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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.”
Read moreTalend 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.”
Read moreTalend names Krishna Tammana Chief Technology Officer
Former Splunk VP of Engineering Brings Significant Cloud Product Innovation Expertise Redwood City, CA - September 28, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and data integrity, today announced it has named Krishna Tammana, as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Krishna, most recently VP of Engineering at Splunk, will be responsible for scaling the product and engineering organizations to drive innovation and Talend’s continued market growth. “Digital transformation is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, and agile product innovation is more essential than ever to meet the needs of businesses at every step of that journey,” said Christal Bemont, CEO of Talend. “I’m delighted to welcome Krishna as our new CTO. He has the background and market experience that’s essential to lead Talend’s engineering organization and ensure that we are consistently at the forefront of innovation and driving the redefinition of the data market.” Most recently, Krishna spent nearly a decade as VP of Engineering & Product Advocacy at Splunk, the market-leading data monitoring, management, and analytics player. During his tenure, he led global engineering teams and cloud operations during the company’s successful portfolio expansion and transition to the cloud. Krishna was deeply involved in defining Splunk’s product and cloud strategy during its rapid growth from $80 million in revenue to over $2 billion and expanding the addressable market both organically and inorganically while fostering a culture of agility and innovation. Prior to Splunk, Krishna held engineering management roles at Dun & Bradstreet, YouSendIt, RIGHT90 INC. and E*Trade. “It’s a great time to be joining Talend. This is a pivotal moment in both the data market and the company’s evolution,” said Tammana. “Talend has the leadership, talent, and commitment needed to become a critical and strategic business partner that companies can run their businesses on. I look forward to working with the entire executive team in carrying that vision forward.”
Read moreTalend recognized as a Challenger in 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service
Recognizes Talend for Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute of Talend Data Fabric Redwood City, CA - September 24, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and data integrity, today announced it has been recognized by Gartner, Inc. as a Challenger in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service .1 This is Talend’s first appearance in this market evaluation. Gartner clients can view the complete report here. According to Gartner, “[a]n iPaaS is typically used for cloud service integration, application integration, data integration, B2B ecosystem integration, and increasingly API publishing, multi-experience support and IoT scenarios.”1 Gartner continues, “[c]hallengers have been in the market for several years and have notable installed bases of thousands of clients, along with mature or evolving offerings that have proven their worth in multiple integration scenarios. Challengers also have the financial strength and commitment to compete aggressively in the EiPaaS market. Consequently, they often offer a competitive platform, at least for certain industries and use cases.”1 "Talend has been extremely helpful in supporting the delivery of our new modern data platform with Talend cloud integration and AWS at the core of our solution. Talend has been able to adjust to our changing circumstances and help drive the adoption of cloud while delivering solutions in line with the size and capability of our organization." – Senior Manager Data and Analytics, Government [Customer Review on Gartner Peer Insights] Talend Data Fabric is the only platform that brings together all the data integration and governance capabilities need to simplify working with data and deliver complete, clean, and uncompromised data in real-time to all. This unified approach to data has made it possible to create the Talend Trust Score™, an industry-first innovation that instantly assesses the reliability of any data set to bring clarity and confidence to every decision. With the Talend Trust Score™, users can quickly understand, measure, and improve the overall reliability of enterprise data. The unified Talend Data Fabric platform has a flexible architecture that adapts to growing needs and self-service apps to empower users with faster access to trusted data. With Talend, businesses can spend their time solving problems, instead of preparing data. As a result, every employee can make decisions with confidence and executives can directly assess the return on their data investments for the business. Companies can make innovative strides quickly while their competitors continue to chip away at aging integration initiatives. “We believe our recognition as a Challenger in this Magic Quadrant recognizes that we have the right iPaaS product to meet the needs of organizations today,” said Lauren Vaccarello, CMO at Talend. “Our Talend Data Fabric customers tell us that trusting the health of their real-time data is critical to the success of their organizations. Talend can prevent bad data from proliferating across the systems it connects and instead bring clarity and decisiveness necessary to help businesses pivot quickly and make critical decisions.” 1 Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service,” Eric Thoo, Massimo Pezzini, Keith Guttridge, Bindi Bhullar, Shameen Pillai, Abhishek Singh, September 21, 2020 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 Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.
Read moreTalend Introduces Industry-First Measure of Data Health to Bring Clarity and Confidence to Every Business Decision
Talend Data Fabric ensures the reliability and accuracy of data to help companies run on trusted data Redwood City, CA - September 14, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and data integrity, announced today a significant update to Talend Data Fabric, a single platform that delivers complete, clean and uncompromised data in real time. The new release will focus on advanced capabilities within the Talend Trust ScoreTM, which instantly assesses the reliability of an organization’s data. With this update, Talend will provide the industry’s first measure of data health that intelligently diagnoses and resolves data integrity issues in multi-cloud, hybrid and on-premise environments. Talend Trust Score will help companies confidently use their data to make decisions quickly that drive revenue, innovate faster, and reduce cost and risk. Because data assessed by the Talend Trust Score will be indexed, optimized and ready to use, it will help accelerate cloud migrations and keep businesses operational, improve data science and analytics and operational use cases, and comply with data governance initiatives. As part of Talend Data Fabric, advancements in the Talend Trust Score include: Trust any data at first glance: With Talend Trust Score, datasets are all automatically indexed with a crawler to give organizations a complete picture of their data health before they start using it. Data can be assessed in multi-cloud, on prem, and hybrid environments, including cloud data warehouse and data lakes offerings from industry leading companies. Explainable trust and resolution: The Trust Score exposes the dimensions used to calculate data trust, allowing organizations to understand how data was measured. These dimensions include validity, popularity, completeness, discoverability, and usage. Talend Data Fabric also automatically resolves data problems by recommending the appropriate transformations using semantic awareness. Incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) and human expertise: Talend Trust Score blends the best of advanced AI and human expertise to build context around data and give a complete picture of data health. “Without question, data trust is a must when it comes to making decisions that directly impact employee well-being and overall safety,” said Charles Link, Director of Data and Analytics, Covanta. “We manage a real-time data supply chain from over 40 faciliites and having automated, reliable data is essential to our day to day operations. Talend Data Fabric with the Talend Trust Score provides us with an accessible and complete data platform we can trust.” “Today, as more industries rely on data to drive business growth — many say they strive to be data driven, but in reality, they have unreliable data health,” said Stewart Bond, Research Director, Data Integration and Data Intelligence Software, IDC. “Businesses attempting to discern whether data is dated, unreliable, inaccurate, or limited lose time and quality in their decision making process, potentially costing them revenue. Now more than ever, having trustworthy data is critical to success. The Talend Trust Score is built to give organizations the data confidence they need to make swift and informed decisions.” Talend Trust Score is part of Talend Data Fabric, the only data integration and integrity platform that simplifies all aspects of working with data for analysis and use, driving critical business outcomes. Talend Data Fabric includes a suite of apps to ensure enterprise data is complete, clean, compliant, and readily available to everyone who needs it throughout the organization. “Talend Trust Score enables enterprises to operate with confidence in their data, and dramatically improve the reliability and accuracy of real-time decision making,” said Ciaran Dynes, SVP Products, Talend. “With this release, Talend furthers its commitment to providing organizations with the data integrity necessary to remain competitive in today’s data driven market.” Talend Data Fabric’s new features in the Talend Trust Score will be available starting in Q4. To learn more and experience its effectiveness firsthand, try out the Talend Trust Assessor, a free tool which provides an environment to verify some of the Trust Score capabilities with any set of data.
Read moreTalend Named a Leader in 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools
Fifth consecutive Leader recognition based on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision Redwood City, CA - August 20, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and data integrity, today announced it has once again been named by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in the August 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. 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, “The data integration tools market is seeing renewed momentum driven by urgent requirements for hybrid/multi-cloud data management, augmented data integration and data fabric designs. This assessment of 20 vendors will help data and analytics leaders choose a best fit for their data integration needs.”1 “We believe that being recognized once again as a Leader by Gartner speaks volumes to the strategic value our Talend Data Fabric platform provides to businesses,” said Lauren Vaccarello, CMO at Talend. “Organizations need to make critical decisions with confidence using complete, uncompromised data that is available in real time. Customers rely on us to gain clarity in their data in order to quickly adapt and navigate in today’s markets.” Talend Data Fabric is the only data integration and integrity platform that simplifies all aspects of working with data for analysis and use, driving critical business outcomes. Talend Data Fabric includes a suite of apps to ensure enterprise data is complete, clean, uncompromised, and readily available to everyone who needs it throughout the organization. In the report, Gartner notes, “By 2023, organizations utilizing data fabrics to dynamically connect, optimize and automate data management processes will reduce time to integrated data delivery by 30%. Through 2025, over 80% of organizations will use more than one cloud service provider (CSP) for their data and analytics use cases, making it critical for them to prioritize an independent and CSP-neutral integration technology to avoid vendor lock-ins.” 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.
Read moreTalend Extends Collaboration with Cloudera
Talend Data Fabric now certified on Cloudera Data Platform Redwood City, CA - August 18, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and data integrity, announced today that it has extended its collaboration with Cloudera by certifying on the Cloudera Data Platform. Talend Data Fabric is now a Cloudera Certified Technology and has been tested, validated, and certified to work with Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). “We’ve had a long-standing relationship with Cloudera, helping joint customers leverage our platform to build and automate data engineering workloads on Cloudera,” said Jamie Kiser, Chief Customer Officer at Talend. “Supporting cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments are a strategic decision for our customers worldwide, particularly in heavily regulated industries. By closely working with Cloudera we can provide our customers with modern integration technologies that will enable them to achieve maximum value from their data.” With the July 2020 release of Talend Data Fabric, Talend offers full support for Cloudera Data Platform – Private Cloud. This support provides native integration with a key focus on Apache Spark, Hive, Impala, and other key Cloudera capabilities for data engineering and data warehouse workloads. Furthermore, the new release has been certified by Cloudera for its technical integration. This certification gives our mutual customers the confidence that Talend follows key Cloudera specifications and ensures the technical accuracy required to manage their business critical workloads. “With Cloudera Connect Technical Certifications, our partners can unlock the potential of the enterprise data cloud to drive the most valuable and transformative use cases for companies,” said Gary Green, vice president of strategic partnerships at Cloudera. “Cloudera customers can say yes to any analytic workload from the Edge to AI, knowing that they will have skilled resources, business solutions, and integrations from the Cloudera partner ecosystem available to them.” CDP is a new approach to enterprise data, anywhere from the Edge to AI. By simplifying operations, it reduces the time to onboard new use cases across the organization. The platform uses machine learning to intelligently autoscale workloads up and down for more cost-effective use of cloud infrastructure. With Cloudera's Shared Data Experience (SDX), the security and governance capabilities in CDP, IT can confidently deliver secure analytics running against data anywhere. CDP manages data in any environment, including multiple public clouds, bare metal, private cloud, and hybrid cloud. The Cloudera Data Platform offers game-changing technology that lets companies harness diverse data to solve important business problems. Talend Data Fabric is the only data integration and integrity platform that simplifies all aspects of working with data for analysis and use, driving critical business outcomes. Talend Data Fabric includes a suite of apps to ensure enterprise data is complete, clean, compliant, and readily available to everyone who needs it throughout the organization.
Read moreTalend Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Solutions
Third consecutive Leader recognition based on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision Redwood City, CA - July 30, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and data integrity, today announced it has once again been recognized by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in data quality tools as described in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Solutions.1 This is the third consecutive time that Talend has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant. For a complimentary copy of Gartner’s complete report, click here. According to Gartner, Inc., “As organizations accelerate the speed of digital transformation and innovation, there is a greater market demand for data quality solutions. This stems from a need to overcome the challenges from complex and distributed data landscapes, and new and urgent business requirements. Data and analytics leaders are facing intensive pressure to provide “trusted” data that can help business operations to run more efficiently and making business decisions faster and with greater confidence.”1 “Data quality is essential, bringing the clarity and decisiveness necessary to organizations as they navigate today’s market,” said Lauren Vaccarello, CMO at Talend. “Trusting the quality in your real-time data helps businesses pivot quickly and make critical decisions. We are thrilled that Gartner has again positioned Talend as a Leader in this Magic Quadrant report. We think this recognition validates the strategic importance of our offering.” Talend Data Fabric is the only data integration and integrity platform that simplifies all aspects of working with data for analysis and use, driving critical business outcomes. Talend Data Fabric includes a suite of apps to ensure enterprise data is complete, clean, compliant, and readily available to everyone who needs it throughout the organization. In the report, Gartner notes: “By 2022, 60% of organizations will leverage machine-learning-enabled data quality technology for suggestions to reduce manual tasks for data quality improvement... Data quality initiatives have traditionally been mandated to fulfill compliance requirements and to reduce operational risks and costs. Increasingly, data quality is also a necessity when amplifying analytics for better insights and making trusted, data-driven decisions.” 1 Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Solutions,” Melody Chien, Ankush Jain, 27 July 2020. Previous titles include “Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools.” 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.
Read moreTalend Honors Canadian Financial Institution SSQ Insurance with Talend Data Masters Award
Using Talend to build unique customer journey experiences, SSQ Insurance increased development team productivity by 30% and achieved a 3-fold increase in one of their campaign conversion rates Redwood City, CA - July 8, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and data integrity, announced today that SSQ Insurance is a winner of a Talend Data Masters award. This award will be presented in a ceremony during the Canada Talend User Group taking place on Thursday, July 9, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EDT. SSQ Insurance selected Talend to modernize its data infrastructure for cloud data analytics, while ensuring the highest data confidentiality standards. With Talend, SSQ Insurance now has a 360-degree view of its customer information, which enables the creation of tailored experiences for customers and prospects. “Our insurance customers expect a simple, secure, and personalized experience,” said Simon Latouche, Data Engineering Director, SSQ Insurance. “The data governance and automation that Talend provides us is a real game-changer in this respect. Talend is the link between all of our data, upon which a multitude of customer journeys are built.” With over three million customers and 13 billion Canadian dollars in assets under management, SSQ Insurance is one of Canada’s largest financial institutions. SSQ Insurance is using a wide range of features in Talend from data integration to data quality and API-based application integrations to accomplish the goals it had identified to enhance customer experiences and modernize through a move to the cloud. Using Talend, SSQ Insurance can integrate, standardize, and clean data, which is then loaded to a Snowflake cloud data warehouse in an Azure environment. The depth of Talend’s integration capabilities enables SSQ Insurance to build a generic data vault automation framework. As a result, SSQ Insurance has experienced a 30% improvement in the efficiency of development teams, where new data projects start being delivered in only three weeks instead of months. Additionally, the marketing department can now customize its campaigns by using consolidated data to run predictive models, which has led to SSQ Insurance tripling its conversion rates in terms of customer win-back actions. “We’re thrilled by the results SSQ Insurance has achieved from the clean, complete, and timely view of their customer data,” said Julien Sauvage, vice president product marketing at Talend. “Customer needs are changing rapidly across the globe and having data that is reliable, confidential, and accurate is critical to remain competitive in these markets.” Talend is the only platform that supports customer projects from initial data ingestion to enterprise data governance. Talend simplifies all aspects of working with data for analysis and driving critical business outcomes. To learn more about how SSQ Insurance built its 360-degree customer view using Talend, please join a virtual lunch session hosted by the Canada Talend User Group on Thursday, July 9, from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EDT. For more information on SSQ Insurance and other Talend customer stories, please visit here.
Read moreTalend Donates Nearly $3 Million in Data Skills Courses and Technologies to Higher Education
Global program addresses the shortage of skilled data workers by providing comprehensive data integration coursework that can be applied for careers in data analysis and data research Redwood City, Calif. - July 8, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in data integration and data integrity, announced today its plans to provide complimentary software technologies and online data skills training courses to universities globally. The Talend University Alliance program provides free technologies designed to build skills that students can apply toward work in data analytics. The program is open to qualified academic institutions, as well as non-profit research organizations. According to Gartner, “Skills gaps always impede strategy execution and will constrain post-COVID-19 business priorities. Digital era skills are especially hard to hire.”1 The free program offered by Talend serves to address the growing need for skilled data workers. Universities and non-profit research organizations participating in the pilot program include Northeastern University, Codam, University of Castilla-La Mancha, and Université de Sherbrooke. The University Alliance is comprised of free software, Talend certification, and online courses ranging from data integration basics, navigating data privacy, managing cloud services, and transforming data for machine learning. The university program is designed for students and researchers to develop skills that prepare them for work in data analytics. Students will become familiar with a range of data and application technologies. They will also learn how to take advantage of various free open source offerings on the market that can help accelerate the path to analyzing information. Qualified students may take the Talend Certification exam at no charge. “We have been working closely with a select group of universities to develop this program over the past several months,” said Laurent Bride, COO and CTO, Talend. “There has been a gap for skilled data workers, and with the onset of COVID-19, it is much more apparent that the need to access and act on reliable data is critical. We’re proud to provide this program to universities and non-profits.” Interested academic institutions and non-profit research organizations worldwide may apply at www.Talend.com/UniversityAlliance. 1 Flip COVID-19 Downtime Into a Strategic Reskilling Opportunity Published 17 April 2020 - ID G00724488
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