Before we fill you in on all the latest happenings at Talend, we want to thank you for your interest in the company and your support for our products. Since we launched our flagship product, Talend Open Studio in October 2006 our lifetime downloads counter has already reached an impressive 1.7 million, and open source data integration has gained tremendous recognition in the market. Our latest tool, Talend Open Profiler, is also off to a tremendous start (more info on this below). All of this is, of course, supported by an incredibly active Community - your Community.
 

New White Paper: The Return on Investment of Open Source Data Integration

Although price is often presented as one of the major reasons for adopting open source solutions for IT projects, the actual cost of a project goes well beyond the obvious start-up expenses. This white paper discusses several alternatives to open source data integration and their related costs - both tangible and intangible - on several types of projects.

The studies presented take into account a number of ROI elements as they apply to small, medium, or large projects. The size differential applies to the number of systems involved, the number of data integration processes (data flows) required, and the complexity of the project. It provides invaluable assistance in calculating the return on investment of your data integration projects!

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Customer Highlights

Here are highlights from a few Talend customers, among the thousands of companies worldwide who have chosen Talend's Open Source data integration solutions.

Bioanalytics Company Selects Talend Integration Suite for Integrating Business-Critical Laboratory Data

One of the first providers of bioanalysis in the world, Eurofins Group specializes in analytical services for the environment as well as for pharmaceutical and food industries.

Eurofins needed a clear inventory of the data flows in order to better control and homogenize them. It was also important to preserve the autonomy of both labs which have their own IT departments. The robust nature of Talend Integration Suite, plus a graphical interface that makes it easy to map out these data flows, made it a good fit. 
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"Our goal was to preserve the autonomy of all the laboratories, which have their own IT departments, while also offering consistent global services. Eurofins found Talend Integration Suite to be a fit because it is very robust and has a graphical interface that makes it easy to map out the data flows. Its open source nature enables us to keep control of the entire process."
- Pierre-Eric Menuet, EAI Project Leader

Also read this article in DM Review.
 

Talend Open Studio allows integrating into SAP data from nine sources in six different formats

Founded in 2005, MediaLab is a fast growing New Zealand-based company that manages a range of research projects and develops its own products, especially for life cycle management (optimization and modeling) and resource management. As part of a project that was recently implemented for a major telecommunications operator in the Asia-Pacific region, MediaLab was looking for a solution that could handle complex integration challenges, in a very short timeframe.
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"We needed the ability to build custom connectors, in order to smoothly combine the integration processes with our statistical software and produce the required SAP output. After evaluating several integration solutions available on the market, we realized that Talend Open Studio was the only tool that would allow us to reuse existing scripts and develop our own components. In addition, it was bringing us the major advantages of open source: openness, customization, and no licensing costs."
- Florent Mara, Technology Analyst
 

Talend Open Profiler - the Industry's first Open Source Data Profiler

Data profiling is the first step toward correcting the "dirty data" that is so irritating to customers and costs companies so much time and money - nicknames, duplicated records, shortened street addresses, etc. Talend Open Profiler examines data contained in data sources and collects information and statistics about it. This allows project teams to understand the characteristics of their data and its quality level. Key features include:

• Metadata Discovery: identifies the structure of the databases that need analyzing.
• Statistics Definition: defines the statistics and metrics that need to be measured on each data item.
• Results and Graphs: makes it easy to view the results and access the level of quality.

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"Data Profiling is a key component of an organization's comprehensive data quality management program. Companies in every industry rely on top-quality data to succeed but they need to assess, measure and understand the quality of their data before they can improve upon it."
- David Loshin, President and Principal Consultant, Knowledge Integrity
 

Announcing Talend Data Quality - the first comprehensive open source data quality solution

Talend Data Quality is the first product to combine Data Integration, Data Profiling, and Data Quality in a single open source suite. It is a complete data quality management solution and involves several components:

• Data Profiling: provides snapshots and a history of your company's data quality so you can measure improvements or degradation of the data over time.
• Data Identification: identifies poor-quality and good-quality data on a record-by-record basis.
• Data Cleansing: fixes incorrect, incomplete, or inconsistent data by cross checking against other databases and reference data.
• Data Enrichment: enriches data with value-added information such as latitude and longitude, census data, credit scores and other details that make it more valuable.

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Upcoming Events

CRM Acceleration Summit	September 17, 2008 London, UK October 7, 2008 Chicago, Illinois October 22, 2008 Munich, Germany
Paris Capitale du Libre	September 24-25, 2008 Paris, France
MySQL Central Europe Customer Conference	October 21, 2008 Munich, Germany
Systems	October 21-24, 2008 Munich, Germany
TDWI Conference	November 3-5 New Orleans, Louisiana November 17-18 Amsterdam, Netherlands
CRM-Expo	November 5-6 Nuremberg, Germany

For more information, and for an up-to-date list of Talend's events, visit Talend's Event Calendar.
 

Webinars

Talend's free Webinars cover both product information and open source data integration technology. A large number of topics, languages and times are available.

For topics and dates visit our Webinar page.
 

From Talend's Blog

Talend's blog contains a large amount of information about the company and the data integration market. Check out these recent posts:

• Welcoming Jean-Luc Solans as VP of Strategy and Business Development
• Talend Open Profiler gets rave reviews
• The proof that they don't care (and that they can)
• Relevance ca be measured by your competitors' Google Campaigns...
• Open Source European Championship
• "Parallel" online communities are growing
• Talend opens Benelux office
• Change Data Capture explained

Anderson Luis Barbosa assume Unidade de Inteligência de Negócios da Benner Sistemas

Executivo vem gerenciar nova divisão criada após a aquisição da empresa DSS, de software de Business Intelligence.

 

São Paulo, 23 de junho de 2008 – A Benner Sistemas, uma das líderes do mercado brasileiro de soluções ERP, conta agora com Anderson Luis Barbosa na direção da recém criada área de Inteligência de Negócios. O executivo passou a fazer parte da equipe da Benner após a aquisição da DSS, empresa de BI em que o executivo era sócio.

 

“Meu objetivo é ajudar a Benner a atender a crescente demanda por soluções de análise de negócios, gestão do desempenho e apoio à tomada de decisões, afinal, os clientes já enxergam os benefícios que podem obter com esse tipo de solução, como ganho de performance e diferenciais competitivos, tendo como foco a gestão estratégica”, explica Barbosa. De acordo com o executivo, o fato de a Benner aliar tecnologia com inteligência de negócios para cada segmento em que atua, proporcionará maior receptividade no mercado. “Além disso, vamos disponibilizar a primeira Plataforma de BI do mercado brasileiro que inclui ferramentas para ETL, BI e Balanced Scorecard (BSC) integradas”, afirma.

 

A área de BI criada terá como foco principal a base de clientes Benner, mas também abordará as empresas que utilizam outras soluções ERPs do mercado.

 

Formado em Administração de Empresas, com especializações em Gestão Estratégica de Custos e Controladoria, e em Gestão Estratégica da Tecnologia da Informação, Anderson Luís Barbosa ocupou, nos últimos seis anos, o cargo de diretor executivo da DSS Tecnologia e Informação. Antes de assumir a direção da DSS, Barbosa trabalhou na Microsiga, onde foi gerente de projetos até 2002. Na Faculdade Exponencial (FIE), ministrou aulas para o curso de Administração de empresas nas disciplinas de Sistemas de Informações Gerenciais e Sistemas de Informação de Marketing.

 

Em 10 anos de existência, a Benner Sistemas destaca-se como um dos melhores provedores de soluções de gestão de negócios (ERP) para médias e grandes organizações, posicionando-se entre as quatro maiores empresas do segmento. Com 100% de capital nacional, a empresa oferece atendimento personalizado e focado nas necessidades específicas dos clientes. Sua experiência está comprovada em mais de 3.000 sistemas implantados em 600 organizações em todo o território nacional e na liderança conquistada no segmento de operadoras de saúde. Entre seus clientes estão: Samcil, Marítima Seguros, Porto Seguro Saúde, Grupo Santander-Banespa, Bayer, Pão de Açúcar, BBTUR Viagens e Turismo, FIESC, Fiat do Brasil, Grupo Iguatemi e Construtora Gomes Lourenço.