Talend Announces Data Integration for SugarCRM

Business Wire, Sept 4, 2007

First Provider of Enterprise Open Source Data Integration Inks Strategic Partnership with SugarCRM, Providing Organizations with Versatile Integration with Leading Open Source CRM Solution

LOS ALTOS, Calif. -- Talend, the first provider of open source data integration software, today announced the availability of SugarCRM integration within Talend's open source data integration solutions, Talend Open Studio, Talend On Demand and Talend Integration Suite. The newly available business connector enables SugarCRM users, developers and partners to integrate SugarCRM deployments with third party databases and applications without requiring any additional development or programming. The integration capabilities provided by Talend's solutions comprise of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) functionality for including SugarCRM data in Business Intelligence applications, synchronization and replication of SugarCRM data with other systems, and migration to SugarCRM.

Managing customer relationships is at the core of all business operations, requiring input and participation from all departments including sales, customer support, billing, accounts receivable, etc. Successful execution of marketing and sales initiatives requires enterprises to have agile and high-performance operations to ensure the seamless interoperability of applications and databases, and the fluidity of data throughout their information systems. With open source solutions developed under similar developer-centric and feature-rich philosophies, the partnership between Talend and SugarCRM helps make successful customer relations a reality.

Talend Open Studio is certified by SugarCRM's SugarExchange Certification Program. Certified members must meet a clearly defined set of requirements at the presentation, system and network level. Areas covered during the certification testing process include, but are not limited to, authentication and identity management, data access and API controls, update mechanisms and error and exception handling. For a complete list of testing criteria please visit http://www.sugarexchange.com/content/certification/. As a certified SugarCRM member, users are assured that Talend's product meets SugarCRM's stringent quality criteria and are ready to deploy across SugarCRM's complete product offerings, including Sugar Professional and Sugar Enterprise. Certification denotes the trustworthiness of the application, as well as the application provider.

"Talend provides enterprise-grade data integration solutions, available in a licensing mode that is compatible with SugarExchange," said John Roberts, CEO of SugarCRM. "We are pleased to be collaborating with Talend and providing our customers with the tools they need to easily customize and integrate customer-facing business processes in order to build and maintain more profitable relationships."

"Our strategic partnership with SugarCRM further demonstrates that Talend leads the market for integration options enabled by the broadest support for market-leading technologies," said Bertrand Diard, co-founder and CEO of Talend. "The fast adoption of our flagship solution illustrates that the market has been waiting for an open source alternative to current proprietary offerings. Users from some of the most well-known global companies in the world are using Talend Open Studio for their mission-critical data integration processes, a testament that our solutions continue to satisfy the needs of even the largest, most data-intensive organizations."

With its intuitive easy-to-use graphical environment, Talend's data integration solutions simplify development and speed up deployment while empowering enterprise information management teams to select the architecture that makes sense for their unique needs. Unlike commercial data integration software that requires steep initial investment and relies heavily on IT resources for full-time management of software maintenance and upgrades, Talend Open Studio is provided at no cost under a GPL license while Talend Integration Suite and Talend On Demand are offered as a subscription. Furthermore, the ramp-up costs and ongoing development and maintenance costs are sharply reduced by the solution's embracing of open standards and architectural options.

Download Talend Open Studio free of charge at www.talend.com/download.php.> About Talend

Talend is the first provider of open source data integration software. After three years of intense research and development, and with solid financial backing from leading investment firms, Talend revolutionized the world of data integration when it released the first version of Talend Open Studio in 2006. Talend Open Studio is used primarily for migration and integration between operational systems, as well as for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Unlike proprietary, closed solutions, which can only be afforded by the largest organizations, Talend makes enterprise-class data integration solutions affordable to organizations of all sizes. To download Talend Open Studio free of charge, visit www.talend.com.