Talend announced that Pipeline Software has signed a strategic partnership within the Talend Alliance Program. Under the terms of the agreement, the optimized interoperability between Talend's open source data integration technologies and Pipeline Software’s Transporter solution will allow customers to integrate data between SAP and other business-critical applications.

SAP is a highly successful but complex system that presents many challenges to companies wishing to integrate it with other systems. Talend has joined forces with Pipeline Software to ease the burden of complicated data-related tasks involving information residing within enterprise SAP applications. The partnership provides SAP customers with a combination of Talend's best-of-breed data integration solutions - Talend Open Studio and Talend Integration Suite - and Pipeline Software's industry proven SAP certified Transporter Connector Studio, extensive service and consulting expertise, and additional tools to address their data integration needs and successfully deploy and leverage data within an SAP environment.

“Talend offers an impressive solution with exceptional product functionality and customer support,” said Raju Patel, chief technology officer of Pipeline Software. “We are excited about our collaboration with Talend. The combined Talend and Pipeline solution provides a compelling offering for new customers needing to deploy complex SAP data integration projects quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively. Our existing customers with projects requiring additional data extraction and transformation would also benefit from adding the Talend solution.”

“Talend relies greatly on the exceptional feedback of our user community, and by partnering with Pipeline, we are addressing the need for simplified SAP integration that our customers require,” said Vincent Pineau, Talend's vice president and general manager Americas. “This partnership speaks to the relevancy, scalability and compatibility of Talend’s open source data integration offerings. We look forward to working with the Pipeline team, to help customers tackle large enterprise data projects.”

Talend first announced its formal partner program, the Talend Alliance Program, back in October 2007. Through the program, Talend is giving systems integrators, consulting firms and other IT service providers the flexible, easy-to-use platform they require to build cost-effective yet higher-margin solutions for their customers. As a Talend Gold Partner, Pipeline receives technical, sales and marketing support from Talend on the data integration projects the company runs on behalf of its clients.