Industry Consultant Steve Dine to Lead BI Agility Discussion on January 17 Briefing Room Broadcast

January 16, 2012

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Composite Software's Robert Eve will join Dine to detail use cases where data virtualization helped achieve business agility and quick return on investment

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Steve Dine, founder of Datasource Consulting, which specializes in helping customers implement successful, maintainable data integration and business intelligence solutions, will headline the January 17 broadcast of The Briefing Room discussing “Cutting to the Quick: A Faster Path to BI Agility” at 4pm ET. Also on the broadcast will be Robert Eve, executive vice president of Marketing with Composite Software and co-author of the recently published book “Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility.” To register for the Briefing Room broadcast featuring Dine and Eve, please visit here.

The Briefing Room, hosted by The Bloor Group's Eric Kavanagh, is a live interactive forum which allows vendors to give a detailed technical presentation to a respected analyst who asks questions and provides industry insights. In this episode, industry analyst Dine will discuss the evolution of data virtualization and how it can be used to manage information assets. Dine will be briefed by Eve of Composite Software, who will tout the company's data virtualization platform which is increasingly being used not only to supply additional sources of data, but also to monitor and manage today's Information Architectures. Eve will explain how data virtualization can make BI agile, and will provide examples of companies that have done so.

“The business benefit of agility remains clear – quickly identifying and addressing opportunities separates market leaders from the competition,” Dine said. “Agile BI is a key ingredient for achieving such an advantage, but an array of technical and organizational barriers stands in the way. It is one proven way for overcoming such hurdles involves data virtualization and the incremental design of an Information Architecture.”

Added Eve, “Data virtualization has clearly emerged as a mainstream alternative for enterprises seeking more agile fulfillment of the fast changing requirements that characterize today's dynamic business intelligence environments.”

This is the fourth in a series of Briefing Rooms with Composite Software. The first addressed the concept of data virtualization, the second talked about adoption patterns, and the most recent episode detailed Composite Software customer use cases. All Webcasts are archived here.

About Composite Software, Inc.

Composite Software, Inc. is the data virtualization performance leader. Backed by a decade of pioneering R&D, Composite Software is the data virtualization gold standard at 10 of the top 20 banks, six of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, four of the top five energy firms, major communications providers and the world’s largest IT organization, the US Army. These and hundreds of other global organizations rely on Composite to fulfill their ever-changing information requirements with greater agility and lower costs. Composite Software is privately held, with corporate headquarters in San Mateo, CA. To contact Composite, please call (650) 227-8200, visit us on the Web at http://www.compositesw.com, or follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/compositesw.

About The Bloor Group

As a new-media analyst firm, The Bloor Group delivers both traditional and dynamic research products and service. Transparency pervades everything we do at The Bloor Group. The company mission is to reveal the essential characteristics of today’s enterprise technologies, such that busy professionals can get the insights they need to responsibly make significant purchasing decisions. Achieving that vision calls for more than just first-class technology analysis. It requires a commitment to the creation of meaningful content generated by a range of innovative media formats that tease out valuable kernels of information and wisdom.