Corticon Embeds Composite Software's Data Virtualization Technology

By VSM News Staff
published: Monday, August 18 2008

Users Can Connect to Many Different Data Sources Without Additional Data Integration Middleware or Complex SQL Coding.

REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. and SAN MATEO, CALIF. - AUGUST 18, 2008 - Corticon® Technologies, Inc., the leading independent business rules management system vendor, and Composite Software, Inc., the virtual data integration (DI) leader, today announced Corticon has embedded the award-winning Composite Information ServerTM in the Corticon Enterprise Data Connector (EDC)-Multi Source.  Corticon's EDC-Multi Source enables seamless access to relational databases, legacy data sources, web services, XML, message queues as well as leading packaged applications such as SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft and Oracle through Composite Application Data ServicesTM.

"Corticon and Composite mutually value delivering the highest business agility through our technologies," said Composite's VP of Marketing Robert Eve.  "While Corticon understands the importance of properly integrating business rules and data sources, Composite has expertise in virtualizing, abstracting and federating data to overcome business and IT complexity.  Our partnership has resulted in a stellar solution that helps Corticon's customers simplify data integration in the context of decision automation."

"Composite extends EDC's reach," said Garth Gehlbach, Corticon's VP of Marketing and Product Management.  "EDC-Multi Source accesses a plethora of diverse external data sources for unprecedented business agility by isolating data access from decision logic and simplifying how decision services are called.  We're thrilled to offer our customers this superior agility, both in terms of time-to-initial solution and ongoing maintenance."

Corticon's EDC-Multi Source provides a direct connection from the rules engine to relational databases and other enterprise data sources.  This allows it to automatically retrieve data required to execute a decision service or update data sources directly during rules processing, improving performance and simplifying integration. Consistent with Corticon's model-driven approach, Corticon EDC features code-free modeling in defining data access connections, providing a level of abstraction that accelerates the creation and maintenance of decision services.

Corticon's EDC-Multi Source is available from Corticon.  For more information, refer to http://www.corticon.com/Products/Enterprise-Data-Connector.php.

About Corticon Technologies, Inc.

Corticon Technologies delivers Business Rules Management solutions that unleash "The Power of DecisionsTM," as enterprise assets.  Many of the world's most successful organizations rely on Corticon to discover, model, execute and improve operational decisions (and associated business rules) within their enterprise systems.  Corticon's patented BRM System is the only solution with a model-driven design environment that guarantees the consistent, efficient and reliable execution of a company's business rules and decisions.  Corticon is a privately held company headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., with European headquarters in The Netherlands, worldwide distribution through local Corticon offices, and an extensive partner network.  Corticon's products are in use today at many of the world's largest banks, insurance companies, media companies, telecommunication providers and government agencies, collectively automating millions of decisions per day.  For more information, please visit www.corticon.com.

About Composite Software

Composite Software, Inc. is the leading independent provider of virtual data integration software for IT and business professionals.  The company's solutions discover and deliver information-across multiple locations and disparate data sources-to help enterprises solve day-to-day business problems faster, for less.  Expanding from its roots in enterprise information integration (EII), Composite's solutions provide an important link between enterprise data and the desktop, complementing traditional physical data integration, while delivering greater flexibility and control for hundreds of customers, including five of the top six U.S. investment banks, five of the top ten pharmaceutical companies, software vendors such as Cognos, Informatica and BMC, and U.S. Defense and Intelligence agencies.  Founded in 2002, Composite Software is a privately held, venture-funded corporation based in Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.compositesw.com.