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Composite Software Creates Industry’s Most Complete Data Virtualization Platform

SAN MATEO, Calif. — May 18, 2010 — Composite Software, Inc., the leader in high performance data virtualization, today introduced the newest version of the Composite Information Server Data Virtualization Platform™, to address the escalating demand by global enterprises with complex and disparate information systems for more agile, cost-effective data integration solutions.  Composite’s platform is now the industry’s most comprehensive data virtualization offering, with capabilities from upfront data discovery and modeling to ongoing operations monitoring.

“A pioneer in data virtualization, Composite Software has proven itself the gold standard for high performance and flexibility,” said Shawn Rogers, vice president of Business Intelligence Research, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). “These newest additions to its data virtualization platform will surely benefit global enterprises by filling the need for a more virtualized and agile approach to data integration as they concurrently extend Composite’s technology leadership position.”

Global enterprises are increasingly adopting data virtualization to overcome complex data integration challenges, including data that is difficult to identify and understand, data that isn’t always in the required form, data that resides in multiple locations and information sources or silos, data that needs to be combined across silos with other data to provide complete insight, and delivering real-time data without impacting source system performance. Scaling from project to enterprise, Composite’s data virtualization platform enables global enterprises to develop and implement data federation, data warehouse extension, enterprise data sharing, real-time and cloud computing data integration.

Composite Software’s newest release features the following:

Composite Discovery Automates Business Intelligence Data Discovery Process
According to the May 10, 2010 independent Forrester Research, Inc. report, The State of Business Intelligence Software and Emerging Trends, 2010, “Anecdotal evidence reveals that close to 80 percent of any BI effort lies in data integration.” The report’s author, Senior Analyst Holger Kisker, Ph.D., continues in the report, “And 80 percent of that effort (or more than 60 percent of the overall BI effort) is about finding, identifying, and profiling source data that will ultimately feed the BI application. Yet that pre-extract, transform, and load (ETL) step today is largely manual.”

Now offered as a software option that is fully integrated with Composite Information Server, Composite Discovery 2.0 features faster algorithms to automate the business-critical steps of finding and understanding source data, thus accelerating the data modeling step of data virtualization. 

“We are looking forward to the next release of Composite Discovery, as the new features and capabilities will accelerate our data integration efforts across multiple complex sources and provide rapid access to information for decision making,” said Michael Linhares, Ph.D. and research fellow, business information systems, business operations, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pfizer Inc.

More Data Source Adapters
With the addition of Composite Application Data Services for Oracle Essbase, the Composite Information Server platform now accesses the greatest number of data source types in the industry, including:

Large-Scale Data Virtualization Deployment Support Increased
“As Composite adoption increases in the world’s largest financial services, pharmaceutical and energy companies, meeting performance service level agreements and security requirements have become more critical than ever,” said David Besemer, Composite Software’s CTO. “With this release, we maintain our performance and security leadership, while improving the monitoring required for reliable, 24X7 enterprise-level operations.”

“Composite Software continues to play an important role in our enterprise-wide data integration and data management initiatives,” said John Boyer, enablement team director, The Nielsen Company.  “We’re thrilled with the direction of the new Composite Monitor.  We anticipate that Composite Monitor will be uniquely positioned within Nielsen as the one tool that can help us monitor our environments in a number of areas:  Security, QA and Testing, Troubleshooting and Support.  All in real time!”

The new Composite Information Server Data Virtualization Platform ships in June.  Pricing is based on required processing power and size of deployment.  To download a data sheet or product screen shot, go to http://www.compositesw.com/index.php/products.

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ABOUT COMPOSITE SOFTWARE:  Composite Software, Inc. is the data virtualization gold standard at 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; and multiple government agencies.  These are among the hundreds of global organizations with disparate, complex information environments that count on Composite to increase their data agility, cut costs and reduce risk. Backed by nearly a decade of pioneering R&D, Composite is the data virtualization performance leader, scaling from project to enterprise for data federation, data warehouse extension, enterprise data sharing, real-time and cloud computing data integration.  Composite Software is a privately held, Silicon Valley-based corporation.  For more information, please visit http://www.compositesw.com.  Or follow Composite on http://twitter.com/compositesw. 

Composite Software and Composite Information Server are registered trademarks of Composite Software, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective companies. Copyright © Composite Software, Inc. 2010. 

 

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