Information-As-A-Service
Information-As-A-Service Defined
Forrester Research defines Information-As-A-Service (IaaS) as:
- A comprehensive strategy for the delivery of information obtained from information services.
- Following a consistent approach using SOA infrastructure and/or Internet standards.
- The information delivered may be required to conform to a common information model.
Information-As-A-Service: Why is it Needed?
According to the The Forrester Wave™: Information-As-A-Service, Q1 2010, by Noel Yuhanna and Mike Gilpin; “Unlike enterprise information integration (EII), enterprise application integration (EAI), and extract, transform, and load (ETL) technologies, IaaS offers a flexible data integration platform based on a newer generation of service-oriented standards that enables ubiquitous access to any type of data, on any platform, using a wide range of interface and data access standards.”
Enterprises and government agencies are increasing their IaaS investments, viewing it as a more effective way to address the increasingly difficult data integration challenges they face. Forrester estimates the current IaaS market is $3.3 billion and expected to grow to $6.7 billion by 2012.
Composite Software is a Leader in IaaS
Based on the product evaluations and interviews with 22 vendors and user companies summarized in their Information-As-A-Service Wave Report, Forrester identified Composite Software as a leader in IaaS.
“Composite Software has succeeded over the past few years by improving its solution to support advanced features and capabilities, driving increased adoption, which has moved this company from being a Strong Performer to a Leader,” according to Forrester analysts Yuhanna and Gilpin.
“Organizations like Composite Software’s easy-to-use tools, which are tightly integrated with its scalable data services platform to build both bottom-up and top-down enterprisewide implementations. As a result, Composite Software supports some of the most complex data services deployments seen in large banks, government agencies, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, and media and communications. “
“Composite Software remains committed to broadening its IaaS capabilities through innovation and extension to support more use cases.”
