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March 10, 2021

Talend to be Acquired by Thoma Bravo in a $2.4 Billion Transaction

Talend Shareholders to Receive $66.00 per Ordinary Share and ADS in Cash Represents 29% Premium to Talend’s Closing Stock Price of $51.30 on March 9, 2021 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., REDWOOD CITY, Calif., and SURESNES, France - March 10, 2021 - Talend (“Talend” or “the Company”), a leader in data integration and data integrity, today announced that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sectors, under which Thoma Bravo intends to commence a tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding ordinary shares and American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) of Talend, for $66.00 per ordinary share and ADS (each ADS representing one ordinary share) in cash. The offer, which values Talend at approximately $2.4 billion, represents a premium of approximately 29% to Talend’s closing price on March 9 and an 81% premium to the volume weighted average price over the last twelve months. The Talend Board of Directors unanimously approved the memorandum of understanding. Subject to and upon completion of the transaction, Talend would become a private company and continue investing in its cloud transition as well as products and solutions that serve the evolving data needs of its customers. “We are pleased to move forward with Thoma Bravo, as the transaction will deliver compelling and certain cash value to Talend shareholders and significant strategic, long-term benefits for our customers, employees, and other stakeholders,” said Steve Singh, Chairman of the Board of Talend. “Our Board is focused on driving shareholder value and has periodically evaluated potential transaction alternatives in the context of our standalone plan over the past several years. With the successful advancement of our transformation effort led by our CEO over the past year, the Talend Board and management team conducted a targeted process with potential financial and strategic parties to determine the best path forward for the Company. We believe the transaction with Thoma Bravo validates the Talend team’s success in building a data market leader.” “The last twelve months have underscored the importance of digital transformation and the unique and vital role Talend plays in ensuring enterprises can trust the data fueling their business,” said Christal Bemont, Chief Executive Officer of Talend. “I am pleased with how the team has executed through the challenges of 2020 and successfully delivered on the strategic initiatives and targets we laid out a year ago. As we look forward, the transaction with Thoma Bravo – a firm with a successful track record of helping the companies it acquires achieve long-term, sustainable growth – will provide Talend with additional capital, resources, and expertise to execute against our mission and leverage a large market opportunity to help all organizations become data-driven. I want to thank the Talend team for their dedication to our company and customers; it is the incredible women and men of Talend who have helped build a leading platform and made this exciting transaction possible.” “We are thrilled to partner with the management team at Talend to continue to build upon their leadership position in the cloud data integration market,” said Seth Boro, a Managing Partner at Thoma Bravo. “We are confident we can apply our experiences working with market-leading software companies to accelerate Talend’s growth and complete its transition to the cloud.” “Data has become critical to every facet of the world, and Talend’s data fabric empowers organizations to operationalize their data,” said Chip Virnig, a Partner at Thoma Bravo. “Talend has built the leading cloud-native orchestration platform that helps organizations bring together all their data, wherever it may sit, to solve their most complex problems.” Transaction Details Under the terms of the binding memorandum of understanding, Thoma Bravo will initiate a cash tender offer of $66.00 (approximately €55.54) per Talend ordinary share and ADS, subject to certain conditions. This offer values Talend at approximately $2.4 billion or approximately €2.1 billion, including net debt. The agreement includes a 30-day “go-shop” period expiring on April 10, 2021, which permits Talend’s Board and advisors to solicit alternative acquisition proposals. Talend has the right to terminate the memorandum of understanding to enter into a superior proposal subject to certain terms and conditions of the memorandum of understanding. There can be no assurance that this “go-shop” will result in a superior proposal, and Talend does not intend to disclose developments with respect to the solicitation process unless and until it determines such disclosure is appropriate or is otherwise required. In the event that Talend’s Board recommends the tender offer to the holders of ordinary shares and ADSs upon completion of the appropriate works council consultations, Thoma Bravo will commence the tender offer thereafter. The closing of the transaction is subject to the valid tender pursuant to the tender offer of ordinary shares and ADSs of Talend representing – together with ordinary shares and ADSs of Talend then beneficially owned by Thoma Bravo, if any – at least 80% of the outstanding ordinary shares and ADSs, receipt of customary transactional regulatory approvals (including French foreign investment control procedure) and other customary closing conditions. In addition, in case of said recommendation, Talend will convene an ordinary and extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders to vote on a transaction that would result in the Company structurally, but not operationally, redomiciling in the Netherlands. Following the closing of the tender offer and completion of said transaction, any ordinary shares or ADSs not tendered would be ultimately redeemed for a price equal to the price per ordinary share and ADS as paid in the tender offer. In connection with these transactions, Talend’s existing French activities, including assets, liabilities and employees, would be first transferred to a new wholly-owned French subsidiary. The tender offer is currently expected to close in the third quarter of 2021 and the redomiciling and related transactions are currently expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2021. Talend will become a privately held company and Talend's ADSs will no longer be listed on any public market, assuming the completion of the tender offer and the redomiciling and related transactions. Transaction Terms The tender offer will be implemented in accordance with the terms and conditions of the binding memorandum of understanding between Talend and Thoma Bravo. In addition to the offer terms, the memorandum of understanding contains customary representations, warranties and undertakings by Talend and Thoma Bravo. The parties have further agreed on certain expense reimbursement and termination fees payable by Talend to Thoma Bravo under certain circumstances, including if the Talend Board determines not to issue a positive recommendation following completion of the appropriate works council consultations, subsequently changes or withdraws its recommendation, or terminates to accept a superior proposal. Advisors Qatalyst Partners is serving as financial advisor to Talend and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. and Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. are serving as legal counsel. Kirkland & Ellis, LLP is serving as legal counsel to Thoma Bravo. About Talend Talend, a leader in data integration and data integrity, is changing the way the world makes decisions. Talend Data Fabric is the only platform that brings together all the data integration and governance capabilities to simplify every aspect of working with data. Talend delivers complete, clean, and uncompromised data in real-time to all. This unified approach to data has made it possible to create the Talend Trust ScoreTM, an industry-first innovation that instantly assesses the reliability of any dataset to bring clarity and confidence to every decision. Over 6000 customers across the globe have chosen Talend to run their businesses on trusted data. Talend is recognized as a leader in its field by leading analyst firms and industry media. For more information, please visit www.talend.com and follow us on Twitter: @Talend. About Thoma Bravo Thoma Bravo is a leading private equity firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sectors. With about $77 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2020, Thoma Bravo partners with a company's management team to implement operating best practices, invest in growth initiatives and make accretive acquisitions intended to accelerate revenue and earnings, with the goal of increasing the value of the business. The firm has offices in San Francisco and Chicago. For more information, visit thomabravo.com. Important Additional Information and Where to Find It In connection with the proposed acquisition of Talend S.A. (“Talend”) by Tahoe Bidco (Cayman), LLC, an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands (“Parent”), Parent will commence, or will cause to be filed, a tender offer for all of the outstanding shares, American Depositary Shares, and other outstanding equity interests of Talend. The tender offer has not commenced. This communication is for informational purposes only and is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell securities of Talend. It is also not a substitute for the tender offer materials that Parent will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) upon commencement of the tender offer. At the time that the tender offer is commenced, Parent will file tender offer materials on Schedule TO with the SEC, and Talend will file a Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9 with the SEC with respect to the tender offer. THE TENDER OFFER MATERIALS (INCLUDING AN OFFER TO PURCHASE, A RELATED LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL AND CERTAIN OTHER TENDER OFFER DOCUMENTS) AND THE SOLICITATION/RECOMMENDATION STATEMENT WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT SHOULD BE READ CAREFULLY AND CONSIDERED BY TALEND’S SECURITY HOLDERS BEFORE ANY DECISION IS MADE WITH RESPECT TO THE TENDER OFFER. Both the tender offer materials and the solicitation/recommendation statement will be made available to Talend’s investors and security holders free of charge. A free copy of the tender offer materials and the solicitation/recommendation statement will also be made available to all of Talend’s investors and security holders by contacting Talend at ir@talend.com, or by visiting Talend’s website (www.talend.com). In addition, the tender offer materials and the solicitation/recommendation statement (and all other documents filed by Talend with the SEC) will be available at no charge on the SEC’s website (www.sec.gov) upon filing with the SEC. TALEND’S INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE ADVISED TO READ THE TENDER OFFER MATERIALS AND THE SOLICITATION/RECOMMENDATION STATEMENT, AS EACH MAY BE AMENDED OR SUPPLEMENTED FROM TIME TO TIME, AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED BY PARENT OR TALEND WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BEFORE THEY MAKE ANY DECISION WITH RESPECT TO THE TENDER OFFER. THESE MATERIALS WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE TENDER OFFER, PARENT AND TALEND. Forward-Looking Statements This document contains certain statements that constitute forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the satisfaction of conditions to the completion of the proposed transaction and the expected completion of the proposed transaction, the timing and benefits thereof, as well as other statements that are not historical fact. These forward-looking statements are based on currently available information, as well as Talend’s views and assumptions regarding future events as of the time such statements are being made. Such forward looking statements are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, actual results may differ materially and adversely from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the potential failure to satisfy conditions to the completion of the proposed transaction due to the failure to receive a sufficient number of tendered shares in the tender offer; the failure to obtain necessary regulatory or other approvals; the outcome of legal proceedings that may be instituted against Talend and/or others relating to the transaction; the possibility that competing offers will be made, risks associated with acquisitions, such as the risk that transaction may be more difficult, time-consuming or costly than expected or that the expected benefits of the transaction will not occur; as well as those described in cautionary statements contained elsewhere herein and in Talend’s periodic reports filed with the SEC including the statements set forth under “Risk Factors” set forth in Talend’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K, and any subsequent reports on Form 10-Q or form 8-K filed with the SEC, the Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO (including the offer to purchase, the letter of transmittal and other documents relating to the tender offer) to be filed by Parent, and the Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9 to be filed by Talend. As a result of these and other risks, the proposed transaction may not be completed on the timeframe expected or at all. These forward-looking statements reflect Talend’s expectations as of the date of this report. The forward-looking statements included in this communication are made only as of the date hereof. Talend assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

February 16, 2021

Sumitomo Life Insurance Selects Talend to Build Company’s Data Infrastructure

Leading life insurer uses Talend in data lake environment for data analytics Redwood City, Calif. and TOKYO - February 16, 2021 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and data integrity, announced today that Sumitomo Life Insurance Company, one of the Japan’s leading life insurance companies, has selected Talend Data Fabric for its data analytics infrastructure. Sumitomo Life aims to become the most trusted and supported company by its stakeholders, including its customers, and to grow sustainably and stably. Sumitomo Life's vision is to offer advanced products to enable customers to live vigorously. To respond to that, the company is developing and delivering cutting-edge products that respond to its customers' current and expected futures needs in areas focusing on nursing care, medical insurance and retirement planning. "With the trust from our customers as the starting point of all our activities, Sumitomo Life is providing optimal life insurance services to every person through the sound management of the insurance business," said Mr. Masakazu Ohta, General Manager in Charge of Information System Department at Sumitomo Life. "As a new approach, it was necessary to build a common foundation for big data management, and Talend is the driver. Talend's superiority in cloud implementation, development productivity, features, and licensing model convinced us to be part of this journey together." To meet the needs of its customers and offer them innovative products and services, Sumitomo Life has decided to build a foundation for data analysis (Sumisei Data Platform) in the cloud for the promotion of new insurance products. The company evolved its legacy data environment to the new environment where they can store the data extracted from various systems both on-premises and effectively in the cloud. In order to meet the needs of each individual customer and provide the best insurance for them, Sumitomo Life uses Talend Data Fabric as the hub of its data infrastructure. This manages data across the organization and integrates data into a data lake, which makes them able to utilize data across the company. "We have been able to release projects with the continuous support of Talend, even amid the changing business environment in the Covid-19 crisis. We will continue to collaborate with Talend in order to actively promote company-wide data analysis projects," added Mr. Ohta. "The insurance market is one of the most competitive sectors. By facing tight regulations and complex customer needs, companies must be at the forefront of innovation to offer even more services and new products to its customers," said Kenji Tsunoda, Country Manager Japan, at Talend. "Talend helped Sumitomo Life reinvent its data-driven infrastructure to provide a data management platform that enables the development of advanced products for its customers. We are delighted to support Sumitomo Life in the pursuit of their vision." For more details on Talend and its complete portfolio of solutions, visit www.talend.com.

January 25, 2021

European Clothing Retailer Selects Talend to Optimize Digital Shopping Experience for Customers

Tape à l’oeil leverages the power of cloud data and APIs to increase sales and marketing efficiencies and develop a customer-360 approach Redwood City, CA and Suresnes, France - January 25, 2021 - Talend, a leader in data integration and data integrity, announced today that Tape à l’oeil, a French children’s clothing retailer founded in 1993, has selected Talend to accelerate its digital transformation. Talend is helping the retailer empower data workers and business users with trusted customer intelligence in real-time, to help them optmize and personalize the online shopping experience for its customers. The company is using Talend Data Fabric to speed information delivery and data exchange through APIs to manage their supply chain.They are also relying on Talend Stitch to rapidly integrate data from the Web and social media platforms and analyze sales performance. In early 2020, Tape à l’oeil’s digital data strategy accelerated with the Covid-19 crisis. The company needed to optimize its online operations as the pandemic had accelerated the research online, purchase offline (ROPO) behaviours of their customers. With Talend, the company was able to better manage and optimize its entire supply chain: “If a product is not available at purchasing time, the sale is lost. There is both the risk that the customer will go to another store and that the product will have to be discounted at the end of the season,” said Guillaume Porquier, Chief Information Officer, Tape à l’oeil. “With COVID-19, some suppliers had to stop their activities, and the real-time monitoring of our supply chain gave us the agility to make the appropriate adjustments very quickly.” With Talend, the company is also able to build a customer-360 approach through the delivery and timely access to trusted data. Internal and external data provides visibility to stores on customer behaviours and buying habits. This information can then be integrated into predictive models. And, with the data collected from the Web using Talend Stitch, the company can also enrich its customer marketing data with customer journey analysis and predictive analytics. “The retail industry has been heavily impacted and disrupted with Covid-19 with a massive change in customers’ purchasing behaviours,” said Gareth Vincent, SVP of Sales EMEA, Talend. “Tape à l’oeil data strategy and achievements illustrate the importance on relying on complete, clean and trusted data to react faster and mitigate risk. We are proud to support Tape à l’oeil’s data journey and continuous growth.” “Retail immediacy and proximity are keys to success in retail,” said Guillaume Porquier. “Information must flow from product design to sales, otherwise we can't do our job. Talend is our strategic partner in this process.” For more information about how companies are using Talend solutions, please visit the website. You can read the full story here.

December 15, 2020

Talend Opens Second Cloud Data Center in Europe to Support Stitch Customer Growth

Helps European customers meet GDPR compliance and ease administrative burden following EU decision to invalidate Privacy Shield Redwood City, CA and Suresnes, France - December 15, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and integrity, today announced the opening of its newest European data center exclusively for Stitch, the company’s cloud data ingestion service that moves data from over 130 sources into a data warehouse of their choice with no coding required. The Frankfurt-based data center, operated by Amazon Web Services (AWS), is already fully operational and has been hosting customers since early November 2020. In July 2020, the European Union (EU) made the landmark decision to invalidate the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, ruling it insufficient to keep European citizens’ data safe when transferring it to the US. As a result, the four-year-old framework can no longer be used to demonstrate compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), significantly raising the risk of non-compliance and financial penalties, and creating an additional administrative burden. “We are extremely proud to announce that our newest European Data Centre is now open for business, exclusively for Stitch customers,” said Gareth Vincent, SVP of Sales EMEA, Talend. “We have always been fiercely committed to helping customers meet and maintain compliance with their local data sovereignty requirements. This extends to our managed cloud applications. By launching support exclusively for Stitch within the EU, we can help customers navigate the strict regulatory environment, meet their own data and compliance goals, while also offering the same fully-managed data pipeline service that powers thousands of Stitch customers around the world.” Talend launched its latest data center for Stitch to help customers better manage data security and compliance during data transfers – removing some of the burden from Digital Protection Officers (DPOs) and cutting cost and complexity. Talend’s Stitch offering provides businesses with immediate access to data, which is often siloed across hundreds of SaaS apps and databases. Enabling access to this data helps analysts spend more time generating the actionable insights that business leaders need and less time on data preparation. “Today, data is at the heart of everything we do,” says Guillaume Porquier, Information Systems Director, at children’s fashion retailer, Tape à l’œil.“If a product is not available at a certain time, the sale is lost. You run the risk both that the customer will turn to another retailer, and that the product will have to be sold at a discount at the end of the season. With COVID-19, some suppliers have had to suspend operations, and the real-time management of our supply chain allowed us to make the appropriate course changes very quickly.” Guillaume continues; “Stitch has played a crucial role in this, enabling us to capture digital traffic data from European merchant websites and post-KPIs for our management team, as well as capture customer feedback through surveys from different angles. Finally, Stitch retrieves campaign results from Facebook and Instagram to cross-reference them in Snowflake, making all this information available to the various disciplines. All our systems and data are hosted in Europe – cloud or on-premise – as part of the company’s GDPR compliance strategy. As we are expanding the use of Stitch and use cases, I am glad Talend has opened a new data center for Stitch in the EU, further supporting our data journey.” To discover all the capabilities and move data rapidly and securely into cloud data warehouses for analysis, customers can sign up for an account here.

December 3, 2020

Talend Expands Snowflake Partnership to Deliver Data Clarity to Joint Customers

Now available in Snowflake Partner Connect, Talend Trust ScoreTM instantly assesses the health of data driving business Redwood City, CA - December 3, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and integrity, today announced an expanded partnership with Snowflake, provider of the Data Cloud through Snowflake Partner Connect. The platform offers Snowflake customers a two-week trial through which they can now seamlessly experience Talend Data Fabric, including the recently announced Talend Trust Score that enables companies to easily assess and improve data reliability in their cloud environment. With Talend and Snowflake, joint customers can make business-critical decisions with confidence. Talend Data Fabric is a single platform that delivers complete, clean and uncompromised data in near real time. The Talend Trust Score assesses data stored on Snowflake’s platform for reliability and measures data health by intelligently diagnosing and resolving data integrity issues in multi-cloud environments. "With Talend, Snowflake and Tableau Software, we have a modern, agile, high-performance, secure and trusted data architecture,” said Arnaud Maton, Head of Data Management, Kiloutou. “This means our business divisions can be autonomous in how they run self-service reports with qualified data and also promote a test and learn approach to their use of trusted data." The importance of data health and trust was discussed during a session with Talend and Snowflake executives at Snowflake’s Data Cloud Summit 2020. Talend Trust Score will help companies confidently drive insights using their Snowflake data to quickly make decisions that can accelerate revenue, help innovate faster, and can reduce cost and risk. “Trusted data is an essential for businesses to make mission critical decisions,” said Rolf Heimes, Global Head of Business Development, Talend. “The combination of Talend and Snowflake enables customers to quickly mobilize their data to achieve better business outcomes, with clean, governed, and accessible data at each stage of their Snowflake adoption. We’re thrilled to add Talend Data Fabric to Snowflake Partner Connect.” Talend was one of the first partners to support Snowflake Partner Connect with the availability of Stitch on the portal. Additionally, Talend is certified as “Snowflake Ready Technology” and is one of only nine Elite Technology partners in the Snowflake Partner Network. “We’re excited to offer joint customers the ability to review, improve and certify the reliability of their data with Talend Trust Score on Snowflake’s platform,” said Colleen Kapase, VP of WW Partner & Alliances, Snowflake. “With Talend and Snowflake, customers can confidently make business decisions with data that is clean, concise, and uncompromised.” To learn more about our Talend Snowflake partnership, please visit here or Talend’s website.

November 30, 2020

Talend Achieves AWS Migration Competency Status and AWS Outposts Ready Designation

Multiple designations demonstrate Talend’s commitment to accelerate data migration and to speed strategic business outcomes for AWS customers Redwood City, CA - November 30, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and integrity, today announced at AWS re:Invent 2020 that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Migration Competency and AWS Outposts Ready designations. AWS Migration Competency Talend achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Migration Competency status. This designation recognizes that Talend provides proven technology and deep expertise to help customer’s move successfully to AWS, through all phases of complex migration projects, discovery, planning, migration and operations. This is the third AWS Competency Talend has received, having previously achieved AWS Data & Analytics Competency and AWS Retail Competency designations. Achieving the AWS Migration Competency differentiates Talend as an AWS Partner that provides specialized demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success with specific focus on Technology for Data Migration. To receive the designation, AWS Partners must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS. With Talend and AWS, customers can move mass amounts of data very quickly into an AWS service using any legacy or on-premises data source. Customers can migrate data while managing their AWS resources using Talend Data Fabric, which includes data bulk loading and ingestion, cluster management for Amazon Redshift and Amazon EMR, and enterprise control for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). AWS Outposts Ready Talend achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outposts Ready designation, part of the AWS Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that Talend has demonstrated successful integration of Talend Data Fabric with AWS Outposts deployments. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Recognized for its third AWS Service Ready designation, Talend integrates with AWS Outpost, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Aurora. With Talend and AWS, shared customers can make business-critical decisions with confidence knowing that their data in AWS, whether in the cloud or in a hybrid environment, is fully reliable and trustworthy. “Many companies are modernizing their application performance monitoring systems by leveraging SaaS based solutions,” said Joshua Burgin, General Manager, AWS Outposts, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “We are delighted to welcome Talend to the AWS Outposts Ready Program. Talend Data Fabric can help customers monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance for workloads operating on AWS Outposts, in AWS Regions, and on customer-owned hardware for a truly consistent hybrid experience.” Achieving the AWS Outposts Ready designation differentiates Talend as an AWS Partner with a product fully tested on AWS Outposts. AWS Outposts Ready products are generally available and supported for AWS customers, with clear deployment documentation for AWS Outposts. AWS Service Ready Partners have demonstrated success building products integrated with AWS services, helping AWS customers evaluate and use their technology productively, at scale and varying levels of complexity. “Talend is proud to receive AWS Migration Competency and AWS Outposts Ready status, helping us to further stand out as an innovative and strategic partner for businesses,” said Rob Cornell, Head of Technology Alliances, Talend. “Our team is dedicated to helping companies achieve their technology goals by leveraging the agility, breadth of services, and pace of innovation that AWS provides.” Talend Data Fabric is a single platform that delivers complete, clean and uncompromised data in real time. As more data is ingested and analyzed, Talend helps organizations confidently drive insights using their data to quickly make decisions that can accelerate revenue, innovate faster, and reduce cost and risk. Talend is a Bronze sponsor at this year's AWS re:Invent. Please visit our virtual booth or learn more about Talend on AWS by requesting a meeting with Talend here.

November 18, 2020

Elissa Fink, Ryan Kearny Join Talend Board, Bringing Tech Industry Marketing and Product Expertise

Former Tableau CMO and F5 CTO Deepen High-Growth Cloud and Data Market Expertise on Talend’s Board Redwood City, CA - November 18, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and integrity, today announced that it has appointed Elissa Fink and Ryan Kearny to its board of directors. Ms. Fink brings significant marketing experience to the board, most recently having served as CMO for Tableau. Mr. Kearny has held a number of executive-level roles leading product and engineering teams, including serving as CTO of F5. “Elissa brings experience serving on the boards of a number of dynamic, private technology firms, as well as extensive marketing expertise from her tenure as CMO of Tableau,” said Steve Singh, Chairman of the Board of Talend. “Her deep insight into the data landscape and proven ability to guide rapid-growth companies execute and scale will be tremendously beneficial for Talend.” “Ryan’s more than two decades experience leading product development and scaling engineering teams will be invaluable as Talend continues to innovate its solution set,” said Singh. “I look forward to working closely with Ryan and Elissa to help Talend on its journey to becoming a billion-dollar revenue company.” Ms. Fink currently sits on the board of several technology companies, including Qumulo and Pantheon. Most recently, she was CMO of Tableau, a data visualization company acquired by Salesforce, through its rise from a start-up with $5 million in annual revenue to a public company with over $1 billion in annual revenue. Prior to Tableau, she was Executive Vice President at IXI Corporation, a financial services technology company acquired by Equifax, Inc. Ms. Fink is filling the vacancy created by the previously disclosed resignation from Talend’s board of Mike Tuchen, Talend’s former CEO. Mr. Kearny is Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Development at Lassen Peak, a software security company. He previously drove technology strategy, roadmap, and growth for more than two decades in various executive roles at F5 Networks, an application services and application delivery networking company. Mr. Kearny is filling the vacancy created by the resignation of Mark Nelson, who is leaving to focus on his role as Executive Vice President of Product Development at Tableau, which is now part of Salesforce. “I want to take this opportunity to thank Mark for the strategic guidance he has provided our company,” said Christal Bemont, Chief Executive Officer, Talend. “Mark’s insights and experience have been invaluable, and it’s been an honor to work with him.”

October 28, 2020

Talend Data Masters 2020 Winners Announced at Talend Connect

Innovative Market Leaders Honored for Exemplary Strategic Use of Data for Business Transformation Redwood City, CA - October 28, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and integrity, today announced the global winners of its annual awards program, the Talend Data Masters. The awards celebrate companies that demonstrate vision and leadership in deploying Talend Data Fabric. The 12 Talend Data Masters Award winners represent forward-thinking organizations of all sizes across a range of industries; their names were revealed today in a ceremony at the Talend Connect World Tour. “Talend’s customers continue to push the boundaries on how data can be used as a business lever to drive positive outcomes and we are thrilled to see our strategic partnerships in action,” said Christal Bemont, CEO, Talend. “The Talend Data Masters award winners have embraced innovative technologies to reinvent product and service delivery with the goal of transforming their businesses. We are honored to showcase our customers’ achievements and celebrate their success.” Talend Data Masters award winners are judged using a range of criteria, including creativity and innovation, project scope and complexity, designing new cloud and big data use cases, as well as overall business value achieved. On behalf of this year’s winners, Talend is presenting donations to charities of the winner’s choice. The 2020 Talend Data Masters award winners include: Data for Good GlaxoSmithKline UK-headquartered, GlaxoSmithKline is a science-led global healthcare company with three global businesses that research, develop and manufacture innovative pharmaceutical medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products. GlaxoSmithKline selected Talend as its cloud enterprise-wide architectural backbone to leverage data as a shared and trusted asset. The company uses Talend to accelerate scientific productivity in R&D, production efficiency, quality, and compliance in manufacturing and to boost commercial opportunities. P3 Health Partners P3 Health Partners (P3) is a patient-centered, physician-led and population health-focused healthcare company in the US with over 75,000 members. P3 came to Talend to better manage, maintain, and apply increasingly large volumes of data in order to lower medical costs and hospital admissions, and operational efficiencies. With Talend, the organization can see critical patient care insights in a unified view, while simultaneously expanding the data available for clinical decision making. Data for Sustainability Hamburger Hochbahn with its partner, QuinScape Hamburger Hochbahn operates the underground transportation system and large parts of the bus system in the city of Hamburg, Germany. The company has kicked off a goal of 100% climate-neutral operations by 2030 and made massive investments in emission-free vehicles, as well as in its IT infrastructure. Together with QuinScape and Talend, they built a data warehouse to collect traffic data and push it into Snowflake for data scientists' analytics. The goal is to increase the availability and quality of the mobility offering, with no waiting time, while at the same time sharply increase passenger numbers. Watercare Services Limited Watercare is New Zealand's largest company in the water and wastewater industry. The utility company completed a significant digital transformation program, creating a data hub with Talend to leverage data as an asset and accelerate the shift to becoming a true digital business. The data hub provides a single source of trusted data, resulting in 60% faster advanced analytics to optimize the maintenance of its critical infrastructure and 2.5+ million assets worth more than $11 billion. Data for a Transparent Government Department of Customer Service | New South Wales Government The NSW Department of Customer Service works to deliver excellence in customer service, digital leadership, as well as sustained improvements to government services in NSW to give citizens a great customer experience when they interact with the NSW Government. The NSW Data Analytics Centre (DAC) is one of the ways the Department of Customer Service is enhancing the way the NSW Government interacts with citizens and businesses. The DAC has recently launched its new cloud-based Advanced Analytics Service which incorporates Talend to support data sharing across government agencies and open data. With Talend, the NSW DAC has processed over 1.1M data files to support citizens, improve transparency and achieve a 30% increase in productivity for its data engineering team. Data for Establishing Trust ENGIE ENGIE is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services. ENGIE’s purpose (“raison d’être”) is to act to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral world, through reduced energy consumption and more environmental-friendly solutions, reconciling economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet. To support this transition, ENGIE has standardized across divisions and geographies on Salesforce as its Common CRM. Talend is at the heart of ENGIE’s CRM data, consolidating disparate data into a trusted and widely accessible asset for revenue optimization. Data for Cost Control Société Générale with its partner, Micropole French multinational financial services company, Société Générale S.A. built, with Talend partner Micropole, a cross-functional cost-monitoring platform with the plan to improve operational efficiencies. With help from Talend, Société Générale’s platform integrated 400 business functions in a hybrid on-premise and Azure cloud environment, providing a 360-degree view of all data and a 20% productivity increase for its financial controllers. Data for Customer Centricity The Western Union Company The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) is a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments. The company works with Talend to streamline data movement in compliance with GDPR across their financial, reconciliation, auditing and trading partners. This initiative drives growth by enabling new customer-centric services and positions the company to respond to rapidly changing market conditions, while conducting business with integrity. SiriusXM SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in the U.S., and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. SiriusXM also offers connected vehicle services to automakers. SiriusXM needed a scalable way for its marketing and sales teams to explore, discover, search, and leverage its data to save costs and process customer data faster. Using Talend, SiriusXM has built a hybrid, multi-cloud exchange to unite producers of data and analytics with business consumers across the enterprise. Singapore Tourism Board The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) built the Tourism Information & Services Hub (TIH) and Singapore Tourism Analytics Network (Stan) to support the tourism sector. TIH enables industry stakeholders to contribute and access travel-related content and services for their digital platforms, while Stan allows them to access and analyze data collaboratively. Together, using Talend solutions, STB can make real-time recommendations to visitors, and help businesses widen exposure of their tourism offerings and access quality data to make key business decisions. Vodafone NZ One of New Zealand's largest mobile and broadband operators, Vodafone NZ is undertaking a major data transformation program to deliver new levels of customer service and engagement. Using Talend, Vodafone is experiencing significantly faster delivery of business insights from new products or service launches for its 2.3 million customers. Additionally, real-time data is enabling Vodafone TV and Customer Care teams to offer a more personalized, pro-active and engaging experience. Data for Supply-Chain Optimization AutoZone US-based AutoZone has over 6,400 retail stores which sell auto parts and products. To continue its aggressive growth strategy, the company wanted to take orders and share accurate product and pricing data to retail locations in a timely manner to better serve its customers. With Talend, AutoZone experienced a 75x improvement in throughput and reduced the time for processing records for the given project from 2,000 records per hour to nearly 5,000 records per minute. This speed provides retail employees the means to instantly locate and provide parts to customers, along with the knowledge of how to install those parts. Information about the 2020 Talend Connect World Tour is available here.

October 7, 2020

Covanta Selects Talend to Achieve Data Clarity from Industrial IoT Data

Leading sustainable waste management company relies on trusted data to ensure employee safety and gain operational efficiencies Redwood City, CA - October 7, 2020 - For Covanta, a New Jersey-based sustainable waste management titan, data is essential in order to efficiently run its facilities and its complex data supply chain. Each year across North America and Europe, Covanta safely converts approximately 21 million tons of waste into clean, renewable electricity to power over one million homes and recycles 500,000 tons of metal. Recently, Covanta selected Talend, a leader in data integration and data integrity, to serve as the foundation for its Data Hub, which will be accessed across the organization to improve operational efficiencies and ensure workplace safety. The Covanta Data Hub Operating a sustainable waste-to-energy facility requires operational excellence for efficiency and safety, otherwise it becomes costly. IoT data is generated from smart sensors located throughout Covanta’s facilities that measure various factors, including temperature, air quality, and steam pressure. Covanta relies on this data to ensure its workers are protected while generating clean electricity, maintaining maximum uptime, and avoiding unscheduled outages. In less than four months, Talend addressed Covanta’s multitude of data siloes with Talend Data Fabric. With Talend, the Covanta Data Hub enables users to access trustworthy data that is available in real-time and ready for use by business and IT teams. Charles Link, Director of Data and Analytics, Covanta, discussed the company’s decision to work with Talend. “Without question, data trust is a must when it comes to making decisions that directly impact employee well-being and overall safety,” said Link. “The IoT data we use to examine our processes includes many environmental factors which need constant monitoring and Talend has helped us create a secure work ecosystem while minimizing both cost and downtime.” With Talend, Covanta collects real-time information from its 41 facilities. The efficiency in their data supply chain powered by Talend, is estimated to create at least a 10% cost savings per year for maintenance activities alone. In order to improve collaboration and reporting efficiencies, Talend helped consolidate 1,000 business terms to approximately 300, so there is a common language to drive insight. Covanta can also now provide trusted data lineage for emissions reporting. In addition, Covanta uses Talend Trust ScoreTM to measure the health of data across the company. Using a combination of data quality, data popularity, user-defined ratings, the Talend Trust Score has played a key role in ensuring that the data Covanta uses is complete, uncompromised, and ready for analysis. Julien Sauvage, vice president of product marketing, Talend, discussed the company’s work with Covanta. “We focus on partnering with our customers and helping them drive innovation, improve operations, and mitigate risk. Covanta has achieved impressive results from their trusted, real-time data supply chain and we are thrilled to be a strategic part of the solution for them.” “Talend is now operating as the nerve center of our data hub, which provides our employees with access to real-time information,” said Link. “There is now a shared understanding across operations and strategy, business and IT, of what our data means. We now trust the quality of the data we use to operate our facilities.”

October 5, 2020

Talend Appoints Jamie Kiser to Expanded Role of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Customer Officer

Redwood City, CA - October 5, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and data integrity, today announced it has named Jamie Kiser to the expanded role of chief operating officer (COO) and chief customer officer (CCO). Jamie’s new role will expand her strategic leadership and operational responsibilities as Talend continues to grow rapidly and scale its cloud business globally. As COO, Jamie will focus on leading Talend’s IT, security, and business transformation and strategy teams, defining new approaches to fuel the company’s efficient and sustainable growth. She will also continue her existing responsibilities as CCO, overseeing Talend’s customer-facing functions, including customer support, professional services, customer success management, and community and enablement. “I cannot think of anyone better to step into this role than Jamie,” said Christal Bemont, Talend CEO. “In addition to guiding the continued evolution of our Customer Success organization, Jamie has the right expertise to lead our global operations as we continue to establish ourselves as a strategic business partner to global enterprises.” Prior to joining Talend, Jamie served over six years with SAP in various product, services, and operations leadership positions. Her most recent role at SAP was vice president, global public sector for SAP Concur, where she led the formation of a global center of excellence focused on growing the public sector footprint. Before that, Jamie led operations for the global services organization of 3,500 people and drove the transformation of multiple areas of their business, including learning services, partner delivery, security and compliance, and systems innovation. “I am honored to accept this expanded role at Talend,” said Kiser. “As a customer-first organization, we are committed to showing up for our customers in a way that helps them use data to transform their business and make real-time decisions. We have amazing customer and operations teams in place at Talend and I look forward to helping us maintain efficiencies as we continue to grow and better serve organizations that rely on trusted data to grow, adapt, and drive business value.”