Annual Program Recognizes Companies Including GE Healthcare, Hess
Corp. and Travis Perkins That Are Leading the Market Through Innovative
Use of Data Integration
Talend, a global leader in big
data integration software, today announced the winners of its first
annual awards program — Talend
Data Masters. Ten forward-thinking organizations were presented with
this honor in a ceremony during the annual Talend
Connect conference in Paris, France. The Data Masters Awards
celebrate enterprises that are using Talend solutions to transform their
data architectures and fuel overall business success.
Carefully selected from more than 1,700 global customers representing
large public organizations and private firms across every major business
sector, the 2015 Talend Data Masters winners were selected using a range
of criteria including market impact and innovation, project scale and
complexity, big data technology usage and creativity as well as the
overall business value achieved.
“We created the Data Masters Awards to recognize the outstanding vision
and achievements of customers using Talend solutions to dramatically
transform their businesses into truly data-driven organizations,” said
Mike Tuchen, CEO, Talend. “While we’re proud of all our customers’
achievements, the Data Masters winners are pioneering new ways to
channel ever-growing volumes of data into actionable information that is
not only improving their businesses but in many instances also
benefiting the broader population.”
The winners of the inaugural Talend Data Masters Awards include:
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Douglas – Douglas,
a leading European beauty products retailer, needed a way to connect
its multitude of disparate systems in order to reduce its
time-to-order fulfillment process for a new product launch campaign.
With Talend, Douglas enabled all its business lines with access to
more than 12 different systems in order to streamline and efficiently
deliver the new product to customers throughout Europe in a single
month.
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GE Healthcare – GE
Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), provides
transformational medical technologies and services to meet the demand
for increased access, enhanced quality and more affordable healthcare
around the world. GE Healthcare and Talend worked together to
streamline the flow of data between healthcare organizations and
payers, which amounts to over 2 million claim/payment transactions per
day — in order to help reduce the administrative burden associated
with healthcare insurance claims and payments.
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Globalway – Globalway
provides cloud-oriented solutions to the burgeoning Japanese
marketplace. Globalway teamed with Talend to help its customers
migrate legacy applications to the cloud to enable forward-looking
insight. For example, utilizing Talend solutions, Globalway was able
to help one of its automobile manufacturing clients take sensory
information from its cars’ IoT navigation systems and use it to
improve future car development.
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Hess Corporation – Hess
Corporation, a leading global independent energy company
engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural
gas, is utilizing Talend in a predictive analytics solution. Utilizing
Talend data integration to work with other big data analytics
solutions, Hess can now generate reports in hours that used to take
weeks, so it can better pinpoint where to drill.
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Keyrus – As a key IT consulting and technology leader, Keyrus
enables organizations to successfully turn new data from the digital
paradigm into new business opportunities for its clients. Working with
Talend, Keyrus was able to integrate all customer account information
into one platform, which helped to reduce training time and deliver a
360-degree view of each customer. The less time spent training
employees on one vs. several different
systems meant the company had more time to spend addressing customer
needs.
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m2ocity –
m2ocity, the leading operator for the Internet of Things in
France, delivers a Network-a-a-Service solution for more than
1,600,000 connected devices across 2,000 cities, enabling the Smart
City to become real. Utilizing Talend, m2ocity is able to process
large volumes of data generated by its millions of connected devices
daily and distribute it quickly in a user-friendly format that enables
customers to develop new value-added services.
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OTTO Group – OTTO
Group, one of the largest online retailers in the world, used
Talend’s big data solution to replace aging, legacy, batch-oriented
integration systems so the company could have better insight into
customers’ shopping behavior and successfully prevent last-minute
shopping cart abandonment with real-time incentives.
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Springg – Springg,
an international software company specializing in agricultural data
transport, software development and sensor technologies, is helping to
feed the world through its innovative use of Talend software.
Utilizing Talend, Springg is able to evaluate data collected from
sensors used in its mobile laboratories around the globe to measure
soil elements. Based on these insights, Springg can give farmers soil
and fertilizer advice to help dramatically increase their yield
targets.
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Travis Perkins — The U.K.’s largest building materials
supplier, Travis
Perkins plc, operates 20 businesses across the country, including
Wickes, a DIY home improvement chain, and Benchmarx, a kitchen and
joinery supply store. Using Talend’s solutions alongside other
initiatives, Travis Perkins has been able to improve its website
conversion rate by 30 percent with improved and standardized product
data for customers and branches. This has helped ensure, among other
things, the availability of accurate product information and pricing.
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Virtusa – Virtusa,
a global information technology (IT) services company and valued
Talend partner, provides IT consulting, technology and outsourcing
services. After implementing Talend’s master data management solution,
Virtusa was able to reduce customer fraud and risk, keeping the
company in compliance with regulatory measures, while also
streamlining sales, marketing and other operational functions. As a
result, the company was able to create business efficiencies and
enhance its global delivery model for high-value IT client services.
Supporting Quotes:
“At GE Healthcare IT, we’re using Talend to serve as the
communications hub between health plans and providers,” said Jon
Zimmerman, GM, Clinical Business Solutions, GE Healthcare IT. "In the
U.S., there are billions of dollars wasted in administrative processes
because the information is not getting to the right place at the right
time to deliver appropriate care. By leveraging what Talend can do in
the middle of our network, all of our customers can reduce waste and
return more value for delivering care versus just administering care.”
“We’ve been doing IoT as a service with Talend for the past two
years, building a scalable and valuable solution for the years to come,”
said Christophe Roussel, Infrastructure Manager, m2ocity. “Now we have a
future-proof platform that can create new value-added, data-driven
services such as consumer portals for our customers’ customers or new
consumer markets.”
“Our mission is to feed the world’s growing number of citizens by
helping rural farmers increase their crop yield by as much as 500
percent,” said Wouter Kerkhof, CEO of Springg. “By working with Talend,
we are able to seamlessly collect and analyze data from all our mobile
labs in rural areas worldwide, and serve more farmers at a fraction of
the cost that it would take them to get similar insight from a
traditional chemical laboratory.”
To learn more about Talend and its complete portfolio of solutions
visit: https://www.talend.com/.
Additional details on each of the Data Masters Award winners and their
respective testimonial videos can be viewed in this
blog.
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About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and
services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality and
more affordable healthcare around the world. GE (NYSE: GE) works on
things that matter – great people and technologies taking on tough
challenges. From medical imaging, software & IT, patient monitoring and
diagnostics to drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing
technologies and performance improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps
medical professionals deliver great healthcare to their patients. For
more information visit our website www.gehealthcare.com.
About Talend
Talend’s integration solutions allow data-driven organizations to gain
instant value from all their data. Through native support of modern big
data platforms, Talend takes the complexity out of integration efforts
and equips IT departments to be more responsive to the demands of the
business, at a predictable cost. Based on open source technologies,
Talend’s scalable, future-proof solutions address all existing and
emerging integration requirements. Talend is privately-held and
headquartered in Redwood City, CA. For more information, please visit www.talend.com
and follow us on Twitter: @Talend.
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