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February 12, 2019

Talend Cloud Enables Online Betting Platform PointsBet to Ensure Compliance and Reliability Amid Rapid International Expansion

Governing diverse data sources with speed on Microsoft Azure, Talend helps support the delivery of a differentiated mobile betting experience to PointsBet’s customers worldwide Redwood City, CA and Melbourne, Australia - February 12, 2019 - Talend, a leader in cloud data integration solutions, today announced that PointsBet, a cutting-edge online bookmaker from Australia offering both traditional fixed odds markets as well as PointsBetting, is using Talend Cloud and Microsoft Azure to deliver a differentiated mobile betting experience to just under 100,000 customers worldwide and support its international expansion. With Talend, PointsBet can connect and govern diverse data sources with speed, trust, and reliability across its IT infrastructure and comply with regulations as it expands globally. A minor glitch during a major sporting event can prove disastrous for online betting platforms, which need strong, resilient IT infrastructure. Losses can run into the millions of dollars as players take their business elsewhere and the reputational and brand damage can be hard to reverse. Robust data systems are also needed to comply with the myriad regulations that online bookmakers are subjected to, such as providing reports and information to authorities and racing organizations to meet license conditions. PointsBet turned to Talend to build a responsive, cloud-first data infrastructure and help meet compliance standards in Australia – a highly regulated market for betting in the world – and beyond, as it enters new markets. “PointsBet is fully digital, and it’s critical we can access data in every system to ensure a streamlined platform. Talend helps us quickly and efficiently integrate all of our data and ensure we’re compliant across the board,” said Maayan Dermer, BI, and Data Engineering Lead, PointsBet. “Talend is the glue between our systems, and has enabled us to reduce troubleshooting times from four to eight hours weekly down to an hour, while simultaneously improving our data reliability and stability.” With Talend, PointsBet uses data to improve the customer experience for new products and promotions and ensure it delivers personalized offerings based on customer variables. PointsBet also uses data to determine the relative success of its different wagering products, including which products attract more people, deliver better margins, or have better engagement. PointsBet standardized on Microsoft Azure due to its scalability to handle peak online gaming requests and agility to quickly spin up new projects. Talend was a natural fit with out-of-the-box native support for Azure Blob Storage, CosmosDB, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server, Azure SQL Server, and Native SQL Server, as well as the flexibility to run workloads in the Cloud or on-premises. As PointsBet, who just recently was licensed to operate in New Jersey, starts expanding throughout the US, Talend will play a vital role in supporting the roll-out of its Data Analytics infrastructure and ensuring the company maintains compliance with varying state regulations. With Talend Cloud, PointsBet is able to provide a unified view of all of its data and comply with the periodic reports and requests of the online betting industry. Dermer added, “What was estimated for an engineer to hand-code in two weeks can now be done in four hours with Talend. We can now move faster and have better visibility into our business. Additionally, with Talend, we can work better with the regulators. When they see how responsive you are, how compliant you are, it gives them confidence in your business.” “It’s critical for data systems to maintain reliability and trust, especially in the cloud- and digital-first systems, not to mention when you are managing significant sums of money,” said Ciaran Dynes, SVP of Products, Talend. “PointsBet is using data to quickly respond to dynamic requests internally and externally. We’re proud to support the company as it grows and expands into new markets.” Additional information on how PointsBet is using Talend can be found here. For more information on other innovative customer use cases and Talend’s entire portfolio of solutions, visit www.talend.com. Like this story? Tweet this: .@Talend helps @PointsBet_AU leverage trusted data to maintain compliant customer experiences.

February 7, 2019

Talend Introduces Fast, Frictionless Data Loading for Microsoft Azure

Stitch Data Loader Enables Developers to Ingest Data for Analysis in Minutes Redwood City, CA - February 7, 2019 - Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration software, today announced that Stitch Data Loader now supports Microsoft Azure's SQL Data Warehouse, providing one of the easiest ways for users to get data into a fast, flexible and secure cloud data warehouse. Available now, this purpose-built integration rapidly ingests data from popular sources. Stitch Data Loader can move data from 90+ data sources in minutes into Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse. The new connector leverages Azure Blob Storage and PolyBase to get data into Azure Cloud and quickly loads it into Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Data type transformation between source and destination, schema changes, security, and bulk loading are all handled seamlessly by Stitch Data Loader. A flexible scheduler allows users to keep their cloud data continuously up to date with built-in replication features. With just a few clicks, companies can easily ingest data and scale with Stitch Data Loader through a frictionless, easy to try, easy to buy process, without needing to talk to a sales person or sign a long-term contract. With the free version of Stitch Data Loader, customers can load 5 million rows per month into Azure SQL Data Warehouse from many popular data sources. Stitch Data Loader connects to SaaS applications, databases, and cloud data sources like Google AdWords, Facebook Ads, MySQL, Salesforce, Stripe, and more. It also powers data ingestion for analytics, business intelligence, machine learning, data science, and automatically scales as data volume grows with nothing to configure, deploy, or maintain. “This is the biggest advancement to our product since we joined Talend, and it signifies our commitment to Microsoft Azure,” said Jake Stein, SVP Stitch at Talend. “Through the self-service cloud data ingestion capabilities of Stitch Data Loader, we make it easier for companies of any size to benefit from seamless onboarding and data ingest, while leveraging data analytics and reporting in Azure SQL Data Warehouse to optimize business outcomes.” Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a cloud analytics platform that separates storage and compute to give unique flexibility in deploying a solution for a user’s specific business requirements. This also allows users to stop and start job execution, while keeping data storage persistent. As a result, the solution ensures customers pay only for compute time and resources used. Stitch Data Loader is a component of the Talend Data Fabric, a suite of cloud apps designed to help customers collect, govern, transform and share data and insights. Talend customers can use Stitch Data Loader to begin collecting data with the confidence that Talend can help them solve all of their data integration needs. In addition to Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Talend Cloud provides native Azure connectors for Azure Table Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Queue Storage, Azure Data Lake Store, and Azure Cosmos DB. For more information visit the Talend blog, or to start your free trial of Stitch today and load data into Azure SQL Data Warehouse in minutes, click here. You like this story? Share it on Twitter: .@Talend announces that @stitch_data now supports @Azure SQL Data Warehouse destinations! Read more. https://bit.ly/2AVUTIh

January 10, 2019

Talend Honors Leaders in Cloud and Big Data Innovation with 2019 Partner Excellence Awards

Redwood City, CA - January 10, 2019 - Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration software, today announced the winners of its Talend Partner Excellence Awards. This recognition celebrates partners that demonstrate innovation in cloud and big data services and technologies, helping joint customers be more agile, effective and data-driven. This year’s awards are broken into two categories: achievement of success measured by superior customer achievement and best support of Talend’s core values, with award winners revealed in a ceremony during the annual Talend Engage conference taking place this year at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado. “With a first-class ecosystem that spans globally, we are honored to work closely with these outstanding companies,” said Rolf Heimes, Head of Channel and Alliances, Talend. “Each of the award recipients we’ve recognized exemplifies the values that drive our business.” “As we look to what we want to accomplish as an organization in 2019, our partners will play a key role in increasing our presence with cloud and big data deployments,” said Mike Pickett, Senior Vice President, Corporate & Business Development. The Partner Excellence winners are judged using a range of criteria including creativity and innovation, project scope and complexity, as well as overall business value achieved for customers in cloud and big data. This year’s Talend Partner Excellence Award recipients in both categories include: Technology Partner Achievement of Success AWS Technology Partner Highest Growth Microsoft Azure Channel Partner Achievement of Success APAC Servian (Australia) EMEA Keyrus (France) NORAM Wavicle (USA) Global Cognizant Channel Partner Supporting Talend Core Values Innovate Datalytyx (UK) Do the Right Thing Artha (Global) Win as a Team Virtusa (USA & India) Get it Done Well Abilis (USA) Technology Partner Supporting Talend Core Values Innovate Cloudera Do the Right Thing Snowflake Win as a Team Qubole Get it Done Well Databricks The Talend Alliance Program is made up of strategically selected partners who are in line with the value proposition and all of the technical capabilities of Talend. Talend works closely with its partners to ensure that every customer project is implemented with best practices and a high-level of technical expertise. To learn more about Talend and its complete portfolio of solutions visit www.talend.com.

January 7, 2019

Talend Cited as a Strong Performer in New Strategic iPaaS and Hybrid Integration Platform Report from Premier Analyst Firm

Redwood City, CA - January 7, 2019 - Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration solutions, today announced that Forrester Research recognized the company as a Strong Performer in its newly published report, The Forrester Waveä: Strategic iPaaS and Hybrid Integration Platforms, Q1 2019. Forrester notes that Talend offers “data, application, B2B, and IoT integration in a single iPaaS environment, for cloud and/or on-premises integration scenarios.” Forrester defines strategic integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) and hybrid integration platforms (HIPs) as “strategic elements of digital transformation” by enabling companies to “manage data in motion in a faster landscape using software-as-a-service (SaaS)” and “improve the automation of IT and the business.” According to Forrester, the report, which is available for complimentary download, shows how each provider measures up and helps Enterprise Architecture (EA) professionals make the right choice.” Talend’s pricing model is also described by Forrester in the report as a “predictable by-the-user subscription model, while most iPaaS competitors use a consumption model (pinned to volume, connectors, and/or CPU usage).” Forrester also explains Talend is “available on private clouds as well as in a multi-cloud environment, providing the capability to take advantage of spot instance pricing to diminish runtime costs.” In addition, when describing strategic iPaaS/HIP, Forrester highlights that “integration technologies are renewing midsize markets and opening new ones.” The market is “growing, with solutions like iPaaS in the cloud not requiring architect or developer training. Today’s iPaaS solutions are also faster to implement than previous technologies, supporting the pace of agile development cycles and governance.” “We are thrilled to be recognized as a Strong Performer in Forrester’s prestigious Wave, which we view as another strong validation of Talend’s innovative cloud data integration solutions,” said Ashley Stirrup, CMO, Talend. “We believe that this recognition confirms our approach to providing modern businesses today with a unified platform that scales to very high data volumes, natively integrates with the leading cloud platforms and databases, and delivers robust, built-in data governance and data quality.” With built-in data governance and data quality, the Talend platform scales to very high data volumes with native integration to leading cloud platforms and databases. Talend offers a single Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) environment that helps organizations put more data to work by increasing its availability, quality, and value. Talend provides the speed and trust required for modern businesses leveraging all their data across cloud and on-premises deployments. Energy company Uniper is leveraging Talend’s built-in data trust capabilities to analyze data at scale in a cloud environment. Talend integrates data coming from nearly 100 external and internal sources, including ETRMs, DWHs, IoT data coming from power station sensors and SAP enterprise data, into a Snowflake cloud-built data warehouse that enables a modern, central data lake on Microsoft Azure. This action helped reduce integration costs by 80%, while ensuring data governance. As a result, Uniper’s employees in selected departments have the support of data self-services to make the right decisions faster while ensuring high data quality and governance. Available resources: To download a copy of The Forrester Wave: Strategic iPaaS and Hybrid Integration Platform, Q1 2019, visit here To read more about how customers are using Talend in governed cloud and on-premises environment, visit here To learn more about Talend and its products, visit here Like this story? Tweet this: New iPaaS and Hybrid Integration Platform report cites @Talend as a Strong Performer.

December 18, 2018

DBTA Names Talend a “2019 Trend-Setting Product in Data and Information Management”

Company Recognized for Innovation in Cloud Data Integration Redwood City, CA - December 18, 2018 - Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration solutions, today announced that Database Trends & Applications (DBTA) magazine named Talend to its annual list “Trend-Setting Products in Data and Information Management for 2019.” This list recognizes products in the marketplace that are both innovative and effective in helping customers address evolving challenges and opportunities. According to DBTA, “Leading IT vendors are coming forward to help customers address the data-driven possibilities by improving self-service access, real-time insights, governance and security, collaboration, high availability, and more.” Each year, DBTA magazine looks for innovative products and services that promise to help organizations derive greater benefit from their data, make decisions faster, and work smarter and more securely. DBTA’s list of trend-setting offerings is designed to also indicate where the data management market is headed. “As markets evolve and data becomes more important across the enterprise, it’s increasingly crucial that companies use the right data integration platform in order to deliver data at the speed required for modern business while maintaining the highest possible level of data quality,” said Ashley Stirrup, CMO at Talend. “At Talend, we’re dedicated to making cloud data integration as seamless as possible. Being selected as a trend-setting product further validates the value of our product for customers looking to turn data into a competitive advantage.” For more information on Talend’s data integration products, please visit our website. Like this story? Tweet this: .@Talend named a Trend-Setting Product in Data and Information management by @dbtrends: https://bit.ly/2SxJDu6

December 13, 2018

Leading Wealth Management Company Selects Talend to Help Enhance the Customer Experience

UK-Based St. James’s Place to integrate trusted data, enabling “single source of truth” for its new customer-360 platform Redwood City, CA - December 13, 2018 - Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration solutions, today announced St. James’s Place, an FTSE 100 wealth management company, selected Talend to replace its legacy Master Data Management (MDM) system and integrate a variety of client, fund, and corporate data. Wealth and asset management organizations are engaging in digital transformation to maintain a competitive advantage, with improved customer experience driving the majority of digital projects. According to a survey conducted by Ernst & Young, 63 percent of senior IT executives interviewed are prioritizing improvements to customer experience and 50 percent to omnichannel access for customers in ongoing and future investment[1]. “Talend is helping us transform our approach to Master Data Management and enabling a wider digital transformation that will significantly enhance the services we provide to our partners and their clients,” said Jim Cleaver, Director at St. James’s Place. “Talend provides a key component of our modernized technology infrastructure and a foundation for our digital strategy by providing us with a single, trusted view of our data.” St. James’s Place is replacing its legacy MDM system and plans to integrate its data, enriched with reference data, providing a capability to centrally maintain and syndicate primary records in a controlled and secure manner. The platform will deliver high-quality data from an authoritative single source to be consumed by business users and downstream applications in real-time. “In today's intensely competitive marketplace, a business must initially address issues of data quality within the organization. We help companies ensure that data across the enterprise is accurate, complete, consistent, and in compliance with industry standards,” said Ciaran Dynes, SVP of Products, Talend. “St. James’s Place is implementing a digital transformation project to improve the experience of its advisers and their clients and we take pride in knowing we will serve a key role in enabling a better response to their needs.” For more information on how Talend is helping financial organizations transform data into actionable insights, please visit here. Additional details on Talend’s complete portfolio of solutions can be found at www.talend.com. Like this story? Tweet this: Discover how @Talend helps leading wealth management company master data to better serve their customers https://bit.ly/2AVUTIh [1] Accelerating the transformation of wealth management through digital technology, EY, 2017

December 11, 2018

Talend Enables Energy Company Uniper to Analyze Data at Scale in the Cloud

Leverages Talend and a Snowflake Modern Data Lake in the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform to Reduce Integration Costs by 80% Redwood City, CA - December 11, 2018 - Talend, a leader in cloud data integration solutions, today announced Uniper, an international energy company, is using Talend to power its Uniper Data Analytics Platform. Talend integrates data coming from nearly 100 external and internal sources, including ETRMs, DWHs, IoT data coming from power station sensors and SAP enterprise data, into a Snowflake cloud-built data warehouse that enables a modern, central data lake on Microsoft Azure. This deployment helps business users access real-time industry, customer, and financial data to react better and faster to the market and improve energy trading. The utility and power industry is in the midst of the biggest disruption in decades. According to the IEA, oil, gas, and coal represent about 80% of primary energy demand. However, current sector forecasts for energy demand from the IEA suggest that renewables and nuclear will grow the fastest between 2013 and 2040 (6.7% and 2.3% CAGR respectively. In response, forward-looking public and investor-owned utilities are leveraging cloud computing, automation, and multichannel communication to transform their back-office and operations systems. These technology-driven approaches are improving the way that utilities engage with residential, commercial, and industrial customers, moving beyond outage maps and online bills to provide operations updates, energy/resource efficiency programs, and tailored rate structures. “By enabling us to integrate, centralize, and standardize our most valuable data, Talend gives us a single point of truth for decision support,” said René Greiner, Vice President for Data Integration, Uniper SE. “Employees in selected departments now have the support of data self-services to make the right decisions faster while ensuring high data quality and governance.” Uniper was facing the challenge of expanding its market position while attempting to gain agility and improve efficiency. In 2017, the idea of an organization-wide data strategy emerged where selected business functions, including energy trading, risk management, sales and finance should be able to quickly and easily access market and customer data as well as internal key figures and financial data. To create its Data Analytics Platform, Uniper selected Tableau along with Talend to integrate data into a Snowflake modern, central data lake in the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform. This action helped reduce integration costs by 80%, while ensuring data governance. In addition, Uniper uses Talend Data Catalog including end to end metadata management capabilities, which intelligently indexes all data sources in the company to make them accessible in a self-service process. Through the Uniper Data Analytics Platform, business users are now able to improve trading in energy markets and offer electricity and gas in the right quantities at the right time. “We’re thrilled to help Uniper bring all their external and internal data into a modern, central data lake in the cloud,” Snowflake’s General Vice President EMEA, Thibaut Ceyrolle said. “With data from a variety of sources in one place, Uniper can benefit from rapid analytics and derive data-driven insights.” Compliance was also a major driver of Uniper’s digital transformation. Documenting and reporting trading transactions is a regulatory challenge for all energy companies; Uniper must report to European regulators every day on all the positions they have taken and all the deals they have transacted. The Data Analytics Platform helps Uniper better manage trade surveillance, including fraud detection, through easy access to accurate data and better data governance. Also, because of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Uniper ensures the security and traceability of its sensitive data. With Talend, the company can tag data as sensitive and GDPR-relevant, and make sure the provided data is accurate. “Uniper has begun a complete digital transformation that is enabling them to better respond to the new needs and challenges of this rapidly changing industry where both competition and regulations are forcing companies to become data-driven,” said Ciaran Dynes, SVP of Products, Talend. “We are proud to support Uniper with their data journey in the cloud.” For more information about how Talend is helping Uniper enable self-service data access in real-time to better respond to market changes, check out the case study. Additional details on Talend Cloud and Talend’s complete portfolio of solutions can be found at www.talend.com. Like this story? Tweet this: .@Talend helps @uniper_energy to provide real-time self-service data in the #cloud and better respond to market trends https://bit.ly/2AVUTIh About Uniper We are Uniper: an international energy company with about 12,000 employees. We combine a balanced portfolio of technologically advanced large-scale assets with outstanding technical and commercial expertise. These assets and capabilities enable us to deliver flexible, bespoke, competitively priced energy products and services with agility, precision and speed. [1] New Energy Futures Perspectives on the transformation of the oil and gas sector, PwC, 2016 [2] A Power and Utility Sector Perspective: Tech Trends 2018, Deloitte, 2018

December 4, 2018

Talend Named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice Distinction for Data Integration Tools

November 20, 2018

InformationWeek Names Talend Among “Top Vendors to Watch in 2019”

Talend cited on “Who’s Hot in Data & Analytics” list Redwood City, CA - November 20, 2018 - Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration solutions, has been listed as an InformationWeek “Top Vendors to Watch in 2019” in the data management and governance category. Talend was selected for its data management platform that includes data integration and data quality capabilities. “With data volumes growing, regulations increasing and data competition intensifying, organizations need solutions to enable effective data governance, data management and regulatory compliance,” said Ashley Stirrup, CMO at Talend. “Being selected as a top vendor in the data management and governance category further validates our commitment to help customers ensure the highest data quality that meets current regulations.” InformationWeek pulled a list of the top 30 vendors across the entire data and analytics space, splitting the companies between three categories. Vendors were selected based on current market trends and their ability to address current and emerging enterprise requirements at scale. For more information on Talend’s data management platform, visit our website. Like this story? Tweet this: .@Talend named a Top Vendor to Watch for its #datamanagement platform by @InformationWeek: https://ubm.io/2SVl0bX About InformationWeek InformationWeek is a trusted source for IT professionals to learn from experienced industry journalists, subject-matter experts and their peers on how to best leverage technology for business value. Featuring news, analysis, proprietary research and insight on the technology industry, InformationWeek covers key IT topics ranging from infrastructure and cloud to DevOps, data and analytics, and security through its online community, digital issues, and webcasts. InformationWeek also provides IT managers with organizational, business process, and career advice to help them become better leaders. InformationWeek is produced by UBM, which in June 2018 combined with Informa PLC to become a leading B2B information services group and the largest B2B Events organizer in the world. To learn more and for the latest news and information, visit www.ubm.com.

November 15, 2018

Talend and Databricks Deliver Easy and Scalable Data Engineering Solution

Strategic Partnership Combines Unified Analytics and Data Management in The Cloud San Francisco and Redwood City, CA - November 15, 2018 - Databricks, the leader in unified analytics and founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, and Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration solutions, today announced a strategic partnership that includes the integration of their products to enable data engineers to more easily perform data integration at large scale. “As part of our cloud data platform strategy, we rely on Databricks and Talend to help us run data engineering projects at huge scale using the best Spark analytics engine and enable more data engineers to take advantage of these features through an easy to use interface.” said Rene Greiner, Vice President, Enterprise Data Integration, Uniper, a global energy company. “High velocity data from our sensors and enterprise systems are used to help us make real-time decisions on maintenance, monitoring and asset management. This modern approach enables us to break down silos and better monetize data to help run our energy operations more efficiently.” Integration between Talend Cloud and Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform enables data engineers to perform data processing at large-scale using the powerful Apache Spark platform. Through this integration, users can access the scale and cloud benefits through a drag and drop interface, instead of manually coding data engineering jobs. Talend Cloud is integrated with both Azure Databricks and Databricks for AWS. “We are proud to be teaming with the leading cloud data processing platform in the market,” said Michael Pickett, Senior Vice President, Corporate and Business Development, Talend. “Working closely with Databricks, our joint customers can achieve higher performance and faster innovation by using Talend Cloud to move workloads to Databricks.” Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform provides a cloud-based service capable of running all analytics in one place - from highly reliable and performant data pipelines to state-of-the-art machine learning - at an unprecedented scale. With capabilities like auto-config and auto-scaling, Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform addresses challenges with operations and operational costs head-on by spinning up and down clusters as needed. “Running data engineering projects at scale while keeping total cost of ownership low continues to be a struggle for organizations looking to get machine learning models to the last mile,” said Michael Hoff, Senior Vice President, Business Development at Databricks. “With Talend Cloud’s embedded data quality components, our joint integration provides a single source of trusted data which is essential when data teams are working with machine learning algorithms. It has never been easier for joint customers to run massive data pipelines.” Talend Cloud is a highly secure and scalable Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) that helps organizations put more data to work by increasing its availability, quality, and value. Talend Cloud’s native, portable, and unified data platform enables companies to liberate their data, so everyone can trust it and use it to drive business value. Talend’s native support for Databricks creates a powerful solution to easily spin up and down a big data cluster in the cloud, ingest and process large volumes of data, and control costs by only paying for resources used. The integration enables the delivery of insight-ready data at scale and helps businesses innovate faster. To learn more about this strategic partnership and the integration of Talend and Databricks products, please visit this site https://databricks.com/talend. About Databricks Databricks’ mission is to accelerate innovation for its customers by unifying Data Science, Engineering and Business. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark, Databricks provides a Unified Analytics Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products. Users achieve faster time-to-value with Databricks by creating analytic workflows that go from ETL and interactive exploration to production. The company also makes it easier for its users to focus on their data by providing a fully managed, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure that reduces operational complexity and total cost of ownership. Databricks, venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Battery Ventures, among others, has a global customer base that includes Viacom, Shell and HP. For more information, visit www.databricks.com. Apache, Apache Spark and Spark are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation.