The partnership covers the whole range of Talend open source integration and data quality tools, notably Talend Integration Suite and Talend Data Quality. Business & Decision will integrate these tools into its clients' solutions. The two companies have also chosen to extend this partnership to encompass Master Data Management (MDM), using the recently launched Talend MDM solution.

 

"Within the last fifteen years, IT has primarily focused on process execution. Little effort was directed to collecting, federating, governing and publishing information on a global basis. More recently, information has become a strategic asset, not only to fuel business processes and support business decisions but also to adopt new competitive advantages such as customer intimacy or business pain points such as compliance. Many companies are currently starting to establish dedicated practices to manage their master data across organisations, and even across their whole value chain. The MDM market delivers its promises, and is now ready for mainstream adoption," comments Jean-Michel Franco, Solutions Director at Business & Decision.  "The supply side of the market has to adapt to this trend, by delivering more affordable and end-to-end solutions to the mass market.  Talend has expanded the MDM market.  It provides an option for companies with restricted resources, eager to move forward on their MDM roadmap, even if they don't fall into the high-end segment that most current MDM solutions target today."  

 

The Talend-Business & Decision partnership will initially cover France and Belgium, but the plan is to gradually extend this to an international agreement. Business & Decision will have access to privileged Talend R&D resources, to tailor these solutions to meet its clients' needs.

 

"Business & Decision isn't only one of the main players in the decision-making market in France, but is also at the cutting edge of the CRM, e-Business and EIM (Enterprise Information Management) markets. Thanks to this partnership, together we will continue to convert the market to make Master Data Management accessible to companies of all sizes," comments François Méro, EMEA Director at Talend. "MDM concerns all company stakeholders, from managers to individual industry experts. Our goal is to give these companies the expertise to manage their own data quality and master data, giving our clients and users a solid competitive advantage."

 

Business & Decision is now developing special "practices" with teams at Talend. The two companies have already started to work together and have several projects in the pipeline.

 

About Business & Decision

Business & Decision is an international Consulting and Systems Integration (CSI) company. It is a leader in Business Intelligence (BI) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and a major player in e-Business, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Enterprise Solutions as well as Management Consulting. Business & Decision contributes to the success of customer projects by driving maximum business performance. The company has a reputation for functional and technological expertise and has forged partnerships with all of the key technology vendors.

Located in 19 countries, Business & Decision currently employs 2700 people worldwide.

Additional information is available at www.businessdecision.com

 

About Talend

Talend is the recognised market leader in open source data integration. More than 1000 clients all around the world rely on Talend's range of products and services, including Yahoo!, Virgin Mobile, Sony and Swiss Life. In just a few years, Talend has become the recognised market leader in open source data integration. Many large organisations around the globe use Talend services to optimise the costs of data integration, MDM and data quality. With an ever growing number of already over 7 million product downloads and paying customers, Talend's solutions are the most widely used and deployed data integration solutions in the world. The company is present in North America, Europe, and Asia, and relies on a worldwide network of partners.

For more information: www.talend.com.

 

 

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