White Paper: Top Ten Reasons to Use Composite Data

Virtualization

The virtualization revolution is upon us: first storage, then servers and applications, now data itself.

Data virtualization is used to integrate data from multiple, disparate sources – anywhere across the extended enterprise – in a unified, logically virtualized manner for consumption by nearly any front-end business solution, including portals, reports, applications, search, and more.

In this white paper, you will learn the top ten reasons to use Composite data virtualization.

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Demo: Composite Discovery

Composite Discovery is an integrated software and hardware appliance that helps business analysts, managers and analytical business professionals get the important structured data they need when no report exists.

Business professionals gain key information not readily available from existing BI and search. Discovery helps them save time, delivering answers in just minutes without IT assistance.

Discovery lets IT fulfill business users’ demand for unanticipated and one-off reporting. IT can then focus on enabling infrastructure and repeatable solutions, while benefiting from Discovery’s low total cost of ownership.

See how Composite Discovery helps business analysts find the quickest way from question to answer.

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Gartner Survey Highlights Trends in Organization,

Procurement and Standardization Practices for Data Integration

A recent Gartner survey found that an increasing number of enterprises are centralizing their data integration resources. However, they must do more to realize the full benefits of strategic data integration, such as establishing and enforcing standards.

Enterprises continue to move toward centralizing data integration efforts, standardizing on tools, and deploying them more broadly and for more use cases, according to a Gartner survey. IT professionals in charge of data integration projects should push forward in all of these areas to maximize the benefits of their data integration investments.

Key Findings

• Twenty-three percent of enterprises have implemented a shared-services model for delivering data integration capabilities across organizations via a centralized team.
• Forty-nine percent of enterprises either do not have standards for data integration tools and architectures, or do not actively enforce existing standards.
• Twenty-nine percent of enterprises have deployed data integration tools enterprisewide, while 34% have deployed them only for a single project.
• Business intelligence and data warehousing remains the leading use case for deployment of data integration tools, but many enterprises also use the tools for master data management, data migration and service-oriented architecture, among other major projects.

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Entering the Era of Data Virtualization

IT BusinessEdge

Data virtualization is emerging as the next step in the march of virtualization from the server, to storage, to the network, desktop and the application. The idea is to pull data from multiple sources into a virtual store that is available to everyone and anyone regardless of hardware or software platforms.

According to software analyst Wayne Kernochan, “data virtualization is both a logical extension of virtualization in general and offers clear benefits to the enterprise…”

Data virtualization is still a relatively new concept, so it will likely go through a number of permutations before it finds a real footing in the enterprise. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth keeping an eye on today, if only so you’ll be better prepared when the time comes to make a move.

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Turkcell Enriches Reporting Environment with a CRM-SFA

Solution

DM Review

Turkcell, the leading provider of mobile communication services needed to update their corporate sales force automation (SFA) reporting system with the goal of reducing the time to generate reports and integrated more real-time information. They decided to simultaneously implement a reporting project with the ongoing corporate SFA project, even though reporting generally follows business process implementation.

After evaluating three alternative solutions, Turkcell deployed the Siebel CRM – SFA application with Cognos 8 BI dashboard, Composite Information Server and Composite Application Data Services for Siebel with the following results:

• Near real-time data delivery
• Flexible, expandable architecture
• Rapid deployment time with easy-to-build data services
• Low total cost of ownership
• Complex business intelligence reports generated

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Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Virtualizing Data

SYS-CON.com

Meeting the ever-changing information needs of today’s enterprises

Data virtualization’s ability to overcome hardware and software complexity provides enterprises with an excellent opportunity to improve IT agility and save significantly. As more enterprises seek these benefits, data virtualization is swiftly moving from new idea to the mainstream. This article looks at the 10 most common mistakes made by early adopters as object lessons for helping new implementations accelerate the potential achievement of data virtualization’s benefits.

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Habits of the Successful Software Architect

SearchSOA.com

What are the habits and traits of a highly successful software architect? Broadly, that is hard to say. Individual team members fill-in various gaps to make a winning SOA team. The person charged with hiring should focus on overall ability to learn, and not just familiarity with SOA.

"People who have gone through a language or IT paradigm shift – that have experienced the bumps," are useful to the SOA effort, said Jeff Schneider, CEO, MomentumSI.

"An Implementors’ Guide to SOA: Getting it Right" provides a way of thinking about the essential skills of SOA. That also means looking at what stage of SOA adoption you stand at.

Download the book in pdf.

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BI 2.0 Means Change for IT

ComputerWorld

Experts say that BI 2.0 most definitely changes what IT does, but it isn't about giving up control, as many IT departments fear.

IDC analyst Dan Vesset puts it this way: "The goal is to get IT out of developing user interfaces and get them more involved in data quality and data integration."

IT should incorporate these emerging technologies into the standard BI architecture to prevent business units from adopting them to create "rogue" analytic applications, says Gartner analyst Kurt Schlegel.

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Composite Information Server Now Interoperates with HP

Neoview Data Warehouse

B-Eye Network

Customers can save money and improve data accessibility by leveraging the joint HP Neoview and Composite Software solution.

Composite Software’s Composite Information Server has been certified for interoperability with the HP Neoview enterprise data warehouse platform. As a member of the DSPP (HP Developer & Solution Partner Program), Composite Software will work with HP to integrate its data virtualization with HP Neoview to create an array of BI and reporting, master data management (MDM), data virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA) data services.

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Motive, Inc. Simplifies Telecom Service Management with

Virtual Data Integration

DM Review

Motive provides solutions for global Tier 1 carriers such as AT&T, Verizon and British Telecom. Because of the disparate systems required to deliver and manage their offerings, service lifecycle management has become complex yet critical to engender positive end-user experiences and shorten provider time to volume cycles. Composite Software’s, Composite Information server enables Motive solutions to integrate and leverage data federated within the many systems required to deliver provider IP services also known as the service delivery chain.

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Corticon Embeds Composite Software's Data Virtualization

Technology, Supporting a Multi-Source Option to it's Enterprise Data Connector

Press Release

Corticon Technologies, Inc., the leading independent business rules management system vendor, and Composite Software, Inc., the virtual data integration (DI) leader, today announced Corticon has embedded the Composite Information Server in the Corticon Enterprise Data Connector (EDC)-Multi Source.

“Composite extends EDC’s reach,” said Garth Gehlbach, Corticon’s VP of Marketing and Product Management. “EDC-Multi Source accesses a plethora of diverse external data sources for unprecedented business agility by isolating data access from decision logic and simplifying how decision services are called. We’re thrilled to offer our customers this superior agility, both in terms of time-to-initial solution and ongoing maintenance.”

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