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Talend Expands European Leadership to Bolster Cloud Business Growth

Gareth Vincent joins as SVP of Sales, EMEA, Muriel Raffatin as Head of Marketing EMEA and Dafydd Llewellyn as Regional Vice President of Sales, UK and Emerging Markets Redwood City, CA and Maidenhead, UK - February 12, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, today announced it has expanded its European leadership to continue to drive its cloud business momentum across the region.  The company hired Gareth Vincent as SVP of Sales for EMEA. In this role, Gareth will be responsible for overseeing daily business operations as well as developing and implementing growth strategies in Europe. The company also announced Muriel Raffatin as Head of Marketing EMEA and Dafydd Llewellyn as Regional Vice President of Sales UK and Emerging Markets. “We have an exceptional leadership team in place to drive our growth in this region. There remains a tremendous cloud opportunity in EMEA and Talend possesses unique technology and domain expertise to effectively support organizations with their digital transformation journeys,” said Ann-Christel Graham, Chief Revenue Officer of Talend. “I look forward to working with Gareth, Muriel, and Dafydd to help our customers achieve success in the cloud.” Gareth is an experienced leader with over 20 years of software and cloud experience. Prior to joining Talend, he was the VP Sales & General Manager for Docker in Europe, where he was responsible for all Sales operations in the region.  Before joining Docker, Gareth was instrumental in building out the Concur business across Europe, and worked in a number of leadership capacities throughout the organization, most recently with the Global Sales team for over six years. “I am impressed by the value that Talend’s solutions bring to organizations, helping them get the most out of their data and drastically transform their businesses,” said Gareth Vincent. “I am excited by the opportunity to work with a market-leader on a mission to drive growth across the region.” Talend recently hired Muriel Raffatin as the new Head of EMEA Marketing, furthering investments in Europe to support the growth of the company and make Talend a strategic partner for European enterprises. Prior to joining Talend, Muriel held several marketing leadership positions at Kantar Media and TNS Media Intelligence. Additionally, Dafydd Llewellyn is joining Talend as the new Regional Vice President of Sales UK and Emerging Markets. Previously, he worked for 16 years at SAP Concur where he held different sales leadership roles, building one of the fastest-growing parts of the SAP Concur business in Europe. During his tenure, Dafydd added thousands of customers and drove market-leading customer retention across SAP Concur’s cloud-based Travel, Expense, and Invoice Management solutions. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements because they contain words such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “could,” ”would,” “likely,” “intends,” “target,” “projects,” “contemplates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential”, “seek”, or “continue” or similar terms or expressions or the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions that concern our expectations, strategy, plans or intentions. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, our prospects for future growth in our EMEA region and of our cloud business. Our expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may not materialize, and actual results in future periods are subject to inherent risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstance that are difficult or impossible to predict. Consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements as a result of such uncertainties, risks, and changes in circumstances, including, without limitation, risks and uncertainties related to our ability to continue to deliver and improve our products and successfully develop new products; customer acceptance and purchase of our existing products and new products, including conversion of leads to sales; our ability to successfully transition to the cloud; the impact of the transition to cloud on our professional services revenue; our ability to retain and increase sales to existing customers and generate new customers; market demand for data integration solutions, particularly our cloud and on-premise big data integration solutions; our ability to successfully integrate the new members of our corporate leadership team and the new European leadership team members announced in this press release; interruptions or performance problems associated with our technology and infrastructure; competition from other products and services; the sufficiency of our cash and cash equivalents, to meet our cash needs; the unpredictability and length of our sales cycle; our ability to deliver high-quality customer support; any security incidents or breaches or perceptions of security incidents or breaches; our ability to hire, train, and retain highly skilled and qualified employees, including senior-level managers, engineers, and our ability to expand and train our sales force; the performance of our channel partners; our success in sustaining and expanding our international business; our ability to generate significant volumes of sales leads from digital marketing efforts; the seasonality of our business; our ability to protect our intellectual property, including trade secrets and copyrights; costs resulting from any claim of infringement or other violations by us of another party’s intellectual property rights; our ability to comply with government laws and regulations, including those related to data security and data privacy; natural and man-made disasters; and general market, political, economic and business conditions, including the fluctuation of foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates.  The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, and the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. Additional risks and uncertainties that could affect our financial and operating results are included under the captions “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation” and elsewhere in our most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 28, 2019 and our most recently filed quarterly report on Form 10-Q. Our SEC filings are available on the Investor Relations section of our website at https://investor.talend.com and the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we do not undertake, and specifically disclaim, any obligation to update any forward-looking statements provided to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statement is based, except as required by law.
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Talend Achieves Major Security and Compliance Requirements for Enterprise Cloud Environments

Announces HIPAA Compliance and EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Certification Redwood City, CA - February 11, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, today announced significant achievements in cloud security and compliance for enterprise environments by qualifying as a business associate under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and through its certification under the of EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. By implementing information security and data protection policies and procedures intended to ensure compliance with the federally mandated standards of HIPAA, Talend will be able to expand its work within the healthcare industry and assist more clients that may handle protected health information (PHI) as part of a health and wellness business. HIPAA is made up of a set of regulatory standards governing the security, privacy, and integrity of sensitive PHI health care data. PHI is any demographic health care-related information that can be used to identify a patient. If vendors who service healthcare clients come into contact with PHI in any way, those vendors must comply with applicable HIPAA requirements. Further aligning with Talend’s commitment to compliance in cloud security, the company also announced certification under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. The framework was designed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission to better support transatlantic commerce. This program imposes strict data protection requirements on certified businesses when exchanging personal data between organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. “We’ve built our business on the premise that data privacy and security matters,” said Anne Hardy, Chief Information Security Officer at Talend. “Organizations are dealing with increasingly complex privacy, security and compliance issues along with an ever increasing velocity of business. Enabling them to gain value and insight from their data while reducing regulatory and security risk is a top priority for Talend, and these certifications prove that.” Talend will showcase its cloud data integration offerings at the upcoming Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS 20) conference taking place in Orlando, Florida, from March 9-13 in booth #4221. For more information about Talend’s commitment to personal privacy, click here. Tweet this: .@Talend Achieves Major Security and Compliance Requirements for Enterprise #Cloud Environments; Announces #HIPAA Compliance and EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Certification. Plus: #Talend will showcase its #cloud #dataintegration offerings at #HIMSS20. #healthcare
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Talend Recognizes Leaders in Cloud and Big Data Innovation with 2020 Partner of the Year Awards

Talend (NASDAQ: TLND) announced the winners of its Talend Partner of the Year Awards. Redwood City, CA - February 6, 2020 - Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, today announced the winners of its Talend Partner of the Year Awards. This recognition celebrates partners that demonstrate innovation in cloud and big data services and technologies and helping joint customers be more agile, effective, and data-driven. Award winners were revealed in a ceremony during the company’s annual sales kickoff conference, Talend Engage, which took place this year in New Orleans. “We are honored to work closely with these outstanding companies,” said Rolf Heimes, Head of Channels at Talend. “2020 will be an exciting year for Talend, and our partners will be an integral part of our growth as we continue to mature as a cloud company. Each of the award recipients we’ve selected exemplifies the values that drive our business. We want to thank all of our partners for their continued loyalty, trust and support." The Partner of the Year winners are judged using a range of criteria including ACV booking of net new deals, creativity and innovation, project scope and complexity, as well as overall business value achieved for customers in cloud and big data. Talend also named a CEO Partner Award, which highlights the partner organization that best demonstrated a holistic view over bookings, assistance in deals, strong executive alignment, and comprehensive joint go-to-market support. This year’s award recipients include: Value Added Reseller of the Year: US: Prolifics EMEA: Keyrus APAC: Servian System Integrator of the Year: US: Infosys EMEA: Capgemini APAC: Artha Solutions CEO Partner of the Year: Cognizant
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Talend Names Anne Hardy as its Chief Information Security Officer

Newly created position reinforces importance of security as company expands Talend’s cloud services into enterprises Redwood City, CA - January 22, 2020 – Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, today announced it has named Anne Hardy its chief information security officer (CISO). This new strategic role was created to address the increased security requirements when engaging in modern enterprise cloud IT environments. Anne will be responsible for Talend’s security strategy, managing security threats and vulnerabilities across Talend people, technologies and processes, and ensuring compliance with relevant security and privacy laws. “The new CISO role is critical as we continue to mature our cloud offering, grow our business within enterprises, and strive to become a $1 billion revenue company,” said Laurent Bride, CTO and COO of Talend. “I’m thrilled to bring someone on board of Anne’s caliber to Talend. Anne will work closely with data stakeholders internal and external to the company in an effort to ensure compliance and minimize risk. She thrives on the changing security landscape in the cloud and will be central to driving our security strategy.” With over 20 years of technology experience, Anne brings to Talend an extensive background in security technologies and architectures, data privacy standards, and cloud security. She was most recently the chief security officer for Join Digital, which provides managed digital services to enterprises. Prior to that, Anne founded a company that developed a cloud-based software solution for analyzing employee experiences. She also worked for over ten years at SAP, where she held executive roles in security, research, and developer advocacy. Anne currently sits on the Anita Borg Institute’s Board of Trustees and founded the Dare2BDigital conference. “It’s truly an exciting time to join Talend,” said Hardy. “I’m impressed with the company’s momentum and its commitment to a customer-first approach to cloud data integration. I Iook forward to working with Laurent and his team to drive security priorities and increase efficiencies as the company scales.” Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements because they contain words such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “could,” ”would,” “likely,” “intends,” “target,” “projects,” “contemplates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential” or “continue” or the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions that concern our expectations, strategy, plans or intentions. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, our prospects for future growth and our ability to comply with relevant laws and regulations. Our expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may not materialize, and actual results in future periods are subject to inherent risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstance that are difficult or impossible to predict. Consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements as a result of such uncertainties, risks, and changes in circumstances, including, without limitation, risks and uncertainties related to our ability to continue to deliver and improve our products and successfully develop new products; customer acceptance and purchase of our existing products and new products, including conversion of leads to sales; our ability to successfully transition to the cloud; the impact of the transition to cloud on our professional services revenue; our ability to retain and increase sales to existing customers and generate new customers; market demand for data integration solutions, particularly our cloud and on-premise big data integration solutions; interruptions or performance problems associated with our technology and infrastructure; competition from other products and services; the sufficiency of our cash and cash equivalents, to meet our cash needs; the unpredictability and length of our sales cycle; our ability to deliver high-quality customer support; any security incidents or breaches or perceptions of security incidents or breaches; our ability to hire, train, and retain highly skilled and qualified employees, including senior-level managers, engineers, and our ability to expand and train our sales force; the performance of our channel partners; our success in sustaining and expanding our international business; our ability to generate significant volumes of sales leads from digital marketing efforts; the seasonality of our business; our ability to protect our intellectual property, including trade secrets and copyrights; costs resulting from any claim of infringement or other violations by us of another party’s intellectual property rights; our ability to comply with government laws and regulations, including those related to data security and data privacy; natural and man-made disasters; and general market, political, economic and business conditions, including the fluctuation of foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates and softening economic and uncertain geopolitical conditions in Europe.  The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, and the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. Additional risks and uncertainties that could affect our financial and operating results are included under the captions “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation” and elsewhere in our most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent reports on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 28, 2019 and our most recently filed quarterly report on Form 10-Q. Our SEC filings are available on the Investor Relations section of our website at https://investor.talend.com and the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we do not undertake, and specifically disclaim, any obligation to update any forward-looking statements provided to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statement is based, except as required by law. About Talend   Talend, a leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, enables companies to transform by delivering trusted data at the speed of business. Talend Data Fabric offers a single suite of apps that shortens the time to trusted data by solving some of the most complex aspects of the data value chain. Users can collect data across systems, govern it to ensure proper use, transform it to new formats and improve quality, and share it with internal and external stakeholders.   Over 3,500 organizations across the globe choose Talend to rely on trusted data to make business decisions with confidence. Talend has been recognized as a leader in its field by leading analyst firms and industry publications including Forbes, InfoWorld and SD Times.    For more information, please visit www.talend.com and follow us on Twitter: @Talend. 
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Innovative European Customers Honored with 2019 Talend Data Masters Awards

Grand Prize winners include Accor, Aeroporti di Roma, AstraZeneca, and L’Oréal REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - December 10, 2019 - Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, today announced the European winners of its annual awards program, the Talend Data Masters. The awards celebrate companies that demonstrate vision and leadership in deploying Talend Data Fabric in compelling ways to help make their businesses more agile, effective, and data-driven. The four Grand Prize winners and eight Winners—representing forward-thinking organizations of all sizes, across a range of industries—were revealed in a ceremony during the Talend Connect London and Talend Connect Paris user conferences. “Our customers continue to excel because of their ability to adapt to change and overcome complex data challenges,” said Mike Tuchen, CEO, Talend. “The Talend Data Masters winners demonstrate innovative thinking by reinventing their product and service delivery strategies. It’s an honor each year to recognize our customers’ achievements and celebrate their success.” Data Masters winners are judged based on a range of criteria including creativity and innovation, project scope and complexity, as well as the effectiveness of their cloud and big data use cases and overall business value achieved. This year’s Talend Data Masters recipients include: Grand Prize Winners ACCELERATING TIME TO MARKET L’Oréal - L'Oréal registers more than 500 patents each year and manufactures seven billion products worldwide.  Speed is essential to process more than 50 million pieces of data per day coming from a variety of scientific, IoT, and marketing sources. L'Oréal's Research & Innovation relies on Talend and a cloud data lake in Microsoft Azure to run cutting-edge analysis and drive new product innovation.  AstraZeneca - AstraZeneca has built a data lake on AWS and Talend is at the heart of that architecture, growing product sales by five times the amount since the start of its data journey. The focus of Talend has been around the Enabling Units, the global product portfolio strategy and the medical functions. AstraZeneca is now expanding and exploiting the usage of Talend across commercial functions and the science unit. For every dollar AstraZeneca spends on a data initiative, it Is able to get $40 in return. BEING CUSTOMER-OBSESSED Aeroporti di Roma (with Humanativa Group S.P.A.) - In 2018, Aeroporti di Roma recorded  48.8 million passengers. The airport is using Talend Platform to collect, cleanse, and govern over 25 million pieces of raw data daily from a wide range of sources to improve operational efficiency and provide an enjoyable airport experience for its travelers. Winners  GOVERNING DATA  areeba - The financial company areeba is using Talend to maintain its regulatory compliance and develop new services for clients. A governed data lake provides a single source of truth for data that is used for an Anti-Money Laundering program and innovative client services such as the Merchant Portal, which helps businesses attract and retain customers. BEING CUSTOMER-OBSESSED Infopro Digital - Infopro Digital, a leading information and professional service group, is using Talend and Snowflake on AWS Cloud to unify their diverse set of systems, databases, and formats. With Talend, Infopro Digital can understand how thousands of professionals connect to the group's multimedia sales and digital marketing tools while remaining compliant with the GDPR. Kiloutou - Kiloutou, one of the largest equipment and accessories rental companies in Europe, is using Talend Cloud and Snowflake to offer self-service capabilities for each business unit. The implementation of a robust and secure database that unifies all sources enables Kiloutou to improve sales forecasts, proposals, and daily synchronization with its CRM. TM Forum (with Datalytyx) - With the Datalytyx Palladium platform-as-a-service that includes Talend and Snowflake, TM Forum significantly reduced the time required to prepare engagement data, from 12 hours to 20 minutes, providing operational insights to help the association better serve its membership of communications and digital service provider professionals SHARING DATA WITH PARTNERS The Popken Fashion Group (with QuinScape GmbH) - The Popken Fashion Group is an international, family-run fashion company specializing in plus-size fashion. QuinScape and Talend have transformed how Popken is sharing information easily in an API environment with many entities and systems, including 190 suppliers in 21 countries. These capabilities benefit not only software development, but also the overall operations of the company—improving sales and marketing efficiency and increasing sales. Hermes Parcelnet Ltd (with Datalytyx) - Hermes, the consumer delivery specialist, provides flexible and affordable delivery options to home, work and ParcelShops. The company delivers more than 390 million parcels a year with a mission to be the UK’s carrier of choice. Hermes works with 80% of the UK’s top retailers including Next, ASOS, John Lewis and Boohoo. Hermes has seen double-digit growth every year for the past 7 years. Thanks to the strong partnership between Talend, Datalytyx and AWS, Hermes found a deployment model using high velocity cloud APIs and real-time data solutions. Incoming delivery instructions can now be processed in real-time, processing up to 2.2 million a day.  BUILDING A DATA LAKE Bayer (with Cognizant Technology Solutions GmbH) - The Global Marketing and Sales IT team from Bayer, in cooperation with Cognizant Technology Solutions GmbH, built a large-scale data hub as a single trusted data source leveraging Talend. The solution enables Bayer to ingest and set up additional cloud and on-premise data sources in weeks rather than months when requested by Marketing and Sales Departments. This results in a substantial reduction in operating costs and the facilitation of data quality monitoring. Siemens AG (with Accenture)  - With a data lake based on SAP HANA. Siemens worked with Accenture and Talend to integrate its systems in a containerized setup with a fully automated CI/CD pipeline. Within six months, 50 business projects are in production for Financial, logistic, SCM, CRM business applications. The 2019 Talend Data Masters winners are using the Talend Data Fabric and partner technologies and services to achieve their digital transformation goals. To learn more about Talend and its complete portfolio of solutions, visit www.talend.com or read more of our customer stories.
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Talend Achieves AWS Retail Competency Status

Talend continues to deliver best-in-class, retail-specific data integration solutions on AWS Redwood City, Calif. - December 4, 2019 - Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, announced today, at the AWS re:Invent Global Partner Summit in Las Vegas, that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Retail Competency status in the Advanced Retail Data Science Category. AWS Retail Competency Partners have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success across numerous innovative solution areas in retail spanning Data Lakes, AI/ML, Voice, Recognition, IoT, Microservices, and Retail Transformation. AWS Retail Competency Partners undergo rigorous validation by AWS to ensure alignment to AWS best practices for building secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure for industry applications – in order to give customers increased confidence when making decisions. Achieving the AWS Retail Competency differentiates Talend as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member that delivers highly specialized technical proficiency. To receive the AWS Competency designation, APN Partners must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS. “Talend is proud to achieve AWS Retail Competency status, helping us to further stand out as an innovative solution for retail customers,” said Michael Pickett, SVP of business and corporate development at Talend. “With over 50 shared customers in retail and consumer products, this designation only furthers our relationship with AWS. Our team is dedicated to helping companies achieve their technology goals by leveraging the agility, breadth of services, and pace of innovation that AWS provides.” Talend Cloud provides over 900 transactional, operational, and analytic data connectors and components which can be used to quickly connect load and process data from virtually any source into AWS. Talend’s unique capabilities provide a single platform with data quality and governance capabilities built in. Data engineers, ETL developers, and business analysts use Talend to create consistent and trusted data for the enterprise. “We chose Talend Cloud Data Quality because, out of the box, it had all of the routines we needed to implement our data,” said Lee Wilmore, Data Intelligence Director at TI Media. “In our short 60-day window, TI Media was able to implement Talend Cloud Data Quality on a Snowflake database in AWS. Talend is easy to use and the cleaning and deduplication functions are built in. We built the cleaning process in about five minutes. I’ve bought many systems over the years and I’ve never seen three systems work together so easily and in such a frictionless way.” AWS is enabling scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners with deep industry experience and expertise. For more information on this designation, visit the AWS Competency Program page here.
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Talend Achieves Amazon Redshift Ready Designation

Talend Cloud integration with Amazon Redshift fully supported for AWS customers REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - December 4, 2019 - Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Redshift Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ready Program. This designation recognizes that Talend has demonstrated successful integration with Amazon Redshift. Achieving the Amazon Redshift Ready designation differentiates Talend as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with a product integrating with Amazon Redshift and is generally available and fully supported for AWS customers. AWS Ready Partners have demonstrated success building products integrated with AWS services and helping AWS customers evaluate and use their technology productively, at scale and with varying levels of complexity. "Talend is proud to achieve Amazon Redshift Ready status. Our shared customers have been using Talend Cloud on AWS with Amazon Redshift for many years. Amazon Redshift Ready status gives customers further validation and assurance of our commitment to provide high-quality integrations and governance solutions with Amazon Redshift,” said Michael Pickett, SVP of business and corporate development at Talend. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the Amazon Redshift Ready Program to help customers identify products integrated with AWS services and to spend less time evaluating new tools and more time scaling their use of products that are integrated with AWS services. “AstraZeneca has deployed Talend as part of the orchestration layer in its architecture. In addition to extracting data from CRM, ERP, finance, document management, HR and other systems to load into the data lake, Talend serves to facilitate point-to-point connections, such as those between an Amazon Redshift analytic database and an SQL database in order to add data to what AstraZeneca calls a ‘conformed layer.’ The data lake enables us to pull large volumes of valuable data from disparate systems and make our data discoverable across divisions,” said Simon Bradford, Senior Data & Analytics Engineer at AstraZeneca. Talend Cloud provides over 900 transactional, operational, and analytic data connectors and components which can be used to quickly connect load and process data from virtually any source into Amazon Redshift. Talend’s unique capabilities provide a single platform with data quality and governance capabilities build in. Data engineers, ETL developers and business analysts use Talend to create consistent and trusted data for the enterprise. Data Warehousing as a Service (DWaaS) brings an extremely compelling value proposition to the analytics market. Amazon Redshift brings the scalability and cost-effectiveness of the cloud to the analytical database market, removing barriers to adoption and dramatically lowering both the cost and the complexity of data warehousing. For more information on this designation and the integration between Amazon Redshift and Talend Cloud, click here.
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GDPR Compliance Rate Remains Low According to New Talend Research

Over half of companies surveyed were not able to meet data access and portability requests within the GDPR-specified one-month time limit Redwood City, Calif. - December 3, 2019 - 58% of surveyed businesses worldwide failed to address requests made from individuals seeking to obtain a copy of their personal data as required by GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) within the one-month time limit set out in the regulation, reveals updated research from Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity. In September 2018, Talend released the results of its first GDPR research benchmark, which was aimed to assess the ability of organizations to achieve right to access and portability compliance with the European regulation. At that time, 70% of the companies surveyed reported they had failed to provide an individual's data within one month. One year later, Talend surveyed a new population of companies, as well as the companies which reported a failure to comply in the first benchmark, in order to map improvement. Although the overall percentage of companies who reported compliance increased to 42%, the rate remains low 18 months after the regulation came into force. "These new results show clearly that Data Subject Access Rights is still the Achilles' heel of most organizations," said Jean-Michel Franco, Senior Director of Data Governance Products at Talend. "To fully comply with GDPR it is necessary to understand where the data is, how it is processed and by whom, as well as ensure that the data is trusted. With several data protection regulations coming into force in the US (California Consumer Privacy Act in January 2020), across APAC (PDPA in Thailand in May 2020), and in Latin America (LGPD in Brazil in August 2020), organizations need to start a data governance transformation to deliver a 360 degree view of customers and empower the people in charge of data protection with more automated data processing and delivery. Organizations must do more to regain the trust of their data subjects and be aware that they risk very significant fines and significant reputational damage in the event of non-compliance and especially through class actions – both of which could prove to be severely detrimental to a business." Major findings of the research benchmark include:   The "Laggards": Public sector organizations and companies in media and telecommunications industries are struggling to meet the requests The research revealed that only 29% of the public sector organizations surveyed could provide the data within the one-month limit. With an increasing use of data and new technologies - facial recognition, artificial intelligence - by the public sector to improve the citizen experience, the need for more integrated data governance is a must-have for 2020 and beyond. The same observation applies to companies in the media and telecommunications industries; only 32% of these organizations reported that they could provide the correct data on time. The "Could Do Better": Retail, financial services, travel, transport and hospitality firms barely reach an average success rate Compared to last year, retail companies improved their success rate with 46% of such companies reporting they provided correct responses within the one-month limit. A greater proportion of companies in this industry started to take a customer-centric approach to both improve the experience and internal processes. The same situation occurs with organizations in finance as well as in travel, transport, and hospitality industries. In addition, the latter are considered as the best performers as companies in that industry represent 38% of all the organizations who provided data in less than 16 days.   The lack of automation remains a barrier to success One take-away from this new benchmark is the lack of automation in processing requests. One of the main reasons companies failed to comply was the lack of a consolidated view of data and clear internal ownership over pieces of data. In the financial services industry, for example, clients may have multiple contracts with a company that may not be located in one place making it difficult to retrieve all necessary information. Processing the requests thus remains very manual and often Involves the business users, e.g. the insurance representatives in the case of an insurance company. In addition, processing Subject Right Requests can be very costly; according to a recent Gartner survey, companies "spend, on average, more than $1,400 to answer a single SRR."[1] ID proof and requesting process should be improved The research also highlights the lack of an ID check during the data request process of the individual requesting data. Overall, only 20% of the organizations surveyed asked for proof of identification. Moreover, of the companies surveyed that reported asking for proof of identification, very few use an online and secure way of sharing ID documents. Instead, most of the time, copies of identification were provided by email. The requesting process also remains cumbersome with reported difficulties including finding the right email address to send the request, and follow up emails because the data is incomplete or because the files can't be opened.   The full results of the benchmark will be presented by Jean-Michel Franco at the Data Governance Winter Conference in Delray Beach, Florida. For more information about how to deliver trusted data at speed and meet new and future data challenges, read the Talend Data Trust Readiness Report. Like this story? Tweet this: New @Talend research reveals continued low #GDPR compliance rate https://bit.ly/2CkBwuS About the Research Talend conducted market research to assess companies’ ability to comply with the new GDPR regulation. The research involved 103 GDPR-relevant companies across the globe (EU-based companies [84%], and NORAM-based companies [8%] and APAC-based companies [8%] that conduct business in Europe) from a range of industries (retail, media, technology, utilities & telecommunications, public sector, finance, and travel, transportation & hospitality). The analysis involved the following: Assessing whether companies had updated their privacy policies to account for GDPR Researching whether companies had dedicated ways for consumers to request GDPR data (i.e., the personal information the company has on them) Requesting GDPR data and assessing how quickly and thoroughly companies comply Requesting GDPR data in a way that may be directly accessed and reused by the individual (data portability) [1] Gartner: 5 Areas Where AI Will Turbocharge Privacy Readiness, Bart Willemsen, 20 August 2019
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Talend Announces Availability of Talend Cloud in AWS Marketplace

Furthers collaboration and provides a single suite for powerful data integration in the cloud Redwood City, Calif. - December 3, 2019 - Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, today announced immediate availability of Talend Cloud In AWS Marketplace. Talend Cloud is an easy-to-use data integration platform optimized for Amazon Web Services (AWS) with simple connectivity using 900+ components and connectors with multi-cloud and hybrid support for maximum flexibility. It is designed to provide a single platform with data quality and governance capabilities to enforce rules and create consistent information using a suite of collaborative applications built for everyone from ETL developers to business analysts. As more data is ingested and analyzed in the cloud, Talend Cloud helps organizations segment customers, operationalize data science algorithms, and integrate historical and streaming data to respond in real-time to business opportunities and threats. Talend Cloud supports capabilities such as: Broad connectivity for on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments and support for over 70+ AWS services including Amazon Redshift, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon EMR, and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Built-in pervasive data quality to ensure trusted data and regulatory compliance Governed self-service apps, such as Pipeline Designer, Data Preparation, Data Stewardship, to democratize data and facilitate transition to cloud for data-driven organizations Predictable pricing (user-based) with pay-as-you-go options “We are happy to add to our existing AWS Marketplace offerings, with Stitch Data Loader earlier this year, and now the availability of Talend Cloud. Customers often want to purchase through AWS Marketplace, and this is an excellent opportunity to expand our footprint in the market,” said Mike Pickett, Senior Vice President of Business Development and Ecosystems at Talend. “We look forward to continuing to expand our relationship with AWS and providing a truly seamless experience for our customers using Talend Cloud in an AWS environment.” Talend Cloud is available now for purchase in AWS Marketplace. Learn more about how Talend quickly and easily run integration tasks securely across cloud and on-premise environments with only a few clicks from an AWS account.
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Kiloutou implements self-service and governed data platform based on Talend Cloud and Snowflake

France’s second-largest industrial and construction equipment rental company leverages cloud data warehouse to help business units identify value-added opportunities and create new innovative services Redwood City, Calif. and Suresnes, France - November 28, 2019 - Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, today announced that Kiloutou Group, the 4th  largest European rental company and a major player in the rental of equipment in France is using Talend Cloud to power its data platform for business units. Talend Cloud provides reliable, real-time data to business departments within Kiloutou’s organization to enable access to data and conduct analysis, and thus detect new business opportunities. Talend integrates data into a Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse, which adds value to Kiloutou's businesses. To empower business departments by providing them with real-time data, Kiloutou has initiated a "Data for Business" project. This provides a unique, modern, agile, high-performance, and secure data platform that offers a new data experience. The new architecture makes it possible to empower businesses, including sales administration, management control, or logistics operations, in all types of commercial and exploratory analyses via data visualization tools, and then to disseminate information to group managers. "Our strategy is to transform data and information into competitive business advantages, bringing data as close as possible to the business lines. Having trusted information in real-time means being able to offer the right equipment at the best price and thus optimize our revenues," said Arnaud Maton, Head of Data Management, IT Group at Kiloutou. "With Talend, we have developed a new, modern, real-time, high-performance, and completely secure database that allows different businesses to access data at any time, regardless of volume, format, source, and time. We now have a single unified platform to integrate all the data used by our business divisions." Kiloutou has implemented a radical change in its architecture by migrating its historical on-site database to a data warehouse in the cloud on Snowflake with Talend Cloud. As an integration platform-as-a-service (IPaaS), Talend cloud helps to address Kiloutou's expectations in terms of scalability, performance, and security, and to free itself from installation, update, or migration constraints. Talend securely connects to all types of data, in the cloud or on-site, regardless of the formats and volumes managed. Talend also guarantees data quality, ensuring that formats are consistent between different systems. Thus, within Kiloutou, Talend is gradually becoming the component for inter-application data exchange for the entire information system, in addition to the existing business APIs management architecture. To optimize sales management, Kiloutou has implemented a new process for analyzing the pricing data of equipment rental. It analyzes many factors, such as the location of the booking, stock situation, customer's typology, and purchasing history. Talend now integrates all of this data into the Snowflake data warehouse, which represents more than 10 million records per day. On the business side, analysts can now adjust prices to reflect these different trends better, implement complete and accurate predictive models to optimize revenues, and quickly trigger sales action plans if problems are identified. Kiloutou also achieved significant improvements in its financial management, particularly for financial controllers, who now benefit from near-real-time analysis for the validation of monthly accounts. "All companies in all sectors are experiencing unprecedented change. Leaders will be the organizations that will be able to leverage the value of data and make more data-based decisions," said Jacques Padioleau, Vice President of Sales France at Talend. "By migrating its data integration and analysis capabilities to the cloud, Kiloutou is undergoing a real transformation and gaining a competitive advantage. We are very pleased to be able to support Kiloutou in its mission to provide its business departments with reliable, real-time data for better decision making." Additional information on how Kiloutou 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: With @Talend cloud and @SnowflakeDB, @kiloutou gives back control of the data to its business departments. Read the story, https://bit.ly/2QgK5PP
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