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Exceptional Big Data & Cloud Customers Honored in 2017 Talend Data Masters Awards
Talend
(NASDAQ:
TLND), a global leader in cloud
and big
data integration software, today announced the winners of its annual
awards program -the Talend
Data Masters. These awards celebrate companies that demonstrate
vision and leadership in deploying Talend solutions in compelling ways
to help make their businesses more agile, effective, and data-driven.
The 12 winners-representing forward-thinking organizations of all sizes,
across a range of industries-were revealed in a ceremony during the
annual Talend
Connect user conference taking place in Paris, France.
"Navigating a digital transformation is no easy feat, and a company
can't truly realize its full benefits without sound vision, strong
leadership and an iron-clad partnership between business and IT," said
Mike Tuchen, CEO, Talend. "We created the Data Masters Awards to
showcase lighthouse examples of companies taking innovative approaches
to utilizing data as a strategic asset to improve business performance
and competitiveness. The Talend Data Masters winners are unique in their
use of cloud and big data technologies to reinvent product and service
delivery with the goal of transforming and propelling their businesses
to the next level."
Data Masters winners are judged using a range of criteria including
creativity and innovation, project scope and complexity, designing new
big data use cases, as well as overall business value achieved. This
year's Talend Data Masters recipients include:
Grand Prize Winners
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Customer Intimacy - In a high volume/low latency environment, Paddy
Power Betfair is betting on a big data, cloud-based architecture
to provide employees with consistent, high-quality data insights
across brands, products and channels, to deliver the best online
sports betting experience available.
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Humanitarian - Save
the Children UK (STUK) prepares for and responds to humanitarian
emergencies caused by natural disasters, disease outbreaks and armed
conflict. To comply with government regulations requiring it to be
transparent in how it manages data and spends funds, STUK relies on
Talend to ensure the information they have on each donor is as
accurate to meet GDPR regulatory compliance and to make sure donors
know where their money is going and keep giving.
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Innovation Cloud - The University
of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League research institute with 24,960
students, embarked on a digital transformation to make
premier-quality, higher education available and accessible to all
students regardless of financial need. The department of Information
Systems and Computing worked with Talend to re-design a cloud-based
Online Giving application that makes it easier for loyal alumni to
stay in touch with the University and contribute to the advancement of
the next generation of learners.
Open Source (News - Alert)
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Class
Limited - Class develops powerful software for
Australia's wealth accounting sector. The company moved from Talend
pen source to a commercial license to improve its data governance,
security, and redundancy capabilities. In addition to improving
operations, Class' management has self-service data capabilities
allowing Management reports to be produced daily by executives,
without the need for assistance from the IT department. What once took
several weeks now takes just a few days.
Data-Driven Transformation
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Johnson
Controls - This diversified technology and multi-industrial
company has built a global data lake to create unified views of
products, suppliers, build of materials, and a number of other
business areas.
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Credit
Agricole Consumer Finance with Accenture - To be even more
competitive and compliant, Credit Agricole has built a big data
platform to introduce innovative projects, like website KPIs
monitoring usage, 360-degree customer vision and real-time
capabilities on social media loans subscription.
Business Excellence
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Carhartt,
Inc. - To better understand, connect with and inspire
loyalty from each customer, clothing manufacturer and retailer
Carhartt, Inc., tied its disparate data sources together in record
time. Having a unified view of all customer interactions across its
multi-channel environment helps Carhartt ensure seamless delivery of
top-notch customer service, regardless of where goods are purchased -
online, in-store or through retail partners.
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HERMES
Arzneimittel - In a very highly regulated
environment, Hermes Arzneimittel deployed a data lake based on Hadoop
for continuous monitoring ("Ongoing Process Verification") of drug
manufacturing processes fulfilling pharma regulatory requirements and
beyond.
Customer Intimacy
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AIG
- Worldwide insurance giant American International Group, Inc.
(AIG) is creating a digital marketplace that is scalable, can be
hosted on any cloud or hybrid eco-system and supports the customer
experience via multiple portals, mobile applications and real-time
communications. Information from the marketplace will facilitate
timely decisions through data analytics and data science, as well as
the provisioning of data to internal and external consumers.
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Beachbody
- This worldwide fitness, nutrition, and weight-loss programs
provider wanted to better target customers by leveraging purchase and
behavioral data. Using big data lake technology powered by the AWS
cloud, Beachbody enhanced its analytics architecture. It then made the
cloud data lake accessible via a self-service portal, providing
employees access to a wide range of information-from website activity
to call center records, sales and financial transactions-so they can
effectively improve the overall customer experience.
Best Systems Integrator
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Capgemini
with Michelin - Capgemini (News - Alert) is a global leader in consulting,
technology and outsourcing services. With the Hubble project,
Capgemini helped Michelin quickly enhance its mobility offering with
new services for its customers.
Best Value-Added Reseller
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JEMS
datafactory with SMAG - JEMS datafactory is a leading
professional services company, with expertise in strategy, consulting,
digital, technology and operations. JEMS worked with SMAG, a leader in
IS for Agriculture. Together, they have built a big data predictive
modeling system for agro-industrial sectors to optimize harvesting
plans, fertilization schedules, phytosanitary treatments, and storage
of grains.
In addition to recognizing the 12 companies above, this year Talend also
celebrated several individuals who had a significant impact on their
organization by demonstrating exceptional vision and leadership in
transforming data into a strategic asset for more intelligent business
decision making. The honored individuals include:
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Prashaant Huria, VP of IT, Enabling Units, GPPS and GMA at AstraZeneca.
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François Avédian, Operations Director at MonPortailRH.
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Tobias Baumgart, Leading expert on platform architecture at Conrad
Electronic DE.
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Denis Bourdon, CEO at April Technologies with our VAR partner Keyrus.
The 2017 Talend Data Masters winners are using a variety of Talend
solutions and partner technologies to achieve their digital
transformation goals, including Talend
Big Data, Talend
Real-Time Big Data, Talend
Integration Cloud, Talend
Data Integration, etc. To learn more about Talend and its complete
portfolio of solutions visit www.talend.com.
Additional details on each of the Data Masters Award winners can be
found here.
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About Talend
Talend (NASDAQ: TLND) is a next-generation leader in cloud and big data
integration software that helps companies make data a strategic asset
that provides realtime, organization-wide insight into customers,
partners, and operations. Through its open, adaptive, and unified
integration platform, Talend delivers the data agility required for
companies to rapidly adopt the latest technology innovations and scale
to meet the constantly evolving demands of modern business. A leader in
the 2017 Gartner (News - Alert) Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools and Forrester
Wave: Big Data Fabric Q4 2016, Talend's solutions support over 1500
global enterprise customers including Air France, GE, and Lenovo (News - Alert), across
a range of industries. For more information, please visit www.talend.com
and follow us on Twitter (News - Alert): @Talend.
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