SAN MATEO, CALIF. — December 28, 2009 — Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization leader, announced today that its executive vice president of Marketing, Robert Eve, was recently named by Ulitzer.com http://virtualization.sys-con.com/node/1201833 as the world’s fifth most influential virtualization blogger among a group of thirty top-ranking industry authors. 

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — December 21, 2009— Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization leader, announced that it recently recruited two executives for newly created positions in its Toronto-based Canadian operations.  Nickolas Kabitsis and Tony Young will serve as sales manager and sales engineer, respectively. 

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — December 8, 2009— Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization leader, announced today its collaboration with HP to deliver data virtualization middleware and services to ease global enterprises facing complex information challenges. This collaboration combines Composite’s data virtualization middleware and services with HP Business Intelligence Solutions to accelerate delivery of real-time intelligence for complicated supply chain, risk and customer environments. 

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — December 2, 2009— Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization leader, announces an alliance with Scicom Computer Systems, an IT solutions provider servicing the Greek, Cyprus and Balkan regions, as demand for flexible, lower cost data virtualization middleware grows in continental Europe. 

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — November 16, 2009— Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization leader, announced today the availability of the “TDWI Checklist Report: Data Federation,” http://www.tdwi.org/Research/display.aspx?id=9417, by Wayne Eckerson, director of Research, The Data Warehousing Institute™ (TDWI).

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — November 2, 2009 — Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization leader, began shipping Composite Information Server 5.1 as the company announced its leadership in a number of industry milestones.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. and Paris — October 19, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., a leading data virtualization software provider, today announced its selection of Janus-SI, a subsidiary of the Intrabases Group and a system integrator of value-added software solutions, to help meet the growing demand for Composite Software’s technology in continental Europe…

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — October 14, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., a leading data virtualization software provider, recently awarded the innovative data virtualization initiatives of three of its customers: Pfizer, Inc., Husasmidjan and Compassion International.  The customers received their awards at Composite Software’s Fourth Annual Customer Advisory Council (CAC), held last week in Philadelphia, Penn.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — September 28, 2009 – Composite Software, the leading provider of data virtualization software, today announced that a senior executive from Pfizer (a Composite customer) and a senior Composite executive will present at the Butler Group’s Business Intelligence (BI) Symposium. “BI Foundations for Decision-Making Excellence and Risk Management” is scheduled for October 7-8, 2009, at the America Square Conference Centre in London.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — September 08, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., the leading provider of data virtualization software, today announced that its fourth annual Customer Advisory Council (CAC) is scheduled for October 6-7, 2009, at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Philadelphia. The company says it is seeing a strong response to this invitation-only event. The number of attendees is expected to grow 30 percent over 2008 attendance levels.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — August 17, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization leader, announced today that in response to growing demand for its data virtualization software, the company plans to grow its direct sales force by an additional 22 percent in the second half of 2009. Overseeing this expansion and ensuring seamless service to existing and prospective customers will be Composite sales veteran, Che Wijesinghe, who has been promoted to vice president, Eastern U.S. Region. To bolster its internal sales team, the company has also inked agreements with six new partners in 2009.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — August 3, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization leader, today announced the availability of three new, complimentary white papers in its technical resource library, www.compositesw.com/devzone.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — July 29, 2009 – A newly published report, “Mighty Mashups: Do-It-Yourself Business Intelligence for the New Economy,” from Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research, Inc.,  recommends that overstretched IT teams adopt self-service, mashup-style business intelligence (BI) as a way to increase their productivity and empower business user requestors to make simple changes to reports, dashboards and cubes.

LONDON and SAN MATEO, CALIF. — July 15, 2009 – Emunio Consulting, the UK’s leading provider of data integration consultancy and delivery services, announced today that it has signed a strategic partnership with Composite Software, Inc., the leading independent provider of data virtualization software.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — June 15, 2009 – In a recently published white paper, world renowned cloud computing and service oriented architecture (SOA) industry expert, David S. Linthicum, concludes enterprise and government IT organizations seeking to save money and gain agility using cloud computing and XML standards can achieve these objectives through strategic implementation of data virtualization.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — June 2, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization leader, recently expanded its European operations by adding two sales managers and signing an additional European SI as a reseller. Nick Salt and Rich Kaplan will be responsible for developing new customers for Composite’s award-winning product line in the UK and Europe.  PowerData, a Spanish System Integrator specializing in data management, will resell and implement Composite’s technology in Spain.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — May 26, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization leader, today announced it has recruited industry veteran, Marc Breissinger, as executive vice president to lead Composite’s new, enterprise-level consulting practice.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. and Dallas — May 11, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization leader, and Motio, Inc., the recognized leader in providing advanced software for IBM-Cognos BI deployments, today began shipping the new Composite BI Accelerator™.  Jointly developed by Composite and Motio, the Composite BI Accelerator automates currently cumbersome tasks in the BI lifecycle.  The initial release, a self-contained appliance, has been optimized for IBM-Cognos environments.  This is the first end-to-end solution that automates steps throughout the BI process.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — May 4, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization leader, today began shipping the newest upgrade of its flagship product, Composite Information Server™, version 5.0.  For the first time, enterprise and government agency IT teams can flexibly choose development environments in which to build enterprise-scale data virtualization: Composite Designer™—optimized for Web services and Java –centric development, and Composite Studio™—optimized for relational-centric methods.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — April 4, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., the best-of-breed data virtualization leader, today announced its first Telecom, Media and Entertainment Enterprise Architects’ Forum, to be held Wednesday, April 22, from 11:15 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. EDT at the Sofitel Philadelphia hotel in Philadelphia.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — April 2, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., the best-of-breed data virtualization leader, today announced its CEO Jim Green will participate on a panel of service oriented architecture (SOA) expert-authors on Information Management’s DM Radio, to be broadcast live on April 9, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. PT.  Participating with Green are Hub Vandervoort, chief technology officer (CTO), Progress Software Corporation; Hemant Ramachandra, managing director, Business Systems Integration, BearingPoint; and Alex Rosen, vice president of Enterprise Architecture Solutions, MomentumSI.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — March 16, 2009 – Composite Software, the best-of-breed data virtualization leader, today announced it has been recognized for its Composite Discovery product as the only structured data search vendor that focuses on both data discovery and business intelligence (BI).  The recognition is cited in one of two recent, independent reports analyzing the current data discovery market by Bloor Research, a leading analyst firm headquartered in the United Kingdom. 

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — February 17, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., the best-of-breed data virtualization leader, today announced the availability of “Maximising the Business Value of Data Virtualization,” a new white paper by Mike Ferguson, a leading Business Intelligence (BI)/Data Integration (DI) independent analyst based in the UK.  Composite Software sponsored the white paper.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — February 5, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., the best-of-breed data virtualization leader, today announced its first Pharmaceutical Architects’ Forum, to be held on Wednesday, February 18, from 11:15 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Marriott Bridgewater in Bridgewater, New Jersey.  Featured keynote speakers include Mr. Kiran Dattani, director of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Integration, Pfizer, Inc.; and Christopher Blotto, managing partner, Global Information Management and Analytics, EMC Consulting.  The forum will consist of lunch, speaker presentations and a Q&A session. 

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — January 26, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., the best-of-breed data virtualization leader, today announced the availability of its new Customer Value Framework that helps enterprises calculate potential and actual return on investment (ROI) on their virtual data integration deployments.  The framework features both standard and custom ROI calculators for measuring the results achieved through technology deployment in five areas: sales growth, risk reduction, time savings, technology savings and staff savings.

SAN MATEO, CALIF. — January 12, 2009 – Composite Software, Inc., the best-of-breed data virtualization leader, today announced that the nation’s fourth largest bank, Wachovia Corporation (recently merged with Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), has selected its Composite Information Server™.  Industry-renowned for its leadership in customer service, Wachovia has deployed the Composite software in its Corporate Investment Banking line to deliver Holdings and Offerings information even faster to customers.

Denver, CO (PRWEB) January 5, 2009 – Robert Eve, Vice President of Marketing Composite Software Inc., recently participated in an exclusive interview with Ron Powell and the BeyeNETWORK (http://www.BeyeNETWORK.com). In this interview, Eve explains how the Composite Information Server enables users to virtualize, abstract, federate and deliver disparate data required for new BI and portal projects as well as the latest news about Composite’s long standing partnership with Cognos.