Case Study: Avalara achieves 78% reduction in manual data processing time with Talend Data Preparation (Talend)

Solving tax issues for international companies automatically

Avalara is a cloud-based tax-compliance provider that helps companies automate VAT, sales, and other transactional tax reporting worldwide. Its UK Managed Returns unit faced a major challenge: customer transaction data arrived in many different formats and analysts were spending excessive time manually standardizing files in Excel, creating delays, higher costs, and risk of errors.

Avalara automated the process using Talend Integration to retrieve files and Talend Data Preparation to cleanse, convert and apply format-specific recipes before sending data to the tax engine. The automated workflow cut manual processing by 78% (processing client data in 40 hours instead of 400 over a four-month period), reduced risk through consistent, repeatable handling, and allowed the team to scale and meet filing deadlines.

Avalara

Chris Potter

Data Services Architect