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Claudia Imhoff, Ph.
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In today’s dynamic
environment, organizations are faced with new and
increasingly critical decisions which can affect their
very survival. Decision makers, in turn, have placed
more and more demands on their Business Intelligence
(BI) environments. Their demands are increasing the
pressure on IT to deliver the right data at the right
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In this paper, the two
most popular techniques for data integration (virtual
data federation and physical data consolidation) are
described, and the data integration technologies that
support each technique (EII and ETL) are reviewed.
Through eight BI examples, advice is offered to help
implementers determine when to use each technique and
technology. |
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Butler Group Recommends that
Organizations Would Benefit from Using Composite
Information Server 4.6
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Composite
Information Server 4.6’s Data Integration
Recognized as Strong Data Management Solution.
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Press
Release |
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A product
evaluation by industry analyst firm Butler
Group, a Datamonitor company, recommends that
organizations with a diverse range of
applications needing to consolidate data
virtually, as well as those transitioning to
service-oriented architecture (SOA), would
benefit from using Composite Software’s newest
solution, Composite Information Server 4.6.
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“Butler Group
thinks very highly of the visual, declarative
capabilities of the Composite Information
Server’s modeling environment,” writes author
Angela Eager, senior analyst at the UK-based
Butler Group. “The combination of an intuitive
interface for data service design and automatic
generation of the code, means developers can
concentrate on the content of the data service
rather than writing SQL, WSDL or defining XML
schemas, [thereby] speeding up the creation
process.” |
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The report
determined that the Composite Information Server
is a strong solution for integrating live data
in real time across disparate systems and is
particularly good at accessing packaged
application data that is notoriously difficult
to access. The Composite Information Server also
adds value by pushing relevant information to
users throughout the organization in an easily
digestible format. |
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Informatica World
June 3-5,
2008
Las Vegas, NV |
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National Reconnaissance Office
Technology Exposition
June 4,
2008
Chantilly, VA |
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Gartner Application Architecture,
Development & Integration Summit 2008
June 9-11, 2008
Orlando, FL |
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Air Force Cyberspace Symposium
II
June 16-19, 2008
Marlborough,
MA |
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Virtualization Conference
and
Expo
June 23-24, 2008
New York,
NY |
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Data Integration Strategy Recommendation
Tool |
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| Virtual Data
Federation (EII) vs. Physical Data Consolidation
(ETL) |
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| Data integration
is a challenging task and becoming ever more so as data
silos proliferate and agility needs increase.
Fortunately, instead of having to rely on hand coding at
the applications level to meet these requirements,
project teams can use the combination of intermediate
data stores (data warehouses, data marts and operational
data stores) and data integration middleware (EII, ETL)
to automate significant work, add quality, accelerate
time to solution, and reduce costs. |
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| We developed the
Composite Software Data Integration Strategy
Recommendation Tool to provide a simple 80/20 type
decision making tool to let you quickly, yet accurately,
select the right data integration strategy for each new
development project. |
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Enterprise Architecture: All for One
and One for All |
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| In this episode
of DM Radio, we talk to several industry leaders about
the concept and reality of Enterprise Architecture.
We'll speak with Andy Blumenthal, Director of Enterprise
Architecture and IT Governance for the U.S. Coast Guard;
Jim Green, CEO of Composite Software; and Tom Reamy,
Chief Knowledge Architect for KAPS Group. Specifically,
we're looking to discover where Data Architecture,
Business Architecture, Information Architecture and
Integration Architecture meet. And what's the ROI, after
all? |
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Using Data Virtualization to Maximize Return
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Warehousing Investments |
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enterprises rely on the information in their data
warehouses more than ever for making informed,
business-critical decisions and complying with a myriad
of ever-increasing regulations and compliance
mandates. |
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these enterprises really maximizing the return on their
data warehousing investments? Might complementary
technologies provide additional performance management
insights and therefore valuable returns? In particular,
how are enterprises leveraging new advancements in data
virtualization required to achieve even greater
revenues, larger cost decreases and better risk
reduction today? |
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Data Virtualization & Search: A Tale of
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Data
discovery – the next step in data integration
Virtualization Sys-Con Media |
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midst of the data explosion, IT delivery systems are
hard pressed to keep pace. According to a recent study
commissioned by Accenture, “Managers spend two hours a
day looking for information they need, and almost half
the data is useless once they get it.” With so much
wasted time, and more data predicted to be on its way to
compound the problem, business professionals may be
facing the worst of times. |
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the technology horizon to address the demand for these
exponential amounts of data? |
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it’s the next step in data integration that combines the
power of data virtualization with the ease and immediacy
of search. It’s called data discovery. In its currently
nascent stage, data discovery promises to let business
professionals leverage their ever-expanding data assets
more effectively to stay ahead of increasingly dynamic
competition. |
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Bloor Research Group: Composite Information
Server |
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| If you need
a self-contained and technology-agnostic information
server with strictly-defined functionality that can slot
into your existing infrastructure then the Composite
offering is a strong contender. This pure-play data
integration solution has all the components needed to
enable the rapid development and deployment of real-time
virtual, federated data services to meet evolving
business information needs. With the enterprise
application space littered with systems sporting unused
and irrelevant functionality, the current trend is to
deliver quality not quantity and that is exactly what
CIS does. It is a strong product that Butler Group
highly recommends. |
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The Real-Time BI Dilemma |
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| Real-time is viral:
once one business unit has it, others will clamor for
real-time access, too. The question is -- does your
organization really need it? |
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Systems |
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when to opt for real-time, says Bob Eve, vice-president
of marketing with enterprise information integration
(EII) specialist Composite Software Inc. At the
beginning of the real-time wave, Eve acknowledges,
Composite was approached by a bevy of customers that
hoped to use its EII technology to do real-time. That's
a perfectly valid use-case, Eve indicates, but what many
of these customers found out – and what Composite
learned in the process – is that they didn't always need
real-time. For all of its advantages, there were – in
many scenarios – a number of attendant disadvantages,
too. As a result, he says, Composite's developed a
real-time assessment tool that helps customers determine
when or if real-time is right for them. |
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Data Virtualization: The Next Wave in the
Virtualization |
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Revolution |
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| Database Trends and
Applications |
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| Virtualization is changing
computing as we know it. A primary factor in this change
stems from virtualization’s key strength of hiding the
physical characteristics of computing resources from the
way in which other systems, applications and end-users
interact with those resources. |
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the first step, delivering greater computing power along
with greater adaptability. Storage virtualization
followed, enabling data centers to keep pace with
ever-increasing storage and service-level demands.
Bringing virtualization out of the data center,
application and desktop virtualization simplify desktop
configuration, thereby cutting management costs. The
common thread across these disparate applications is
virtualization’s ability to overcome hardware and
software complexity and deliver improved agility and
significant cost savings. |
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Virtualization – Fast-Forward to Today's
Virtual Data Marts |
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| Web Sphere
Journal |
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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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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.”
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to enable virtual data marts to move to the mainstream?
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The Impact of MDM on Data Warehousing |
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| IT-Director.com |
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| You may recall, Philip
Howard of Bloor Research recently wrote a Bloor In Depth
Report on Composite Information Server 4.6 that was a
excellent summary of the importance of Virtual Data
Integration/EII technology in general, and our best of
breed leadership product, in particular. |
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| In his weekly Data
Management technology blog on IT-Director.com Philip
addresses data integration approaches in support
of Master Data Management. Based on his strong
understanding of both the need and our offerings, he
makes the case for Composite as strong solution for this
important use case. |
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