Talend announced the Winter ’17 version of Talend Data Fabric, a powerful platform that eases collaboration between IT and the business to enable more widespread use of data for decision making. Talend’s integrated platform now includes new data preparation features for big data that enable all employees to access, cleanse and collaborate on the analysis of massive data sets, as well as an intuitive, self-service Data Stewardship app that helps companies avoid the costly fines and penalties that can result from data integrity issues. The latest version of Talend Data Fabric also includes Spark 2.0 innovations for TalendBig Data and Talend Integration Cloud that allow customers to accelerate business processes and easily upgrade their environments to keep pace with the rapidly changing technology landscape. The latest version of Talend Data Fabric empowers IT to enable business users to access and expedite data preparation and cleansing to get more value out of corporate data lakes. The new data preparation capabilities for Talend Big Data allow customers to, access any data source–whether it’s housed in Hadoop, the cloud or traditional databases—and share it across users and groups to encourage collaboration; run preparations at scale using the power of Spark 2.0 and Hadoop; utilize a pre-configured data dictionary to auto-recognize the meaning of the raw data from the data lake, as well as augment the dictionary with their own vocabulary, such as product codes or names; and Crowdsource new data definitions from open data and/or the Talend Community. Talend Data Fabric will be released on January 19, 2017. Customers that license the newest version of Talend Data Fabric will receive two complimentary seats of the Talend Data Stewardship App and Talend Data Preparation.