Composite Software Announces a New eBook

Composite Software has announced an eBook underwritten by the company, titled “Federating Architectures for BI Professionals,” written by Wayne Eckerson, veteran consultant and industry analyst in analytics, business intelligence, performance management and data warehousing.

BI professionals, despite their best efforts, currently operate in a federated world where critical data and analytical logic is spread across multiple databases and applications in various parts of an organization, Eckerson writes in the eBook. A federated architecture knits these disparate environments together virtually rather than physically, Eckerson writes. Maximizing the benefits of both options, while minimizing their downsides, it is neither centralized nor decentralized, but a hybrid of the two, the company stated in a press release.

“Contrary to popular opinion, a BI architecture is a dynamic environment, not a blueprint written in stone,” Eckerson said. “BI managers must define an architecture based on prevailing corporate strategies and then be ready to deviate from the plan when the business changes due to an unanticipated circumstance, such as a merger, acquisition, or new CEO. Thanks to the popularity of data center virtualization, many organizations are exploring the possibility of virtualizing their data as well to help manage these dynamic environments.”

As an organization reinvents itself to better respond to new market realities, a federated architecture is fluid, changing shape. The BeyeNETWORK eBook describes how to create a federated BI architecture that aligns with organizational imperatives. Readers will learn the various options for architecting BI environments – centralized, decentralized, and federated – and their strengths and weaknesses using case studies with this book.

Recently, Composite Software launched Composite 6, a new version of its flagship data virtualization software highlighted by “big data” integration support for the Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH), IBM (News - Alert) Netezza and HP Vertica data sources.

The new software extends Composite Software's enterprise-scale data virtualization leadership position with unmatched performance optimizations, cache enhancements, new data governance capabilities and ease-of-use features.