Composite Software Enterprise Information Insight
November 2006
The Industry Newsletter for Data Professionals
Spotlight
 
  Composite Software recently announced the major release of the company’s flagship product, the Composite Information Server (CIS). CIS 4.0 contains extended capabilities for building, publishing and maintaining service-oriented architecture (SOA) data services, a critical part of a fully functional SOA. For countless organizations seeking to deploy an SOA for greater business and IT agility, Composite’s SOA data services offer the fastest path—up to 50 percent faster—for delivering existing data in the form of services to new applications.
Announcements

Partners Show Strong Support for SOA Enhanced Composite Information Server
BMC, e-Brilliance, MomentumSI, Tripos, and other implementation firms and SOA vendors are showing strong support for the Composite Information Server (CIS) 4.0 as the most practical approach for enterprises deploying an SOA. Partners and end customers can build applications faster without worrying about the data’s location and complexity. Composite’s easy-to-use tools and pre-built data services for leading packaged applications give partners a leg up in SOA implementations by delivering existing data to new applications more easily.
Events
 
TDWI Conference
November 5-10, 2006
Orlando, FL
  DAMA New York
Presentation: “Incorporating Existing Systems into an SOA”
– Jim Green, Chairman & CEO Composite Software

November 16, 2006
New York, NY
 
DAMA Day San Francisco
December 11, 2006
San Francisco, CA
Resources

White Paper: Composite Data Services Architecture
The Composite Information Server™ (CIS) and the Composite Studio™ from Composite Software lets developers easily build and deploy data services. These products are built using an architecture that makes it practical to implement and deploy the data services layer within an SOA. Composite data services provide information in the form that users need to see it, regardless of how or where it is stored, even if the data spans multiple sources. Composite data services then abstract and deliver the results, on-demand, for a variety of use cases including executive dashboards, operational reports, custom applications, and more.
This technical white paper describes the Composite Information Server and Composite Studio in detail, and shows how Composite’s Data Services Architecture™ is uniquely suited to the task of real-time information delivery within a service-oriented architecture.
Industry News

 

Composite Software Improves XML Document Handling
DataMonitor Computerwire
Competing as the faster and easier entrant in the enterprise information integration, or federated query market, Composite Software Inc. is now catching up with rivals like IBM Corp. when it comes to XML data access.
Composite has largely focused on federating queries to data from packaged applications like SAP, Oracle, and Siebel. It emphasizes an engine that is more visual and declarative than its rivals. The company, much of whose base is from financial services, grew at 3x last year.
Composite Adds SOA Data Services for SAP BW
Continuing the success of its data services for popular applications such as SAP, Siebel, Oracle E-Business Suite and Salesforce.com, Composite Software released its newest Composite Application Data Services™ for SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW). Customers can now bring forward historical information from SAP BW and other existing systems into a service-oriented environment. These reusable services, help enterprises simplify access to complex packaged applications, and thereby accelerate dashboard, single-view, ad-hoc reporting, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects.
THE INFORMATION ARCHITECT: Four Value Propositions of EII
SearchCIO.com
Enterprise information integration, or EII, can enable IT organizations to better collect, analyze and reuse various data than other methods such as enterprise application integration (EAI) or extraction, transforming and loading (otherwise known as ETL). However, selling EII to your CEO is not always an easy task. The demand for EII software and related services is steadily rising, with worldwide revenue estimated to hit an all-time high of $1 billion by 2007, according to Lexington, Mass.-based consultancy Infostructure Associates.
Composite Unveils SOA Data Services
Syscon.com
As SOA data services make existing data more readily available for use by a greater number of people within an organization, protection of existing systems and access rules becomes critical. Composite Software’s, Composite Information Server (CIS) 4.0 delivers improved caching functionality for dramatic platform performance improvements. In particular, CIS 4.0 offers caching of parameterized procedures and web-service calls as well as transaction caching to improve performance of procedure calls and web services operations. CIS 4.0 also adds auto DDL execution for database-based cache, which accelerates deployment of Composite’s products.
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