Composite Software Enterprise Information Insight
August 2009
The Industry Newsletter for Data Professionals
Spotlight
 
  Composite data virtualization complements enterprise data warehouses by providing a range of flexible data integration techniques that let you preserve and extend existing enterprise data warehouse investments. In this paper you will learn seven specific integration patterns that combine both enterprise data warehouses and data virtualization. Each pattern includes the data warehousing challenge, the enterprise data warehouse and Composite data virtualization combined solution, and example use cases.
Announcements
Composite Software, Inc. Expands Operations to Meet European Demand for Its Data Virtualization Solutions
  Press Release
 
Spain-based System Integrator (SI), PowerData, to Resell and Implement Composite Offerings
 
Two Sales Managers Added to Composite’s European Team
 
Moves in Response to Growth of Major European Accounts Over Past 12 Months
  Composite’s expansion of its internal staff and SI partners in Europe is due to the company’s successful expansion of major accounts in the region over the past 12 months. Large European enterprises increasingly adopted Composite’s data virtualization technology for both projects and at an enterprise-wide scale, including three of Europe’s top five money center banks, Europe’s second largest pharmaceutical company, Europe’s number three cellular phone provider, and Europe’s top two integrated energy companies.
Events
 
LandWarNet 2009
August 18-20, 2009
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
AFITC 2009
August 24-27, 2009
Montgomery, AL
Butler BI Symposium
October 7-8, 2009
London, UK
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Data Virtualization in Life Sciences
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White Paper: The Importance of Data Virtualization
By David Linthicum, Linthicum Group
Considering the shifts in the way we do IT and the underlying need to address the issues of data, we are considering approaches that provide both a systemic change in the way we manage data assets, and ultimately the ability to actually increase the value of data. Thus we have the approach of data abstraction, or the ability to address very complex physical instances of heterogeneous data using common schemas, development, and mechanisms.
 
White Paper: Data Virtualization in the Energy Industry
In this paper you will learn how data virtualization, in general, and Composite data virtualization, in particular, can meet today’s energy company challenges – through an agile, high-value approach that overcomes complexity, quickly providing the business with the timely data required – even if the data required spans multiple upstream and downstream silos from across the globe. Further you will learn how specific energy companies have applied Composite data virtualization to meet specific business challenges and gain tangible business benefits.
 
White Paper: Data Virtualization in M & A
In this paper, you will learn how Composite data virtualization can help with the Business Intelligence and Master Data IT integration challenges. Further, while deciding which systems to keep versus which systems to retire is beyond the scope of this paper, we will however address how you can use Composite data virtualization to minimize interruption to operations during the course of integration and rationalization.
 
Industry News

Data Integration Project Helps Publishers Keep Newsstands Stocked
Comag taps Composite Software to deliver time-sensitive reporting on magazine stocking and merchandising trends.
Intelligent Enterprise
With advertising revenues off and subscription renewals lagging, the last thing publishers need these days is to miss out on potential sales. Services firm Comag Marketing Group has responded with faster reporting on newsstand stocking and merchandizing trends, giving its publisher clients time to react to consumer demand. The upgrade was part of a customer relationship management (CRM) system deployment; behind the scenes, data integration software, by Composite Software, made the difference.
Independent Analyst Firm Urges Overstretched IT Teams to Empower Business Users By Adopting Self-Service Mashups
Composite Software Named in New Report; Pfizer, a Composite Customer, one of Four Early Adopters Highlighted.
Press Release
A newly published report, “Mighty Mashups: Do-It-Yourself Business Intelligence for the New Economy,” from Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research, Inc., recommends that overstretched IT teams adopt self-service, mashup-style business intelligence (BI) as a way to increase their productivity and empower business user requestors to make simple changes to reports, dashboards and cubes.
Northern Trust Adapts Technology to Changing Times
Security Industry News
The introduction of data virtualization, coupled with Northern Trusts use of existing ETL (extract, transform and load) technology, is the first step in their evolution toward an integration competency center. The asset servicing business relies heavily on data. It is critical that data housed in their single operating platform is understood and utilized appropriately for each particular demand. The integration competency center will provide a centralized data service that all application developers can tap into to retrieve the right data for the right job. This eliminates the need for multiple teams and projects to reinvent the data extraction wheel time-and-time again.
Emunio Consulting Signs Partnership with Data Virtualization leader, Composite Software
Partnership represents expansion of Emunio’s data integration solutions portfolio and strengthens its capability to deliver cost-effective, agile DI solutions to the growing UK market.
Press Release
Emunio Consulting, the UK’s leading provider of data integration consultancy and delivery services, has signed a strategic partnership with Composite Software, the leading independent provider of data virtualization software.
“Business agility and today’s ‘do more with less’ mantra means IT must aggressively deliver new solutions quickly and cost-effectively. Composite’s data virtualization solutions give businesses greater flexibility and timely access to their data which results in significant increases in revenue and productivity, and decreases in costs and risks,” said Rick Barton, managing director and co-founder of Emunio. “As a Composite strategic partner, we look forward to working with the company to deliver cost-effective, agile DI solutions to the growing UK market.”
Data Virtualization: An End-to-End Process Approach
Database Trends and Applications
Enormous data volumes in complex systems exacting high total cost of ownership (TCO) are endemic in today’s enterprises. Must this always be the case? Not for enterprises and agencies using today’s advanced data virtualization to simplify data complexity and reduce costs, time to solution and risk.
The Most Reasonable First Step to SOA. “Just Do It”
Insurance Networking News
Service oriented architecture has many benefits, but all too often, many SOA efforts tend to languish and get mired in organizational politics and inertia. There are many reasons why this happens, but perhaps the main reason is that SOA proponents get trapped into thinking they have to take on and sell a massive, business-transforming project, with lots of planning and lots of committee meetings. But the SOA journey need not start with such an overwhelming commitment. Many of the most successful efforts start small, transforming one business process or function at a time.
This is the theme borne out in a book published last year, with the fairly non-descript title of An Implementor’s Guide to SOA: Getting It Right. But the key and powerful takeaway from the book is that SOA isn’t a luxury for large organizations with large staffs and deep-pocketed technology budgets – it’s a relatively simple, straightforward process that any company of any size can initiate.
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