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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 2

April 15, 2013 by Marc Breissinger Leave a comment

In How Data Abstraction Works Part 1, I outlined the challenges organizations face today as they deal with the diversity of cloud, big data, data warehouse, enterprise and external data sources. In it I made a case for data abstraction, in general, as well as data virtualization was a superior way to implement data abstraction, in particular.

Filed under Architecture Tagged with Abstraction, Composite Software, 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

Trip Report from Gartner BI and Analytics Summit

March 25, 2013 by Robert Eve 2 Comments

Last week Composite Software was at the Gartner BI and Analytics conference in Dallas http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/business-intelligence/

It was an incredible event in terms of content and community including:

Filed under Products Tagged with analytics, Composite Software, Data Federation, Data Integration, Data Virtualization, Logical Data Warehouse

Don’t Let Legacy Systems Slow You Down

March 18, 2013 by David Besemer 1 Comment

In our ever changing technology environment, new opportunities are everywhere. Predictive analytics, big data, mobile, cloud and virtualization are but a few.

These new technologies improve business competitiveness, increase agility, save money and more.

But migrating from existing systems can be risk prone. And efforts often drag out.

Filed under Strategy Tagged with analytics, Composite Data Virtualization Platform, Composite Software, Data Federation, Data Virtualization

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.

Filed under Best Practices Tagged with Agility, Composite Information Server, Composite Software, Data Federation, Data Virtualization, Products

Architecting Analytic Data Hubs

March 3, 2013 by Marc Breissinger 2 Comments

I Love Solution Architecture

I have been doing enterprise architecture for a long time. From my early days as a consultant at Accenture to my role at CTO of webMethods and for the past several years working with Composite Software’s largest enterprise customers, I find enterprise architecture a wonderful challenge.

Filed under Architecture Tagged with analytics, Composite Software, Data Federation, Data Virtualization, Enterprise Architecture, Hubs

Data Virtualization Returns to the BBBT

January 3, 2013 by Robert Eve Leave a comment

Since 2010, Composite Software has kicked off the Boulder BI Brain Trust’s new year. In 2013 we continue this tradition on Friday January 4.

Filed under Market Trends Tagged with analytics, Big Data, Composite Software, Data Federation, Data Virtualization, Strategy

NYSE Euronext Wins Information-Management.com Innovative Solution Award for Data Integration

December 20, 2012 by Bob Reary Leave a comment

We are thrilled that our customer, NYSE Euronext, a multinational operator of 14 financial exchanges including the New York Stock Exchange, has won the Information-Management.com Innovative Solution Award for Data Integration.

Filed under Business Value Tagged with Best Practices, Business Value, Composite Data Virtualization Platform, Composite Software, Data Federation, Data Integration, Technology

Joining the Information Management Blog Club

December 14, 2012 by Robert Eve 2 Comments

From its origin as DM Review and through its ongoing evolution, Information-Management.com has long been considered the educated reader’s choice for the latest news, commentary and feature content serving the information technology and business community.