Talend: Lenovo Adopts Open Source Big Data Analytics

Open source Big Data vendor Talend has announced a significant customer win with the decision by Lenovo, the world's leading PC manufacturer, to deploy Talend's platform for Big Data analysis and information visualization.

Talend is using the news, which it announced June 10, to highlight what it said is a need among enterprises to bring the sophistication of data analysis platforms up to speed with the volume of data that organizations generate today. "Organizations are increasingly data-rich but insight-poor, fueled in large part by the inability to integrate information from legacy systems, social media, and the shift of many organizational systems to the cloud," said Mike Sheridan, executive vice president of Sales at Talend.

Talend's Enterprise Big Data platform, the company said, is allowing Lenovo to collect data from nearly 300 processes that run simultaneously and come from sources including third parties, APIs and social networking feeds. The Talend software then provides visualizations and other tools to create reports based on Lenovo's information.

In addition, Lenovo has so far saved $140,000 in migration costs by using Talend, according to Talend. The company's software has also dramatically decreased the time necessary for Lenovo's data collection and reporting processes, it said.

For its part, Lenovo—which ranks first in the world as the largest PC manufacturer and fourth among smartphone makers—had nothing but nice things to say about Talend's technology. "We have to continually increase our velocity in acquiring data, and the ease of use of the Talend platform allows us to deliver on those requests," said Marc Gallman, manager of Data Architecture at Lenovo.