U.S. and European Government Customers Embrace Talend Solutions

USA (SANEPR.com) May 14, 2009 -- - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced multiple global customer wins across the government sector including The State of Tennessee, Development Alternatives Inc., United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, City of Brantford, City of Châteauroux, Theis Consult, The Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety and Revenue Commisioners. These customer wins highlight Talendâs global reach and continued success in delivering cost-effective solutions that help simplify and streamline data integration processes, while meeting the stringent guidelines required by government organizations.

Recent North American customer wins include:

- The State of Tennessee–The State of Tennessee's department of revenue leverages Talend Open Studio where vital ownership information will be provided to law enforcement agencies based on vehicle descriptions quickly and more cost-effectively. The State of Tennessee also has immediate plans to expand its use of Talend Open Studio within the vehicle title and registration application, as well as the revenue tax data warehouse.
- Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI)–DAI, an international development firm covering developing and transition countries to provide comprehensive development solutions, uses Talend Open Studio to integrate and consolidate project data. DAI also uses Talend's solution to improve efficiency and tracking of international development activities, in areas such as, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS and water and natural resources management.
- City of Brantford–The City of Brantford in Ontario, Canada, uses Talend Open Studio for all of its data migration and data synchronization processes to help better manage the municipality's asset management and work orders.

In addition, the following organizations in Europe and Africa are also using Talend:

- Revenue Commissioners–The Office of the Revenue Commisioners, Ireland's taxation authority, uses Talend Integration Suite to automate their data management and transformation processes to help manage the administration of taxes and duties.
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)–UNHCR, an agency mandated to lead and coordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide, utilizes Talend Open Studio to simplify the mapping of refugee camps throughout the world.
- City of Châteauroux–The City of Châteauroux, France, uses Talend Open Studio to manage its heterogeneous data for asset management and cost control for the town's City Hall.
- Theis Consult–Aachen, Germany-based Theis Consult, one of the leaders in road traffic consulting, planning and management, utilizes Talend Open Studio to enable consolidation and analysis of vehicle traffic volumes to better predict and analyze road congestion on Germany's extensive freeway system.
- The Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN)–IRSN, the French government organization in charge of controlling the risks linked to radioactivity, uses Talend Open Studio, in conjunction with Camptocamp's MapFish, to consolidate nuclear and radioactivity assessment results for its environmental website.

“Like many industries, the government sector needs a scalable, high-performance data integration solution to manage several programs and Talend's open source solutions meet those needs as evidenced by our traction in this space,” said Vincent Pineau, Talend's vice president and general manager, Americas. “The various uses of Talend's solution within these organizations demonstrates how flexible and reliable our enterprise-class data integration platform truly is, and illustrates how it can improve data processes for any type of organization across various verticals.”

Talend Open Studio has more than four million lifetime downloads and 900,000 core product downloads. Along with enterprise-version Talend Integration Suite, it is a less expensive and more scalable open source alternative to proprietary data integration solutions that require costly initial investment and rely heavily on IT resources for maintenance and upgrades. Talend Integration Suite is an enterprise-grade, high-performance data integration offering that extends the functionality of Talend Open Studio, with technical support and additional features for collaboration and deployment in large enterprise settings.

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