El Al has established a Talend “Center of Excellence” to manage a unified and central data infrastructure
They have completed the first phase of converting 85% of their procedures and are currently in the midst of the second phase of the cloud transition.
El Al has chosen to manage her data with the Talend data integration platform, represented in Israel by Aqurate, a subsidiary of ULC. The company has established a Talend “Center of Excellence” to manage a unified and central data infrastructure, and thus completed the first phase of converting 85% of its procedures and is currently in the midst of the second phase of the cloud transition. Talend data integration enables the company direct communication with hundreds of thousands of its clients in various digital channels.
Establishing the El Al center of excellence is accompanied by guidance and tight escort and is even supported by designated personnel recruitment for its operation by Aqurate’s Professional Services branch.
El Al Chief Information and Data Officer, Ido Bigger stated: “El Al is experiencing a technological revolution and is obligated to organizational efficiency and a very high level of performance. As a part of it we are making a clean up with a dramatic reduction in the number of systems, from over 500 to less than 200. As a part of that, in the data integration sector, we have found ourselves, for historical reasons, with more than 5 systems that answer the same technological need. We have chosen Talend from among the contestants because the platform enables us to work better with our Big Data applications, run upgrades and adjustments quickly and fluidly, and due to the fact that in the world, it constitutes a very significant portion of the market. The gap created a local knowledge base in Israel, which led to the need to establish a center of excellence for the platform in El Al. Founding the team and the integration took about a year, and now we are one of the organizations used as a deep and advanced knowledge base for the system applications, locally and in the cloud. I am satisfied with the choice.”
El Al head of data integration, Anat Maor, added: “So far, I didn’t encounter a development that is not possible (due to “tool’s limitation”). The fact that the system is open source opens nearly limitless possibilities. Version updates in a day or two long, while other tools upgrades can take over six months. Integrating the tool among young developers is smooth and intuitive, and the use of versions hasn’t let me down even once.”
Big Data Developer in El Al, Barak Kessner, says: “Talend is Java-based and enables packing and running a job from every machine (execution server), plus diverting jobs to the most available machine (Load Balancer). The tool allows one to log in to every possible data source, process it, and make it valuable to the organization.
The tool enables the use of internal and external parameters, which shortens development time and enables transitiopn between environments. Talend contains the most updated Big Data components and keeps staying up to date with every new version update (Connectors 900+).
During version update, the process is done automatically by the system, unlike other integration tools in which the upgrade can last many months.”
Aqurate CEO, Yosi Rodrik, has stated: “El Al has built a Talend center of excellence, which serves as a broad data infrastructure for all the data company’s data consumers, clients, agents, and internal clients. El Al is executing the company’s digital vision through the built infrastructure and is obligated to organizational efficiency. Unlike other providers, we invest a great deal of effort so that the organization will be able to operate and develop the systems independently, without any need for external factors. Complete integration means allowing the client to work with the product independently with its employees.
About El Al
El Al is Israel’s national airline. Its works include El Al and Sun D’Or. The company is a vital strategic branch for the country, which connects Israel to the world, flys about 6 million passengers and 5.74 tons of baggage a year, is the Israeli market lead with 25% if the cut (data from 2019), and is codeshare cooperation with an array of airline companies around the world. Furthermore, El Al is the owner of the Frequent Flyer Club with flycard credit card, which has 340000 holders.
About Talend
In 2005 the data market was at a crossroads. While other branches have been drawn to expensive and complex integration products, Talend founders Fabrice Bonan and Bertrand Diard believed there’s another way: simple, strong, flexible, and expandable. Their solution was the first commercial program with open-source code for data integration. Talend have believed that it must change how the world makes decisions, and the way to achieve that is by making data available for everyone.
A little more than a decade later (2016) – after launching an organizational big data solution and foreseeing the industry shift to cloud infrastructure, the company went public on Nasdaq under the name TLND. The company is leading the world’s data management field by research companies and offers data integrity and health solutions.