Home Fitness Company Uses Talend to Build Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Data Lake to Fuel Analytics Applications
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 1, 2017--
Talend
(NASDAQ:
TLND), a global leader in cloud
and big
data integration solutions, announced that Beachbody,
the makers of P90X and Insanity, is using Talend to ingest its corporate
data into Amazon
Simple Storage Service (AWS S3) and enable self-service access for
line-of-business employees using a variety of analysis tools. In less
than six months, Beachbody’s IT team moved the company from receiving
new data once a week, to having it in near real-time so employees can
make business decisions faster.
"Creating the type of data lake we have on-premises would have been not
only very difficult, expensive, and time-consuming, but also I would
have needed to hire a lot more people with the right big data skills,"
said Eric Anderson, executive director of data for Beachbody, LLC.
“Using Talend and AWS, we were able to easily ingest all our data into
the cloud in less than six months. Our estimates indicated doing this
type of project on-premises would have taken over a year. Additionally,
big data technologies are evolving so quickly that keeping pace with
software updates would have been a challenge. But with Talend and AWS,
we have the agility required to ensure our IT environment is up-to-speed
at all times.”
When you’re in a competitive industry, it’s imperative for employees to
have timely access to enterprise data to make informed decisions.
Beachbody was running a conventional on-premises Oracle data warehouse
to store its corporate information, but knew it needed more business
agility and flexibility. Eric Anderson and his team decided to bulk up
the company’s analytics architecture by adding a Hadoop-based data lake
on AWS. Now, the company’s centralized analytics team has near-real-time
access to essential information concerning its customers, coaches,
website usage, and more.
Using Talend Data Integration, Beachbody ingests all incoming data into
a Hadoop Distributed File System for initial processing, which is then
stored in Amazon S3. Some highly processed data is also moved into
Amazon Redshift to get faster performance on analytical queries. The AWS
data lake can then be accessed via self-service analytics tools by
Beachbody employees, so they can evaluate website activity, logs from
Beachbody on-demand (the company's workout-video streaming service),
call-center records and external data on customer acquisition and
spending, as well as sales and financial transaction data.
“Beachbody is an excellent example of the flexibility and data agility
companies can experience by moving to the cloud with Talend,” said
Ashley Stirrup, CMO, Talend. “Our tight integration with AWS solutions
makes it easy for thousands of data sources to be made available using
any AWS platform, allowing our joint customers to deploy big data
projects dramatically faster, with far less operational support, so they
can speed time-to-value.”
To learn more about how Talend Data Integration is supporting Beachbody
in accelerating big data analytics in the cloud, watch
Eric Anderson talk about the Talend and AWS data
lake project at Strata + Hadoop World 2017 that took place in March,
in San Jose, Calif.
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About Beachbody
Beachbody, a worldwide leader in health and fitness headquartered in
Santa Monica, California, was founded in 1998 by Carl Daikeler and Jon
Congdon with the mission to help people achieve their goals and enjoy
healthy, fulfilling lives. Beachbody’s formula of world-class fitness,
nutrition, motivation and support has proven again and again to deliver
results for its customers. Whether through Beachbody on Demand (BOD) the
streaming platform featuring Beachbody’s portfolio of iconic fitness
brands like P90X®, INSANITY®, 21 Day Fix®, and CIZE®; via its “Daily
Dose of Dense Nutrition” superfood shake, Shakeology; or through its
premium line of sports nutrition supplements, Beachbody Performance, the
Beachbody name has come to define the power of putting a healthy
lifestyle within everyone’s reach. Beachbody products can be purchased
on its websites, and via its more than 450,000 strong Team Beachbody
Coach network of independent distributors. Beachbody On Demand,
featuring more than 400 streaming workouts, is available through its own
mobile app for iPhone, as well as on Apple TV, Roku TV models, Amazon
Fire and Google Chromecast, and now in over 120 countries around the
world through BeachbodyGlobal.com. For
more information please visit Beachbody.com.
About Talend
Talend (NASDAQ: TLND) is a next-generation leader in cloud and big data
integration software that helps companies make data a strategic asset
that provides realtime, organization-wide insight into customers,
partners, and operations. Through its open, adaptive, and unified
integration platform, Talend delivers the data agility required for
companies to rapidly adopt the latest technology innovations and scale
to meet the constantly evolving demands of modern business. A leader in
the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools and Forrester
Wave: Big Data Fabric Q4 2016, Talend’s solutions support over 1500
global enterprise customers including Air France, GE, and Lenovo, across
a range of industries. For more information, please visit www.talend.com
and follow us on Twitter: @Talend.

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