Join industry experts Rick van der Lans, R20/Consultancy and Ian Pestell, EMEA CTO, Composite Software as they discuss the effective use of Data Virtualisation to achieve Business Intelligence agility. In this webcast, we will explore:

• How can BI become more agile?
• Will agility come from new BI tools?
• Or will the best approach come from new approaches to data integration?

Big Data and Analytics are the rage. Moving beyond early experiments, many organizations now have multiple deployments across a range of analytic tools and big data stores.

But what lies ahead?

Join well known Analytics and Big Data expert Mark Madsen and Data Virtualization expert David Besemer to learn how adding data virtualization to your big data strategy can increase your big data success.

Everyone wants more data these days, though often for different reasons. Knowledge asset workers know well the value of having that extra piece of information. The big question remains—how can all these needs be supported without taxing IT and without breaking the bank?  Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Shawn Rogers of Enterprise Management Associates, as he explains what is needed to take advantage from today’s hybrid data ecosystem.

Big Data, Appliances, Data Virtualization, NoSQL, and the Cloud are challenging traditional enterprise data warehousing approaches.

Innovative organizations are leading the evolution to data warehousing’s next generation as they seek agility in this time of massive information architecture change.

Web seminar attendees will benefit from insights into:

• How data warehousing is evolving
• Real-world examples of next generation deployments
• Tangible next steps and benefits

Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear independent Analyst Rick van der Lans, who will explain how data virtualization can solve many data management problems before they occur.

Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear industry Analyst Steve Dine offer insights on the evolution of data virtualization, and how it can be used to manage information assets.

During this webcast, attendees learned how to:
- Address the paradigm shift in bioinformatics, as research is now focusing on collecting and analyzing very large amounts of research data
- Enable the bridging of the medical sciences and information systems within healthcare
- Lower IT cost while meeting the needs of health informatics in your organization
- Access “difficult to share” information that can provide better and more advanced treatments

Big Data, analytics and other technology trends are challenging traditional business intelligence and data management architectures. Innovative organizations seeking business agility have pioneered new approaches such as data virtualization that take advantage of this massive wave of change. Please join Dr. Barry Devlin, founder and principal of 9sight Consulting, for an insightful discussion of how Big Data is quickly becoming a transformational factor in today’s BI landscape.

How are organizations using an Enterprise Data Layer? There are a growing number of use cases. The original goal remains prevalent: improve BI with additional data sources.

Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran consultant William McKnight, author of 90 Days to Success in Consulting. McKnight will offer his thoughts on how to determine when and where to use an Enterprise Data Layer. He’ll be briefed by Bob Eve of Composite Software, who will describe customer deployments of recurring data virtualization usage patterns.

An Information-Oriented Architecture (IOA) can provide significant business benefits. This webcast explores how an IOA can:

• Improve access to business-critical information
• Increase agility to meet new information requirements
• Leverage data virtualization is a key enabler

The Briefing Room discussion is on the design, use and maintenance of an Enterprise Data Layer. Bloor will offer his insights on key components and why an Information-Oriented Architecture (IOA) will soon become a must-have for data-intensive organizations. He’ll then be briefed by Composite Software CTO David Besemer, who will tout his company’s Data Virtualization solution, which incorporates design principles such as decoupling, reuse and agility, combined with key information governance principles such as abstraction, shared semantic models and data standards.

Hear about real world case studies that clearly demonstrate the advantages to and best practices for using data virtualization to support and enhance your data quality initiatives.In this webcast, you will learn how data virtualization can:

• Accelerate your data quality initiatives
• Power up your approach to data quality
• Address some of the common challenges of data quality
• Put you on the fast track to achieving your data quality objectives

Addressing fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal contracting process continues to be a challenge intensified by recent legislation and economic conditions. Learn about:

• Insight into creating an adaptive risk assessment and mitigation strategy to help detect fraud, waste, and abuse
• How technologies like business rule engines and data virtualization can help identify and classify improper payments and abuse
• Techniques for integration and streamlining of data from disparate and highly secure data sources across multiple agencies and programs
• Best practices in the use of business rule management engines and data virtualization for detecting and addressing fraud, waste, and abuse

Attend this event and hear our panel of IT and BI experts as they help you avoid the common mistakes organizations make when undertaking data virtualization projects. Based on actual deployments, this live webcast will:

• Provide you with an expert perspective on ensuring successful data virtualization projects
• Discuss real world case studies involving common mistakes and the best practices that evolved
• Develop a data virtualization implementation plan that avoids bumps in the road

Jim opens the Composite Software Data Virtualization Day 2010 (held in New York on October 6) with a Welcome to attendees and reviews a brief history of the data virtualization space.

Michael will discuss how Pfizer leverage data virtualization technology to speed projects along while reducing the risk of failure. Data and information is not only important for running a business, but also for running a project in an efficient manner.  Mike will share his experiences and lessons from his own projects

Emile will present an executive-level view on evaluating data integration and data virtualization solutions and their impact on strategy.  He will discuss what to look for and traps to avoid in assessing this technology. Emile will also describe the value proposition for data virtualization and provide guidance to attendees on this key aspect.

Prashant will discuss their experiences to-date in deploying multiple data virtualization projects at Wells Fargo (Wachovia). Wells Fargo has been a Composite customer for a number of years and expanded data virtualization across many initiatives across numerous functional areas. He will also share the impact of data virtualization technology and methods on execution of managed services strategy.

As the use of data virtualization becomes more ubiquitous and sophisticated, David describes advanced patterns for getting the most out of a data virtualization infrastructure. This includes scaling across a global organization, providing real-time data integration, data abstraction, and data sharing. He also describes data virtualization’s strong role in the emerging era of cloud computing, as companies expand beyond their walls to gain IT efficiencies and business benefits.

Data virtualization is an approach that many large organizations with complex data environments are adopting to accomplish their data integration initiatives. Benefits include its simplicity, speed, and cost savings over traditional methods. This webcast will highlight how the federal government is tackling the data integration challenge by leveraging data virtualization for their agency missions.

There’s a new approach to extending the scope and reach of business intelligence within your organization. Whether you need to compliment an existing data warehouse with current operational data or combine data from multiple warehouses, you face challenges that require you to think “outside the box” of traditional ETL and CDC methodologies.

In government agencies today, new information needs often outpace enterprise data warehouse evolution. Data virtualization augments existing enterprise data warehouses by providing a range of SOA-compliant, flexible data integration techniques that lets government agencies meet new information needs quickly and cost effectively. In this web seminar, participants will learn:

• Eight ways that data virtualization can augment existing data warehouses
• How government agencies can improve reporting agility and reduce data integration costs
• Low risk, high return starting points based on actual customer adoption.

Interest in BI continues to skyrocket yet achieving Agile BI is still a challenge. Implementing Agile BI has been simplified through the methodologies of metadata BI-based applications and data virtualization. Learn how these two ground breaking approaches to Agile BI can help you increase the use of BI in your organization. Join our panel of IT and BI experts led by renown Forrester Research Vice President and Principal Analyst, Boris Evelson, for a live, information packed and insightful webcast.

Information Architecture opportunities and landscape are evolving rapidly. Listen to top Forrester Research analysts Gene Leganza and Noel Yuhanna discuss key information architecture trends you should know.

Baseline Consulting Founder and BeyeNetwork expert Jill Dyche discusses the Composite’s Data Virtualization Leadership Series with Composite EVP Robert Eve.

So, what’s holding SOA back?  Industry analyst Howard Dresner once quipped: “SOA what?”  His point? While SOA may offer…