London Calling: Ringing Endorsements for Data Virtualization

Last week I attended the Master Data Management Summit & Data Governance Conference Europe 2012 event in London. 

However, judging by the buzz, one might have thought it was a Data Virtualization conference, wrongly named.  Here is what I heard.

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Welcome to the DV Café

Your Destination for All Things Data Virtualization

Data virtualization is a hot topic today as business and IT realize data virtualization’s business agility, time-to-solution and resource savings benefits. As a result, numerous new articles, research reports, white papers, videos and more become available every day.  

If you are interested in data virtualization, how do you keep up?

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Data Virtualization for Small and Mid-sized Organizations

While financial services and telecoms generally lead any new technology wave, when technologies such as data virtualization hit mainstream, small and mid-sized organizations get on board.

So how is small and mid-sized organization adoption proceeding? And how are these firms benefiting?

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Rick van der Lans’ Take on BI Agility

Is BI too slow? Rick van der Lans thinks so. Author of the upcoming book “Data Virtualization in Business Intelligence Architectures: Revolutionizing Data Integration for Data Warehouses,” believes “The biggest challenge facing the industry today is how to develop systems that have an agility level that matches the speed with which the business evolves. 

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Announcing Composite 6.1

With greater demand and market acceptance for data virtualization resulting in more high performance use cases and the pressing need to ‘skill up’ more developers., today we announced version 6.1 of our Composite Data Virtualization Platform™ ; extending our performance leadership position and significantly enhancing our data services development environment.

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Composite Software a Leader in Data Virtualization Wave

First Data Virtualization Wave

This week, Forrester Research, Inc., delivered their first Wave report on Data Virtualization.

The January 2012 report: “The Forrester Wave™: Data Virtualization, Q1 2012” provided a number of insights about the data virtualization market and the key vendors in the market, including leader Composite Software. 

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Data Virtualization Next Up at the BBBT

Composite Software CTO David Besemer will present the Composite Software strategic vision  and  I will recap Composite’s 2011 successes and 2012 rollout plans at the Boulder BI Brain Trust (BBBT) on January 6, 2012.

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Toward A More Agile Business – Part 2

Information Technology Challenges Abound

Effectively leveraging information assets to achieve business agility is complicated by the fact that the volume of information is expanding at unprecedented rates.

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Toward A More Agile Business – Part 1

Business Agility is Key to Survival

“In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.”

Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859 captures the essence of every organization’s need to continuously adapt in response to a complex and dynamic business environment.

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Wayne Eckerson Says “Data Virtualization: The Time Has Come”

Think Data Virtualization First!

 Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research at TechTarget and former head of research for TDWI, “used to think that data virtualization tools were great for niche applications, such as creating a quick and dirty prototype or augmenting the data warehouse with real-time data in an operational system or accessing data outside the corporate firewall.”

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