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28 February 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

12 January 2023

Mental Health Concern Charity Selects Talend to Improve Patient Care

5 January 2023

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

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 organisational 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 optimise 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 organisation-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.

6 December 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.

17 November 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 organisations 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 organisations, 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 modernisation 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 organisations,” 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 optimises Talend Data Fabric and the Snowflake Data Cloud’s abilities to give data teams the most value out of their data so financial organisations 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 minimise overhead, increase customer attrition, increase ROI, and support data-informed innovation decisions. “Assembling a data stack to meet all the needs of an organisation 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 organisation. The company’s cloud-independent unified data integration and management solutions ensure businesses become data-driven by achieving organisation-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 organisations 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.”

8 November 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.”

7 November 2022

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

Fifth consecutive time recognised 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 recognised 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 democratise 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 organisations 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 programmes.” 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 organisation 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

18 October 2022

Talend Announces 2022 Data Masters Award Winners

Innovative Global Leaders Recognised 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 honours 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 recognised 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 organisation 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 realised 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 optimisation 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 organisation 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 metres, 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 centrepiece 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 organisation. 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.

11 October 2022

Talend Joins G-Cloud 13 Framework

A select group of suppliers to provide public sector bodies in the UK with faster and trusted access to Talend’s innovative cloud technologies San Mateo, CA and Maidenhead — October 11, 2022,Talend, a global leader in data integration and management, announced today that the company has joined Crown Commercial Service’s G-Cloud 13 framework. The framework enables the UK central government and other public sector organizations to streamline the cloud-based solutions purchasing processes. Talend joins a select group of pre-approved suppliers to support public sector organizations in achieving healthy data while guaranteeing a rigorous set of standards, including security, compliance, and sustainability in the cloud. The inclusion of Talend’s offering in the G-Cloud 13 framework is effective immediately. Crown Commercial Service supports the public sector to achieve maximum commercial value when procuring common goods and services. In 2021/22, CCS helped the public sector to achieve commercial benefits equal to £2.8 billion - supporting world-class public services that offer best value for taxpayers. Driven by an increasing need for agility and flexibility, cloud adoption by the public sector organizations has expanded. For the fiscal year 2021/2022, G-Cloud is reporting a £ 3.73 billion spend through the framework, highlighting the increased interest in cloud services and solutions. This adoption is also driven by the UK cloud-first policy that encourages public sector organizations to consider cloud solutions as part of their IT strategies and planning processes. The agility and the scalability provided by cloud solutions enable the industrialization of critical use cases – real-time data analytics, IoT, edge computing, etc. – powering the digital transformation of the public sector. This supports the development of operations and services as well as a better citizens’ digital experience, including the digitization of administrative procedures or simplified access to public services, such as healthcare or education. Talend Data Fabric is listed under the following G-Cloud 13 categories: Analytics and business intelligence Data mining, analysis tools, and analytics Electronic document and records management (EDRM) Electronic data interchange (EDI) Healthcare Healthcare analytics Human resources and employee management Workforce analytics Information and communications technology (ICT) API connectors and interface engines Electronic data interchange (EDI) Machine learning and artificial intelligence Other information and communications technology (ICT) services Software Development Tools Multi-cloud support “In an era where data privacy and cloud security are at the heart of any digital transformation strategy, the G-Cloud framework provides a world-class level of trust to meet these needs,” said Gareth Vincent, SVP/GM EMEA at Talend. “We are proud to be part of the G-Cloud 13 framework, supporting UK government departments and public sector organizations with their journey toward healthy data to achieve desired outcomes to help serve its citizens.” For more details on Talend Data Fabric and Talend's complete portfolio of solutions, visit www.talend.com. More information about the G-Cloud 13 framework can be found here. ENDS Notes to editors: 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. Top analyst firms and industry media recognize Talend as a leader in data management software. For more information, please visit www.talend.com and follow us on LinkedIn.com and Twitter @Talend. About Crown Commercial Service Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is an Executive Agency of the Cabinet Office, supporting the public sector to achieve maximum commercial value when procuring common goods and services. To find out more about CCS, visit: www.crowncommercial.gov.uk Follow us on Twitter: @gov_procurement LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/2827044

21 September 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 organisations 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 optimising 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 organisations 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 organisation 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 organisation, respondents represent a variety of industries and departments.