GoodData and Talend

GoodData announced this week that we are formally working with Talend to make it easier to get all different types of data into GoodData. In press release-ese, here’s what it says:

Talend makes data integration a seamless piece of GoodData’s customer analytics offerings, allowing companies to focus on building the reports and dashboards that bring metrics front-and-center in their business, as opposed to solving low-level integration issues.

So what does this mean for GoodData customers:

1. Talend powers GoodData for Salesforce—this is mostly invisible to customers who buy our GoodData for Salesforce apps for marketing, sales and customer support analytics, since GoodData loads the data automatically on behalf of our customers
2. A GoodData connector for Talend is now a freely available on Talend Exchange, which means you can use Talend as an easy (and free) on-ramp for bringing practically any data into our Cloud BI platform
3. Stay tuned for more news about GoodData’s data integration architecture. Big things are coming in 2010….

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