Pfizer and Composite Software to Present at EMEA Analyst Group’s BI Symposium, October 7-8, 2009

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Composite Software, the leading provider of data virtualization software, today announced that a senior executive from Pfizer (a Composite customer) and a senior Composite executive will present at the Butler Group’s Business Intelligence (BI) Symposium. “BI Foundations for Decision-Making Excellence and Risk Management” is scheduled for October 7-8, 2009, at the America Square Conference Centre in London.

In his 30-minute presentation beginning at 3:45 p.m. (15.45 GMT) on Wednesday, Oct. 7, Mr. Peter Green, business integration director, Pfizer Portfolio Management and Analytics, will introduce the dynamic and complex R&D environment at the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company. Having implemented data virtualization into its R&D process, Pfizer is now able to respond to new business analysis requirements in just hours.

“With data virtualization, Pfizer has achieved a unified, virtually integrated view of its core information assets, providing key decision makers with the information they need to manage the business,” said Green. “I believe the strategies we have used to harness the strengths of Composite data virtualization are applicable across multiple industries, and that’s the message I intend to deliver at the Butler BI Symposium.”

Mr. Ian Pestell, director of European Technical Operations at Composite Software, will conduct three consecutive labs on Thursday, Oct. 8, under the umbrella theme, “Flexible Data Integration Strategies.” His first session, “Accelerate BI with Data Virtualization,” begins at 10:50 a.m. (10.50 GMT), and will showcase practical examples of how organizations use data virtualization’s rapid development and deployment to meet BI needs faster. The second, “Enhance Your Data Warehouse with Data Virtualization,” begins at 11:30 a.m. (11.30 GMT), and will cover seven methods for adding value with data virtualization to existing enterprise data warehouses. The third, “Agile SAP BI,” begins at 12:10 p.m. (12.10 GMT), and will focus on how to overcome SAP data complexity to best support BI needs.

Composite Software is a gold sponsor of the Butler Group BI Symposium.

Copies of Green’s and Pestell’s presentations will be available upon request following the conference from info@compositesw.com.

About Pfizer: Pfizer Inc, is the world’s largest research-based biomedical and pharmaceutical company. Founded in 1849, Pfizer is dedicated to better health and greater access to health care for people and their valued animals. Every day, approximately 81,900 colleagues in more than 150 countries work to discover, develop, manufacture and deliver quality, safe and effective prescription medicines to patients. For more information, see www.pfizer.com.

About Composite Software, Inc.: Composite Software, Inc. is the leading independent provider of data virtualization software. Global organizations including 10 of the top 20 banks, five of the top ten pharmaceuticals, leading energy, media, and technology companies along with U.S. Defense and Intelligence agencies, use Composite’s technology to integrate disparate data--regardless of location or source format--and fulfill critical information needs, faster with fewer resources. Composite’s platform scales from individual business applications to enterprise-wide Information-as-a-Service architectures, automating the entire data virtualization life cycle, while complementing traditional data warehousing investments. Founded in 2002, Composite Software is a privately held, venture-funded corporation based in Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.compositesw.com. Or follow Composite on http://twitter.com/compositesw.

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NOTE TO EDITORS: Biographies of the speakers are available upon request.

Peter Green Biography

Peter Green leads the portfolio integration and analytics group at Pfizer Inc. With a diverse career spanning pharmaceuticals, veterinary medicine and aquaculture, Green’s current focus is on data virtualization and visualization. He is responsible for identifying rapid and cost effective strategies to integrate and visualize information across the world’s largest pharmaceutical development portfolio. Green holds a bachelor’s degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of London.

Ian Pestell Biography

Ian Pestell has more than 20 years’ experience in the enterprise software market in such areas as simulation modelling, RDBMS performance analysis and data integration. Pestell is currently the operations director and primary technical evangelist for Composite’s EMEA operations. Prior to joining Composite, Pestell was an enterprise architect at BMC Software, where he used enterprise information integration (EII) and enterprise application integration (EAI) technologies for application and data integration of the BMC product suite. Pestell was cofounder and CTO of Simulus, a UK-based technology company providing simulation-based performance analysis tools for Oracle and UDB. (BMC acquired Simulus in 2002.) Pestell also worked on large data integration and data storage projects at Cray Research.

Pestell is an industry expert on simulation modelling and systems performance management, and he speaks frequently on these topics at technical conferences.