Talend Helps Travis Perkins Extract Better Business Insight Out of Unstructured Data Using Google Cloud

Singapore – August 24,
2017 – Talend (NASDAQ: TLND), a global leader in cloud and big data integration solutions, introduced a
comprehensive set of connectors for its Talend Data Fabric integration platform that help customers quickly ingest,
process, enrich, and clean data to execute
high-performance, analytical queries in the cloud and stream accurate business
insights in real-time. Talend’s native connectivity to numerous Google Cloud
services accelerates the development of cloud data pipelines, allowing
customers to analyze structured and unstructured data sources for meaningful,
actionable information.

Travis Perkins plc., the UK’s leading building materials suppliers to construction
and home improvement supply
stores, such as Wickes and Benchmarx, is utilizing Talend and Google Cloud
Platform to increase data
quality, consistency and business agility across multiple departments.

Talend’s new
integration with Google BigQuery is helping us migrate a number of our internal
and external business intelligence data sources to the cloud faster,” said
David Todd, group data director, Travis Perkins. “Google BigQuery is helping us
revolutionize our Business Intelligence, understand the data about our
business, and drive improvements in our customer experience. To further scale
our business and operate more efficiently, we’re working on moving all of our
apps—including legacy apps—to the cloud by 2019.”

IDC once reported the
digital universe was doubling in size every two years[1], but the
increasing pace of digitalization is now causing data creation to double in
shorter intervals than ever before. As a result, Gartner research says up to 80
percent of enterprise data is now unstructured, meaning it’s comprised of file types such as video, audio files, and
social media postings that can be harder to analyze for impactful insights.[2]

“While sifting through vast amounts of information can
seem daunting and resource intensive, there are a greater number of rewards to
be gained by doing so. Analyzing large sets of unstructured data enables
organizations to identify correlations between completely unrelated data
sources and find patterns that can uncover competitive advantages,”
said Laurent Bride, CTO, Talend. “By combining Talend solutions with Google
Cloud Platform, enterprise IT teams can derive powerful insights from
previously siloed, inaccessible data sources. In turn, this helps our joint customers
rapidly innovate in emerging areas such as sentiment analysis and machine
learning.”

Talend’s comprehensive
set of connectors for Google Cloud
Platform solutions—including
Google BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Storage and Pub/Sub—allows customers to:

●      Speed data analysis with Talend’s Spark components
for Google BigQuery

●      Deliver business insights on-demand by
processing events and logs from Pub/Sub using Spark Streaming

●      Improve IT productivity with built-in
components to start or stop Dataproc clusters

“We’ve been
working closely with Talend on building increased support for various services
within our cloud data platform and are pleased with how quickly they’ve
introduced new integration solutions,” said Adam Massey, director, Strategic
Technology Partners for Google Cloud, “The broad interoperability between
Google Cloud Platform and Talend will help our customers reach their digital
transformation goals.”

To experience
first-hand the data analytics power delivered by Talend running on the Google Cloud
Platform, check out the
‘Summer of Open Source’ series on Talend’s Facebook page to see demos performed by technical
experts from both Talend and Google.

Additional information
on the capabilities and benefits Talend Data Fabric delivers for Google Cloud
Platform and other cloud integration platforms can be found here, You can also get a ‘deep dive’ on Talend’s
support for Google Cloud Platform by viewing this webinar or this blog. For more information on Talend’s entire portfolio of
solutions, visit www.talend.com.

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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 real-time, organization-wide insight into customers, partners, and
operations. Through its open, adaptive, and unified integration platform,
Talend provides 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 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,
across a range of industries. For more information, please visit www.talend.com and follow us on Twitter: @Talend.

[1] “The Digital Universe of
Opportunities: Rich Data and the Increasing Value of the Internet of
Things,” EMC Digital Universe with Research & Analysis by IDC, April
2014.

2 “Organizations Will Need to Tackle Three
Challenges to Curb Unstructured Data Glut and Neglect,” Gartner Research, Inc.,
by Alan Dayley and Debra Logan, January 2017.