Enterprise IT Survey Reveals Data Virtualization Perceptions, Payoffs

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A recent survey shows that data virtualization is playing an increasingly important role in enterprise data integration strategies because of the business value that it brings. More than 47 percent of respondents have an interest in using data virtualization in their enterprise infrastructures, according to an online survey sponsored by Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization performance leader.

“Beyond quantifying data virtualization’s growing enterprise adoption, this survey parallels the significant business value that we have seen in our installed base”

The 143 respondents—a group spanning developers, database administrators, software engineers and managers, business intelligence (BI) consultants, and CIOs—identified three primary ways where data virtualization adds value to enterprises:

by improving data delivery and access,
reducing infrastructure costs, and
making data sources and infrastructure transparent to data consumers.

Additional value identified includes improving staff productivity, reducing risk of missing deadlines and improving the ability to meet demanding service level agreements (SLAs).

According to the survey, the best use cases for data virtualization include analytics/BI (64.1 percent), followed by real-time data sharing (49.6 percent), virtual data marts (39.3 percent), extending/augmenting existing data warehouses (38.5 percent), cloud computing (36.8 percent) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) (23.9 percent).

“Beyond quantifying data virtualization’s growing enterprise adoption, this survey parallels the significant business value that we have seen in our installed base,” said Robert Eve, EVP of Marketing, Composite Software. “Not only does data virtualization help reduce costs, which is an immediate boost in these current times of economic recovery, but it also provides long-term value by improving and speeding up access to business critical information.”

Full survey results are available at the Data Virtualization Leadership Series™.

About Composite Software, Inc.

Composite Software, Inc. is the data virtualization gold standard at ten of the top 20 banks, six of the top ten pharmaceutical companies, four of the top five energy firms, major media and technology organizations; and multiple government agencies. These are among the hundreds of global organizations with disparate, complex information environments that count on the Composite to increase their data agility, cut costs and reduce risk. Backed by nearly a decade of pioneering R&D, Composite is the data virtualization performance leader, scaling from project to enterprise for data federation, data warehouse extension, enterprise data sharing, real-time and cloud computing data integration. Composite Software is a privately held, Silicon Valley-based corporation. For more information, please visit http://www.compositesw.com. Or follow Composite on http://twitter.com/compositesw.