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New Composite BI
Accelerator™ Reduces Time Required for Data Discovery,
Data Modeling and Testing Phases.
Composite
Software and Motio, Inc., the recognized leader in
providing advanced software for IBM-Cognos BI
deployments, began shipping the new Composite BI
Accelerator™. Jointly developed by Composite and Motio,
the Composite BI Accelerator automates currently
cumbersome tasks (requirements gathering, data
analysis, report development, plus production and
maintenance) in the BI lifecycle. The initial
release, a self-contained appliance, has been optimized
for IBM-Cognos environments. This is the first
end-to-end solution that automates steps throughout the
BI process.
Motio CEO Lynn Moore said, “Cognos’
users are challenged to overcome their data complexity
on the front end and achieve operational excellence on
the back end. By combining Composite’s powerful data
discovery capabilities with Motio’s enhanced BI
operational performance functionality, we’re delivering
a new product that helps Cognos' users meet both these
challenges.” |
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Composite Software Ships
Industry’s First XML/SQL Developers’ Platform
Optimized for Enterprise-Scale Data
Virtualization |
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New Composite
Designer™ Delivers Equivalent, Award-winning
Composite Studio™ Development Environment to Web
Service and Java Developers |
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High-productivity Eclipse
Environment Optimized for Java, XML, XQuery and
Contract-First Use |
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Composite Software began shipping the
newest upgrade of its flagship product,
Composite Information Server™, version 5.0. For
the first time, enterprise and government agency
IT teams can flexibly choose development
environments in which to build enterprise-scale
data virtualization: Composite Designer™ –
optimized for Web services and Java-centric
development, and Composite Studio™ – optimized
for relational-centric methods. |
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The
newest Composite Information Server enables
enterprise and data architects, business
intelligence (BI) project leads and Information
Competency Center (ICC) teams to work in the
development environment they're most familiar
with/comfortable using to build the data
services that support data sharing, extending
across the enterprise the data virtualization
benefits they've achieved on a project
basis. |
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Product Datasheet: Composite BI
Accelerator™ |
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| Composite BI
Accelerator helps deliver the promise of BI, faster and
more cost effectively. The product offers a set of
capabilities to facilitate and accelerate numerous
cumbersome tasks within the BI development
lifecycle. |
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Product
Datasheet: Composite Information Server™ 5.0 |
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| The Composite
Information Server is a Java-based server that accesses
existing data non-invasively, federates disparate data,
abstracts and simplifies complex data, and delivers it
virtually as data services or relational views. |
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Analyst
Spotlight Report: Data Discovery |
| Philip
Howard, Bloor Research |
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| Data discovery
or, more precisely, data relationship discovery, is of
fundamental importance to a wide range of functions
ranging from business intelligence through master data
management to data governance and data archival. Today,
there are now a number of products on the market that
can discover data relationships that do not fall within
the category of either data profiling or data quality.
As a result, it is time to consider the importance of
data discovery, and its requirements, as a market in its
own right. |
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| In this paper we
will discuss what data discovery is, why it is
important, what sort of functionality you should be
looking for in a data discovery product and the
different approaches to data discovery that are
currently available. |
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PODCAST: Implementation Strategies for
SOA:
Getting IT Right |
| Information
Management’s DM Radio |
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more thoughtful, strategic approach to application
design and delivery, at least compared to the
traditional get-it-done-quickly model, but the long-term
benefits can outweigh the costs. |
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can include built-in integration, improved data quality
and governance, long-term expense reduction, and
facilitated change management. So, what’s holding SOA
back? Industry analyst Howard Dresner once quipped: “SOA
what?” His point? While SOA may offer long-term
benefits, most companies operate in the short-term. And
in that environment, getting things done quickly can
often trump the desire to be strategic. |
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| Listen to this
episode of DM Radio to learn about SOA from the people
who wrote the book, “SOA – Getting It Right. An
Implementor’s Guide.” We’ll talk to Jim Green, CEO of
Composite Software, plus Hemant Ramachandra of
BearingPoint, Hub Vandervoort of Progress Software and
Alex Rosen of Momentum SI. |
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You will learn:
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Implementation strategies for SOA |
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Tips for seizing on
entry points for SOA adoption |
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How SOA can improve
data quality and governance |
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Why compliance can
be viewed as a driver for SOA |
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How SaaS can help
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Data Virtualization Comes to Biopharma |
| Information
Technology |
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| Innovative middleware lowers the
administrative burden of managing large
databases. |
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| As much as
the billions of pills, capsules and injections that the
biopharma industry produces, it generates even more
data. In recent years, the IT response to these data
compilations has been to create data warehouses or marts
– business “intelligence” rather than business
“information.” But as the volume of data continues to
rise, so does the number and size of these warehouses,
producing both a higher IT infrastructure cost and a
decline in the availability of desired data. |
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hardware, data storage, and enterprise application
developers have responded to these challenges by
establishing the practice of “virtualization” – ways of
organizing data storage systems or computer power to
resemble much larger systems by maximizing the on-line
performance of the systems. Now, virtualization has been
extended to data itself. |
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| Composite
Software has developed a set of middleware tools,
including Composite Information Server and Composite
Studio, to simplify the data-gathering and presentation
process. “Ideally, the business analyst or other user of
enterprise data doesn’t need to know either where the
necessary data resides, or what format it is in. The
middleware takes care of these issues by abstracting the
data and making it readily available,” says Robert Eve,
VP of marketing at Composite Software. |
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Banks – and Their Core Systems – in Survival
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| Amid an
economic downturn that is only beginning to show signs
of a bottom, banks are reexamining their core systems,
with a priority on phasing in capabilities to cope with
new realities around risk, regulation and customer
retention. |
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| Bank Systems &
Technology |
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| A data
integration services executive at a large bank, who
spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirms that banks
are altering their spending plans around their cores.
“Most know they have to do something to fix their
cores,” she says. “But now you have to look at how well
you can manage risk and how fast. It comes back to the
technology – plans are being scaled back to first deal
with the crisis, and banks are doing things on an
as-needed basis.” |
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| While a
phased implementation of core technology can help ease
the pain related to resources and risk, the success of a
core transformation largely hinges on which systems a
bank chooses to replace. And like the rest of financial
services, many banks are placing the customer at the
center of their strategy and reengineering systems with
a customer-data perspective. |
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Pfizer's Prescription for Data |
| Federated integration speeds huge R &
D projects at the world's largest drug
manufacturer. |
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| Ever since
the invention of aspirin in 1897, the pharmaceutical
industry has been among the most complex and competitive
arenas in the corporate world. Today, billion-dollar
outcomes rest on the success of unique drug
breakthroughs, their shelf life and the pipeline of new
products that will replace them as old patents
expires. |
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constant undertow of any major project is time to
market, the core competency that becomes critical where
projects are large, extremely expensive and intertwine
scientific and business interests over extended time
frames. |
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this process more intensive than at Pfizer, the world’s
largest drug manufacturer, where $7.5 billion is poured
annually into research and development. In January 2008,
Michael Linhares, Ph.D. and Research Fellow at Pfizer,
set about revamping Pfizer’s operational data
integration. The center of the framework that would
allow rapid deployment of information access was
Composite’s Information Server, which Pfizer had been
using since 2006. |
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