Problem – Cloud Computing Increases Data Integration Complexity
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offer extensible IT resources at an attractive, pay-as-you-go price.
However, each new cloud source and consumer must be integrated with your existing IT environment, typically using new integration methods rather than traditional direct database queries and ETL script techniques.
For example, when you integrate data from a SaaS provider such as salesforce.com with an on-premise customer data warehouse, you will need:
- deep knowledge of salesforce’s APIs,
- the ability to query data through a firewall across the Web, and
- on-demand, rather than batch mode, integration operations.
New data integration approaches are required. The Composite Data Virtualization Platform is the answer.
Unify cloud and enterprise data with ease
Solution – Data Virtualization Simplifies Cloud Data Integration
The Composite Data Virtualization Platform allows enterprises like yours to flexibly integrate cloud and on-premise data as you require so you can take advantage of the cloud.
Key cloud data integration capabilities include:
- Rapid, Standard-based Development – Composite supports a wide range of cloud based sources and consumers via industry-standard APIs that simplify and speed new development.
- Internet-friendly Data Services – Data integration services authored and run by Composite are perfectly suited to operate across the Internet.
- Lowest Cost Approach – Because Composite accesses, federates, abstracts and delivers queried data on demand, no additional cloud-based data storage is needed.
- Safe and Secure – Further, Composite’s support of multiple security models ensures proper authentication, authorization and encryption both on-premise and in the cloud.
- Rich Suite of PerformancePlus™ Application Adapters – Composite easily integrates with popular SaaS applications such as salesforce.com, IaaS cloud-hosted applications such as SAP and Oracle E-Business.
If you’re an enterprise or government agency leveraging the cloud, you’ll want to learn more about how the Composite Data Virtualization Platform simplifies cloud data integration.
Data Virtualization with the Cloud Demo
Selected Examples
- Sales Compensation In The Cloud – With required data from on-premises SAP order management and financial systems as well as cloud-based salesforce.com, sales compensation reporting and analysis was a challenge. Using the Composite Data Virtualization Platform, the company built a virtual sales compensation data mart as the unified source for sales compensation insight.
- Bank Builds an Internal Data Cloud – To improve timely data access for business analysts and applications globally, a top ten money center bank built an internal data cloud using the Composite Data Virtualization Platform. Now multiple consuming solutions—anywhere in the world—can immediately access the latest positions, trades, and reference data.
