Agility | Data Virtualization Leadership Blog

Tudor Investment Corporation Acquires Data Virtualization

May 7, 2013 by Bob Reary Leave a comment

Tudor Investment Corporation, a globally pre-eminent hedge fund manager, has joined an impressive list of Composite customers with their recent adoption of data virtualization.

Tudor purchased the Composite Data Virtualization Platform to create a virtual data layer to streamline access to market and trade data for traders, analysts, and management. “This increased agility will enable us to better serve our user community by reducing the time required to deliver data requests,” says Paul Mark Skittone, Tudor’s Head of Data Services.

Filed under Business Value Tagged with Agility, Business Value, Case Studies, Composite Data Virtualization Platform, Composite Software, Data Federation, Data Virtualization

How Data Abstraction Works Part 1

April 8, 2013 by Marc Breissinger Leave a comment

Organizations today understand that better access to information assets can improve their bottom-line.

But they struggle with the variety of enterprise, cloud and big data sources, and all their associated access mechanisms, syntax, security, etc. Further, few data sources are structured properly for business user or application consumption, let alone reuse. And often the data is incomplete or duplicated.

Filed under Architecture Tagged with Agility, Data Abstraction, Data Federation, Data Virtualization, Enterprise Architecture

Going Deep on Analytic Sandboxes and Data Hubs

March 31, 2013 by David Besemer Leave a comment

Richard Sherman, founder of Athena IT Solutions, which provides business intelligence, data integration and data warehouse consulting and training, has published two new white papers describing a new generation of analytical sandboxes and analytical hubs and their emerging role in enabling agile analytics.

Filed under Strategy Tagged with Agility, analytics, Composite Software, Data Federation, Data Virtualization, Hubs, sandbox

Get Certified On Data Virtualization, Virtually!

March 11, 2013 by Rick Schreiber 3 Comments

A First in Data Virtualization

Last week we announced the industries’ first Data Virtualization certification program, the Composite Information Server Specialist Certification.

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Vodafone Gains Agility with Data Virtualization

February 18, 2013 by Bob Reary Leave a comment

We are pleased to welcome Vodafone Netherlands to the great list of Composite customers who are using data virtualization to improve business agility.

Facing ongoing requests from business units seeking access to new data sources in hopes of gaining new business insights, Michael Hansen, Vodafone Netherlands Manager Business Intelligence Competence Center, responsible for BI strategy and architecture led the decision to leverage data virtualization and the selection of Composite as their data virtualization solution.

Filed under Business Value Tagged with Agility, Business Value, Composite Data Virtualization Platform, Data Federation, Data Virtualization

Capgemini Weighs in on Data Virtualization

February 13, 2013 by Robert Eve Leave a comment

New Report Addresses BI Urgency

Data Virtualization: How to get your Business Intelligence answers today is the title of a new thought leadership white paper from the Business Information Management group at Capgemini.

Filed under Market Trends Tagged with Agility, analytics, Business Intelligence, Composite Data Virtualization Platform, Data Federation, software, Technology

Solving the Analyst’s Data Problem

February 6, 2013 by Peter Tran 1 Comment

Recently I have been talking to a number of data scientists and business analysts about what they actually do when performing a new analysis of some nature. Their processes were quite surprising because they were far more data intensive and far less modeling / analysis intensive than I had thought.

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Big Data Common Sense

January 30, 2013 by Bob Reary Leave a comment

Back to Basics

Velocity, volume, and variety seem to be the 3 V’s that everyone talks about when it comes to Big Data. What happened to the most important V, Value?

So when it comes to Big Data, my advice is don’t get knocked off guard by the Big Data buzzwords. Go back to business and technology basics, and you’ll be fine.

Filed under Business Value Tagged with Agility, Big Data, Business Value, Data Federation, Data Virtualization

Can Data Virtualization Address the Data Integration Bottleneck?

November 30, 2012 by Peter Tran Leave a comment

We all understand the business value of BI and analytics as enablers for growth, a means to attract and retain customers, or a way to drive innovation and reduce costs.

CIOs do as well. Both Gartner’s Amplifying the Enterprise: The 2012 CIO Agenda and IBM’s Global CIO Study 2011 place BI and analytics atop CIO’s technology priorities.