Composite Software Enterprise Information Insight
January 2009
The Industry Newsletter for Data Professionals
Spotlight
 
  Software will deliver holdings and offerings information.
  Wall Street Technology

Wachovia Corporation (recently merged with Wells Fargo & Company) has selected Composite Information Server, a data virtualization vendor, for its SOA Initiatives. Wachovia has deployed the Composite software in its corporate investment banking line to deliver holdings and offerings information even faster to customers.

Composite Software's data virtualization layer simplifies the complexity of accessing siloed and disparate data sources, across multiple operational areas. "The Composite Information Server's ability to cache any of our data from multiple federated sources allows us to provide a single point of access for user applications, and delivers on-demand information as re-usable web services. This helps our sales people provide better service to our customers, therefore increasing business value and revenue," said Sid Vyas, managing director, corporate and investment banking technology, Wachovia.
Announcements
DM Review Innovative Solution Award 2008
  DM Review
  Category: Data Integration
Pfizer, Inc. with Composite Software
 
DM Review editors took a great deal of care and time in considering each submission for its innovativeness and business value. The editors review case studies and product pitches every day. Based on this experience, the editors deliberated extensively to choose the solutions they felt best exemplified unique software solutions or a new application of traditional software to achieve exceptional business value from 71 submissions received in eight categories.

Using the rapid deployment model achievable with Composite Studio, Pfizer introduced maximum agility to a rigid, standards-based framework. Before Rapid Deployment, a typical project had a 50 percent chance of successfully answering strategic questions within the required time frame. This process took weeks to deploy. Now, more than 95 percent of all projects succeed within three days.
 
"The solution demonstrates agility with consistency"
 

– Julie Langenkamp

Events
 
Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Forum
February 10-11, 2009
Miami, FL
WEST 2009
February 11-13, 2009
San Diego, CA
TDWI World Conference
February 22-27, 2009
Las Vegas, NV
IPIC - Information Processing Interagency Conference
March 1-5, 2009
Orlando, FL
Department of Energy Information Management Conference
March 2-6, 2009
New Orleans, LA
Resources
White Paper: Information Discovery. Finding What You
Don’t Know.
Colin White, BI Research
This paper discusses the issue of finding and using information in organizations, and looks at techniques that can help business users uncover the information they need to make faster and better decisions.
 
White Paper: Composite Data Virtualization Architecture
How Composite’s Data Virtualization Architecture is uniquely suited to the task of real-time information delivery for SOA, BI, or any number of information applications.
 
Bloor Research: Composite Discovery In-Detail
This InDetail paper discusses Composite Discovery, which provides search capabilities against structured data that may be stored in multiple locations. It is primarily targeted at business users, enabling them to explore related data items where no relevant business intelligence capabilities are available. It may also be used by IT personnel searching for data relationships in order to support data governance and other initiatives.
Industry News

Composite Software Delivers Data Integration Tools
eBizQ
Robert Eve, Vice President of Marketing Composite Software Inc., recently participated in an exclusive interview with Ron Powell and the BeyeNETWORK (www.BeyeNETWORK.com). In this interview, Eve explains how the Composite Information Server enables users to virtualize, abstract, federate and deliver disparate data required for new BI and portal projects as well as the latest news about Composite’s long standing partnership with Cognos.
Composite Discovery Virtualization Tool Reviewed by
Bloor Research
Virtualization
Philip Howard of UK-based Bloor Research evaluated Composite Discovery, which provides search capabilities against structured data that may be stored in multiple locations. Discovery may also be used to search for data and data relationships to support data integration, data governance and other initiatives. Howard's findings are published as an In-Detail Report and excerpted in Pervasive BI (business intelligence) and Information Discovery, an on-demand webinar that looks at the industry trends associated with discovery of data and data relationships.
Where Structured Data Search Fails: Why Relationship Discovery is Critical When Working with Structured Data
BI Journal
(Must be a TDWI member to download)
When it comes to today’s enormous data volumes, enterprises and government agencies may feel they have left the familiar world behind. The business impact of the growth of data and complexity is significant. Therefore, business cannot rely on IT alone. Search is one of the tools enterprises are using to help navigate the vast amounts of data.
When it comes to structured data searches, however, many of the initial technology solutions—typically based on unstructured search technology—fail to hit the mark. The reason is simple. When it comes to structured data, the structure is just as critical as the data. Search solutions must consider schema, metadata, syntax, security, and tabular format.
Composite Software Offers Secure Information Services from the Ground Up
eBizQ
“Securing Next-Generation Information Architectures,” by Noel Yuhanna, a principal analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research, notes, “Next-generation information architectures such as data federation and information services are gaining increased adoption so security professionals must ensure their protection from all relevant threats….These next-generation architectures revolutionize enterprise data access by federating disparate data sources but may bypass traditional data security measures.”

In the October report, after describing eleven steps to securing IaaS architectures, the report showcases one of Composite’s financial services customers as an example of IaaS security. The report describes the bank as “… using information-as-a-service to support its risk and compliance management applications and to present a single source of truth for customer-facing applications.

Composite Software Discovery Determined Highly Complementary to Business Intelligence and Data Integration Technologies
Press Release
Luminary Philip Howard of UK-based Bloor Research evaluated Composite Discovery, concluding it serves a genuine need not served by other technologies and is complementary to business intelligence (BI) and data integration (DI) technologies.
“We are impressed with Composite Discovery: it serves a genuine need yet we know of no other vendor that offers such capability,” Howard concludes in his In-Detail Report executive summary. “There is one supplier that provides search capability against indexes …; and …a couple of vendors that support the discovery of hidden relationships (across sources) from an IT perspective. However, Composite Discovery encompasses all of this functionality and more. In our view Composite Discovery provides excellent complementary capability both to business intelligence on the one hand and data quality and data governance on the other.”
Composite Application Data Services Achieves Renewed Certification from SAP AG and Salesforce.com
SAP Certifies for Integration with SAP® ERP 6.0 and SAP NetWeaver® BI 7.0; Salesforce.com Certifies for AppExchange
Press Release
Composite Software’s Composite Application Data Services 4.6 has been certified by SAP AG for integration with the SAP® ERP application Release 6.0 and SAP NetWeaver® Business Intelligence
(SAP NetWeaver BI) Release 7.0. Composite’s adaptors have also been certified for integration with Salesforce.com AppExchange.
These certifications represent the successful completion of a rigorous series of tests to renew certifications previously earned in 2006, reinforcing Composite’s ongoing commitment to build, maintain and support certified integrations with solutions from SAP and Salesforce.com that reduce implementation time and costs.
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