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Whether their legacy databases and systems are ready or not, enterprises are moving to virtualized environments. Composite Information Server (CIS) works to virtualize data queries, letting companies cull data from various repositories without going through lengthy integration or data-warehouse initiatives. A multi-threaded Java application, CIS non-invasively accesses data from disparate sources; combines, abstracts and simplifies it; and delivers it via Web services or relational views. |
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Composite Software Announces SOA Validation and Verification from the Linthicum Group
Composite Software, a provider in service oriented architecture (SOA) data services, recently announced it received the highest level of certification from The Linthicum Group’s SOA Technology Validation and Verification Program. The program’s rigorous evaluation and testing process ensures vendors’ SOA solutions live up to their claims by providing the necessary components for optimal SOA implementation. |
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Composite Software provides data services technology, a critical element of a fully functional SOA. Data services are used to access, combine and virtualize underlying data sources. These data services then deliver information in the form of standards-based Web services to be consumed by any application requiring the information from existing systems throughout an enterprise. |
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Mind the (Skills) Gap |
| SD Times |
| Some industry insiders are noticing that few developers have a firm grasp on the skills they require to migrate to service-oriented architectures and manage the complexity of accessing and manipulating data. According to David S. Linthicum, CEO of Linthicum Group, as many as 60 percent to 70 percent of Web services can be classified as data services. As these data services become more common, the industry is gaining a nascent understanding of a need for a SOA data service layer, he said. |
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Composite Software Appoints Silicon Valley Veteran as |
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Chief Financial Officer |
| Press Release |
| Composite Software announced the appointment of Steve Vattuone as chief financial officer. Vattuone brings over 15 years of experience in enterprise software and consulting services to Composite. His responsibilities will include finance and accounting, human resources legal, information technology, and operations. His primary focus will be on guiding Composite’s next stage of growth through prudent financial strategy and management. Composite has experienced more than 150 percent average annual revenue growth over the past three years. |
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Leveraging Data Models to Create a Unified Business |
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Vocabulary for SOAs |
| DM Review |
| Early service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives generally focused on defining business services first and worrying about the data later. Today, we acknowledge that services and data must work in concert to produce coherent and well-aligned service architectures. The unifying elements in the architecture include a shared definition of business information structure, validity and vocabulary – in other words, the metadata. |
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| The practice works to ensure that industry-standard terminology and business-entity definitions are preserved through the layers of an SOA. Moreover, the best practice is flexible enough to accommodate evolving business requirements. |
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The Danger of Data Silos |
| DM Review |
| Many organizations have customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and corporate performance management (CPM) applications that each work independently and run off of multiple relational databases. These “data silos” are unable to share common types of information, which creates inconsistencies across multiple enterprise applications and leads to poor business decisions. Implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables internal and external business applications to communicate while sharing services and features, resulting in reduced IT costs and a more integrated enterprise infrastructure. |
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Incorporating Enterprise Data into SOA |
| InfoQ |
| The majority of today’s SOA design techniques are centered around definition of services. They use service-oriented decomposition, based on the business processes, enterprise business/functional model, required long term architectural goals and reuse of the existing enterprise functionality. This approach usually incorporates one of the most important assets of the modern enterprise – enterprise data as an afterthought. In this article we will revisit a typical SOA architecture, outline the complexities of dealing with the enterprise data and discuss several design patterns for incorporating of this data into SOA implementations. |
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