactPoint, it is outrageous that more than half had significant problems with privacy or effectiveness and could fall foul of a legal challenge. Service levels and security need to be significantly improved as the recent blunders could be detrimental to the nation,” added Bertrand.

In 2009, the UK government took a positive stance towards reducing IT spend by encouraging the use of open source in government IT systems. In recognition of some of open source software’s true benefits, the government updated its policy and introduced an action plan to drive the adoption of open source tools.

Bertrand responded: “The government is still resistant to open source tools despite its stated aim to adopt open source. Open source software does pass a number of complex tests to be accepted by the community. In fact, open source products are put through greater testing before GA release than proprietary based products,”

“At Talend for example, over 1,000 of our community members are involved with testing milestone beta releases. And a recent study by independent analysts has proven that open source database MySQL has ten times less defects than Oracle!” added Bertrand.

One of the major benefits of using open source software is that in having such a passionate community of followers, the software is constantly being developed and improved. In contrast, proprietary software’s code cannot be developed by its users to meet evolving business needs and can therefore become dated within a matter of months.

These arguments stress that open source is a professional and supported offering. With open source being able to integrate with legacy systems, risk is automatically reduced as organisations no longer need to spend massive amounts of IT budget on replacing major IT systems that may only be required in the short-term.

Bertrand said: “It is no longer acceptable for the UK government to continue spending such huge volumes of money on poor ICT, when there are cost effective and adequate alternatives such as open source solutions.”

“The government has been presented with the opportunity to dramatically improve the current databases and slash ICT spend by adopting open source solution where possible, enabling the public money to be put towards improving other vital areas. The next few years will prove valuable in determining whether they take this opportunity or not,” Bertrand concluded.

Talend Offers First Comprehensive Solution for Data Integration, Data Quality, Master Data and Data Stewardship Built on a Single Platform

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - January 25, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced the availability of the first open source Master Data Management (MDM) solution. With the launch, Talend is democratizing the MDM market with an affordable, open source alternative to cost-prohibitive and disjointed proprietary technologies. Talend’s comprehensive MDM technology enables organizations to quickly implement an enterprise-wide master data hub and ensure consistent, uniform control of any master data across the organization.

To meet strategic business objectives, organizations must streamline processes, create new revenue opportunities, reduce costs and facilitate company growth. High-quality master data is extremely valuable when it is available to enterprise business processes and analytics; however, implementing a master data project is often challenging, architecturally complex, time intensive and expensive. “As user organizations gear up for the economic recovery, they still need to maintain vigilance on costs, so we expect to see continuing downward price pressures in the MDM market,” said John Radcliffe, research vice president at Gartner. “2010 will see new entrants to the MDM market, bringing in different business models and pricing structures. They will start to offer alternatives to resource constrained organizations wanting to kick off MDM initiatives.”

Talend MDM represents a fundamental shift in the MDM market. It is the first comprehensive solution for data integration, data quality, master data and data stewardship built on a single platform and available at a fraction of the cost of traditionally complex and dissociated solutions. This approach accelerates and simplifies MDM implementations while providing flexibility to expand its value over time. Talend MDM’s unique data model allows organizations to immediately model and master any data domain, beyond customer and product and systematically improve data quality across enterprise systems. The solution reduces complexity and provides the necessary data stewardship tools that help teams efficiently collaborate on master data and meet data governance requirements.

Bolloré Africa Logistics, the leading integrated logistics network in Africa, established for more than 50 years in 41 countries is an early adopter of Talend MDM. “We have chosen the Talend MDM product to meet our unique requirements for mastering and integrating our critical business data, in order to align our field offices and create more efficient processes across our operations on the African continent,” said Thomas Darbois, CIO of Bolloré Africa Logistics. “When in production, we will benefit from the flexibility and the performance of the solution, in order to manage all the various activities across our network. The unique approach of configuring data integration, data quality and master data management in a single environment, and the integration of the solution, aims to reduce our deployment times and increase our leadership.”

Key features of Talend’s new MDM open source software include:

• Active Data Model: Talend’s Active Data Model allows organizations to immediately model and master any data domain, beyond predefined models for set domains. It is the center of the master data implementation and drives integration, quality and lifecycle of the master data.
• Domain Driven Integration: Talend MDM uses data model driven events to drive when and where data is synchronized, augmented or distributed. A graphical tool provides over 400 proven components and connectors to build integration processes for the master data.
• Master Data Quality: The Active Data Model allows users to validate, resolve and augment master data. The solution delivers a robust data profiling tool and provides components for name and address standardization, callouts to external standardization services and augmentation routines.
• Data Stewardship: The collaborative interface provides a set of tools for a team to collaborate on and create a trusted and reliable set of master data and the appropriate stewardship tools to manage the process of updating and managing the master data through a lifecycle.
• Talend Studio: Talend Studio provides a single platform for managing the data model, configuring integration, administering data quality and creating stewardship workflows to enable rapid implementation and to simplify management.

“Today, master data management is a discipline that only the largest companies can afford to deploy, and even some of those are freezing their roll-outs due to high perceived entry costs” said Raphaël Benoliel, director of the enterprise information management business unit of Business & Decision, a leading Systems Integrator in the data management field. “Talend has proven their ability to transform the data integration and data quality markets into a volume business with their innovative and cost-effective solutions. We now believe that the MDM market is ready to go mainstream and welcome Talend MDM as a critical solution to bring enterprise-grade or domain-specific MDM to a larger number of companies.”

“Talend’s mission is to provide companies with breakthrough open source data management solutions and MDM is a giant step forward,” said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend. “Within the last year, we have seen a landslide of large companies adopting open source technologies to rationalize their IT deployments, as well as smaller organizations finally getting the budgetary means to adopt consistent and optimized data management for the first time. Open source drives innovation and Talend will continue to lead the market with the goal of offering the best solutions to our customers.”

Talend MDM is available immediately and exists in two editions. Talend MDM Community Edition is provided under the GPL license and can be downloaded at no charge from http://www.talend.com/download.php. Talend MDM Enterprise Edition is provided under a subscription license. For more information, please visit http://www.talend.com.

For the 8th consecutive year, Decideo.fr took the pulse of the business intelligence market. Talend is the first open source vendor to be awarded a “Golden Decideo”.

SURESNES, France - December 8, 2009 - Talend, the recognized leader in solutions for integrating open source databases, announced today that it has received a “Golden Decideo” in the annual Decideo survey. For the first time, the community of BI users presented this award to an open source vendor. And, for the first time, a data integration tool was recognized by the survey.

For the past 8 years, Decideo has taken the temperature of how companies use business intelligence. This profile promotes a better understanding of how and why companies use BI tools. The survey, conducted at the end of the year, is a real management tool for the BI market. Through a series of thirty questions, it measures practices, tools, and trends

Changing the decision making process
The 2010 edition, published today, confirms the importance of business intelligence in corporate strategy. The 90s heavily focused on backend systems, notably because of ERP. Optimization using BI tools is the major trend of the current decade and that is unlikely to change.

According to the survey results, in 2010 - despite economic uncertainty - 39% of enterprises will increase their investments in business intelligence and 53% will maintain their 2009 level.

As far as tools are concerned, after the consolidation vogue of 2007 companies have not viewed the market as definitively closed - quite the contrary. They have explored new avenues, with open source making a noteworthy appearance.

Talend: a successful emerging model
In terms of awareness, 49% of respondents voiced an opinion about Talend’s strategy, clearly demonstrating the company’s visibility in the marketplace and validating its communication efforts. For 40% of respondents, Talend’s impact on the decision support market is growing, with 47% reporting strong growth. In total, 87% of respondents believe that in the coming years Talend will be a leader in the BI arena.

“Talend is reaping the rewards of its position to provide a low-cost, open source solution, in line with market expectations” explained Philippe Nieuwbourg, publisher of the Decideo Barometer. “Everything isn’t free, or course. Some enterprise features are available at reasonable prices and services meet the professional expectations of companies entrusting a strategic part of their information systems to Talend. In addition, Talend’s marketing investment is paying off, with increased visibility and understanding in the marketplace.”

“We are pleased to see that the open source business model has been validated once again, with the Golden Decideo award,” said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend. “Since 2006, Talend has been providing an alternative to the traditional proprietary model, typically characterized by lack of openness, high costs, and a lengthy return on investment. The results of the Decideo Barometer confirm our recognition by users themselves, who understand that our solutions enable them to better control data integration and data quality, while optimizing costs.”

About Decideo.fr

With over 8,000 members, Decideo.fr is the professional community of French speaking independent users and suppliers of decision support business systems. The Decideo.fr community surveys its members each year on various topics related to the use of decision-making in their business and their perception of market participants. These results are analyzed and published annually in the “Decideo Barometer.” Decideo.fr is the only French member of b-eye-network.com.

Talend invites its current and potential partners to the first Talend UK Partner Summit

MAIDENHEAD, UK - December 3, 2009 - Following the tremendous growth of its channel network, Talend, the leading open source data integration vendor, has announced that it will be holding its first UK Partner Summit in Central London on Tuesday 12th January 2010, between 9am and 2.45pm.

A provider of enterprise-grade open source solutions, Talend boasts a range of proven technologies, including its award winning data integration and data quality tools, comprising advanced capabilities that dramatically improve the productivity of design, with the scalability to ensure optimal execution.

François Méro, General Manager-EMEA at Talend commented: “The channel’s demand for sophisticated open source data integration solutions has made Talend’s offerings very attractive and this has resulted in the company’s substantial rise in channel partners over the last few years, including Appko, Cimbax, Novena, Distinct, Luminary and Bolderwood, just to mention a few.”

“We are now firmly entrenched in the UK market and are continuing to expand with our recent open source MDM announcement, which complements our data integration and data quality product lines. Following this news, we are actively seeking further system integrators and resellers to help deploy our products within our core markets and the Summit will highlight the advantages of embarking on this journey with us,. It will also be an opportunity for our existing and future partners to receive complementary training on our products and solutions,” added François.

Attendees can register to take part in demos and discussions at the event. There will be an Open Keynote presentation by François Méro, General Manager-EMEA as well as exclusive presentations by Fabrice Bonan, COO and co-founder of Talend and Marcin Kierdelewicz, Talend Alliance Manager.

Dedicated to members of the Talend Alliance Program, IT system integrators and IT consulting companies in general, the Summit will provide attendees with the chance to explore and learn more about the Talend Alliance Program as well as the company’s business model and product offerings.

To register to Talend’s free event, visit: http://www.talend.com/partner-summit/uk/

Life Cycle Platform Enables Fortune 500 Companies to Improve Efficiency and Reliability of Enterprise Data Integration

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - December 7, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced the availability of Talend Integration Suite LCp. This new enterprise data integration platform extends award-winning Talend Integration Suite to provide Fortune 500 organizations with a broad set of enterprise features, ranging from automated testing and code validation to multi-environment project repository management, to better facilitate enterprise-wide data integration projects and deployments.

Talend Integration Suite is an enterprise-grade, high-performance data integration offering that extends the functionality of Talend Open Studio, the company’s open source data integration platform. For the first time, organizations have a clear alternative to expensive, proprietary systems that require costly initial investment and rely heavily on IT resources for maintenance and upgrades. Talend Integration Suite LCp further extends the enterprise capabilities of Talend Integration Suite through features including:

• Testing Platform: By automating the quality assurance and regression testing of data integration processes on one single centralized platform, CIOs and IT managers can now automatically validate data integration processes before they are deployed, and perform automated regression testing of the entire integration architecture after any migration or update to the infrastructure.
• Repository Manager: Multiple project repositories can now be coordinated and the transfer of processes from one job repository to another can be automated. The repository manager can be used to link development repositories in order to exchange and share common logic, as well as development, test and production repositories to automate the qualification of jobs and their transfer to the next step. Workflows and permissions are also handled.
• Audit Platform: Organizations can analyze the degree of compliance of their data integration processes with their own set of development standards and best practices through an audit platform that automatically checks each job as it is developed. This enables developers to ensure their jobs are compliant with corporate rules, and IT managers to validate the work of their development team and systems integrators or contractors.

“Talend Integration Suite LCp reflects our commitment and dedication to offer our customers a cost-optimized enterprise platform providing fast time-to-value that can’t be matched by monolithic proprietary technologies,” said Fabrice Bonan, co-founder and COO of Talend. “We will continue our rapid pace of development in order to deliver data integration solutions that meet the increasing demands of large-scale data integration projects and deployments.”

Talend Integration Suite LCp is available immediately. For more information, please visit http://www.talend.com.

Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute

LOS ALTOS, Calif.- December 2, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools.”ⁱ In this report, which evaluates vendors based on a set of criteria that include “completeness of vision” and “ability to execute,” Gartner indicates that “Despite challenging economic conditions in 2009, activity in the data integration tools market remained strong. Demand for lower-cost tools and faster time to value, new market entrants, and ongoing consolidation via acquisitions of specialists put pressure on both niche and established vendors.”

“We view our positioning in the “Visionaries” quadrant by Gartner a validation of the ability of commercial open source vendors to provide customers with the enterprise-ready solutions needed to address their data integration challenges and improve business performance,” said Bertrand Diard, CEO and co-founder, Talend. “In my opinion, this inclusion reflects our ongoing commitment to innovation and delivering unmatched value to our clients. Open source vendors like Talend will continue to bring to market cost-effective, enterprise-ready alternatives that are right on par with leading solutions.”

To be included in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools,” Talend had to possess (within its technology portfolio) the subset of capabilities identified by Gartner as most critical from within the overall range of capabilities expected in data integration tools. Vendors also had to meet stringent market size and penetration requirements.

Talend’s flagship open source data integration solution, Talend Open Studio, has garnered more than five million lifetime downloads and one million core product downloads since its release in October 2006. Along with enterprise-version Talend Integration Suite, it is a less expensive and more scalable open source alternative to proprietary data integration solutions that require costly initial investment and rely heavily on IT resources for maintenance and upgrades. Talend Integration Suite is an enterprise-grade, high-performance offering that extends the functionality of Talend Open Studio, with technical support and additional features for collaboration and deployment in large enterprise settings.

Interested parties can request a copy of the Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools report at http://www.talend.com/gartner-mq, compliments of Talend.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted November 25, 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

MAIDENHEAD, UK - November 29, 2009 - Talend Integration Suite, the leading open source enterprise data integration solution has been selected by NewFinance Capital LLP (NFC) – a fund of hedge fund manager wholly owned by Schroders plc, to improve back office data management which is based in India.

NFC is the adviser/manager to the Opus funds of hedge funds and also provides advisory services to investors for managed accounts.

Mattias Altin, Development Team Leader/Architect at NFC commented: “NFC sources data from a number of external parties such as prime brokers, administrators, fund managers and Bloomberg. The data we receive is often in a variety of formats such as word documents, spreadsheets, and proprietary feed formats. This makes it increasingly more difficult for us to merge and maintain data manually.”

“It is fundamental that we have access to up-to-date data as we need to compile accurate reports on a timely basis for making investment decisions and to distribute to our investors. It is also important that we can demonstrate to our current and potentially new investors, the strong commitment we have in maintaining a high standard in our data processing procedures,” explained Mattias.

Talend Integration Suite is the first open source enterprise data integration solution, designed to support multi-user development, and to scale to the highest levels of data volumes and process complexity. The solution features an intuitive work environment and enterprise-grade deployment and monitoring capabilities.

Mattias added: “Being open source, Talend Integration Suite fits nicely alongside our existing IT systems so we have been able to keep costs down to a minimum. Its Java code generation approach permits us to respond to the business needs with ease and significantly cuts down on the development time. The studio can automate the scheduling of jobs from a secure central location, which will allow us to maintain a high level of process consistency and reliability with an accurate audit trail.”

François Méro, General Manager-EMEA, Talend commented: “Managing data integration by hand can be costly and inefficient. Talend Integration Suite will provide a clear structure to NFC’s data and its operations. It will help to severely reduce the time that it takes NFC to build and maintain integration processes, down from months to just days. In being able to work with up-to-date data the company will benefit from being able to take advantage of new exciting opportunities as productivity will be greater and customer service will be improved.”

MAIDENHEAD, UK - November 24, 2009 - Talend Open Studio, an Open Source data integration solution, has been selected by Sitelynx Ltd, a UK search engine optimisation specialist, to help efficiently integrate data from a number of different infrastructures to boost business performance.

Sitelynx Ltd is the original search engine optimisation company in the UK and is leading the way in both natural and paid search, having recently expanded into Social Media and website conversion optimisation.

“Sitelynx collects millions of individual actions, including impressions, clicks and transformations,” said Peter Loleit, Head of SEO and Technology at Sitelynx. “In order to understand which campaigns are the most efficient, we need to consolidate all information in a data warehouse. We can then run regular analysis and data mining.”

“Sitelynx receives a huge variety of data formats. For example, we extract data from Pay-Per-Click platforms such as Google and Yahoo, whilst advertising and marketing platforms provide data in XML and CSV files. For this reason we needed an Open Source data integration tool, as proprietary software often does not have the capability to integrate a wide range of formats,” added Peter.

Talend Open Studio is a sophisticated and robust tool, transforming the process of ETL (loading a data warehouse) from a complex and time-consuming task to being effortless through the use of automated processes.

Peter said: “Using Talend Open Studio, Sitelynx will be able to accurately map and view a graphical representation of processes and workflow charts for each individual client. Plus, there is a strong community supporting the development of the product, meaning that we can now connect to Google Docs to extract data from spreadsheets if we wish.”

Talend Open Studio is enriched with a number of dynamic features that provide Sitelynx with a number of benefits. Most notably is its reporting function, which enables Sitelynx to extract current data from Pay-Per-Click campaigns and send it to the relevant person as a text message alert.

François Méro, General Manager EMEA, commented: “When dealing with such a vast amount of data in a range of formats, Open Source helps to eliminate a great deal of challenges compared to proprietary software, which has its limitations. With Talend Open Studio in place, Sitelynx can now streamline its data by consolidating all types of information effectively and without human error. The fact that Talend’s tool accurately integrates data and provides campaign reports automatically means that the company can now benefit from increased performance and efficiency as well as having sufficient information available to prove compliance.”

Global events organiser chooses Talend Integration Suite & Talend Data Quality to synchronise data

MAIDENHEAD, UK - November 20, 2009 - Reed Exhibitions, the world's leading events organiser, has selected Talend Integration Suite and Talend Data Quality, the leading open source data integration and data quality tools, to help better manage the migration and integration of company data.

Reed Exhibitions will be using Talend's software to support its global enterprise applications programme by providing real-time integration between its online web platform which services over 400 websites and key business applications including Salesforce.com (a staple for Reed's sales and marketing teams). In conjunction, Talend's software will help to synchronise the company's global team as well as helping to align processes such as sales order processing across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific regions..

Reed Exhibitions runs over 470 events in 37 countries, bringing together over 7 million active event participants worldwide, and with 2,700 employees in 38 offices around the globe, the company handles high volumes of data. This also means that Reed Exhibitions receives data in a range of different formats that must be integrated accurately and quickly.

Dominic Shine, CIO, Reed Exhibitions commented: “We needed a sophisticated solution from a strategic partner to support our global rollout of enterprise platforms that had the ability to orchestrate sharing of data and enable streamlining of processes across our online, sales and financial platforms and importantly, to do so in real-time.”

“As we continue to harmonise our platforms across our group whilst supporting a range of existing disparate systems and a range of different formats for processing sales orders, we were attracted by the concept of using an open source tool to help keep costs low. It is important that we use a solution that can work efficiently alongside other real-time resources and has the capability to move data automatically to help meet client demands and compliance regulations, and Talend's enterprise open source solutions met our criteria perfectly”, continued Dominic.

Talend's award winning product, Talend Open Studio, is the most widely used data integration solution in the world. Talend Integration Suite provides value-added features and services that extend Talend Open Studio and is the first open source enterprise data integration solution, designed to support multi-user development, and to scale to the highest levels of data volumes and process complexity. Talend Data Quality works in conjunction with Talend's data integration tools to analyse and correct erroneous, duplicated or incomplete data.

François Méro, General Manager-EMEA, commented: “Leading in one of the most competitive industries, Reed Exhibitions needed a solid open source data integration solution and Talend Integration Suite and Talend Data Quality are exactly that. As intuitive solutions, they will enable the company to maintain a consistent framework for all industry events and therefore continue to provide a reliable and high standard of customer service throughout its operations. We look forward to working with Reed Exhibitions for future years to come.”

About Reed Exhibitions

Reed Exhibitions is the world's leading events organiser, with over 470 events in 37 countries. In 2008 Reed brought together over seven million industry professionals from around the world generating billions of dollars in business. Today Reed events are held throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, and organised by 38 fully staffed offices.

Reed organises a wide range of events, including exhibitions, conferences, congresses and meetings. Its portfolio of over 470 events serves 44 industry sectors, including:

Aerospace & aviation, automobiles, broadcasting, building & construction, electronics, energy, oil & gas, engineering, manufacturing, environment, food service & hospitality, gifts, healthcare, interior design, IT & telecoms, jewellery, life science & pharmaceuticals, machinery, medical education, printing & graphics, property & real estate, security & safety, sports & recreation, travel.

Working closely with professional bodies, trade associations and government departments Reed ensures that each and every event is targeted and relevant to industry needs. As a result, many Reed events are market leaders in their field.

Reed Exhibitions is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc, a FTSE-100 company and world-leading publisher and information provider. In February 2009, Reed Elsevier reported revenues for 2008 of £5,334/€6,721m.

Two Versions Available Immediately, Including one End-to-End BI Solution with Jaspersoft

TORONTO, Ontario and LOS ALTOS, Calif. - November 18, 2009 - Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, and Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration, today announced the immediate availability of two integrated virtual machines. The first combines the Infobright® analytic database, Infobright Community Edition (ICE), with Talend Open Studio, the leading open source data integration tool. The second virtual machine bundles these same two products with Jaspersoft’s open source report server, JasperServer Community Edition, to deliver an end-to-end business intelligence solution.

Each virtual machine benefits from Infobright and Talend-s large and vibrant open source communities: With over five million lifetime downloads, Talend Open Studio is the most widely used open source data integration tool available, and Infobright is built on MySQL, the world-s most popular open source database. The joint solutions give developers the ability to quickly and easily download, install, test and deploy a powerful, self-managing analytic database in conjunction with a market-leading ETL (extract-transform-load) tool and business intelligence functionality.

“Together, Infobright, Talend and Jaspersoft are combining the rich capabilities that today-s businesses need to leverage their ever increasing and diverse data assets,” said Susan Davis, vice president of marketing at Infobright. “Offering a quick path to deployment, these solutions enable users to take advantage of all the benefits - such as flexibility and cost effectiveness - that open source has to offer.”

Infobright-s self-managing software reduces administrative efforts by up to 90 percent, leverages standard servers, and requires far less storage than other products due to its industry-leading data compression and elimination of indexes, data partitioning or data duplication. Through the virtual machines, Infobright customers now have access to innovative and affordable database, data integration and BI capabilities within a single offering.

“Talend is pleased to extend our partnership with Infobright through the release of these compelling new open source offerings,” says Yves de Montcheuil, vice president of marketing at Talend. “Our user communities can now benefit from an easy to deploy, low-cost opportunity to get up and running with an integrated, end-to-end solution that enables them to load and analyze large amounts of data faster than ever before.”

The virtual machines include sample transformations that extract data and load it into the Infobright analytic database, demonstrating the products- ease of use and performance. Each can be freely downloaded and installed in minutes at http://www.infobright.org/Downloads/Talend_VM/

About Infobright

Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, has pioneered the development of self-managing analytic database software. The critical need for business intelligence, coupled with the dramatic growth of corporate data, has outpaced IT-s resources and budget within many companies. Infobright-s technology solves this problem by delivering a highly scalable analytic database that reduces ongoing management by up to 90 percent and costs significantly less than other solutions. Infobright is being used by both enterprises and ISVs in online marketing, financial services, telecommunications, and other industries to provide rapid access to critical business data with unmatched operational simplicity. For more information, please visit http://www.infobright.com and http://www.infobright.org.

Direct Marketing specialist aggregates 120 files within a data warehouse powered by Talend Integration Suite, which provides additional important automatic processing.

SURESNES, November 17, 2009 - Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration solutions, and Umanis, one of the major French consulting companies in Business Intelligence, announced today that Conexance MD, a firm that markets and develops databases aggregated for long distance shopping, selected the two companies to design a new product that will strengthen its competitive advantage.

Conexance MD is the French leader in aggregated databases for catalog shopping and e-commerce. Conexance MD experts analyze more than 250 million transactions daily to predict the purchase behavior of 17 million home shoppers. The 120 advertisers-members of the Catalog Shopping Alliance-update their data on a daily basis, resulting in tens of millions of lines that must be integrated daily.

“We wanted a tool to pool our databases. With such large volumes, we not only needed a solution powerful enough to handle them, but we also needed to industrialize frequent updates,” explained Nicolas Giard, Managing Director at Conexance MD. “Umanis was a technology partner of ours in the past, so we asked them to develop a data warehouse to receive and duplicate our partners files, and select and establish an integration tool to meet our needs.”

A specialist in Direct Marketing, and particularly well versed in Master Data Management, Umanis-a Talend Platinum partner-chose Talends open source data integration solutions. “Aside from the excellent price/performance ratio, we were looking for an open tool that would allow the integration of other tools, such as the NORMAD address standardization solution,” explained Luc Doladille, Project Director at Umanis. “Talends extensive connectivity selection and ease of use were deciding factors in choosing the tool. Also, Talend Integration Suite offers collaborative features that let us close the distance between the teams scattered across multiple sites in Paris and Lille. We also appreciated the level of support and professional assistance, both extremely useful given the challenges related to the projects volume and performance. Finally, Talend Integration Suite accelerated each database update from one day to 6 hours.”

With Talend, Conexance no longer has to deal with laborious developments that are difficult to maintain. “We asked ourselves the value of developing an internally-dedicated tool, which we definitely would have undertaken if the market only offered expensive, closed proprietary solutions.,” concluded Nicolas Giard. “But thanks to Talends open source model, we were able to install a ready-to-use, efficient, and particularly economic solution. Additionally, the Talend team was able to mobilize support when we needed assistance. Today, we have a business system that is easy to use, fast to learn and offers the productivity level we expected. We can offer new services to our clients and develop our skills in performance analysis and direct marketing.”

“The collaboration with Umanis and Conexance perfectly illustrates the strength of our solutions-in terms of performance, openness, automation, cost savings, and the ability to handle large volumes of data,” said Franois Mro, VP and General Manager, Talend EMEA. “These assets are critical for one of the major players in marketing and client knowledge in France and we are proud to help strengthen its position in an intensely competitive market.”

About Conexance MD

A simplified stock corporation launched in April 2006 with a capital of 210,000 , Conexance MD is a direct marketing company that specializes in database marketing. It manages the first aggregated database devoted to catalog shopping and electronic commerce: “VAD Alliance”. Its data mining expertise, based on proprietary statistical models that have been implemented and optimized in the United States for more than 15 years, allows catalogs and VAD Alliance Internet site members to track the transactions of long-distance buyer profiles online and offline that correspond with their offers. An innovative company positioned in the client knowledge niche, the Conexance MD system provides strong productivity gains in the prospection and loyalty phases. The service offer extends from locating strong affinity files to optimizing proprietary files. It now includes studies in integrating consulting.

The company is managed by corporate shareholders and the two investment funds, Xange Capital and Aurinvest.

About Umanis

Created in 1991, Umanis is a consulting and engineering company specializing in Business Intelligence, Client Relation Management (CRM) and e-Business. Umanis assists its clients in every aspect of their IT projects, from integration consulting to applicative third-party maintenance and training, according to three modes of intervention: on-site provision, fixed prices and a shared services center.

In 2008, the Umanis Group, which has 500 active clients and 1000 employees, realized revenues of 60 million Euros. Known for its technological and functional expertise, the Umanis Group is a strategic partner of the biggest software editors on the market.

Umanis has been listed on the Eurolist Compartment C market of Euronext Paris (ISIN Code FR0000066771) since December 1998. For more information, please visit: www.umanis.com.

Organizations Around the World Adopt Open Source Software for Cost-Effective and Rapid Data Management

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - November 16, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced several global healthcare customer wins including Children's Hospital&Medical Center of Omaha, Hosta, The Clermont-Ferrand Hospital and The University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT). The traction gained in this space further validates Talend's ability to provide scalable and flexible solutions at an affordable cost to healthcare organizations of all sizes, while satisfying the need for the real-time data the industry demands.

Worldwide customer wins include:

• Children's Hospital&Medical Center of Omaha-Children's Hospital&Medical Center of Omaha is the only healthcare center in Nebraska dedicated to children and specialty pediatrics. It handles close to 300,000 outpatients and 7,000 to 8,000 inpatients a year. The hospital uses Talend Integration Suite to normalize patient records among diverse applications. With Talend, the hospital was able to enhance its billing processes and improve compliance.
• Hosta-Hosta, a provider of services for the healthcare insurance industry, uses Talend Integration Suite for data conversion and data consolidation. With Talend, Hosta is able to deploy a Customer Data Integration (CDI) hub and consolidate policy holder information in a single reference record.
• The Clermont-Ferrand Hospital-The Clermont-Ferrand Hospital has 6,000 employees deployed over three sites, giving residents of the Auvergne region of France a capacity of 1,900 beds. The hospital uses Talend Open Studio to not only verify the quality and consistency of the data, but also for locating missing data. With Talend, the hospital was able to bypass an unreliable information system to improve invoicing by correlating data on hospital stays.
• The University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT)-UMIT is based in Hall, Austria, and is a key participant in the IMGuS project. A life science data warehouse system supporting systems biology in prostate cancer is managed by UMIT/biomed. In coordination with five other research groups located in Germany and Austria, UMIT manages the technical infrastructure and the data warehouse part of the project and uses Talend's open source data integration solution to process treatment data and perform statistical analysis. With Talend, UMIT was able to develop specific components to access and process human DNA data.

“Healthcare professionals need up-to-the minute information to advance medical research and provide the best care and services possible,” said Lou Agosta, independent industry analyst in data warehousing. “With the multiple data types and legacy systems, so often found in the healthcare profession, the need for a cost-effective and robust data integration solution to deal with heterogeneous data is in demand. Today, healthcare organizations around the world are discovering the changing economics of data warehousing, driven by open source solutions which offer the flexibility and scalability needed to address the complex data quality issues this industry faces.”

Talend Open Studio has more than five million lifetime downloads and one million core product downloads. Along with enterprise-version Talend Integration Suite, it is a less expensive and more scalable open source alternative to proprietary data integration solutions that require costly initial investment and rely heavily on IT resources for maintenance and upgrades. Talend Integration Suite is an enterprise-grade, high-performance data integration offering that extends the functionality of Talend Open Studio, with technical support and additional features for collaboration and deployment in large enterprise settings. To download Talend Open Studio, visit http://www.talend.com/download.php.

Talend Data Quality and Talend Open Profiler Now Make Data Quality More Extensible, Versatile and Automated

ORLANDO, Florida. (TDWI World Conference)- November 3, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced the availability of enhanced versions of its Talend Open Profiler and Talend Data Quality solutions. Talend made the announcement at the TDWI World Conference in Orlando (November 1-6, 2009) where the company is exhibiting its full line of data integration and data quality products.

The new versions of Talend Open Profiler and Talend Data Quality enable organizations of any size to better manage their corporate data. The new features deliver improved usability, expanded support for a large number of data sources and can allow the creation and sharing of custom plug-ins specific to various vertical industries-such as healthcare, retail and financial services-that have specific rules about data validation. The upgraded products also enable customers to take advantage of Talend's upcoming open source Master Data Management offering, which was announced in September, 2009.

“Open source software is quickly becoming the choice for companies that need to implement cost effective solutions to address their data quality and data integration needs,” said Fabrice Bonan, co-founder and COO of Talend. “The new versions of Talend Open Profiler and Talend Data Quality make it even easier to ensure data quality in the enterprise; these two upgrades offer the enhanced features our customers are looking for and fit into any environment.”

Talend Open Profiler is the first open source data profiler and provides businesses with a snapshot assessment of the quality of their data, based on indicators they create for each individual data element or combination thereof. Talend Data Quality is the first open source enterprise data quality platform that combines data profiling and data cleansing in the same environment. It enables organizations to utilize correct data within their information systems, while identifying and eliminating bad, corrupted or duplicate data.

Talend's Data Quality solutions are used across a broad range of industries, each with its own set of data quality requirements in varying environments. The new versions of Talend Data Quality and Talend Open Profiler introduce upgraded features and benefits including:

• Custom Plug-In Support: Users can now build customized data quality plug-ins to measure and/or correct specific aspects of data quality with custom logic-for example complex dependencies between data items, or industry-specific data validation logic (computations, lookups and more). Customers and partners can easily build plug-ins and share them with other community members through Talend Exchange.
• Support for Additional Data Sources: Talend Open Profiler and Talend Data Quality now support native profiling of DB2 for zOS and DB2 for i (formerly known as DB2/400), in addition to the already-supported Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. In addition, a database-independent profiling capability is now available, supporting standard portable SQL via a JDBC connection.
• Functional Dependencies Analysis: With this new feature, data profiling users can analyze and measure dependencies between several data fields. Examples would include: using a set of patterns for telephone numbers or postal codes that is dependent on the country, or checking that the “maiden name” field is left empty for male individuals.
• Automated Deduplication: When detecting an important number of duplicates in a profiling analysis, Talend Data Quality can now automatically generate the data cleansing processes that will remove and resolve these duplicates, dramatically improving the overall data quality process efficiency.
]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Selects Talend to Enhance Business Intelligence Capabilities

Open Source Data Integration Provider Accelerates ETL Processes for FIDM

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - October 26, 2009 - Talend today announced that the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM), a private college dedicated to educating students for careers in fashion, graphics, interior design and entertainment industries, has chosen the Smart i Appliance-powered by Talend Integration Suite's Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) tool-to boost its business intelligence (BI) capabilities. The Smart i Appliance, a collaboration between Talend, Key Information Systems, Systech Solutions and IBM, is a plug-and-play BI appliance based on IBM's System i (AS/400) platform. Under the terms of the agreement, FIDM uses Talend's transformation components-such as mapping, normalizing, sorting and aggregating-to cleanse, transform and load data into a new data warehouse.

“FIDM executives need to access up-to-date, reliable data from our systems to be able to make key business decisions,” said Roxanne Reynolds-Lair, chief information officer, FIDM. “Talend's tool within the Smart i Appliance expedited our ETL processing, making it two to three times faster than before. This is a huge benefit for us, and it enables our team to retrieve accurate, timely reports that make a significant business impact.”

FIDM's previous ETL tool often experienced failed data transitions, proving it to be unreliable, leaving the organization's CFO with day-old data and manual calculations. In addition, the support for the solution was lacking due to the vendor's overseas location. When FIDM needed to expand its BI reporting functionality and make data processes more efficient, it turned to the Smart i Appliance, which includes Talend's ETL tool running native on the IBM i. FIDM uses Talend to extract and load data as well as integrate all Talend jobs and control the overall data process flow. With Talend, FIDM's BI reports are available much earlier, without any manual interface. In turn, updated information gathered through the system provides executives with accurate and timely reports, enabling them to make better informed business decisions.

“We are very excited to work with FIDM on its Smart i project. It truly leverages the benefits of Talend Integration Suite--an open, user-friendly solution that can make data processes more efficient for the leading fashion institution,” said Vincent Pineau, Talend's vice president and general manager, Americas. “Organizations such as FIDM need consistent information in order to make strategic decisions. This is another example of how companies across any vertical industry can benefit from a scalable, cost-effective and enterprise-class data integration platform such as Talend.”

For implementation of the Smart i Appliance, FIDM relies on Systech Solutions, a business intelligence solutions provider and Talend partner. Systech, one of the leading U.S. professional services firms delivering customer-focused business intelligence solutions, entered a strategic partnership within the Talend Alliance Program in early 2008. As a part of the agreement, Systech leverages Talend's software to help develop and implement robust solutions for clients with extensive data integration needs.

]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 Talend Upgrades Leading Enterprise Open Source Data Integration Solutions

Newest Release Delivers Enhanced Integration Capabilities With Support for Business Rules, Creating a Higher Degree Of Integration Within IT Operations

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - October 20, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced a significant upgrade to Talend Integration Suite, the industry leading enterprise open source data integration solution and to Talend Open Studio, the most widely-used data integration tool. The new and extended features in Talend Integration Suite 3.2 give business users greater control over the definition of data integration processes, extend integration capabilities to IT operations and improve the overall impact of data integration throughout the organization.

Talend Integration Suite 3.2 is a subscription service that extends the award winning Talend Open Studio with professional grade technical support and features to facilitate the work of large teams and industrialize enterprise-scale deployments. It is the first open source enterprise data integration solution designed to support multi-user development.

“By solving all of the data integration challenges of the even most demanding enterprises, Talend Integration Suite has become a superior alternative to proprietary technologies at a fraction of the cost,” said Fabrice Bonan, co-founder and COO of Talend. “Our open source model not only enables Talend to provide our customers with unmatched value, but also enables us to rapidly deliver product enhancements that meet their exact requirements.”

The key new features of Talend Integration Suite 3.2 include:

• Business Rules Driven Integration: A new embedded rules engine allows business users to define rules interpreted at run-time. Users can change the behavior of the data integration processes by redefining rules through a user friendly interface, without involving IT. This new capability leverages the award-winning JBoss Rules technology.
• Error Recovery Management: Data integration processes can now include recovery checkpoints. In case of failure, processes can be resumed from one of the checkpoints. Dynamic instructions can also be provided to IT operations, instructing them how to react to specific error conditions.
• Migration and Replication Automation: New features automatically create migration and/or replication processes based on metadata discovery while supporting heterogeneous environments, thus greatly accelerating migration and replication tasks.
• Log-Based Changed Data Capture: Changed Data Capture (CDC), based on database logs, is now supported for Oracle, DB2/400 (IBM System i) and Microsoft SQL Server.

Talend Open Studio and Talend Integration Suite 3.2 are available immediately. Talend Open Studio is provided under the GPL license and can be downloaded for no charge at http://www.talend.com/download.php. Talend Integration Suite is provided under a subscription license. For more information, please visit http://www.talend.com.

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 Talend Upgrades its On Demand Open Source Data Integration Platform

Software-as-a-Service Mode Allows Distributed Teams to Share Data Integration Projects Without Configuration, Maintenance or Administration Costs

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - October 5, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced the availability of an enhanced version of Talend On Demand, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) data integration platform based on Talend Open Studio, the company's open source data integration platform. Talend On Demand allows distributed teams to share and collaborate on data integration projects, eliminate infrastructure costs and integrate with existing Talend Open Studio deployments.

Talend On Demand allows project teams of any size and location to consolidate data integration work in a centralized and shared repository, which is hosted by Talend, facilitating collaboration, object and code reuse, and promotion of development best practices. The upgraded version of Talend On Demand provides faster synchronization of information with the central repository and fully supports the new features of Talend Open Studio including new connectivity to mainframe and business applications, a redesigned business modeler and upgraded dependency analysis.

“Talend On Demand has proven to be an ideal data integration solution for midmarket companies with distributed development teams, companies that work with system integrators and IT outsourcers and any organization that needs to collaborate on projects,” said Fabrice Bonan, co-founder and COO of Talend. “With this new version, users have access to a low-cost and maintenance-free enterprise data integration platform that rivals proprietary systems without the need to deploy or support infrastructure components.”

Talend On Demand leverages Talend Open Studio as its design and runtime environment, providing a system with which users are familiar resulting in a shortened ramp-up time. New users can sign up for a Talend On Demand account in minutes and start sharing metadata and project information instantly. Talend On Demand does not require any configuration or administration and backup of the centralized repository is handled remotely by Talend. To get started with Talend On Demand, visit http://www.talend.com/talend-on-demand/talend-on-demand-signup.php.

]]> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 Talend Announces First Open Source Master Data Management Solution

Acquires Technology to Complement its Successful Open Source Data Integration and Data Quality Solutions; Speeds Open Source MDM Time to Market

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - September 28, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced it has acquired all rights to the Master Data Management (MDM) technology of Amalto Technologies. As a result of this acquisition, Talend will be the first company to offer an open source MDM solution, providing organizations with the exact features and benefits found in proprietary MDM solutions, at a fraction of the cost.

Organizations of all sizes need to ensure that they have “a single version of the truth” in order to have a trusted and unified view of the data on their customers, partners and employees. Unfortunately, MDM continues to be beyond the reach of most organizations. The entry point for deployment of proprietary MDM products can range from the hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. Talend is democratizing MDM for the masses in the exact way it has done with open and cost-optimized data quality and data integration technology. It will shortly offer a free version of its open source MDM solution under the GNU General Public License as well as a commercial subscription version with value-added features and services for enterprise deployment. The new Master Data Management solutions will be available in early 2010.

“Many of the Global 5000 size organizations we work with will be delighted to see a major open source player enter the fast growth MDM market, especially at a time when organizations are doing all they can to optimize the ROI of their projects,” said Aaron Zornes, chief research officer at The MDM Institute. “Talend has a proven track record in software technology domains closely related to MDM and will also bring their open source business acumen and track record to bear in the MDM market.”

Today, most enterprises have a heterogeneous application portfolio, with fragments of often inaccurate, incomplete and inconsistent data residing in various application silos. The problem for these organizations is to provide a consistent view of their customer base, product catalog, employees, or other master data shared and used by many applications and lines of business. In recent years, Master Data Management (which allows an organization to link all of its critical data to one “master file”) has emerged as the means to more efficiently manage shared data, eliminate redundancy and create the elusive “single version of the truth.”

“We have been analyzing the MDM market for some time and sought the right fit that would easily integrate with our existing technologies. We found Amalto's technology to be a perfect match at a time when the industry is in need of a flexible solution that offers fast time-to-value,” said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend. “Moreover, MDM is a natural extension to our data integration and data quality solutions and will enable our customers to cover all aspects of the data lifecycle. By introducing the first open source MDM solution, Talend is poised to change the market landscape, competing head to head with established players such as IBM and Oracle, for the greater benefit of all customers and users.” Talend has completed a full audit of the source code to ensure its intellectual property compliance and is in the process of integrating it with the company's data integration and data quality technologies.

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 Talend prescribes remedial measures for the Clermont-Ferrand Hospital

Bypassing an unreliable information system, the Clermont-Ferrand Hospital improved invoicing by correlating hospital stays data

Suresnes, France - August 18, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration, today announced that the Clermont-Ferrand Hospital in the Auvergne region of France has chosen Talend Open Studio to consolidate data from multiple sources for each of its services to improve invoicing procedures. Previously the hospital used hand-coded scripts which became more and more difficult to manage, particularly since the implementation of the new charge-by-procedure billing system.

Clermont-Ferrand's global information system is characterized by a highly fragmented architecture; each department has an autonomous subsystem connected to a central core common to all the specialties which aggregates the administrative data.

Increasingly complex scripts
“IT Management handles 35 databases-each corresponding to a medical specialty-which are distributed over approximately 25 servers,” explained Dr. Jean-Christophe Jourdy, of the Department of Medical Information. “At the same time the deployment of a new medical product (supplied by McKesson) was underway. We also have an administrative database (a McKesson Hospital Information System) connected to all the servers. Diagnosis and data are captured separately, service by service, and we need to reintegrate this data by combining it in a dedicated database. The aim is to recreate the full path followed by patients in order to bill them correctly and to provide reports to our governing body. Until last year we used many manual processes to consolidate this data, which resulted in multiple scripts.”

In time the management of these scripts became more and more cumbersome: “It not only required mastering a complex and very specific language, but maintaining the scripts was problematic and did not meet the evolving requirements of our activities. Because our financing models have been changing over the past few years, it has become more difficult and time consuming to manually alter the scripts to take new accounting models into account,” added Jean-Christophe Jourdy.

The hospital first tested Talend Open Studio on one or two flows before disseminating it to all databases. The solution was also used to meet loading and extraction needs. It is specifically used to not only check the quality and the consistency of the data between the different systems, but also to locate missing data. Today the old scripts are migrated progressively to Talend Open Studio as new projects are developed and the tool is connected to the hospital's database servers

Cost savings, user-friendliness and increase in productivity
Clermont-Ferrand cited the cost-effectiveness of Talend Open Studio as one of its principal benefits. “Talend Open Studio provides many advantages compared to proprietary tools: on one hand, the solution is completely free as far as licensing is concerned and there's a very low learning curve to get started. We can conserve our IT budget and put the money toward other activities,” explained Jean-Christophe Jourdy. “Its ease-of-use is another major advantage that allows significant productivity savings-we perform tasks more rapidly than before and are able to sort out problems instantaneously and to meet any development request without delay. The solution also let us to take all the data into account and to bill hospital stays which were not previously noted-a significant cost saving.”

”It's clear that open source is an essential tool for the public sector, including hospitals. It allows us to reconcile significant budgetary and technical constraints without sacrificing the performance and the reliability of their IT systems,” concluded Jean-Christophe Jourdy.

About the Clermont-Ferrand teaching hospital

The Clermont-Ferrand teaching hospital has three objectives: treatment, research and teaching. With a capacity of 1,900 beds, the facility employs 6000 people distributed over three sites in the Auvergne Region. The hospital serves a region with more than 1.3 million inhabitants, including the city of Clermont-Ferrand (300,000 inhabitants, 21st largest city in France).

The hospital treats three specific hospitalization areas: short stay, psychiatry, and after-care and rehabilitation. Medicine, surgery, and obstetrics are located in the Gabriel Montpied hospital on the St Jacques plain providing about 800 beds, and the Hôtel-dieu in the city center, built in 1773, and dedicated to gynecology and obstetrics among others. Because the latter site had no room for expansion, all its activities were transferred to the Estaing site, a former industrial site of the Michelin company located between the centers of Clermont-Ferrand and Montferrand. A third building, far from the city center, is primarily dedicated to mid-term care and geriatrics.

.]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 Accent Group joins open source community with Talend Integration Suite

UK social housing association selects open source data integration software

MAIDENHEAD, UK - September 21, 2009 - Housing association Accent Group has selected Talend Integration Suite, an open source data integration solution to improve information management and efficiently migrate data from the association's legacy systems, as part of an on-going internal data integration project.

Accent Group has been investing in communities for more than 40 years and manages its homes and residents' services through its three subsidiaries, Accent Foundation, Accent Nene and Accent Peerless.

Andy Gowdy, MBCS CITP, Legacy System Manager at Accent Group commented: “Housing up to 50,000 residents, Accent Group has to deal with a high volume of personal data and application forms. Our three subsidiaries use a range of different platforms including IBM Iseries and Windows, which means that accessing and moving data can be extremely tedious. Adding to this, we also run several data warehouses and needed an open source data integration tool that would link these seamlessly.”

“Talend Integration Suite will provide Accent Group with one common tool for managing its variety of disparate systems such as its anti social management system, or its rent collection application. A major selling point for us was that it is open source, meaning that it can integrate with our IBM iSeries legacy systems and different platforms. It can also exact data from any file format and at a dramatically lower cost than proprietary software. There is a strong open source community that can help us to develop and improve our current applications and this support will be a real benefit for us,” added Andy.
Talend Integration Suite provides advanced capabilities that dramatically improve the productivity of data integration job design and proven scalability to ensure optimal execution.

François Méro, General Manager-EMEA, Talend commented: “Accent Group must comply with regulatory requirements outlined by the Tenant Services Authority and the National Register of Social Housing (NROSH), which is a system for collecting social housing data on individual properties.”

“With Talend Integration Suite, instead of taking up to a month to create complex reports in order to meet these regulatory requirements, Accent Group will be able to collate relevant data from all sources accurately in just one day. This will also have a significant effect on productivity and customer service, by providing staff with an easy-to-use open source data integration tool that can radically reducing the time usually taken to process applications,” concluded François.

]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 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.

]]> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 Talend and Connectage Join Forces to Meet Public Sector Demand for Open Source

Open source specialist partners with online business consultant

MAIDENHEAD, UK - August 27, 2009 - Talend, an open source data integration specialist has joined forces with Connectage.com, an online business consultancy, to help drive the adoption of open source data integration solutions in the UK public sector. The partnership will help to improve data management within Government Departments, Local Authorities and Agencies and as a result, will help to boost productivity and efficiency of public sector services.

The UK Government regularly stores huge volumes of data and it is vital that this data is kept accurate and up-to-date. As an online business consultancy, Connectage.com aims to help public sector organisations create innovative services online. By providing Talend's range of sophisticated open source data integration products, Government Departments will be able to integrate and migrate data more effectively so that staff can work with real-time information or share information more effectively using Government Gateway or GCSx. Customer service levels can there be dramatically increased.

Philip Doyle, managing director, Connectage.com commented: “By coupling Talend's software with our great tools and consultancy expertise, we believe that our partnership will offer a fusion of experience and provide an all-round open source data integration solution for the public sector.”

“We have worked closely with Talend and provided its products to a number of our clients in the past and have seen how attractive its offering is to the public sector. Open source is becoming more widely used in Government and we believe that there is a great opportunity for us to jointly provide Talend's open source data integration tools to the UK public sector.”

Talend's open source data integration and data quality solutions are designed to scale to the highest levels of data volumes and process complexity and are optimized to work in demanding enterprise environments.

François Méro, General Manager EMEA at Talend stated: “Over the last few months, Talend has seen the demand for open source data integration tools soar and in particular, in Government Departments. The partnership will enable us to meet this increasing demand by having the facilities and resources necessary to supply Talend's open source data integration solutions to the public sector instantly.”

“Together we can help government bodies solve the on-going issue of having access to poor data, by providing them with the capability to work with real-time, accurate data as well as having full time business and IT support to expand their services online successfully,” concluded François.

About Connectage.com

Connectage.com is a division of Novena Consulting, leader in open source connectivity, Content Management and e-Learning in the UK and Ireland. Connectage.com has particular Government with its Trust Server, the only zero-code solution for implementing Government Gateway and its CitizenDirect content management platform. Connectage has delivered cost0-effective open source solutions to central and local government and the NHS. With offices in London, Manchester, Plymouth and Dublin, Connectage.com supports its customers through a network of leading edge consultants.

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 Talend's Madeleine Biskintaoui Recognized by Everything Channel's CRN Magazine as one of the Top 100 Women in the Channel

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - August 24, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced that Madeleine Biskintaoui, manager, North America channels and alliances, has been recognized by Everything Channel's CRN Magazine as one of the Top 100 Women in the Channel. The Top 100 Women in the Channel were chosen by the editors of the magazine based on their achievements as executives and the amount of influence they wield over the technology channel. The Top 100 Women in the Channel represent a changing trend in a traditionally all male industry.

Biskintaoui brought more than 10 years of channel experience to Talend when she joined the company in April, 2009. Under her leadership, Talend has been able to expand its partner program to include systems integrators, OEMs, and technology partners, and successfully establish a strong infrastructure for future channel growth. In her current role, Biskintaoui is also responsible for leading the overall coordination of Talend's channel strategy in North America.

“Talend is a company that greatly values and supports its channel partners, with the understanding that they are key factors to its overall success,” said Biskintaoui. “I am proud and fortunate to be part of Talend, and I appreciate the recognition from Everything Channel's CRN Magazine for the work that I have done.”

A special feature profiling the Top 100 Women of the Channel is in the August issue of CRN Magazine and expanded coverage will be featured online at www.channelweb.com.

“We are very pleased to see women executives reaching the highest levels in a wide range of dynamic companies. It is with great pleasure that we honor the women that have made a profound impact in the technology marketplace. We offer our congratulations to Madeleine Biskintaoui for her significant contributions to our industry,” Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel.

Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 Biogemma Ensures the Traceability of its Research with Talend Open Studio

PARIS, France - August 18, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration, announced today that Biogemma, the only European plant biotechnology research company developed and financed by the agricultural world, consolidated a number of applications within a unique system of laboratory management to facilitate tracking samples, and managing users, instruments, stocks, supplies, etc. BioSolution, a Talend Gold Partner, assisted Biogemma in developing and integrating the new system.

“Biogemma wanted to integrate all the laboratory processes previously managed by three applications - Oracle and Microsoft Access databases and Excel worksheets used for monitoring activities,” said Guillaume Kerboul, Founder and Chairman of BioSolution. “All this data is used within the scope of research work relating to plant genes - physiology and phenotypic analyses, studies on the functions of a gene, plant selection, etc. The data was derived from both Biogemma studies and the public domain, and describes nearly 200,000 plants produced in the last ten years and approximately 10,000 genes or sequences. Around thirty characteristics describe each element (name, bibliography references, DNA sequences, information on the functions of sequences, etc.).”

Integrating these applications required the recovery of historical data covering a period of 10 years. Given the exponential expansion of this information, the applications previously developed internally showed their limitations both in terms of scalability, as well as performance and reliability. BioSolution suggested that Biogemma implement Talend Open Studio to organize the migration and recovery of its data, and to create semi-automatic data processing. BioSolution cited a number of reasons for this - ease of access and development (graphic interface), cost control, speed of development, and compatibility with Perl and Java, which are widely used within Biogemma.

In addition to the recovery of historical data, BioSolution used Talend Open Studio to generate Perl code in order to process Excel files, automatically generate data, and integrate it for statistical analyses.

Productivity, rapid development, quality

In addition to the productivity gains already mentioned, BioSolution emphasizes several benefits provided by Talend's open source data integration solution. First is the accelerated development time, which has allowed migrating data from previous applications in less than 7 weeks. “With manual scripts, we needed at least 4 to 5 months to achieve the same results, but with fewer quality guarantees,” said Guillaume Kerboul. “In fact, the improved quality of the work is a second major benefit we realized with Talend. Today, we know that the data is reliable and the risks of error are completely under control.”

The tool is now in production at Biogemma and completely meets the requirements expressed at the start of the project - traceability, speed, simple extraction of information, and analysis. “The project is a success and that wasn't necessarily a foregone conclusion - at the beginning, several users believed that the recovery of all data was impossible! And yet we managed it. I believe one of the keys to this success lies in the time we spent with end users in order to verify and test jobs. Also, Talend helped us solve important semantic issues by homogenizing data via deduplication and data quality functions. Other data integration projects are under review. As Biogemma operates more than 150 applications and 70 databases, the number of potential projects is significant. And, with Talend, we know that we will reach our goals.”

About Biogemma

Today Biogemma is the only European plant biotechnology research company developed and financed by the agricultural world, The company's shareholders comprise specialists in plant breeding and representatives of major French plant sectors: the cooperatives Limagrain and Euralis, and companies such as RAGT, Sofiprotéol, and Unigrains with its technical institute, Arvalis. Biogemma has two research centers in France and more than 80 researchers and technicians specialised in genetic engineering, cellular and molecular biology, bioinformatics, functional and structural genomics, and plant physiology and pathology, and sharing a single goal: improving plants to advance agriculture.

About BioSolution

Created in 2006 and located in the heart of the Génopole® biopark in Evry, BioSolution provides consulting and integration services to biotech infrastructures which want to implement IT solutions within research teams and that will promote innovation. The company uses its broad expertise in the biotech field as well as a network of specialised partners able to respond rapidly to specific issues. BioSolution also has extensive experience in monitoring biological data flows, from their acquisition or production in the laboratory to processing and dissemination. For more information: www.biosolution.fr.

]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 RightScale Joins Forces with Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica to Deliver Complete Business Intelligence on the Cloud

Leading cloud and BI vendors offer first end-to-end solution for agile analytics on the cloud

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - CloudWorld Expo - August 12, 2009 - Leading providers of business and infrastructure software today announced the availability of a joint solution stack that delivers complete Business Intelligence (BI) on the cloud.

RightScale, Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica today are unveiling an integrated solutions stack that will enable customers to increase agility and lower costs by combining the power of the cloud, a high-performance analytical database, and BI and data integration software.

With the push of a button, users can now easily implement sophisticated BI on the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. Instead of using precious time on the task of integrating a variety of technologies to build a complete BI stack, the solutions from Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica can be automatically configured. This self-service, pay-as-you-go BI solution gives customers the agility to affordably build and use analytic sandboxes and disposable data marts as well as gain intelligence on a wide range of data, including brief or seasonal projects.

To sign up for a free 30-day trial, please visit: http://www.rightscale.com/BI.

“The beauty of the cloud BI stack is its low cost barrier without having to sacrifice performance or functionality. No huge investments in hardware, staff and other resources are required to get a scalable, end-to-end enterprise BI solution delivering results on the first day of business,” said Peter Relan, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Sibblingz and CrowdStar.

The stack is being demonstrated this week at CloudWorld Expo in booth #317 (RightScale), booth #318 (Jaspersoft/Talend) and booth #319 (Vertica). In addition, Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile and RightScale CEO and Founder Michael Crandell will share more details about the stack during a 30-minute session at the Expo on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 1:15 p.m. PT in room #3007 at Moscone West.

Cloud computing introduces a new opportunity for customers who need the ability to rapidly deploy project-based BI, provision new applications on the fly and respond to major market changes. As recently discussed in a webinar hosted by TDWI Research Director Wayne Eckerson, agile analytics can be a reality for any organization when BI is readily accessible on the cloud.

“The work done by RightScale, Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica demonstrates the power of collaboration among vendors to deliver integrated solutions,” said Wayne Eckerson, Research Director at The Data Warehouse Institute. “And by focusing their efforts on delivering BI on the cloud, customers now have tools to help them move quickly with BI projects.”

A free webinar that details the new solutions stack and shares use cases will be hosted Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 11 a.m. PT. To register, please visit: http://www.rightscale.com/lp/webinar/.

RightScale is the leader in cloud computing management. RightScale offers a fully automated cloud management platform that enables you to design, deploy, manage, business-critical applications on the cloud.

Jaspersoft is the provider of the world's most widely used business intelligence software and is based in San Francisco, Calif. http://www.jaspersoft.com/cloud

Talend is the recognized leader in open source data integration software. http://www.talend.com/cloud

Vertica is the market innovator for high-performance analytic database management systems that run on industry-standard hardware and was co-founded by database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker. http://www.vertica.com/cloud

]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 Talend wins real time integration contract with the University of Newcastle

MAIDENHEAD, UK - August 10, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced a deal with the University of Newcastle to provide Talend Integration Suite RTx, a new real-time data integration platform for enterprise application integration needs.

As one of the UK's leading universities with a dynamic community of more than 18,500 students and 4,900 staff, the university's reputation rests on the quality of its teaching - both for undergraduates and postgraduates, its outstanding research, and its work with the regional and local community, businesses and industry.

One of the reasons that the University chose the Talend Integration Suite RTx was that the real-time functionality of the solution would add significant benefits to a data integration project that the University called Project IDMAPS.

Project IDMAPS is a research project funded by the national funding body JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and aims to produce an exemplar of a single, logical, institutional data infrastructure based on the University's campus management system.

Jan Hesselberth, computing officer for the University of Newcastle stated: “We evaluated several integration solutions and believe that Talend Integration Suite RTx will be a key tool for our rapid integration projects. We needed a technology that could carry out data validation as well as integrate data instantly. As a real-time open source data integration tool with built-in data quality capabilities, Talend was able to meet all our stringent needs.”

“Another primary benefit is the number of connectors provided by Talend. We have a wide variety of applications and systems such as messaging, web services and databases which all require connectors. Furthermore we needed a non-proprietary solution based on industry standards and Talend was the right fit,” added Jan.

Talend Integration Suite RTx provides organisations with benefits in many areas. For example, with Talend Integration Suite RTx companies can save time and money by developing and maintaining data integration processes, in a fraction of the time and cost that it takes with proprietary technologies. For online merchants, Talend Integration Suite RTx provides the information necessary to make promotional offers on-the-fly, based on user behavior, resulting in more targeted offers with better response rates. The product also improves customer service by synchronising and maintaining data from multiple sources so that all stakeholders within an organisation can access accurate information.

About the University of Newcastle

Newcastle is one of the UK's leading universities with a reputation built on the quality of our teaching, outstanding research and our work with the community and industry. Our aim is to be a world-class research-intensive university, to deliver teaching of the highest quality and to play a leading role in the economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. For more information, visit Newcastle University at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/

]]> Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 Talend Releases Enhanced Version of Its Open Source Data Quality Platform

Cost-Effective and Simple to use Products Enable More Efficient Processes to Provide Better Customer Service and Greater Customer Satisfaction

SAN DIEGO (TDWI World Conference)-August 4, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced the availability of enhanced versions of its Talend Open Profiler and Talend Data Quality solutions.

From the largest Fortune 500 organization to the smallest company, the ability to move and combine reliable data across information systems can mean the difference between profit and loss. While data quality has been out of reach for most organizations, the new Talend Open Profiler and Talend Data Quality bring even more control and consistency to corporate data, at a fraction of the cost and without the complexity of other systems. “Data quality is essential to the success of any data-driven project, but has often been an afterthought for many organizations,” said Fabrice Bonan, co-founder and COO of Talend. “Talend's open source approach democratizes data quality, making it available to all companies as an easy-to-use offering. We have already seen strong adoption of our products and these new versions will further reinforce our position within the market.”

Talend Open Profiler - which is freely downloadable - is the first open source data profiler. It provides businesses with a snapshot assessment of the quality of their data, based on indicators they create for each data element. Built with the end user in mind, Talend Open Profiler can be used by anyone regardless of technical acumen, including business analysts and non-technical personnel.

Talend Data Quality is the first open source enterprise data quality platform to combine data profiling and data cleansing in the same environment. It not only enables organizations to get correct data into their information systems, but it identifies and eliminates bad, corrupted or duplicate data.

Talend's data quality products are used across a broad range of industries including retail, digital media, healthcare, government and more. The new version introduces the following capabilities:

• Custom data quality rules - allows users to define their own business rules applied to data quality and validate their data sets against these business rules. For example, users can define a rule that will check the validity of a postal code, based on the country defined in another data item, or check that the area code of a phone number matches the geographical location of an address.
• Pattern finder - identifies predominant patterns in data sets. For example, this could be used to detect that a “comments” field has actually been used to store Social Security numbers, or mobile phone numbers.
• Advanced data profiling - includes redundancy profiling, used to detect relationships between entities (foreign keys candidates) and correlation profiling, used to identify outlying values and possible incorrect data points.
• New data cleansing components - perform deduplication or data joins based on fuzzy matching technologies. For example, even though Marlborough and Marlboro are spelled differently, the two city names are often interchangeable. Fuzzy matching alleviates the concern that they will be classified separately.

Talend has also added a Web-based Data Quality Portal to Talend Data Quality which allows any user in charge of the quality and compliance of corporate data to understand, at a glance and in real-time, the improvement or degradation of data in order to identify and remedy any points of failure. The portal allows for granular reporting, the ability to better define key alerts and drill down into data issues.

]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 Retail Customers Turn to Talend for Enhanced Data Integration

Top Retail Organizations Select Talend for Swift and Efficient Data Management

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - July 27, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced several global retail customer wins including U.S. companies Levolor and MyBuys, as well as Europe-based Cdiscount.com, Zannier Group, Naville and PriceMinister.com. The traction gained in this space further validates Talend's ability to provide scalable and flexible solutions at an affordable cost to retail organizations of all sizes, while satisfying the need for the real-time data this industry demands.

These customer wins arrive on the heels of Talend's recent product release, Talend Integration Suite RTX, a real-time data integration platform for enterprise application integration needs. Talend Integration Suite RTX offers up-to-the-minute data, providing customers with a higher level of data consistency across applications, and enabling more accurate decision making capabilities.

Worldwide customer wins include:

• Levolor (a division of Newell-Rubbermaid)-Levolor, headquartered in High Point, NC, is the most recognized name in the window décor industry. The company utilizes Talend Integration Suite to process information from different sources-for product orders from reseller partners, Website customers and other retail systems. By replacing their manual coding processes with Talend, Levolor has increased IT efficiency and saves 25 percent in support time each year.
• MyBuys-MyBuys, the leading provider of personalized product recommendations for online retailers, uses Talend Integration Suite to streamline and accelerate customer deployments. With Talend, MyBuys is able to integrate new client data five times faster than before.
• Cdiscount.com-Cdiscount.com, the leading Internet retailer in France, uses Talend Integration Suite to streamline data feeds to its data warehouse by organizing data movement and data mining from multiple sources.
• Zannier Group-Zannier Group, the worldwide leader in children's fashion with 20 in-house and licensed brands - including Levi's, Catimini and Tartine et Chocolat - leverages Talend Integration Suite for data analysis as part of its business intelligence technology. With Talend, Zannier Group can better analyze its sales and stock to improve the services offered to end users through its retail network.
• Naville-Naville, a press wholesaler which distributes all the magazines and newspapers in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, uses Talend Integration Suite to integrate data from heterogeneous sources as well as external data from partners. Talend gives Naville the ability to build an interface in a couple of hours when previously, it would have taken at least a day using manual coding and FTP.
• PriceMinister.com-PriceMinister.com, the leader of the “Buying and Selling just got safer” concept on Internet, uses Talend Open Studio to automate data exchanges with its partners. With Talend, PriceMinister offers customers up-to-date data, covering 30 million sellers and more than 100 million items in inventory.

“Retail companies need a cost-effective, reliable data integration solution that can provide the up-to-the-minute data required to maintain a competitive edge in this industry,” said Vincent Pineau, Talend's vice president and general manager, Americas. “Talend's solution offers a kind of flexibility and scalability that can be leveraged across various industries, and continues to prove its suitability for organizations of all types and sizes.”

Talend Integration Suite is the enterprise version of Talend's flagship product, Talend Open Studio, which has more than five million lifetime downloads and one million core product downloads. It is a more scalable and cost-effective option to proprietary data integration solutions that require costly initial investment and rely heavily on IT resources for maintenance and upgrades. Talend Integration Suite is a high-performance data integration offering that extends the functionality of Talend Open Studio with technical support and additional features for collaboration and deployment in large enterprise settings.

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 Christopher Hackett joins the Talend Team as Sales Director, DACH

NUREMBERG, Germany - June 18, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration, today announced the appointment of Christopher Hackett as Sales Manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Mr. Hackett will be responsible for Sales and Partnership development in these regions.

Mr. Hackett has worked in the IT field for twenty years. Prior to Talend he was the Director for Central Europe at Informatica, responsible for creating and implementing sales programs in 14 countries. Mr. Hackett began his career in Applications Sales at Nixdorf, and later joined Novell to manage partnership marketing in Germany. At Sybase, a provider of IT-infrastructure and mobile software, Mr. Hackett was Director of BI Sales for Central Europe.

A seasoned technology expert
“Last year Talend significantly increased its customer base in Germany,” said François Méro, Talend's Vice President and General Manager Europe. “We are delighted to have someone with Mr. Hacket's experience and expertise on board. He will continue to develop open source data integration solutions in the German speaking region.”

Christopher Hackett, Sales Manager DACH at Talend, responds, “In this time of crisis companies are trying to optimize their IT expenses. Talend offers its customers powerful data integration products at excellent prices as compared to other providers, and I am convinced that we will extend our market position.”

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 HR specialist MidlandHR selects Talend

MidlandHR selects Talend Integration Suite to provide client datamart

MAIDENHEAD, UK - July 22, 2009 - Talend Integration Suite, the leading open source enterprise data integration solution has been selected by MidlandHR, a payroll and HR solutions provider, to extract, convert and load data from the company's iTrent system. MidlandHR has deployed Talend's tool to drive performance management and meet the market's changing demands, including the growing requirement for Web based business; the shift from central administration and the increase in mobile workforces.

MidlandHR is a leading payroll and HR solutions provider to 'blue chip' companies, government, health and other public sector organisations worldwide, offering tailored services to meet payroll and personnel requirements.

Dr Leslie Bowie, Research Director, MidlandHR: “Due to initiatives such as the flexible workforce, data management has shifted from being an administrative focussed task to one which demands secure on-line access to up-to-date data for interactive exploration and analysis. As a typical MidlandHR client employs tens of thousands of staff, our software needs to handle enormous volumes of performance, absence and payroll data. And all of this data needs to be processed and shared within tight timeframes. We have recognised the need for sophisticated tools to help us better manipulate and share this data with our clients' decision makers.”

“With the Talend Integration Suite they now have the capability of creating a comprehensive datamart that refreshes itself on a daily basis. Furthermore, in being open source, the Talend Integration Suite can work with either Oracle or SQL server databases on either Unix or Windows platforms. This was a major selling point for us, as MidlandHR has an almost equal split in the number of Oracle and Microsoft based clients. They needed one solution and they wanted to develop it with one tool and now they can.”

Talend Integration Suite is the first open source enterprise data integration solution, designed to support multi-user development, and to scale to the highest levels of data volumes and process complexity. The tool is a subscription service that extends award winning Talend Open Studio with professional grade technical support and additional features to facilitate the work of large teams and industrialise enterprise-scale deployments.

François Méro, General Manager-EMEA, Talend commented: “When having to manage a huge amount of data as MidlandHR does, it is critical that there are tools in place that enable staff to integrate data quickly, whilst also ensuring they maintain data quality. In particular, MidlandHR needed an open source data integration tool that could be used in conjunction with other infrastructures such as Oracle, which would not be possible with using proprietary software. This is where we see the benefits of open source coming to light. Talend Integration Suite meets these requirements perfectly and we look forward to working closely with MidlandHR.”

]]> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 Talend appoints new UK alliance manager

MAIDENHEAD, UK - July 22, 2009 - Talend, an open source data integration specialist, has today announced the appointment of Marcin Kierdelewicz as the company's new UK alliance manager. With more than 13 years of international experience in IT, business intelligence and management, Marcin has been brought on board to establish and manage key business partnerships in order to expand the company in the UK.

Prior to joining Talend, Marcin worked for Sitelynx, a search engine optimisation specialist in the UK. Taking on the role of alliance manager at Talend UK, Marcin will be responsible for extending and managing the company's network of partners.

Marcin Kierdelewicz, UK alliance manager at Talend commented: “I am really excited to be taking on this new challenge with Talend. I have helped companies in over 50 countries worldwide to use and improve their IT businesses. I believe that Talend's solutions represent the best data integration tools on the market and to have the chance to work with such an innovative company is definitely a great milestone in my career. I look forward to driving the company's success in the UK and building up its partner base.”

Francois Mero, general manager at Talend stated: “As a recognised leader in open source data integration, Talend, is striving to make all open source benefits widely available, including cost savings, flexibility, upgrades and access to the community. Strengthening our team and continuing Talend's current success in the UK will depend greatly on the partnerships that we form and this is why this appointment is such a major step in the company's development. Not only is Marcin very passionate about open source, he also has a tremendous amount of industry expertise in large commercial software systems. This will undoubtedly prove very valuable in helping to grow and manage Talend's relationships as well as helping to drive the adoption of open source data integration across the board.”

]]> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 Talend Alliance Program: Talend appoints a Channel Manager to strengthen ties with French-speaking integrators

Responsible for running Talend's Partner network in France, Benelux, and French-speaking Switzerland, Nathanaële Noirot is also organizing the first Talend Partner Summit which will take place in September, 2009.

SURESNES, France - July 15, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration, today strengthened the Talend Alliance Program team with the appointment of Nathanaële Noirot as Channel Manager. Ms. Noirot will take charge of the Talend Alliance Program in France, Benelux and in French-speaking Switzerland.

Prior to Talend, Ms. Noirot spent ten years in Indirect Sales at Business Objects and then SAP. First responsible for developing relationships with the vendor's service partners, and then focusing on distribution strategies, she was most recently in charge of relationships with strategic integrators. Ms. Noirot's decision to join Talend is based on her desire to make the benefits of open source - cost savings, flexibility, upgrades, and access to the community - more widely available.

“Talend represents the essence of a really dynamic open source world,” explained Ms. Noirot. “Today integrators are seeking alternatives that will help their customers reduce their dependence on large, proprietary software providers. Talend - like other players in the commercial open source arena - meets this need perfectly: our solutions are technically bullet-proof, cost-effective, and suitable for enterprise-grade deployment. The Talend Alliance Program is first-class, not only because of its relationship with its community, but also in the way it balances relationships with partners and customers -- a model that a lot of traditional vendors would do well to follow. I'm delighted to join the Talend team and to help our partners develop their open source data integration business.”

First Talend Partner Summit
In addition to strengthening relationships with Talend's French-speaking partners, Ms. Noirot is organizing the first Talend Partner Summit which will take place in Paris on September 10.

The Summit is divided into two half-day sessions. The morning meeting is open to existing Talend partners and to other companies seeking to establish a partnership with Talend. The afternoon session is reserved for current members of the Talend Alliance Program and will include a presentation of the roadmap, certification sessions, meetings with managers, new product discovery, etc. Partners who would like to participate in the Summit are invited to follow this link: http://www.talend.com/partner-summit/france.

“With Nathanaële on board and the first Partner Summit underway, Talend is sending a strong message to its ecosystem - our growth depends to a significant degree on our relationships with integrators and we intend to win new market share with them,” said François Méro, Talend's General Manager EMEA. “In addition we are responding to their needs by structuring our Alliance Program to best help them both exert influence and to promote Talend technologies to their customers.”

]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 Saint-Gobain Research integrates and analyzes data to foster innovation

With Talend Open Studio, one of Saint-Gobain's main research centers optimizes the monitoring of its research programs to better meet customer needs.

SURESNES, France - July 9, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration, today announced that Saint-Gobain Research, one of Saint-Gobain's four major research centers and a world leader in building materials, chose Talend Open Studio to develop a web-based research monitoring tool to streamline project management.

In carrying out its projects, Saint-Gobain Research works with R&D and the technical and marketing teams of Saint-Gobain's different branches. To facilitate communication with these groups and to analyze project progress and management, the center created a web tool with reporting functionality to monitor research.

“First, we wanted to standardize our analyses, moving from a paper-based model to an Intranet tool accessible to all departments,” explained Clément Bourgeois, IT Project Manager. “We also wanted to improve communication with our internal customers to more easily show the progress of our research and to justify both our activities and our timelines. We needed a powerful user-friendly tool that could retrieve information from all databases and flat files.”

After exploring a number of options, Saint-Gobain Research decided to combine Talend Open Studio's data integration solution with BIRT's reporting functionality, leveraging the expertise of Smile, one of the first open source software providers in France.

“The two technologies combined met our needs perfectly.” said Clément Bourgeois. “Talend was the only software provider offering a powerful open source tool, capable of seamless integration with our information system. In addition to the attractive financial aspects, we were impressed by the contribution of the community, both in terms of support and development, and in bug tracking. Finally, Talend Open Studio's flexibility, and the variety of the connectors available, made a convincing argument.”

Among the early benefits, Saint-Gobain Research quickly noted significant time savings, better communication with customers, and increased responsiveness. “We consider this a strategic project because, on one hand, it let us standardize our reporting method -- which has greatly evolved in less than six months -- giving management a clear and detailed view of the projects and their timelines almost instantly thanks to specific performance indicators (KPIs),” explained Clément Bourgeois. “On the other hand, this information and its easy accessibility, enables better communication with our customers. They appreciate our responsiveness and now we can clearly measure our daily contribution. And it was all done on a reasonable budget, services only, and depreciable within a year as operational expenses (OPEX).”

About Saint-Gobain

With offices in 59 countries, Saint-Gobain is the world leader in home construction and design materials. Known for energy-efficient, green solutions, the company designs, manufactures, and distributes building materials. In 2008 Saint-Gobain reported revenue of €43.8 billion and employed 209,000 people.

Founded in 1665, innovation is the driving force behind Saint-Gobain's strategy. Today more than one product sold in five did not exist five years ago. Saint-Gobain's twenty research centers have 3,500 employees and file for approximately 300 patents a year. One of these centers - Saint-Gobain Research -- founded in 1978 - employs 400 people and has an annual budget of €41 million, i.e., 11% of Saint-Gobain's global R&D budget.

Serving all areas of activity, the four main research centers maintain and develop high-level skills and key technologies for Saint-Gobain. This is where work on major strategic projects is carried out. Their size and multidisciplinary flexibility enables them to interact efficiently with the academic world, keep a watchful eye on scientific advances, and also recruit top quality technical and managerial personnel.

]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 Creatis Bank manages regulatory compliance with Talend Integration Suite

Managing many databases, the bank depends on Talend's open source integration solution to feed a Data Warehouse that guides its compliance requirements to the Basel 2 directives.

SURESNES, France - July, 16 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration, announced today that Creatis bank, a specialist in loan consolidation and a subsidiary of Cofidis Group, has implemented Talend Integration Suite to meet their diverse integration needs including regulatory compliance, risks management, and the overall monitoring of its activities.

An evolving information system
Creatis bank needed to reconcile two constraints to further its IT development. In addition to continually evolving the technical architecture, the organization and the processes of the company in coordination with various departments (marketing, risks, sales, financial, etc.), Creatis had to ensure the daily performance of the information system as well as its operational security. Therefore, when the bank decided to restructure its mortgage package in 2007, a new information system was developed to manage and market it. The original information system remained in use and evolved to handle other bank products and credit (personal loans, reserve money, etc.) whose migration to the new system would come later.

To monitor these activities, Creatis relied on a system developed in-house which was directly connected to the original database. “Because of the new multi-database architecture, data extraction became more complicated and required a lot more work,” explained Stéphane Leclercq, Head of Standards and Development at Creatis. “We quickly became aware that we needed to develop a real data warehouse that would let us efficiently analyze our activities. Our Research and Development department was tasked with identifying appropriate data integration products, focusing on open source solutions.”

Talend Integration Suite: a quick response to increased regulatory constraints
Creatis began by testing Talend Open Studio. “In addition to our traditional banking activities, regulatory requirements put in place by Basel 2 required that we reconcile both IT systems and implement a five-year data report. Talend's solutions were particularly effective in this context because of their ability to easily manage multiple databases. After exhaustively testing Talend Open Studio, we opted for Talend Integration Suite whose additional collaborative features allowed our three developers to manage projects as a team.”

Development time divided by three
Today, Talend Integration Suite is at the heart of Creatis' monitoring system. “In selecting Talend Integration Suite, we made a strong strategic choice that meshes well with our parent company, Cofidis, which also uses this solution. We didn't want our multi-database architecture to get in the way of data extraction and Talend Integration Suite helped us achieve that,” explained Stéphane Leclercq. “We calculate that with Talend Integration Suite, we reduced development time by a factor of three, a particular advantage for teams involved in the migration project. Talend's solution lets us handle data extractions via a graphical interface that accelerates the production of documentation and notations that Basel 2 requires.”

About Creatis Bank

A specialist in loan consolidation for the past 10 years, Creatis has been part of the Cofidis Group since 2006. Its main activity is the purchase of consumer credit through its retailing channel, via a network of brokers. Creatis has nine agencies distributed over the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy and provides local banking services and a large range of savings plans to individuals and associations. Creatis also offers consumer credit via a call center and its website. Today the fast growing company has 250 employees and has developed a multi-channel and multi-product approach to win new customers.

]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 Talend Named AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner

Leading Open Source Data Integration Software Provider Talend Selected as Technology Innovator in SaaS and Enterprise for 2009

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - July 16, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced that it has been selected to the 2009 AlwaysOn Global 250 List. The AlwaysOn Global 250 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets. Talend was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.

“We are honored to have been selected to the AlwaysOn Global 250 List,” said Yves de Montcheuil, vice president of marketing for Talend. “Talend's team has worked diligently to provide a data integration solution that is not only cost-effective, but scalable, flexible and open enough to help organizations of all sizes across various verticals solve their business problems. Receiving this credit highlights Talend's unique approach and execution in the open source data integration market, and we are grateful to be recognized for our hard work.”

Talend and the other AlwaysOn Global 250 Winners winners will be recognized at the AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford, taking place at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, on July 28-30. This two-and-a-half day executive conference is co-presented by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program will highlighting the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries.

“It's no secret that technology and innovation are vital to bringing our country out of economic recession,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “The companies on this year's list have not only created innovative technologies that solve real business problems, but have stimulated economic growth through the generation of new jobs. I congratulate every winner selected for this year's award and wish them all tremendous success in the future.”

The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2009 list.

A full list of all the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/32719

About AlwaysOn

ALWAYSON ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, ALWAYSON continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. ALWAYSON is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, OnDC, GoingGreen East and West, Venture Summit East and West) and quarterly print “blogozine” by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, ALWAYSON is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.

]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 The Zannier Group manages strategic BI project with Talend Integration Suite

The world leader in childrenâs fashion enhances its business operational systems with a dashboard to increase sales agility and inventory control

SURESNES, France - July 13, 2009 - Talend, the recognised market leader in open source data integration software, announced that Zannier Group, the worldwide leader in children's fashion with a presence in more than 40 countries, has selected Talend Integration Suite to add a dashboard to its business operational systems.

Talend, the recognised market leader in open source data integration software, announced that Zannier Group, the worldwide leader in children's fashion with a presence in more than 40 countries, has selected Talend Integration Suite to add a dashboard to its business operational systems.

The aim was to analyse sales and inventory as part of its retail activities (affiliated stores and branch offices) and to gradually expand this functionality to other areas of the company. This would include mass-market retailers and allow the management of provisioning of these sectors through Central Purchasing.

The IT Department is developing a data warehouse to consolidate data from the group's operational business systems, and particularly from two ERP systems designed for the clothing industry.

“To extract, transform, and load our data into this data warehouse we needed an integration solution powerful enough to handle all our data and flexible enough to integrate seamlessly and transparently with our information system,” explains Didier Dubois, IT Infrastructure Manager.

“We researched our options and chose the Talend Integration Suite. The solution has many advantages such as ease of operation and implementation, its rich functionality, the ability to integrate specific components and its user-friendly integrated features (automation, reports, logs, incident analysis, etc.).”

Talend Integration Suite is becoming one of the major components of Zannier Group's Business Intelligence (BI) chain.

“Our analysis is structured around four key areas - the consumer, the product, the time and the store. Each registered transaction gives us the information on which to base our reporting. This helps us analyse our sales and stock to improve the services we offer to our end users through our retail network,” adds Christian Vincent, Administration/Finance/ BI Project Manager.

The benefits offered by Talend Integration Suite will be measured through its productivity and ease of use. When production on the first part of the project is finished, the Zannier Group plans to expand its analysis to include wholesale activities, enabling the company to efficiently anticipate market trends and to quickly meet customer needs.

About Zannier Group

Zannier Group is the worldwide leader in children's fashion with 20 in-house and licensed brands. Founded in 1962 in France, the group demonstrated sustained internal growth and significant acquisitions for more than forty years. Today it has a brand portfolio covering all segments of children's fashion and is become progressively better known in the adult fashion market.

With a presence in more than 40 countries, Zannier Group generates nearly 50% of its revenue outside of its home country (Europe, the United States, and the Middle East) through more than 800 stores in France and abroad. With world-famous brands and licenses (Absorba, Catimini, Chipie, IKKS, Z, Kenzo, Levis, Marc Jacobs, etc.) Zannier Group posts revenues of more than €650 million ($865 million).

]]> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 Talend Named a CRN Emerging Technology Vendor

Company and its Open Source Data Integration Solution Cited for Changing the Economics of the Data Integration Market

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - June 29, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced it has been selected by Everything Channel as a CRN Emerging Technology Vendor. Talend was selected for the value it provides to the channel and end-user customers, and its ability to deliver the highest level of data integration to all types of organizations, regardless of their size, level of expertise or budgetary constraints. CRN's Emerging Technology Vendor list captures companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology that undercuts industry giants.

Talend Open Studio has more than four million lifetime downloads and 900,000 core product downloads. Along with enterprise-version Talend Integration Suite, it is a less expensive and more scalable open source alternative to proprietary data integration solutions. To keep up with demand and maintain the highest level of service, Talend has a growing channel program that already boasts more than 150 partners worldwide.

“Solution Providers seek out innovative vendors that create new and innovative ideas to help them build revenue and customer loyalty. Our Emerging Tech list is where Solution Providers go to find these vendors. We congratulate all of the vendors for their innovation and creativity and their commitment to the technology sales channel,” said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel.

The vendors who make the CRN Emerging Technology Vendor list were founded in 2001 or later, have revenue under $1 billion and have an active U.S. channel strategy. Final selection to the Emerging Technology Vendor list was made by the CRN editorial team after a review of submitted information.

“Companies continue to fall short when it comes to leveraging their data sets and optimizing the flows of data across the enterprise. They either have ineffective and expensive technologies in place, or home grown solutions they've cobbled together using various proprietary systems or custom code,” said Yves de Montcheuil, vice president of marketing for Talend. “This honor is further validation of our approach to technology and the value that we bring to both the channel and end-user customers.”

Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)
Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

]]> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 Talend Launches Talend Integration Suite RTx, Real-Time Data Integration Platform for Enterprise Integration Needs

RTx Provides Seamless Information Synchronization Across Information Systems; Bolstering Productivity, Reducing Costs and Improving Customer Service

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - June 22, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced the availability of Talend Integration Suite RTx, a new real-time data integration platform for enterprise application integration needs.

Based on Talend's award winning, enterprise-grade data integration platform - Talend Integration Suite - the new solution allows IT organizations to accelerate the velocity of data across IT systems. With up-to-the-minute data, customers receive a higher level of data consistency across applications, providing more accurate decision making capabilities.

RTx provides organizations with benefits in many areas. For example, with RTx, companies can save time and money by developing and maintaining data integration processes in a fraction of the time and cost it takes with proprietary technologies. For online merchants, RTx provides the information necessary to make promotional offers on-the-fly, based on user behavior, resulting in more targeted offers with better response rates. RTx also improves customer service by synchronizing and maintaining data from multiple sources so that all stakeholders within an organization can access accurate information.

“The fast pace of business today means companies can't rely on day-old or even hours-old data, and the speed at which IT delivers this data can be the difference between good and bad service, between a happy customer and a lost customer,” said Mark Madsen, president and founder of Third Nature, a technology research firm. “Integration today is mostly performed by hand-coded data movement processes developed by application programmers. Continued reliance on batch data movement and hand-coded integration is a recipe for failure. Companies that want to excel today need a real-time data integration infrastructure and progressive IT organizations are using data integration tools that combine real-time data movement with transformation and quality rules - without the laborious programming effort.”

Fully compatible with projects developed with Talend Integration Suite, RTx features a high throughput message-based architecture and integrates seamlessly into Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) infrastructures.

• Service Oriented Architecture-The SOA management capabilities of Talend Integration Suite RTx automate the deployment of integration processes either as Data Integration Services or Data Services, for complete integration into Service Oriented Architectures. Generation of the WDSL descriptor, UDDI entries and SOAP binding are automated, and Talend Integration Suite RTx handles the instantiation and management of the resources required (connection pools, integration processes pools, load balancing, failover and others.)
• Event-Based Execution-Talend Integration Suite RTx supports multiple modes of event-based execution for data integration processes: real-time event-based, Web Services invocation, etc. Its event listeners support JMS-based Message Oriented Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), as well as Remote Procedure Calls, HTTP and sockets calls.

Talend Integration Suite RTx leverages Talend's more than 400 connectors to source and target technologies, including real-time connectors to Web Services, MOM, Business Applications such as Salesforce.com, SAP, SugarCRM or Microsoft Dynamics. The platform supports all business needs for real-time integration.

Furthermore, Talend Integration Suite RTx's Publish & Subscribe Change Data Capture technology allows proactive, real-time detection of changes in data sources, dramatically decreasing the size of the data sets that are processed, which further accelerates the velocity of data.

“As the speed of business increases, IT organizations need to provide efficient and reliable technology to ensure the consistency of data across the information system, and its immediate availability for efficient decision-making,” said Fabrice Bonan, co-founder and COO of Talend. “Talend Integration Suite RTx provides - in one unified platform - all the features needed by the enterprise to consolidate their real-time integration needs.”

Talend Integration Suite RTx is available immediately. For more information, please visit http://www.talend.com.

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 Talend Reveals Winners of Second Annual Talend Awards

Talend Recognizes Cymat Technologies Ltd., Habitat 76 and Altic for Innovative and Effective Data Integration Projects Using Talend Solutions

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - June 15, 2009 - Talend today announced the winners of the second annual Talend Awards, which recognizes innovative and effective business projects implemented with Talend's open source data integration technology. Cymat Technologies Ltd., Habitat 76 and Altic have been selected as winners for their submissions of high-performance, Talend-based deployments showing measurable operational gains.

This year, the Talend Award jury determined winners in three categories, “Best Technical Use,” “Best Return on Investment/Best Business Gain” and “Best Performance.” The Talend Awards were open to all users of Talend Open Studio, Talend On Demand, Talend Integration Suite, Talend Open Profiler and Talend Data Quality, regardless of geographical location, industry or goals of the nominated project. Nominees answered a questionnaire indicating which solution they are using and a description of the project, emphasizing any unique attributes and notable business results.

The winner in the “Best Return on Investment/Best Business Gain” category is Ontario, Canada-based Cymat Technologies Ltd. Cymat, an innovative materials technology company, receives the award for achieving a 90 percent time savings in its handling of data and automation for tasks related to compression testing on stabilized aluminum foam products. With this Talend deployment, the timing for processing test results, which previously took six hours, now takes less than 40 minutes to complete.

“The most important gain that Talend brings us is the simplification and automation of the calculation process,” said Matthew Cook of Cymat Technologies Ltd. “In addition to this, most of our staff's background is in Materials Science & Engineering - not information technology. We found Talend surprisingly easy to use, and we were able to tap its incredibly helpful online community forums for answers to any questions we had.”

For the “Best Technical Use” category, Habitat 76, an agency that manages subsidized housing in the Seine Maritime region of France, wins the award for its technical documentation project for public housing which automated the creation and maintenance of property listings, maintenance work and technical reports in its Alfresco enterprise content management system. As part of this project, Habitat 76 developed connectors to Alfresco.

“We are proud to receive this Talend Award,” said Nicolas Feray, research and development manager of Habitat 76. “This award is clear recognition of the work we are doing in IT services to provide better services to our residents and to optimize our IT investment. Talend Integration Suite is an enterprise grade data integration solution, but it's also an extensible solution, as demonstrated by the connectors that we have developed for our own use as well as for the use of the community.”

For the “Best Performance” category, Altic, a systems integrator specializing in open source, receives the award for its Talend-based data integration and data quality deployments at Wonderbox, which sells gift vouchers and activity gifts. Altic was able to reduce its publishing task processing time from 20 hours to less than 15 minutes by implementing new data processes, which extract large volumes of catalog data each day to send to its multi-channel distribution sites.

“Wonderbox has built its information system around open source products such as SugarCRM, MySQL, OS Commerce, etc.,” said Marc Sallieres, CEO of Altic. “Talend's technologies, and especially the ELT approach, have allowed us to process massive amounts of data inside the database engine, accelerating - by several orders of magnitude - the processing of data. The performance gains we are recording are mind blowing and could not have been achieved with other solutions.”

“The Talend Awards give us an inside look at the diverse array of interesting projects being implemented,” said Yves de Montcheuil, vice president of marketing for Talend. “The impressive caliber and variety of projects we reviewed clearly prove once more Talend's suitability and flexibility for all companies, large and small, for many types of data integration projects. This year's winners were exceptional; we will continue to encourage them to share their feedback to benefit the rest of the Talend community.”

]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 TecSysCom leverages data integration and becomes a Gold Partner of Talend

DÜSSELDORF & NUREMBERG, - March 11, 2009 - The IT Specialist TecSysCom is a Gold Partner of Talend. Talend is the first provider of open source data integration software, covering all data integration needs with its solutions. In terms of this cooperation TecSysCom is extending its competence in process optimisation.

TecSysCom is specialised on data integration of different types of information from a wide range of sources which is a factor of success in the field of process optimization. "Most companies have a huge amount of valuable data; the decision makers just don't have an access to it. It is our goal to allow our clients such an access to leverage the data easily at the right time and in the right structure", emphasizes Manfred Eberhard, CEO of TecSysCom.

The optimized access to existing data and information is according to TecSysCom an essential business resource. The IT Specialist is guiding its clients through the different project phases, beginning with an analysis of the concept and architecture, the project launch and support.

About TecSysCom

TecSysCom owned by the READYFACT GROUP and is located in Weiler in the southwest of Germany. Based on a strong know-how the company is specialised on process optimisation and data integration. Since its foundation in 2007 TecSysCom is on course for growth in the fields of business intelligence, process consulting, software development and technologies. Moreover twenty4collect, Partner of the German economy in claims management belongs to the READYFACT Group as well as the readyfact Germany GmbH, Germany's number one in hedging against loss of rent.

]]> Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 CRM Specialist Refines Company Data with Talend Open Studio

Talend Open Studio migrates and integrates The Sugar Refinery Ltd's client data

MAINDENHEAD, UK - May 26, 2009 - eCentric Media's subsidiary company, The Sugar Refinery Ltd, a SugarCRM systems integration and customisation specialist has selected Talend Open Studio, to handle multiple client migration and integration requirements efficiently. With a host of ongoing CRM projects, The Sugar Refinery decided on using Talend Open Studio in a bid to increase data accuracy and synchronise customer data.

SugarCRM is a global provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software. With heightened competition creating a range of different data sources and structures, The Sugar Refinery Ltd has the daily challenge of moving and consolidating data from a number of applications including, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce.com and Goldmine.

Graeme Edgar, consultant at The Sugar Refinery Ltd commented: "The Sugar Refinery has to manage a huge number of CRM projects and as a company we needed to reduce the amount of ongoing support we provided with integrations and migrations. Talend Open Studio ticked all the boxes for The Sugar Refinery's requirements. The majority of our clients came from competitor CRM applications, so client data existed in a variety of sources and structures. Talend Open Studio enabled The Sugar Refinery to migrate and integrate client data accurately within seven days and at a dramatically lower cost than competitors."

"Not only is Talend's tool easy-to-use, it is open source and built on a Java framework. This provides The Sugar Refinery Ltd with the flexibility to continuously extend the tool so that it suits the requirements of each project at any given time," Graeme added.

Talend Open Studio provides advanced capabilities that dramatically improve the productivity of data integration job design and proven scalability to ensure optimal execution. The open source tool boasts a number of features including business modelling, graphical development, metadata-driven design, real-time debugging and robust execution. These capabilities enable companies such as The Sugar Refinery to tailor each CRM project to suit the specific needs of each client.

François Méro, Talend's General Manager for EMEA, expressed: "The Sugar Refinery needed a powerful and versatile data integration solution that could cope with legacy proprietary infrastructures and be optimised for working with SugarCRM. Talend Open Studio is exactly the right tool for the job. As an open source tool, it integrates effortlessly with existing systems and at a lower cost than others on the market. Some of The Sugar Refinery's larger clients can use Talend Open Studio, to ensure that data is kept synchronised and streamlined. It also eliminates the need for staff to manually input data, which is very costly both in terms of time and money meaning that staff can now focus on their key tasks. And as commercial open source vendor, Talend offers enterprise-grade support to its customers and partners, reinsuring them in their implementation of mission critical integration projects."

About The Sugar Refinery

The Sugar Refinery is a leading UK based SugarCRM customisation and integration company. The organisation focuses purely on SugarCRM - a popular open source CRM solution. The Sugar Refinery provides cost effective SugarCRM consultancy, customisation, integration, data migration, user training, user support, performance tuning and hosting.

]]> Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 Benchmark on New Sun Blade Server Proves Talend's Latest Solution Has Risen Above All Performance and Scalability Standards in a Complex Data Processing Environment

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - May 19, 2009 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced the availability of Talend Integration Suite MPx, a new enterprise data integration platform specially designed to help organizations attain the highest levels of performance and shatter the limits typically associated with traditional data integration processes.

Based on Talend's award winning, enterprise-grade data integration platform Talend Integration Suite, the new solution introduces the company's FileScale technology. The latest breakthrough technology, FileScale, allows organizations to conduct highly parallelized processing. FileScale enables enterprises to process large volumes of data in even less time, while also eliminating the limitations inherent in traditional data integration architectures.

"Even as data volumes grow exponentially and processing windows shrink, organizations are under pressure to process and load data even faster to support time-sensitive, data-driven business methods, like operational business intelligence, performance management, just-in-time inventory, one-to-one marketing, and so on," said Philip Russom, a research manager at The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI). "Delivering large data volumes in a short period of time demands a data integration infrastructure that seamlessly processes data in parallel at every step of the way."

Fully compatible with projects developed with Talend Integration Suite, MPx leverages two key sets of features to attain extreme scalability:

• FileScale-Talend's latest technology is based on the MapReduce architecture originally developed by Google for highly distributed processing of data in a data set mode. The FileScale components in Talend Integration Suite MPx allows integration processes to sort, filter and merge data, perform aggregation and arithmetic functions and transform and ensure the compliance of data. FileScale components are especially optimized for each supported platform, ensuring the highest possible performance.
• Massive Parallelization-Talend Integration Suite MPx also features multiple levels of massive parallelization, allowing the execution of separate sub-processes in parallel, break down of data sets into many parallel streams and the ability to leverage parallel database loaders.

With Talend Integration Suite MPx, IT organizations are able to process high volumes of data very quickly, providing the most up to date insight into the enterprise's operations. Data warehouses and analytic applications can be refreshed more often and can include more granular data for more accurate analysis-all in efforts to equip the enterprise to make more informed and accurate business decisions.

"More customers are realizing their data is an untapped resource and looking for an effective solution to leverage their data. Talend Integration Suite MPx addresses the true needs of the enterprise by providing high volume data processing," said Fabrice Bonan, co-founder and COO of Talend. "This new solution, which has outperformed all benchmarks, introduces a new implementation of ground-breaking technology and algorithms and takes data processing to the next level."

A benchmark was performed with Sun Microsystems on a Sun Blade X6270 server, featuring two Xeon 5520 quadcore processors at 2,26GHz and 24 GB of RAM, and running Solaris 10 update 6. In this benchmark, Talend Integration Suite MPx reached levels of scalability in sorting and calculation tests that have never been met before. The benchmark was performed with industry-standard TPC-H data sets, ranging in size from six million to 3.3 billion records.

Results of the benchmark highlighted the following performance metrics:

• In-memory sorting of data reaching up to one million records per second with linear scalability.
• Record-breaking sorting of large data sets (3.3 billion records) at a speed of 200,000 to 400,000 records per second.
• Average calculation on large data sets (3.3 billion records) reaching 220,000 records per second.

Full results of the benchmark, analyzed and noted by Sun's performance expert, Amir Javanshir, can be obtained here: http://blogs.sun.com/aja/entry/talend_s_new_data_processing.

Talend Integration Suite MPx is available immediately and has been optimized on the following platforms: Windows 32 & 64 bit, Solaris & OpenSolaris (SPARC & Intel x86), IBM AIX, HP-UX and Linux 32 & 64 bit. For more information, please visit http://www.talend.com.

]]> Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 open source data integration software, today announced multiple global customer wins across the government sector including The State of Tennessee, Development Alternatives Inc., United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, City of Brantford, City of Châteauroux, Theis Consult, The Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety and Revenue Commisioners. These customer wins highlight Talend's global reach and continued success in delivering cost-effective solutions that help simplify and streamline data integration processes, while meeting the stringent guidelines required by government organizations.

Recent North American customer wins include:

• The State of Tennessee-The State of Tennessee's department of revenue leverages Talend Open Studio where vital ownership information will be provided to law enforcement agencies based on vehicle descriptions quickly and more cost-effectively. The State of Tennessee also has immediate plans to expand its use of Talend Open Studio within the vehicle title and registration application, as well as the revenue tax data warehouse.
• Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI)-DAI, an international development firm covering developing and transition countries to provide comprehensive development solutions, uses Talend Open Studio to integrate and consolidate project data. DAI also uses Talend's solution to improve efficiency and tracking of international development activities, in areas such as, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS and water and natural resources management.
• City of Brantford-The City of Brantford in Ontario, Canada, uses Talend Open Studio for all of its data migration and data synchronization processes to help better manage the municipality's asset management and work orders.

In addition, the following organizations in Europe and Africa are also using Talend:

• Revenue Commissioners-The Office of the Revenue Commisioners, Ireland's taxation authority, uses Talend Integration Suite to automate their data management and transformation processes to help manage the administration of taxes and duties.
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)-UNHCR, an agency mandated to lead and coordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide, utilizes Talend Open Studio to simplify the mapping of refugee camps throughout the world.
• City of Châteauroux-The City of Châteauroux, France, uses Talend Open Studio to manage its heterogeneous data for asset management and cost control for the town's City Hall.
• Theis Consult-Aachen, Germany-based Theis Consult, one of the leaders in road traffic consulting, planning and management, utilizes Talend Open Studio to enable consolidation and analysis of vehicle traffic volumes to better predict and analyze road congestion on Germany's extensive freeway system.
• The Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN)-IRSN, the French government organization in charge of controlling the risks linked to radioactivity, uses Talend Open Studio, in conjunction with Camptocamp's MapFish, to consolidate nuclear and radioactivity assessment results for its environmental website.

"Like many industries, the government sector needs a scalable, high-performance data integration solution to manage several programs and Talend's open source solutions meet those needs as evidenced by our traction in this space," said Vincent Pineau, Talend's vice president and general manager, Americas. "The various uses of Talend's solution within these organizations demonstrates how flexible and reliable our enterprise-class data integration platform truly is, and illustrates how it can improve data processes for any type of organization across various verticals."

Talend Open Studio has more than four million lifetime downloads and 900,000 core product downloads. Along with enterprise-version Talend Integration Suite, it is a less expensive and more scalable open source alternative to proprietary data integration solutions that require costly initial investment and rely heavily on IT resources for maintenance and upgrades. Talend Integration Suite is an enterprise-grade, high-performance data integration offering that extends the functionality of Talend Open Studio, with technical support and additional features for collaboration and deployment in large enterprise settings.

]]> Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 open source data integration software, today announced the availability of version 3.1 of its flagship data integration solutions, Talend Open Studio and Talend Integration Suite. With a wealth of new and extended features for enterprise projects, the latest release offers a deep integration into the information system, enabling organizations across various industries to streamline the development and deployment of mission-critical data integration processes cost-effectively, while reducing time-to-market...]]> Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 open source data integration software and Camptocamp, leader in open source geomatics for geographical information systems (GIS), announced today that the Pays des Vals de Saintonge has developed an access platform to local geographic data letting the cities improve their geospatial management and allowing residents to look at the land registry...]]> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 Open Source data integration software, has today announced that the Revenue Commissioners in Ireland have introduced Talend Integration Suite into its open source portfolio to meet various data integration needs...]]> Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 open source data integration software, announces record attendance at the Talend Roadshow...]]> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 open source data integration software, today announced that SupplyFrame, an online component information service for the electronics industry, has chosen Talend to help streamline its data collection processes. Talend Integration Suite enables SupplyFrame to gather large amounts of data from disparate sources quickly and efficiently...]]> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 open source data integration software, announced today a partnership aimed at jointly selling and marketing their solutions. This new partnership allows both companies to expand their market reach with their leading integration technology. This partnership - combining the power of Attunity's mainframe connectivity and non-intrusive change-data-capture (CDC) software, and the versatility of Talend's open source data integration solutions - will offer customers increased options for data integration...]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 open source data integration software, today announced a call for nominations for the second annual Talend Awards. The awards recognize innovative uses of Talend's open source data integration software in three categories: best technical prowess, best ROI/business gain and best performance. A jury, composed of members from Talend's technical and marketing divisions as well as senior management, will determine the winners in each category. Winners will be notified before the end of April 2009. Each winner will receive a new Apple IPod Touch and be named "Talend Ambassador"...]]> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 Intelligent Enterprise Magazine as a "Company to Watch" in 2009. The company was selected based on its market leadership in open source data integration and Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) technologies, in addition to the innovation of its products and strength of its industry partnerships...]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 "makes an excellent choice for data integration" because of its low barrier to entry, broad reach via Java and Web services, and highly distributable architecture...]]> Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:00:00 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:00 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:00 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:00:00 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:00:00 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:00:00 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:00 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:00:00 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:00 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:00:00 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:00:00 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 TM…]]> Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:00 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:00:00 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:00:00 Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:00:00 Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00