Composite Software Sees Increased Adoption of Its Data Virtualization Solution Set
Recent Reports by Leading Industry Analyst Firm Evaluate Including Virtual Data Federation, Data Discovery in Technology Portfolios
- “Consider federation capabilities as one component of an overall data integration technology portfolio, as well as an approach to deliver certain types of data services in an SOA context,…” (Hype Cycle for Data Integration)
- “When used properly — not as a rogue environment — data discovery tools offer a very powerful environment… The[ir] focus on simplicity and ease of use will help drive much broader adoption than traditional BI tools, and will encourage more users to analyze their data.” (Hype Cycle for Business Intelligence and Performance Management)
- Fifty (50) percent of organizations surveyed say they are creating virtual integrated views of data from disparate databases via data federation techniques. (Survey on Data Integration Practices)
San Mateo, Calif. - August 11, 2008 –Composite Software, Inc., the virtual data integration leader, today announced record numbers of enterprises are buying and deploying its award-winning Composite Information Server™ and related technology. Since its inception, Composite has experienced more than 100 percent annual growth as new customers extended their virtualization from servers and storage to data, and as existing customers expanded their data virtualization usage across multiple business intelligence, master data management (MDM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications.
This increased adoption is similar to findings reported by Stamford, Conn.-based industry analyst firm, Gartner, in several recent publications, including the Hype Cycle for Business Intelligence and Performance Management, 2008 (July 22, 2008), the Hype Cycle for Data Integration, 2008 (July 7, 2008), and the Survey on Data Integration Practices Shows Move Toward Strategic Initiatives (June 4, 2008).
“Today’s tough economic times demand new approaches like ours,” says Composite’s CEO Jim Green. “It’s gratifying that, in our opinion, Gartner analysts, like our innovative customers, are recognizing the value of practical and proven solutions that deliver faster time to solution, lower development and maintenance costs, and help overcome existing IT complexity.”
Complementing its virtual data integration solutions, Composite introduced in June the Composite Discovery, an appliance that combines enterprise search with federated data query to enable business analysts and analytical professionals to more easily discover and analyze enterprise data across multiple data sources and geographies for the industry’s quickest path from business question to answer.
Gartner Hype Cycles
According to its Hype Cycle for Data Management, Gartner prepares Hype Cycles to “help companies understand the relative maturity of technologies and best practices, the benefits of adopting them and the key factors behind their successful deployment.” Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst Ted Friedman sums up the business impact of Data Federation/EII as adding value “as part of the infrastructure for data integration. Most of these opportunities involve augmenting the physically integrated data structures (for example, extending data warehouses and data marts with real-time access to operational data) and providing consistent service-oriented approaches for applications and business services to access data.”
In the Hype Cycle for Business Intelligence and Performance Management, Research VP Kurt Schlegel and VP Distinguished Analyst Bill Hostmann explain that the business impact of Data Discovery will “…help drive much broader adoption than traditional BI tools, and will encourage more users to analyze their data.”
Gartner Survey Findings Summary
For his June 4 survey, Friedman interviewed more than 200 employees at mid- to large-sized organizations (defined as having a minimum of 500 employees). Among the survey’s key recommendations:
- “enterprises should adopt a portfolio of [data integration] DI tools that support a range of data delivery styles, from bulk/batch physical data delivery, to granular and lower-latency delivery, to federated and virtualized views of data”; and
- “information architects and DI designers/developers should acknowledge data federation capabilities as an increasingly important component of a comprehensive data integration strategy.”
Summaries may be found at the following links:
“Hype Cycle for Data Management, 2008” http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=158593, “Hype Cycle for Business Intelligence and Performance Management, 2008” http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=149421, and “Survey on Data Integration Practices Shows Move Toward Strategic Initiatives,” http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=688109&ref=g_fromdoc.
Composite Recommendation Tool Helps Enterprises
To help enterprises determine where data federation fits in their information architectures, Composite Software designed its Data Integration Strategy Recommendation Tool to provide a simple 80/20 type decision-making tool to reveal quickly, yet accurately, the right DI strategy for each new development project. Since it was introduced on May 7, 2008, the tool has been downloaded by hundreds of enterprises to decide when to use physical data consolidation such as ETL and when to use virtual data federation such as Enterprise Information Integration (EII).
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About Composite Software, Inc.
Composite Software, Inc. is the leading independent provider of virtual data integration software for IT and business professionals. The company’s solutions discover and deliver information—across multiple locations and disparate data sources—to help enterprises solve day-to-day business problems faster, for less. Expanding from its roots in enterprise information integration (EII), Composite’s solutions provide an important link between enterprise data and the desktop, complementing traditional physical data integration, while delivering greater flexibility and control for hundreds of customers, including five of the top six U.S. investment banks, five of the top ten pharmaceutical companies, software vendors such as Cognos, Informatica and BMC, and U.S. Defense and Intelligence agencies. 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, Composite Active Cluster and Composite Discovery are registered trademarks or trademarks of Composite Software, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective companies. Copyright © Composite Software, Inc. 2008.
