Experian QAS and Talend sign a technology partnership

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SURESNES, France - March 11, 2009 - Experian QAS, a global leader in address verification solutions, signed a technology partnership agreement with Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration. This agreement allows Talend to broaden its data quality management offerings by leveraging Experian QAS solutions.

Talend, market leader in open source data integration

Founded in 2005, Talend uses the open source model to provide data integration solutions to firms of all sizes, all level of expertise, and all budgets. Talend’s tools connect to all sources and targets and can be freely downloaded.

“Since its launch in 2006, Talend Open Studio has been downloaded more than 3.3 million times. The availability of the product for free downloading under open source licensing makes adoption easy by any kind of company, and for any type of project,” explains Yves de Montcheuil, Talend's Vice President of Marketing.

In addition to its data integration tools, Talend also offers data quality solutions with Talend Data Quality. “Address validation is an important element in the quality of a company’s data; we were looking for a partner allowing us to integrate address validation and correction functionality with our solution,” says Yves de Montcheuil.

Talend, market leader in open source data integration

Talend recognized Experian QAS as a key player in the Contact Data Management market. Indeed, Experian QAS software solutions preserve data integrity and increase the reliability of customer relationship management. The partnership was a natural fit.

“We needed to provide our clients with address validation and correction capabilities, fully integrated to our Talend Data Quality software suite. Now, the integrated solution allows us to provide our customers guaranteed access to exhaustive and reliable reference databases,” adds Yves de Montcheuil.

“Our combined solution lets clients of both companies make good strategic decisions guided by reliable data,” concludes Benoit Dahan, Partners Manager at Experian QAS.

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