Independent Analyst Firm Recommends That Business Intelligence Professionals Consider Agile BI Out of The Box
Composite Software Cited Among Eight Vendors of Metadata-Generated BI Applications That Reduce Development Time and Effort
SAN MATEO, Calif. — May 3, 2010 — Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization performance leader, today announced it is listed among eight vendors in a newly published report, “Agile BI Out of the Box,” (April 2010) from Forrester Research Inc., an independent research firm. The report concludes, “Agile BI is clearly here to stay and succeed, since most traditional, non-Agile BI platforms and applications will be increasingly challenged to keep pace with a world moving at lightning speed.”
Traditional BI applications developed in the 1980s to address the transformation of high data volumes into actionable information are not agile by design, and have failed to keep pace with the ever-increasing and ever-changing information demands of today’s enterprises. Packaged BI applications were introduced to deliver more agility, but, they have not proven to be the panacea.
According to the report, “Forrester sees an emergence of a new generation of metadata-generated BI applications that BI professionals should consider—not as a replacement for traditional BI, not yet—but for specific use cases such as complementing traditional BI, generating data marts from the enterprise data warehouse (EDW), and delivering rapid BI application prototypes.”
Composite Software’s data federation or enterprise information integration (EII) approach is one of five metadata-generated BI applications defined in the report. According to the report, “Since they [Composite Software] do not generate a physical data warehouse but rather create virtual views (virtual data marts) directly connecting to source data bases and applications, ETL, DW schema and data cache, and semantic layer are actually the same thing, eliminating the need to build three separate components.”
The report contains a quote from a customer about the benefit of Composite Software’s approach to Agile BI: “And a senior BI architect from a large European pharmaceutical company using Composite Software fosters a ‘yes’ culture by eliminating up to 50% of business requests by first trying them out in a virtualized environment, and only after consistent usage will he move new data structures into the company’s physical DW.”
“BI agility is the number one reason we use Composite Software,” says Peter Green, director, Business Integration, at Pfizer, Inc. “Because Composite’s data virtualization middleware helps us dynamically integrate our diverse BI and data environments, we are able to respond more rapidly to business change.”
The report is available for purchase at Forrester Research, http://www.forrester.com.
A Composite Software-sponsored webinar featuring Forrester Research analysts Gene Laganza and Noel Yuhanna on a related topic, “Information Architecture: The Key Trends You Should Know,” is available at http://purl.manticoretechnology.com/MTC_Common/mtcURLSrv.aspx?ID=12917&Key=FE72CA6B-C6D6-4DA1-91D6-5CDE20B85E33&URLID=7980.
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ABOUT COMPOSITE SOFTWARE: Composite Software, Inc. is the only company that focuses solely on data virtualization. Global organizations faced with disparate, complex data environments, including ten of the top 20 banks, six of the top ten pharmaceutical companies, four of the top five energy firms, major media and technology organizations as well as government agencies, have chosen Composite’s proven data virtualization platform to fulfill critical information needs, faster with fewer resources. Scaling from project to enterprise, Composite’s middleware enables data federation, data warehouse extension, enterprise data sharing, real-time and cloud computing data integration. 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. Or follow Composite on http://twitter.com/compositesw.
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