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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 users must make good decisions and answer day-to-day questions to resolve tough business problems from disparate enterprise data systems that change and grow at near exponential rates. Many business end users under-utilize powerful, yet cumbersome BI and reporting tools because they need a great deal of IT input and assistance before they can be effective at extracting the structured data that would help them most given new or unanticipated demands.  Ad hoc tools, like enterprise search, deliver text matches, but are ineffective for revealing structured data relationships that help these users navigate related data in their journey toward the ultimate answer.

With Composite Discovery you can discover your answer now. Composite Discovery puts enterprise information at your fingertips by letting you discover both data and relationships, then refine and share results, simply, quickly, from your desktop.

Benefits:

Your 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.

Key capabilities:

Discovery lets you get started quickly and easily to achieve immediate benefits.   Up and running in hours and requiring minimal training, Composite Discovery lets you:

• Find enterprise structured data throughout an organization - regardless of location or source - quickly and easily using a search-like user interface.
  

• Discover hidden relationships among data. Beyond search tools only return exact matches on key words - enter "Howard" and "widget," Composite Discovery automatically discovers relationships among data values, linking together seemingly disconnected data into a rational result set from which you can drive toward the answer.

• Answer questions instantly from rationalized data. Data is presented in an easy-to-work-with, easy-to-read, tabular format.

Discovery also provides an advanced set of features that promote business and IT productivity.

• Navigate across related objects by examining the data linkages discovered from your enterprise data models as well as from the data values themselves to see all the related data that may be relevant.
• Filter and refine discovered data. Use drag-and-drop tools and an easy-to-use tabular format to add, move and delete rows and columns as you focus in on the answer.
• Integrate Excel®. Results can be exported to a familiar Excel spreadsheet for additional analysis, formatting, and distribution. And you can re-query the latest data anytime from Excel.
• Share knowledge and techniques. Create sharable recipes and capture folksonomies to facilitate collaboration across users and accelerate adoption.

Composite Discovery supports existing IT requirements and data governance strategies.

• Quick Deployment. The Composite Discovery appliance is easily installed, quickly configured, and up and running in hours.
• Secure. Discovery helps IT ensure compliance with data security and governance mandates using a range of security options including integration with LDAP and Active Directory to ensure appropriate access to sensitive data.
• Maintenance Free. Composite Software maintains on-going technical support, removing this burden from IT.
  

Advantages:

• Simple and Familiar – Discovery leverages a business professionals’ proficiency with tools like search and Excel®. At the same time, it provides the practical, commonly used data integration and BI features without the deep technical expertise these powerful tools typically require.
• Intuitive – Discovery lets your business professionals work – quickly and iteratively – the way they naturally work. Start by pulling relevant data together. Easily add, reorder, and delete data to understand the complete picture. Then focus in on just the information required to answer the question.
• Immediate – Discovery helps answer questions fast. You can go from question to answer in just a few minutes without IT assistance.
• Collaborative – Discovery facilitates collaboration by creating reusable recipes, useful aliases, synonyms, and categories to capture the unique knowledge and vernacular of your company.
• Controlled – Discovery lets business users access enterprise data on a self serve basis, yet complies with IT’s data governance and security mandates.
  

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