Composite Software Enables Key MDM Strategies
Composite’s Data Integration Supports Convergence and Other Trends Identified
by CDI-MDM Institute’s Annual MDM Milestones Road Map
SAN MATEO, Calif. - November 19, 2007 –Composite Software, Inc., the real-time data integration leader, announced that its technology supports many of the important Master Data Management (MDM) milestones identified in the annual “Milestones on the 2008-2009 MDM Road Map” by research analysts at the Silicon Valley-based CDI-MDM Institute. The milestones are published annually to help Global 2000 enterprises optimize their MDM strategies and maximize returns on their MDM technology investments.
“These milestones identify the pulse of the CDI-MDM industry,” explained CDI-MDM Institute’s Chief Research Officer Aaron Zornes. “Further, they put into context how vendors like Composite Software are contributing to the evolution of MDM.”
Among the predictions for 2008 and beyond are skill shortages that will drive up projects costs as the demand for data stewards and enterprise data architects outstrips the supply of these experienced data professionals. Additionally, the convergence of MDM categories spanning “customer” to “product” to “vendor” and more will create the need for sophisticated technology that can manage transactions and provide business intelligence across multiple categories. Finally, architecture and data models are changing as MDM capabilities are increasingly exposed as “services” in loosely-coupled architectures.
Today, Composite Software delivers data-integration products that support these key trends. For example, its flagship Composite Information Server™ and the data services development environment, Composite Studio, address the skills/budget shortage with easy-to-use, high-productivity data integration development tools. Further, the Composite Information Server nimbly federates disparate party and product data. Enterprises can virtually access and share customer, product and related data including shipments, invoices and more by using the industry’s only SAP, Siebel and Saleforce.com adapters (Composite Data Services Applications), as well as the company’s recently announced data virtualization enhancements (Composite Active Cluster™). Composite’s technology also allows data quality functions to be run “on the fly,” ensuring the delivery of accurate data regardless of source data quality. Finally, the technology simplifies access and data delivery in real-time to support a range of today’s MDM analysis and reporting solutions.
The twelve milestones named in the 2008-2009 CDI-MDM Institute report are 1) Market maturation, 2) Market momentum, 3) Market consolidation and diversification, 4) Budget/skills, 5) Data governance, 6) MDM convergence, 7) Architecture and data models, 8) Identity resolution, 9) Party data quality, 10) Analytics, 11) Policy hubs, and 12) Enterprise search.
The milestones report is available at http://www.tcdii.com/0708milestonesonmdmroadmap.html.
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About Composite Software
Composite Software, Inc. provides a real-time approach to data integration that surpasses traditional physical data replication and hand-coding-based approaches. Hundreds of enterprises including five of the top six U.S. investment banks as well as software vendors including Cognos, Informatica and BMC, rely on the Composite Information ServerTM to virtualize, abstract and federate data from multiple, disparate sources and deliver this real-time information to their consuming applications. Especially valuable for data virtualization, SOA data services, business intelligence (BI) and reporting, virtual data marts, and CDI-MDM initiatives, Composite Software’s technology fulfills real-time information requirements, enabling enterprises to respond faster to business requests, reduce their data integration costs, and keep pace with ever-changing business needs. Founded in 2002, Composite Software is a privately held, venture-funded corporation based in Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit http://www.compositesw.com.
Composite Software, Composite Information Server and Composite Active Cluster are registered trademarks or trademarks of Composite Software, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective companies. Copyright © Composite Software, Inc. 2007
About CDI-MDM Institute
The CDI-MDM Institute is the only research advisory firm focused exclusively on customer data integration (CDI), master data management (MDM), and data governance. The institute provides insight into the CDI-MDM decision making process in North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe via a “trusted advisor” relationship with the CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects and CDI-MDM project leaders at 4,500-plus Global 5000 enterprises currently engaged in such infrastructure build-out. Its MarketPulse™ reports and CDI-MDM Alerts™ newsletter provide IT organizations, vendors and investors with hard-hitting insights into best practices as well as market observations. For more information, please visit http://www.tcdii.com/cdimdm.html.
