Composite Newsletter February 2007

February 2007

The Industry Newsletter for Data Professionals



	David Vs. Goliath: Big Blue’s Composite Challenge
	Anything goes in the feisty enterprise information integration (EII) space. In spite of the long-standing presence of a bona-fide industry powerhouse–IBM Corp.–and in spite of EII-related moves from brawny BI competitors Business Objects SA and Informatica Corp., the broader EII segment still teems with players. Perhaps best positioned of these is Composite Software. Not only is Composite an EII survivor (it was plying the EII trade long before IBM introduced its first EII offerings, the erstwhile DB2 Information Integrator), it’s also Big Blue’s biggest competitive threat.

	Composite Software Receives Intelligent Enterprise Readers’ Choice Award In Intelligent Enterprises subscribers’ annual pick of preferred vendors, Composite was named runner up in the EII Category for Intelligent Enterprise’s Readers' Choice Award.

TDWI World Conference
February 18-23, 2007
Las Vegas, NV

Service-Oriented Architecture in the Federal Government
February 27, 2007
McLean, VA

CDI – MDM Summit
March 25-27, 2007
San Francisco, CA

EAC – Enterprise Architectures Conference
March 27-29, 2007
New Orleans, LA


	White Paper: Top Ten Reasons to Use Composite Data
	Services

Recently, more and more companies are implementing service oriented architectures (SOA) so IT systems can keep pace with the business. In fact, Gartner estimates that "By 2008, SOA will provide the basis for 80 percent of development projects." The virtues of SOA are well documented. Benefits include simple interoperability and reuse of standards-based services, enabling IT to more quickly and effectively meet business demands. This translates to speed, flexibility and greater productivity for both the business and IT. In this white paper, you will learn the top ten reasons to use Composite data services.
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	Providing Data Services for SOA
IT-Director
Composite has moved beyond the conventional EII environment and into support for SOA. It is not simply a matter of using web services internally but also to enable SOA to extend into the data layer. This is important because while conventional SOA resolves the spaghetti that most application architectures look like it is equally valid to attempt to unravel the Gordian knot that represents data architectures, and to do the two in concert: this is what data services is all about. Put simply, Composite’s view is that most data requirements within SOA are about data access: and that’s what CIS does.
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	Web Services "Reuse" is Number One Driver for SOA
SOA World
To maximize the intended benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations, organizations need to develop a well-articulated SOA Quality strategy to promote trust and reuse, according to new research from leading analyst firm Hurwitz & Associates. The report, titled "Executive Survey: SOA Implementation Satisfaction, confirms the top drivers for SOA adoption include the expectation of greater reuse in existing and newly-built Web services, business flexibility, ease of integration and speed of integration–with nearly 90% of respondents pointing to service reuse as their number one concern".
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	The SOA Forecast for 2007
SearchWebServices.com
ZapThink has seen SOA take off even more aggressively than they anticipated at the beginning of 2006, and all indications show that SOA strength will be further reinforced and expanded in 2007 to many corners of the IT environment, throughout the world and in many different industries. ZapThink now evaluates their predictions from the previous year and forecast the architectural and competitive climate for SOA in 2007.
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	The Four Stages of Enterprise Architecture
IT Architecture
An exclusive MIT survey maps the evolution of IT architecture and explains why you can’t skip any steps. No matter the pressure to improve enterprise efficiency and agility, companies cannot leap over stages in their evolution. Each stage lays the technological, procedural, cultural and behavioral foundation for the next. The impossibility of skipping stages holds true even in companies where one entity is ahead of the others.
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