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April 2022

Power to the people - creating trust in data with collaborative governance

Today’s enterprise IT organizations are experiencing a massive upheaval due to pressure from employee forces. It’s a familiar story. Just think of the turmoil caused by the dawning of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) era, with employees demanding to use their beloved personal mobile phones for work.

AstraZeneca: Building a collaborative culture between data leaders and business teams

How data projects are put into production at AstraZeneca? Successful projects require discussion, business expertise, tech knowledge, and agility. AstraZeneca achieved this by building a collaborative culture between data leaders and business teams. “Data without trust is useless. Data Governance is critical to knowing that we can trust our data and ensuring that the data is well understood, well looked after, and only accessible to the right people.”

MeDirect Bank: Thinking ahead for a seamless transition to the cloud

MeDirect Bank is a bank and financial services company based in Malta that provides services ranging from deposit accounts to mutual funds to wealth management. The company has evolved from its regional roots to become the third largest bank in Malta, with customers all over the world. And it’s done so by evolving with its customers’ needs; providing accessible, transparent services wherever customers are — physically or digitally.

Estée Lauder: Transforming the retail experience during a pandemic

Change is something every business leader has to deal with. But in the past two years, doing business has just gotten weird and harder. In this video, Christal Bemont, Talend's CEO and David Malloy, Executive Director of the Estee Lauder Companies discuss how he used healthy data to fuel a dramatic business transformation of the major cosmetics retailer.

Getting data to the front lines of your business - Scott Holden, CMO of ThoughtSpot

Getting your executive team to make more data-driven decisions is important. But according to Scott Holden, CMO of ThoughtSpot, it isn’t enough. At ThoughtSpot, Scott is focused on helping entire organizations become data-driven, from top to bottom. On this episode, he discusses how he’s doing this, how he thinks about decision-making in general, and much more. Key Takeaways Quotes“Everything that I look at in my world comes through an analytical lens, and the power of that is that you can merge lots of different data sets together and get a more cohesive view.”

At Covanta, data health improves the business and the planet

At Talend, we tend to describe poorly organized, unhealthy data as “digital landfills.” But we don’t often talk about actual landfills. That’s right, the ones filled with trash. As anyone watching real estate prices will know, land is a finite resource. It’s crazy to think that we’re still dedicating land to storing our garbage, where it will sit releasing pollutants and greenhouse gases for decades to come.

Talend acquires Gamma Soft

April 7, 2022, Talend, a global leader in data integration and management, announced today it has acquired Gamma Soft, a market innovator in change data capture (CDC). The addition of Gamma Soft’s highly complementary, enterprise-class change data capture technologies will help customers streamline their data modernization initiatives, including cloud migrations, and support advanced, real-time analytics use cases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Talend's acquisition of Gamma Soft offers exciting new capabilities for our customers

I am so pleased to announce that Talend has acquired Gamma Soft, a change data capture market innovator. This is a significant enhancement in the capabilities Talend can provide its customers and partners. Talend’s company vision is to take the work out of working with data, and we're thrilled to add Gamma Soft’s technology to our offerings to do this. Change data capture (CDC) technology is highly sought after by many companies.

AstraZeneca: Building a finance data hub

At AstraZeneca, supporting funcstions like Finance are intensely data-driven. Recently, the data and IT team completely overhauled their data architecture to better serve the needs of the Finance team, they decided to build a Finance data hub. In this video, key project stakeholders explain why and how they build the data hub for the finance team (using Talend and AWS), and they detail how it's integrated with other data hubs at astraZeneca.

Turning data into a life-saving asset

A global leader in pharmaceuticals found themselves faced with a unique spin on a common challenge: Their biopharmaceutical division — responsible for producing vaccines and generating over $1 billion in annual sales — was struggling to turn raw data into trusted insights. Data underlies everything the global pharmaceutical company does, however, without data they can trust, they would be at risk of taking longer to get vaccines to market and incurring higher expenses along the way.