Problem – Business Success Requires Responsive Enterprise-wide Data Sharing
Large enterprises learned long ago that effective sharing of data across lines of business was a critical success factor. But achieving this objective in large organizations has been especially complex due to:
- thousands of information consumers with varied roles and responsibilities
- a range of analysis and reporting applications addressing different business problems
- multiple middleware offerings and approaches to access, combine, and deliver data to these applications
- extreme data source volumes, variety, velocity and complexity
- multiple geographical locations
Further, traditional information architectures have not been agile enough to keep pace with today’s frenetic business change.
New data architecture approaches are required. Data virtualization is the answer.
Solution – Composite Data Virtualization Layers Let Enterprises Share Data with Greater Agility and Ease
Composite data virtualization combines SOA principles including, decoupling, reuse, and agility with key information governance principles such as abstraction, shared semantic models and data standards to enable organization to build and deploy enterprise-wide, data layer architectures a in a simpler, faster, more consistent, and scalable manner.
- Query Optimization for Timely Business Insight – Composite’s query optimization algorithms and techniques are the fastest in the industry, delivering the timely information your business units require.
- Data Federation Provides the Complete Picture – Composite’s data federation virtually integrates your data in memory to provide the complete picture without the cost and overhead of physical data consolidation.
- Data Discovery Addresses Data Proliferation – Composite’s unique-in-the-industry data discovery automates entity and relationship identification and accelerates data modeling so your analysts can better understand and leverage your distributed data assets.
- Data Abstraction Simplifies Complex Data – Composite’s powerful data abstraction tools simplify your complex data, transforming it from native structures to common semantics for easier consumption.
- Data Access, Caching and Delivery Improves Data Availability – Composite’s flexible standards-based data access, caching and delivery options support your diverse information consumers.
- Data Governance Maximizes Control – Composite’s data governance ensures data security, data quality and 7x24 operations to maximize control.
- Layered Architecture Enables Rapid Change – Composite’s loosely-coupled data virtualization layer architecture and rapid development tools provide the agility required to keep pace with your ever-changing business needs.
Deploy Data Virtualization Layered Architectures Flexibly
In addition to the data virtualization layer architecture patterns above, the Composite Data Virtualization Platform also supports the reference data architectures proscribed by leading IT analyst firms including:
- Data Abstraction Layer
- Standards-based Data Services Layer
- Globally Distributed Data Virtualization Layer
Data Virtualization Also Supports Leading IT Analyst Reference Data Architectures
- Forrester Information-as-a-Service
- Gartner Data Services
- Gartner Logical Data Warehouse
- Bloor Group Information Oriented Architecture
- van der Lans Data Delivery Platform
