Composite Software’s Robert Eve will explain how innovative enterprises are using data virtualization to gain insight across this new ecosystem with greater agility and lower costs

SAN MATEO, Calif. — May 15,  2012 — Enterprise Management Associates analyst Shawn Rogers will headline today’s 4pm ET broadcast of The Briefing Room where he will introduce the hybrid data ecosystem and detail how the worlds of traditional business intelligence, big data analytics and transaction systems can integrate to improve business outcomes. Rogers, EMA vice president of research for business intelligence and data warehousing, will be briefed by Composite Software Executive VP of Marketing Robert Eve who will discuss how innovative enterprises are using data virtualization to gain insight across diverse platforms with greater agility and lower costs.

Besemer will detail data virtualization use cases that help organizations achieve business agility.

San Mateo, CA — May 2, 2012 —  Composite Software chief technical officer (CTO) David Besemer will discuss the role of data virtualization in enabling organizations to achieve business agility as well as detail enterprise-scale data virtualization use cases at the Forrester Research, Inc. Enterprise Architecture Forum that will be held May 3-4 in Las Vegas, NV.

Composite executives have contributed nearly 90 blog posts sharing a wealth of data virtualization use cases and data integration expertise.

San Mateo, CA — April 17, 2012 —  Composite Software today announced the one year anniversary of the publication of the Data Virtualization Leadership Blog™ that provides organizations unique insights into diverse data virtualization topics ranging from high-end strategy and architecture to more detailed lessons learned, tips and techniques to implementation best practices. 

The Data Virtualization Café enables organizations to track the latest news, research, videos, blogs, books, events and participate in LinkedIn group discussions.

San Mateo, CA — April 3, 2012 —  Composite Software, the data virtualization performance leader, continued its innovative thought leadership programs with the launch of The Data Virtualization Café, a microsite that tracks the latest data virtualization news, analyst research, blogs, books and events and consolidates the information into a single location. Composite Software also launched The DV (Data Virtualization) Café LinkedIn group, an online community that contributes polls and other insights enabling interactive discussions on diverse data virtualization topics and use cases.
 

van der Lans writes that data virtualization is critical to enabling IT agility in managing today’s diverse business intelligence systems

San Mateo, CA — March 6, 2012 —  Composite Software today announced the availability of a new white paper, “Data Virtualization for Business Intelligence Agility”, authored by Rick F. van der Lans, a leading authority on data virtualization and the author of the upcoming book “Data Virtualization in Business Intelligence Architectures: Revolutionizing Data Integration for Data Warehouses.”  The white paper, sponsored by Composite Software, is available here free of charge. 

New release further advances Composite’s performance leadership position and significantly upgrades its data services development environment

San Mateo, CA — February 14, 2012 —  Composite Software today introduced version 6.1 of its Composite Data Virtualization Platform™ which extends the company’s performance leadership position and significantly enhances the data virtualization platform’s data services development environment.  Composite 6.1, available immediately, is a free upgrade for Composite’s hundreds of installations worldwide. 

Linhares will be part of February 2 DM Radio broadcast panel sharing successful strategies and tactics for achieving self-service BI

San Mateo, CA — January 31, 2012 —  Pfizer’s Michael Linhares, Ph.D., Research Fellow and leader of the Business Operations Group within Pfizer Pharmaceutical Sciences, will discuss his extensive experiences enabling self-service business intelligence (BI) with the Composite Data Virtualization Platform™ on the February 2 broadcast of DM Radio.  Hosted by Information Management’s Eric Kavanagh and Editorial Director Jim Ericson, DM Radio features industry analysts, leading consultants, innovative vendors and savvy practitioners in a one-hour live broadcast. To register for the February 2 DM Radio broadcast entitled “Some R&R for IT Staff?  Strategies and Tactics for Self-Service BI,” please visit here.

Combined solution provides retention and compliant access to large volumes of data across the enterprise

San Mateo, CA — January 18, 2012 —  Composite Software and RainStor today announced that Composite has added access to RainStor’s Big Data management database, growing the list of popular enterprise applications it supports including Oracle, SAP, and salesforce.com as well as relational and multi-dimensional data sources from IBM, IBM Netezza, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP BW, SAP Sybase and Teradata.

Composite Software’s Robert Eve will join Dine to detail use cases where data virtualization helped achieve business agility and quick return on investment

San Mateo, CA — January 16, 2012 —  Steve Dine, founder of Datasource Consulting, which specializes in helping customers implement successful, maintainable data integration and business intelligence solutions, will headline the January 17 broadcast The Briefing Room discussing “Cutting to the Quick: A Faster Path to BI Agility” at 4pm ET. Also on the broadcast will be Robert Eve, executive vice president of Marketing with Composite Software and co-author of the recently published book “Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility.” To register for the Briefing Room broadcast featuring Dine and Eve, please visit here.

The report states Composite Software supports some of the most complex data virtualization deployments in existence

San Mateo, CA — January 5, 2012 —  Composite Software announced today that a January 2012 report from independent research firm Forrester Research, Inc. “The Forrester Wave™: Data Virtualization, Q1 2012, concludes that “customers like Composite Software’s easy-to-use solution, tight integration to support most uses cases, and its lower cost, compared with larger software providers.” Composite Software was among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in its data virtualization research report. In this evaluation, Composite Software received perfect scores for data services performance and data services integration. 

Dr. Michael Linhares will detail Pfizer’s business successes enabled by the Composite Data Virtualization Platform

San Mateo, CA — January 4,  2012 —  Pfizer will present a case study detailing its five year experience in enabling global enterprise data integration and agile business intelligence utilizing the Composite Data Virtualization Platform™ on January 6 to the Boulder BI Brain Trust, a gathering of leading BI analysts, experts and practitioners founded by Dr. Claudia Imhoff, president of Intelligent Solutions, Inc.  In addition to the Pfizer presentation, Composite Software CTO David Besemer will present the Composite Software strategic vision and Executive VP, Marketing Robert Eve will recap Composite Software’s 2011 successes and 2012 plans.