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May 16, 2023

Qlik Acquires Talend, Combining its Best-in-Class Data Integration with Talend’s Leading Data Transformation, Quality, and Governance Capabilities

Talend and Qlik's Data Integration and Quality solutions automate the delivery of trusted, business-ready data, enabling smarter decisions, operational efficiency, and innovation. Philadelphia, PA – May 16, 2023 – Qlik® today announced it has closed its acquisition of Talend, expanding the company’s best-in-class capabilities for modern enterprises to access, transform, trust, analyze, and take action with data. The combined entity is led by Qlik CEO Mike Capone, completing the latest chapter in the company’s strategic vision to deliver best-in-class data integration, data quality, and analytics solutions. “Qlik, together with Talend, will bring significant benefits to customers, including expanded product offerings, enhanced support and services, and increased investments in innovation and R&D,” said Mike Capone. “Qlik's broad expertise in data integration, analytics, AI and machine learning combined with Talend's data integration and data quality solutions, will provide customers the most comprehensive solution in the industry.” As data fragmentation, driven by thousands of sources and targets, has increased, organizations have had to choose from incomplete legacy solutions, cloud lock-in, or multiple disparate point solutions – all of which come with cost and innovation risks. With Talend, Qlik brings a new approach, offering a full range of best-in-class capabilities, helping customers eliminate technical debt and cost while increasing enterprise confidence that trusted data is available for decision making when it matters most. “This is a perfect example of 1 + 1 equals 3. These are two market-leading companies that will enable their customers to benefit across the data and analytics lifecycle regardless of where they are in their digital transformation journey,” said Mike Leone, Principal Analyst for Analytics and AI, Enterprise Strategy Group. “So many data initiatives are seeking to build trust within the data ecosystem, and it’s not just the data. It’s the processes and people too. I’m truly excited for their joint customers. By marrying Qlik’s existing presence in the data integration space with Talend, customers will see more robust data integration capabilities and powerful data governance to deliver the confidence and trust they desire.” Qlik and Talend solutions are complementary, extending the capabilities in many vital areas such as data quality, transformation, application connectivity, and API services. Importantly, Qlik will continue to remain open to virtually any data source, target, architecture, or methodology, ensuring customers always have the data they need, whenever they need it. The combined entity has earned a leading position across multiple market categories. For seven years in a row, Gartner positioned Talend as a leader in its Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, and a leader in its Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Solutions for five consecutive years. It has positioned Qlik as a leader in its Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for 13 consecutive years. Additionally, Qlik has been named a leader in the IDC MarketScape: U.S. Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2022 Vendor Assessment. For more information about the combined power of Qlik and Talend together read Mike Capone’s blog or attend our upcoming webinar on May 23: Qlik | Talend: What's Next is Now. To learn more about Qlik, visit www.qlik.com, and for more about Talend visit www.talend.com. About Qlik and Talend Qlik, with the recent addition of Talend, delivers an industry leading portfolio of solutions for data integration, data quality, and analytics. This includes advancements in real-time, AI, ML, and automation. The most successful organizations are investing in data to make sense of the increasing amounts and varieties of data from diverse sources. The challenge is to effectively integrate, analyze, and act on the data while ensuring its trustworthiness. With more than 40,000 active customers in over 100 countries, Qlik’s solutions work with any data source, target, architecture or methodology, to ensure customers have the data they need, whenever they need it. © 2023 QlikTech International AB. All rights reserved. All company and/or product names may be trade names, trademarks and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners with which they are associated. The information provided herein is subject to change without notice. In addition, the development, release and timing of any product or functionality described herein remain at the sole discretion of Qlik and should not be relied upon in making a purchasing decision, nor as a representation, warranty or commitment to deliver specific products or functionality in the future.

February 28, 2023

Talend Unveils Major Data Fabric Platform Update

Winter ‘23 Release Continues to Accelerate and Streamline Modern Data Management San Mateo, Calif. — February 28, 2023 — Talend, a global leader in data integration and management, today announced the latest update to Talend Data Fabric, its end-to-end platform for data discovery, transformation, governance, and sharing. Talend is a pioneer in low-code data solutions that help remove the technological and skills-based barriers to working effectively with data across the enterprise and accelerate the process of turning raw data into meaningful business outcomes. In the Winter ‘23 release, this tradition continues with the introduction of advanced capabilities and enhancements to simplify and automate cloud migrations and data management, expand data connectivity, and improve data visibility, quality, control, and access. “Today’s businesses are facing unprecedented changes and disruptions driving them to re-think their data management strategies, including engineering, governance, and intelligence domains,” said Stewart Bond, Research Vice President, Data Intelligence and Data Integration Software, IDC. “Organizations need to guarantee a high level of data and data pipelines availability and efficiency, streamline cloud processing, and leverage augmented data and metadata management technologies. The latest Talend Data Fabric capabilities support organizations’ new data imperatives to reduce risks, ensure greater compliance and accelerate innovation.” Here are some of the latest Talend Data Fabric features to help data professionals, including data engineers and architects gain full command of their data environments and organizations transition to and extract the most value from their modern data management stack: Managing Cloud Jobs: Talend adds more AI-powered automation to its Winter ’23 through Smart Services that simplify task scheduling and orchestration of cloud jobs. The new Smart Services allow users to pause and resume tasks and utilize smart timeouts cutting additional compute time and improving operational efficiency. Improved connectivity for modernization: Talend is adding to its already impressive line up of 1,000-plus connections and components to enable users to connect to virtually any cloud or on-premise data source. With SAP ending support for many traditional SAP deployments in 2027, the new release brings certified connectors for SAP S/4HANA®, and SAP Business Warehouse on HANA, enabling organizations to easily shift critical workloads to these modern SAP data platforms. The release also supports ad platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter, and modern cloud databases, including Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), Azure SQL Database, Google Bigtable, and Neo4j Aura Cloud. Talend is also improving support for streaming use-cases by enhancing the Kafka connector to benefit from the latest and greatest Kafka innovations, including new Apache Spark™ Data Interfaces and schema registry. Data observability: The addition of data observability enables data professionals to automatically and proactively monitor the quality of their data over time and provide trusted data for self-service data access. By leveraging dataset crawling or tags, users can easily uncover data blind spots to discover new datasets. Data teams can instantaneously check the validity and usage of data types across the datasets, apply contextual data quality rules, and monitor how data quality evolves using the enhanced Talend Trust Score™. Talend is also updating Stitch, its powerful yet simple-to-use, fully managed cloud ETL service. Stitch is ideal for quick and automated data movement to any cloud platform and enables Data Analysts and Data Citizens to work directly with data without IT assistance. Stitch now includes new role-based access control to provide better segregation of administrator duties and new pipeline monitoring capabilities that will allow data teams to get key metrics on data ingestion, including data volumes, data freshness, and schema changes. With the newly added History mode for Snowflake, data changes for historical analysis or compliance auditing can be easily tracked. “Winter ’23 is based on direct customer feedback and continuing to support those on the front lines charged with the increasingly daunting task of extracting maximum, ongoing value from corporate data,” said Jason Penkethman, Chief Product Officer, Talend. “As well as continuing to drive operational efficiency and expedite data modernization efforts and returns, with Winter ’23, we are also empowering our customers to continuously monitor data throughout its lifecycle and understand and impact how it evolves and moves to fuel positive business outcomes.” To further support customers and speed up time to value, Talend also introduced updated services. These include an enhanced Talend Academy subscription that provides customers with a cost-effective way to have recurring instructor-led training events delivered for their staff and a Talend Strategic Architect Subscription to ensure maximum implementation returns. Talend is also launching a new set of Accelerator services, subscription-based packages containing dozens of tools, frameworks, reference architectures, and best-practice guides that are coupled with a catalog of bite-sized professional services available on demand. For more information about what’s new in Talend Data Fabric Winter ‘23, visit: www.talend.com/blog/winter-23-accelerate-time-to-value-and-data-modernization-efforts

January 5, 2023

Qlik Intends to Acquire Talend – Delivering Comprehensive Data Integration to Accelerate Cloud Modernization

The proposed combination would deliver a unique, cloud-independent portfolio to help customers address their most pressing data integration, transformation, and governance needs Philadelphia, PA and San Mateo, CA — Jan. 5, 2023 – Qlik® today announced its intention to acquire Talend, which would bring together two Thoma Bravo-backed industry leaders with a shared focus on adding value to data to deliver business outcomes for customers. Qlik and Talend provide comprehensive and complementary capabilities with industry-leading solutions across real-time data and application integration, data governance, data quality, transformation, analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Gartner has positioned Talend as a leader in its 2022 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools and its 2022 Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Solutions. It has positioned Qlik as a leader in its Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for 12 consecutive years. Additionally, Qlik has been named a leader in the IDC MarketScape: U.S. Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2022 Vendor Assessment. “We are excited about this proposal to have two of our leading portfolio companies join forces to accelerate the vision of making a difference in the world through data,” said Seth Boro, a Managing Partner at Thoma Bravo. “The proposed combination of these two growing and profitable businesses, under the leadership of Mike Capone, would have significant global scale and an unparalleled product portfolio.” “Bringing together Qlik and Talend would be a game-changer,” said Mike Capone, Qlik CEO. “Both companies have differentiated their offerings to help customers drive more business value from data. Together, we would continue to embody the culture, expertise, and partnership that customers value, and operate at the scale needed to lead and innovate in an ever-evolving technology landscape.” "Strategic use of data and intelligence is a critical lever in running a digital business but building a data-driven culture is difficult. Combining two industry leaders like Qlik and Talend would provide customers with a broadened portfolio, making data environments and data workers more productive. This would help businesses overcome organizational data challenges and fosters strategic use of data. We believe Qlik and Talend would drive more value to increasingly complex customer environments," said Stewart Bond, Vice President, Data Intelligence and Data Integration Software at IDC. The proposed transaction is subject to works council consultation. It would be expected to close during the first half of 2023 following customary regulatory approvals. Terms of the proposed transaction were not disclosed. To learn more about Qlik and Talend’s vision to unleash the next wave of innovation in enterprise data and analytics, register for the QlikWorld 2023 conference taking place April 17-20, 2023 in Las Vegas, NV. About Qlik Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, where everyone can use data and analytics to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. A private company, Qlik offers real-time data integration and analytics solutions, powered by Qlik Cloud, to close the gaps between data, insights and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Qlik serves more than 38,000 active customers in over 100 countries. About Talend Talend, a global leader in data integration and data management, is taking the work out of working with data. Talend offers the only end-to-end platform that combines enterprise-grade data integration, integrity, and governance capabilities to unify data across any cloud, hybrid, or multi-cloud environment. With Talend’s no-code and low-code modules, data experts and business users actively collaborate to make data more discoverable, usable, and valuable organization-wide. Over 7,250 customers around the world rely on Talend for healthy data, and a healthy business. For more information, please visit www.Talend.com and follow us on LinkedIn.com and Twitter @Talend. For more information, please contact: Qlik Miranda Foster Qlik Communications +1 646-370-9785 miranda.foster@qlik.com The contents of any website or hyperlinks mentioned in this press release are for informational purposes and the contents thereof are not part of this press release. © 2023 QlikTech International AB. All rights reserved. All company and/or product names may be trade names, trademarks and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners with which they are associated.

December 6, 2022

Talend Achieves Elite Tier Partner Status and Technology Ready Validation with Snowflake

Talend Continues to Drive Instant and Easy Access to Healthy Data in Snowflake San Mateo, CA — December 6, 2022 — Talend, a global leader in data integration and management, today announced it has achieved Elite tier partner status from Snowflake, the Data Cloud company. Additionally, Talend has once again been approved by Snowflake as a Snowflake Ready Technology Validation Partner, further demonstrating that Talend adheres to Snowflake’s best practices around performance, reliability, and security. “Talend and Snowflake provide organizations with the ability to govern and share data, enable self-service analytics, and ease cloud and data modernization,” said Andy Smith, Senior Director Global Tech Alliances, Talend. “This latest validation demonstrates Talend’s ongoing commitment to Snowflake and the company’s steady innovation to support agile, high-performing data processing in the Snowflake Data Cloud.” Talend continues to support data workers to maximize data’s value in Snowflake to drive trusted business decisions. With Talend Trust Score™ for Snowflake, users can verify the quality of their data inside Data Cloud. With a simple click, Snowflake customers can increase their performance and accuracy by running quality checks on entire data sets without the use of external applications or moving sample sets. It also addresses data privacy and sovereignty concerns by keeping processing inside Snowflake, so no data leaves the environment. “The combination of Talend and Snowflake technologies enables joint customers to get real-time access to trusted data and achieve greater business outcomes,” added Tarik Dwiek, Head of Technology Alliances at Snowflake. “Talend’s Elite status demonstrates the commitment they have to ensuring customers benefit from leading-edge technologies to succeed with their data and cloud transformation.” Mental Health Concern, a UK-based non-profit dedicated to providing free mental health services, is using Talend and Snowflake to deliver integrated, healthy data for decision-making. The organization needed a single, scalable, reliable source of truth so it could evolve quickly without disruption. Mental Health Concern can now connect multiple systems and data sources so it can make reliable information more accessible and more trustworthy for stakeholders across the company. “Talend and Snowflake provide integrated, trustworthy data that now guides our core decisions,” said John Slator, Head of Data and Insights at Mental Health Concern & Insight IAPT. “Stakeholders across the company as well as therapists who work directly with patients have access to reliable information easily.” Learn more about the Snowflake Partner Network and try Talend through the Partner Connect portal. More information on Talend Data Fabric and Talend Trust Score™ for Snowflake can be found here.

November 17, 2022

Talend Partners with Passerelle and Snowflake to Ensure Companies Run on Healthy Data

New vertical solutions for Passerelle’s Data Rocket architected on Talend Data Fabric and the Snowflake Data Cloud SAN MATEO – November 17, 2022 – Talend, a global leader in data integration and data management, announced today a partnership with Passerelle and Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, to provide new vertical solutions for delivering healthy data to organizations worldwide. Built on Talend Data Fabric and Snowflake’s Data Cloud, Passerelle’s Data Rocket provides a scalable architecture that delivers governed data ingestion, trusted stewardship, cloud-based storage, and on-demand visual analytics based on the foundation of healthy data. New Data Rocket vertical solutions will be tailored for key vertical markets, beginning with financial services. Financial institutions rely on data insights to attract and retain customers in a tech-driven world – an estimated 73% of global consumers use online banking at least once a month to access and manage their financial assets. However, for many organizations, data silos and legacy ways of data governance create barriers to valuable insights. Additionally, legacy analytics infrastructure makes it difficult for the right teams to get the data where they need it, when they need it. Investing in data modernization with a full-scale data architecture and business analytics solution can be overwhelming and expensive for small and mid-sized institutions. “To compete in today’s world, it takes a whole ecosystem of partners - there's not one bank that I know of that can do it all on their own,” Peter Love, Chief Digital Officer, Berkshire Bank. “Passerelle’s Data Rocket has created a modern infrastructure to improve our insights and create a better customer experience.” “By integrating its product with Snowflake, Passerelle harnesses the power of the Data Cloud and the ability to discover and purchase data directly on Snowflake Marketplace to enable digital transformation for regional banks and other financial services organizations,” said Rinesh Patel, Global Head of Financial Services at Snowflake. “Passerelle’s Data Rocket ties technology investments with use cases for immediate value and usability.” Data Rocket’s end-to-end data solution optimizes Talend Data Fabric and the Snowflake Data Cloud’s abilities to give data teams the most value out of their data so financial organizations can achieve desired business outcomes in a robust data-based environment. Talend, Passerelle, and Snowflake will provide joint customers with industry-leading support to help minimize overhead, increase customer attrition, increase ROI, and support data-informed innovation decisions. “Assembling a data stack to meet all the needs of an organization is a daunting task,” said Pat Dionne, CEO of Passerelle. “Data Rocket is an end-to-end solution that unites industry leading technologies into a robust framework that scales with use and lands quickly with prebuilt dashboards and ready to use data governance modules. With the Data Rocket for Financial Services, we added capabilities that our financial services customers are asking for – easier access to 3rd party data and enriched 1st party data, a better way to measure ROI in marketing, and predefined use cases to accelerate time to value.” Talend removes technological and skills-based barriers to working effectively with data across an entire organization. The company’s cloud-independent unified data integration and management solutions ensure businesses become data-driven by achieving organization-wide data health. Talend Data Fabric is an end-to-end data integration platform that simplifies all aspects of working with trusted data for analysis and use, driving critical business outcomes. For organizations within the finance vertical, healthy data from Talend will make a huge difference for data teams who need to get the most value out of their data in order to make informed business decisions. “A solution like Data Rocket is essential for businesses of any size looking to implement a working environment that uses healthy data at scale for analysis,” said Andy Smith, Senior Director Global Tech Alliances, Talend. “Having reliable data, especially during times of uncertainty, is critical for making decisions toward achieving desired business outcomes. We look forward to our continued collaboration with Passerelle and Snowflake as we introduce new capabilities and vertical industries to market.”

November 8, 2022

Talend Announces Casey George as Chief Revenue Officer

Former IBM and Verint executive to accelerate data leader’s global scale and market impact San Mateo, Calif. – November 8, 2022 – Talend, a global leader in data integration and data management, today announced it has hired Casey George as its chief revenue officer. Casey brings over 20 years of experience leading high-achieving teams and exceeding sales, revenue, and profit objectives. “Casey is a strong addition to the team with expertise for scaling SaaS companies and a proven track record of earning customer loyalty and accelerating growth,” said Kristin Weston, Talend Board Chair. “Casey will help us expand our position globally and deepen our strategic partnerships as we look to help more companies get greater value from their data.” Casey was most recently senior vice president and general manager at Verint, a global leader in customer engagement, and spent over 20 years at IBM in multiple executive roles. Casey has experience selling across industries and segments. He will help lead go-to-market alignment to drive new customer acquisition and existing client retention. Casey will also build upon Talend’s successful relationships with leading technology partners, including AWS and Snowflake, and a network of system integrators and value-added resellers that help streamline customer implementations and accelerate the return on their data investments. “In today’s uncertain and rapidly evolving world, it’s imperative for companies to trust and understand how to use their data to gain a competitive edge,” said Casey George. “Talend’s unique ability to turn data into a multiplier has never been more relevant. I look forward to working with the rest of the leadership team to help our customers thrive in a rapidly changing business environment.”

November 4, 2022

Talend Named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Quality Solutions

Fifth consecutive time recognized as a Leader based on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision San Mateo, CA — November 4, 2022 — Talend, a global leader in data integration and data management, today announced it has once again been recognized by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in data quality solutions in the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Solutions [1]. This is the fifth consecutive time that Talend has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant based on the company’s ability to execute and completeness of vision. For a complimentary copy of Gartner’s complete report, click here. According to Gartner, Inc., “Driven by transition to more augmented data quality features, the market for data quality solutions is further consolidating with adjacent data and analytics markets such as metadata management, governance platforms, data integration tools and master data management (MDM) solutions. As a result, data and analytics (D&A) leaders and practitioners expect seamless interoperability between these products driven by consolidation and sharing of metadata.” “The ability to establish a trusted data culture and democratize access to trusted data relies on a collaborative approach to data quality”, said Jamie Fiorda, CMO, Talend. “We believe that this new recognition as a Leader demonstrates the value Talend brings in supporting organizations to take a proactive and integrated path to healthy data.” Talend Data Fabric is the only end-to-end data management platform that provides integrated data quality capabilities to guarantee access and usage of trusted and governed data throughout the data life cycle. In the most recent release, the platform adds advanced features for automation and AI-driven augmentation for data enrichment, data profiling, and data remediation, as well as data observability to face the growing complexity of data stacks and the need for proactively managing data quality. In the report, Gartner also notes, “By 2024, 90% of data quality technology buying decisions will focus on ease of use, automation, operational efficiency and interoperability as the critical decision factors.” Additionally, “By 2026, 20% of large enterprises will use a single data and analytics governance platform to unify and automate discrete governance programs.” Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. GARTNER and Magic Quadrant are registered trademarks and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. [1] Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Solutions, By Ankush Jain, Melody Chien, 1 November 2022

October 17, 2022

Talend Announces 2022 Data Masters Award Winners

Innovative Global Leaders Recognized for Transforming Data into Operational and Business Excellence San Mateo, CA — October 17, 2022 — Talend, a global leader in data integration and management, today announced the international winners of its 8th annual Talend Data Masters Awards. Talend honors select companies that demonstrate their commitment to being data-driven by implementing Talend to drive value from data and increase business agility and effectiveness. Award winners will be recognized at Talend’s virtual Talend Connect conference taking place on October 17 and 18. “This year's winners of the Talend Data Masters Awards demonstrate the critical value Talend serves to customers of all industries to transform data into operational excellence, customer-centricity, and growth,” said Christal Bemont, Talend CEO. “Our customers have shown how healthy data can help drive greater business outcomes while navigating through uncertainties and pursuing sustainability.” Since 2015, Talend Data Masters Award winners have included companies of all types and sizes that share a goal of turning the possibilities of data into quantifiable business value. This year's winners are judged based on creativity and innovation to create better customer relationships, streamline operations, achieve cost efficiency, and gain competitive advantage. Talend will make a charitable donation in the winner's name to the organization of their choice. 2022 Talend Data Masters Award Winners: NORAM Commonwealth Care Alliance: Based in Boston, Commonwealth Care Alliance® (CCA) is focused on healthcare breakthroughs that fill important gaps in care. Using Talend, the firm integrated its systems, applications, and data sources; coordinated secure data exchange among state health plans, partner providers, compliance officers, and others; and automated core service processes to streamline operations. Covanta: With headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, Covanta and its 4,000 employees are dedicated to sustainable waste solutions and material management across 55 facilities in North America.With Talend, Covanta will save approximately $2 million annually through the elimination of duplicate work resulting from redundant data entry. The company is also saving more than $500,000 per year through the ability to proactively adjust to energy market conditions. Material Bank: Material Bank is the world’s largest marketplace for architectural, design, and construction materials. With Talend, the company has realized a 70% reduction in development time for its integrations, making it easier for them to connect with their members and Brand Partners — and ultimately supporting Material Bank’s overall ability to scale its business on multiple levels. EMEA RS Group PLC: Founded in 1937, RS Group is a global omni-channel provider of product and service solutions for designers, builders, and maintainers of industrial equipment and operations. By improving data governance with Talend, RS Group achieved considerable annual savings with cloud and market optimization insights, cut reporting time on competitor pricing from two weeks to five hours, reduced freight costs £1 million/year by exploiting data-driven insights, cut GDPR compliance risks, protected its brand through Master Permissions, and improved its ability to meet customer needs quickly. Uniper: Uniper is a global energy company that is actively addressing the challenges of the energy transition. Using Talend, Uniper is undergoing a mindset shift towards a data culture that is built on trust, accountability, transparency, and psychological safety. Making data accessible and shareable across the organization gives the company the power to create value from data. Veolia: Veolia, an international company providing solutions for water management, waste management, and energy services, is translating its data into valuable insights that accelerate solutions for ecological transformation. With Talend Veolia integrated more than 20 different data sources as internal ERP systems, external partner data, smart meters, and IoT devices. All of this data is now available in real-time or near-real-time to 672 active users in finance, customer service, sales, operations, billing, and more. Asia Pacific/Japan Harmoney: Harmoney is a New-Zealand based fintech firm. Faced with the challenge of improving traditional lending to be fast, simple and data-driven, Harmoney used Talend to deliver real-time data and created a frictionless loan application process that led to rapid business growth. Meralco: Meralco is the largest private-sector electric distribution utility in the Philippines with a reputation for excellent service. To take the customer experience to an even higher level, Meralco is now using Talend as the centerpiece of its innovative, data-driven, business transformation initiative. By providing clean, complete, and secure data, Talend enables Meralco to use data analytics and intelligence more broadly, efficiently, and effectively in making business decisions in a timely manner. OCBC Bank: Singapore-based OCBC Bank is the second-largest bank in Southeast Asia. The institution partnered with Talend create innovative ways to apply analytics, AI, and automation to better understand and serve customers. OCBC processes over 120 billion data points monthly when deriving the Next Best Conversation for each customer. HCF: Australia’s largest not-for-profit health insurer, HCF, is transforming its business by expanding the use of AI-powered business intelligence (BI) across the organization. Talend provides the technological foundation for the company’s use cases, making it possible for HCF to create a unified source of trusted information. To learn more about the 2022 Talend Data Masters Awards winners, visit the blog.

September 21, 2022

Talend Data Health Barometer Reveals Companies’ Ability to Manage Data is Worsening Year-Over-Year

Barrier to getting real value from data isn’t budget or technology –– it’s the people Economic uncertainty raises need for faster access to reliable data to drive business impact San Mateo, Calif., Sept. 21, 2022 — Talend, a global leader in data integration and data management, today released the results from its second annual Data Health Barometer, a survey conducted globally among nearly 900 independent data experts and leaders. While a majority of respondents believe data is important, 97% face challenges in using data effectively and nearly half say it's not easy to use data to drive business impact. The Data Health Barometer explores the disconnect between data and decision, which can impede enterprises and executives from supporting their strategic objectives through any economic conditions. “In the coming years, businesses are only going to become more reliant on data to navigate the challenges of a turbulent economy and an increasingly competitive marketplace,” said Christal Bemont, CEO at Talend. “By putting a focus on reliable data — supported by a strong data culture with a focus on agility and trust — businesses can not only weather any storm, but come out ahead. Having a healthy data environment in place gives organizations the power to run lean in tough times without sacrificing their long-term strategy.” A company’s overall data health describes not just the state of a company’s data, but how well it supports targeted business outcomes. Major findings from the survey include: Companies’ ability to manage data is worsening YOY: On all five markers of healthy data — timeliness, accuracy, consistency, accessibility, and completeness — companies rate themselves around 10 points lower in 2022 than they did in 2021. Timeliness (-29pts) and accessibility (-15pts) saw the greatest drops, as respondents struggle with getting the data they need as a result of remote work (57%). There is a data literacy skills gap: Respondents shared that the No. 1 barrier to getting real value from data isn’t budget or technology –– it’s their people. One in three respondents have reservations about how well employees understand the data they work with. Without a common language for data, these businesses may not be prepared to face the challenges ahead. Businesses are preparing for economic turbulence: Respondents ranked increasing revenue (+10pts) and optimizing costs (+13pts) at the top of the list for data use and have increased in priority from last year. However, nearly half of companies claim that their data doesn't yet have the speed and flexibility they need to satisfy all the demands of the business, and 41% claim they don’t have fast access to the right data. Data trust and data quality remain top challenges to using data effectively: More than one-third of companies report that trusting the data they rely on to make business decisions is a major challenge. In fact, nearly half of respondents feel that ensuring data quality is a top challenge in using data effectively. Gartner research found that organizations believe poor data quality to be responsible for an average of $15 million per year in losses. Demonstrating the value of data health in an organization is Covanta, a leader in sustainable materials management, offering solutions that keep trash out of landfills, reduce greenhouse gases and generate clean energy. With Covanta’s data hub approach and Talend, IT can deliver the data quality needed for the business to have far greater confidence in its decisions. “There is now a shared understanding across operations and strategy, business and IT, of what our data means. Now we trust the quality of the data we use to operate our facilities," said Charles Link, Chief Data Officer at Covanta. For more information on the 2022 Data Health Barometer visit here. * Survey Methodology In June 2022, Talend led a global survey via Qualtrics among a base of independent respondents. 895 answers were collected, 892 answers were considered complete for analysis. The respondents are all data experts and leaders from medium and large companies, who regularly work with data. As data becomes a key asset for any organization, respondents represent a variety of industries and departments.

August 22, 2022

Talend Named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools

Seventh consecutive year recognized as a Leader based on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision San Mateo, CA – August 22, 2022 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and data management, today announced it has once again been named by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in the August 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. This is the seventh consecutive time that Talend has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant based on the company’s ability to execute and completeness of vision. For a complimentary copy of Gartner’s complete report, click here. Gartner defines data integration as the discipline comprising the architectural patterns, methodologies and tools that allow organizations to achieve consistent access and delivery of data across a wide spectrum of data sources and data types to meet the data consumption requirements of business applications and end users. Data integration tools enable organizations to access, integrate, transform, process, and move data spanning various endpoints and across any infrastructure to support their data integration use cases. “We believe that our recognition for the seventh consecutive year as a Leader validates the strategic importance and value Talend continues to provide for businesses, especially in times of economic uncertainty,” said Jamie Fiorda, CMO, Talend. “Healthy data can determine the success or failure of any initiative involving data, including analytics, cloud modernization, operationalization of data, or data governance. Businesses need proven solutions like Talend to enable data health and deliver meaningful business outcomes.” Talend removes technological and skills-based barriers to working effectively with data across your entire organization. The company’s cloud-independent unified data integration and management solutions ensure businesses become data-driven by achieving organization-wide data health. Talend Data Fabric is the only end to end data integration platform that simplifies all aspects of working with trusted data for analysis and use, driving critical business outcomes. In the report, Gartner also notes, “Through 2024, manual data integration tasks will be reduced by up to 50% through the adoption of data fabric design patterns that support augmented data integration.” Additionally, “By 2024, AI-enabled augmented data management and integration will reduce the need for IT specialists by up to 30%.” Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. GARTNER and Magic Quadrant are registered trademarks and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.