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Intelligent Enterprise
Composite Software was named to a select group of “Companies to Watch” by CMP’s Intelligent
Enterprise in the ninth Editors’ Choice Awards. Identifying why Composite Software is influential, CMP’s
Intelligent Enterprise editors noted that the company is “well prepared for an emerging era in which clustered
services and virtualization are becoming architectural norms.” The Editors’ Choice Awards are the result
of a collaborative effort among CMP’s Intelligent Enterprise contributing experts. |
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Data Virtualization Tool Helps BMC Software Deliver Business Value and IT Efficiency
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BMC clients may have many custom types and sources of data that cannot be anticipated up-front. So the ability to respond to a dynamic pattern of data input is important to BMC and its clients. As a result of many corporate acquisitions, the number of expected data sources into applications has dramatically increased. Therefore, a primary value proposition was to build a better way to integrate all these sources without having to maintain point-to-point APIs. Composite’s role is to federate across the various data sources, provide caching to ensure quick responses to dashboard requests and minimize the impact of these requests on the underlying data stores. |
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Forrester’s Enterprise Architecture Forum
February 7-8, 2008
San Diego, CA |
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Data Quality & Integration 2008
February 12, 2008
London, UK |
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TDWI World Conference
February 17-22, 2008
Las Vegas, NV |
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The DAMA International Symposium & Wilshire Meta-Data Conference
March 16-20, 2008
San Diego, CA |
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DoDIIS Worldwide Conference
March 16-20, 2008
San Diego, CA |
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SOA to the Rescue, When Drug Discovery Needs Data Fast! |
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Information is Key to Drug Discovery |
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SOA World |
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At Pfizer R&D, the information required for executing and managing projects is drawn from many sources, including laboratory research, historical records, clinical trials, and business intelligence. The data is complex, diverse, and spreads across the company in various technology and application silos. |
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| As the demand for new medicines grows, so does the need for better information to manage and execute the R&D processes. There is huge pressure to make informed decisions, especially during the project’s early stages when the risk is high and before downstream costs are added. |
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Successful drug discovery needs data fast. To achieve rapid delivery requires new real-time portals and composite applications that rely heavily on existing data sourced from multiple systems from across the enterprise. Delivering that data to researchers and managers has been one of Pfizer’s biggest bottlenecks, adding months and cost to their project timelines. These data integration needs, along with their aggressive SOA strategy and RAD objectives, have driven them to find, test, and deploy a new approach to data integration – SOA data services. |
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Nine Places Where SOA is Making a Difference, Right Now |
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ZDNet |
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| What kind of a year was 2007 for SOA? Yes, there was plenty of disgust and eye-rolling at all the hype around this still-emerging concept. But at the same time, we started seeing more and more examples of companies putting the methodologies and associated tools and platforms to innovative uses. Can ROI be far behind? Some companies report seeing it already, proof that SOA isn’t necessarily some pie-in-the-sky dream foisted on us by vendor marketing departments. |
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Here are examples of areas where SOA has been put to work over the past year, gathered from blog posts at ZDNet as well as ebizQ. |
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Data Integration Demand Will Grow in 2008 |
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| The demand for software that integrates data with applications is expanding at a rapid pace. Industry analyst IDC expects the worldwide market for data integration and access software to grow to $2.9 billion by 2011. But packaged integration software is used to meet only a small portion of the overall need. |
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| Lower cost, easier to use, and more flexible data integration tools are beginning to emerge and will meet many of the integration needs in the coming year, replacing custom coding projects. Along with lower costs, there are four IT trends to fuel growth in demand for data integration in 2008. |
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Fast-Forward to Today’s Virtual Data Marts |
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Today, virtual data marts based on more advanced data federation technology are gaining in popularity. In a recent report, “Data Federation Adoption Increases as Part of Complete Data Integration Strategy,” Stamford, Conn.-based industry analyst firm Gartner highlights increased production deployment of virtual data marts. In its report, Gartner recommends that, |
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“Information architects and data integration designers/developers should acknowledge data federation capabilities as an increasingly important component of a comprehensive data integration strategy. Organizations should adopt a portfolio of data integration tools which support a range of data delivery styles, and federated views are one of those styles.”(1) |
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What has changed to enable virtual data marts to move to the mainstream? |
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When Data Virtualization Works – And When It Doesn’t |
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Data virtualization works best when you need timely information and you need it now. Where that is effective is in industries like the pharmaceutical industry – life sciences – and Wall Street, where their primary business is really information. That’s what they provide to their clients, that’s what they use to make decisions and they need to get that right away. So industries like that are where the data virtualization solution is most effective. |
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Virtual Reality |
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DM Review |
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| A confirmed technologist, Composite Software Chairman and CEO Jim Green seemed destined for the Silicon Valley, where he’s lived since 1974. “When I was getting out of school I was extremely fortunate to meet a guy who confirmed, against my intuition, that there really was a place called Sunnyvale, California.” Ever since, he’s found it compelling to “invent, create, build, have fun” and bring products to market that have generated more than $1 billion in revenue. Before joining Composite in 2003, Green was CTO and EVP at webMethods, where he arrived as the former founder of Active Software. When not spending time with family and children, “the most important thing in my life,” or taking an ocean kayaking breather, Green is likely to be talking virtualization, as he recently did with DM Review Editorial Director Jim Ericson. |
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On Demand Software as a Service with a Composite Twist |
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Web-Development :: ZBlogs.net |
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| For the past several years composite software has been developed that provides the ability to compose business solutions from web services very quickly. The author prefers to reference these solutions as macro composite. A more complete reference on this topic can be reviewed at http://www.compositesw.com/whatiseii/. Macro composition is viable due to the ability to assist low cost and provide architectures that reduce maintenance issues. The emphasis of macro composition is orchestrating existing functionality and seldom addresses the underlying micro composition of the business solution. |
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