Industry Consultant Richard Sherman Headlines Today’s Briefing Room Broadcast

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Richard Sherman, Managing Partner with Athena IT Solutions, which provides data warehousing and business intelligence consulting services, will headline today’s 4 p.m. ET broadcast of The Briefing Room. Sherman will be briefed by Composite Software CTO David Besemer on how Composite Software’s data virtualization solutions are enabling new ways of designing, building and maintaining analytic sandboxes. To register for the Briefing Room broadcast, “A Better Way to Fuel Analytical Needs,” please visit here.

“Companies are constantly developing new analytic applications to help keep businesses one step ahead of the competition”

Hosted by The Bloor Group's Eric Kavanagh, the Briefing Room is a live interactive forum where vendors give a detailed technical presentation to a respected analyst. In this episode, Sherman, who has 25 years of experience implementing information access and delivery solutions, will explain how advances in data virtualization have opened up new ways of designing, building and maintaining analytic sandboxes. Besemer will detail how Composite Software’s data virtualization platform can be used to enable these critical analytic needs. Besemer will also provide real-world examples of success stories, as well as his take on what the future holds.

“The analytics development process is complex, requiring identification of the best sources and secure access as well as transforming, mixing, mashing and moving the data to an analytic sandbox, all before building the analytic model,” Sherman said. “Business analysts are frustrated by ‘the data problem’ and are seeking out new solutions, including data virtualization.”

Krish Krishnan on Advanced Analytics

On October 16 at 12 p.m. ET, Krish Krishnan, president of Sixth Sense Advisors, a well known analytics and big data expert, and Robert Eve, Composite Software executive vice president of Marketing and co-author of the book Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility, will team to discuss the cross-silo analytic opportunity and how to advance analytics strategies beyond today’s silos to achieve significant business impact.

“Companies are constantly developing new analytic applications to help keep businesses one step ahead of the competition,” Krishnan said. “However, in a world of big data, cloud-hosted applications and enterprise data warehouses, it is very difficult to build analytic applications that effectively span these silos. In this webinar we will explore the emerging cross-silo analytics opportunity and identify the best starting points for rapid return-on-investment.”

To register for the Composite Software webinar, “Advancing Analytics – How to Address the Analytic Silo Challenge” featuring Krishnan and Eve on October 16, please visit here.

“Everyone understands the value of analytics,” said Composite CTO Besemer. “The challenge is how to advance analytics to stay ahead of the competition. The data virtualization approaches covered in these two webinars provide pragmatic paths to advanced analytics.”

For additional webinars on how data virtualization helps organizations achieve BI agility, extend Enterprise Data Warehouses, reengineer IT architecture and more please go here.

Composite Software, Inc. is the data virtualization market leader. Organizations such as the world’s largest financial services firms, pharmaceutical companies, communications providers, energy producers and government agencies rely on Composite data virtualization offerings to simplify information access. 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. To learn more about data virtualization visit the DV Café microsite, the Data Virtualization Channel and the Data Virtualization Leadership Blog.