333 Rule to Keep Your BI Apps in Check
Information Management | March 4, 2010
As we popularize BI, and as technology becomes more scalable, more stable, more function rich and user-friendly - BI spreads like wildfire and often becomes uncontrollable. How do we address this unstoppable proliferation of BI applications and reports? One is to address an existing situation, another one is to implement a process to prevent it from happening in the first place.
Information Lifecycle Management: Tool for Taming the Growing Data Beast
Database Trends and Applications | March 4, 2010
For many organizations, application information lifecycle management, or ILM, now offers expedient - and badly needed - measures for properly defining, managing, and storing data. Are organizations coming to grips with all this data surging into their systems? A new survey of 227 managers and professionals affiliated with the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) finds that most are only just beginning to take the necessary steps to address these challenges and keep massive amounts of data from overwhelming their enterprise applications.
333 Rule To Keep Your BI Apps In Check
Forrester Research | March 3, 2010
As we popularize BI, and as technology becomes more scalable, more stable, more function rich and user-friendly - BI spreads like wildfire and often becomes uncontrollable. How do we address this unstoppable proliferation of BI applications and reports? One is to address an existing situation, another one is to implement a process to prevent it from happening in the first place.
Composite Software Named an IAAS Leader by Forrester Research
BeyeNetwork | February 16, 2010
Composite Software Named an IAAS “Leader” for its Product Innovations and Proven Track Record of Supporting Complex Data Services Deployments. “The Forrester Wave: Information-As-A-Service (IaaS), Q1 2010,” from Forrester Research, an independent research firm, concludes that enterprises seeking greater business agility and flexible data architectures are increasingly adopting IaaS or data services.
Composite Software Expands U.K. Operations as Demand for Data Virtualization Grows
BeyeNetwork | February 11, 2010
Composite Software has expanded its U.K. operations to better meet growing European demand for its award-winning data virtualization solutions. Composite Software recently hired a new European Financial Services Sales Leader, Mike Singleton, who will be based in the U.K. In the newly created position, Mr. Singleton will work with Composite Software’s financial services customers, currently representing 10 of the top 20 global money center banks, as well as penetrate additional European-based financial institutions. Singleton’s successful sales career includes executive positions at Oracle U.K., Computer Associates and Informix, as well as Workshare Limited and Ithena Limited.
The Requirements of the Data Delivery Platform
BeyeNetwork | February 4, 2010
In this article, a list of requirements for the data delivery platform (DDP) is described. The DDP is an architecture for developing business intelligence (BI) systems where data consumers (such as reports and spreadsheets) are decoupled from data stores (such as data warehouses, data marts, and staging areas). The primary goal of this decoupling is to get a higher level of flexibility.
Q&A: Ten Tips for Maximizing Data Virtualization
TDWI | February 3, 2010
Global enterprises and government agencies that are implementing data virtualization in IT face a formidable set of challenges—along with plenty of opportunities. By refining and maximizing the benefits from data virtualization, companies can squeeze more ROI out of their efforts—for example, by using data virtualization to address challenges such as rogue data marts. IT leaders can also work to ensure that data virtualization efforts pay off by contributing to the corporate bottom line.
Effectively Integrating Data Can Help Federal Intelligence Agencies in War on Terror
NewsRX | February 1, 2010
In a keynote address, Karen Evans, partner of KE+T Partners LLC, connected the dots between recent failures to prevent attempted terrorist attacks to outdated information technology systems for integrating data across multiple Federal Intelligence Agencies, not for lack of collected intelligence data itself. Citing this as an opportunity to continue phased implementation of innovative data integration technologies, Ms. Evans praised the Federal Government’s public efforts to update its data systems. Evans spoke at an invitation-only breakfast forum sponsored by Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization leader.
I dig Data Virtualization Now
This is Owen Taylor's weblog | January 28, 2010
I have been working with Composite Software for 10 months now and am really getting into it of late. A recent blog entry by a Boulder-based analyst helps to maintain morale and Composite’s incredible support staff and highly technical population keeps me well enabled and on my toes as I work to keep up.
Application Data Hub Improves Efficiency at Comag Marketing
Information Management | Jan/Feb 2010
The Composite Information Server allows the Comag Marketing Group to take information from Oracle Financials, CMG data warehouse, CRM and other legacy systems and expose them through common data services without replicating data to another database. As the most flexible and scalable option for responding to data synchronization and multiple uses within a batch-oriented environment, the Composite Information Server’s development and administration places minimal demands on our 22-member IT staff. While the larger CRM project is still underway, the Composite deployment has already yielded benefits including producing reports about the condition and stocking of magazines within 24 hours of collecting the information from the field.
Boulder BI Brain Trust Blog
The Boulder BI Brain Trust Blog | January 22, 2010
Often times software companies have a solution in search of a problem or an elegant solution that “only” really works on the fringes of business problems. The recent presentation from Composite Software to the BBBT showed me that Composite is not only elegant technology but relevant to direct business issues.
A Definition of the Data Delivery Platform
B-Eye Network | January 21, 2010
Rick van der Lans proposes an initial definition for the business intelligence architecture called the data delivery platform, explains its functionality and compares it to the corporate information factory and the data warehouse bus architecture.
HP, Composite Team To Improve Data Virtualization Middleware
Integration Developer News | January 7, 2010
HP is working with Composite Software Inc. to deliver more agile enterprise data virtualization technologies for BI (business intelligence) and other high-value data projects. The partnership will focus on data virtualization middleware, real-time access and optimizing private/public cloud, company officials said. Under the partnership, Composite and HP will design a physical data warehouse, a virtual data view—or a combination of the two. The ability to combine virtual data integration with physical data consolidation will help save money and provide cost-effective and custom global access, company officials said.
