Travis Perkins plc., the UK's leading building materials suppliers to construction and home improvement supply stores, such as Wickes and Benchmarx, is utilizing Talend and Google Cloud Platform to increase data quality, consistency and business agility across multiple departments.
Talend’s new integration with Google BigQuery is helping us migrate a number of our internal and external business intelligence data sources to the cloud faster,” said David Todd, group data director, Travis Perkins. “Google BigQuery is helping us revolutionize our Business Intelligence, understand the data about our business, and drive improvements in our customer experience. To further scale our business and operate more efficiently, we’re working on moving all of our apps—including legacy apps—to the cloud by 2019.”
IDC once reported the digital universe was doubling in size every two years[1], but the increasing pace of digitalization is now causing data creation to double in shorter intervals than ever before. As a result, Gartner research says up to 80 percent of enterprise data is now unstructured, meaning it's
comprised of file types such as video, audio files, and social media postings that can be harder to analyze for impactful insights.
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“While sifting through vast amounts of information can seem daunting and resource intensive, there are a greater number of rewards to be gained by doing so. Analyzing large sets of unstructured data enables organizations to identify correlations between completely unrelated data sources and find patterns that can uncover competitive advantages,” said Laurent Bride, CTO, Talend. “By combining Talend solutions with Google Cloud Platform, enterprise IT teams can derive powerful insights from previously siloed, inaccessible data sources. In turn, this helps our joint customers rapidly innovate in emerging areas such as sentiment analysis and machine learning.”
Talend’s comprehensive set of connectors for Google Cloud Platform solutions—including Google BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Storage and Pub/Sub—allows customers to: ? Speed data analysis with Talend’s Spark components for Google BigQuery
? Deliver business insights on-demand by processing events and logs from Pub/Sub using Spark Streaming
? Improve IT productivity with built-in components to start or stop Dataproc clusters
"We’ve been working closely with Talend on building increased support for various services within our cloud data platform and are pleased with how quickly they’ve introduced new integration solutions,” said Adam Massey, director, Strategic Technology Partners for Google Cloud, “The broad interoperability between Google Cloud Platform and Talend will help our customers reach their digital transformation goals."
