please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources composite software news newspapers books scholar jstor free images october 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . october 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message composite software inc. industry computer software fate acquired successor cisco systems founded 2001 area served worldwide products composite information server composite performanceplus adapters composite discovery composite active cluster composite monitor website www.compositesw.com composite software inc was previously a privately held data virtualization software company based in san mateo california . composite software was founded in october 2001 by michael r. abbott . in 2003 former active software founder and webmethods cto jim green joined composite software as ceo . 1 on july 30 2013 composite software was acquired by cisco systems for approximately us 180m . 2 composite software was cited as an industry leader in the forrester research 2012 forrester wave data virtualization study for its help in advancing data virtualization to its current form known under a variety of names including data federation and information as a service . 3 contents 1 composite data virtualization platform 2 customers 3 post acquisition development at cisco 4 references composite data virtualization platform edit the composite data virtualization platform is data virtualization middleware that brings together data from multiple disparate sources anywhere across the extended enterprise into a unified logical virtualized data layer for consumption by nearly any front end business solution including portals reports applications and more . 4 the composite data virtualization platform consists of composite studio which includes an integrated development environment for source data introspection relationship discovery data modeling view and data service development and revision control ; composite information server which includes a query engine with patent pending query optimization technology caching data access data publishing data quality security data governance and a metadata repository ; composite performanceplus adapters for greenplum hadoop hive hp vertica ibm db2 ibm informix ibm netezza microsoft access microsoft excel microsoft sql server oracle database oracle mysql sap sybase sap sybase iq and teradata ; composite discovery to locate key entities and reveal hidden data relationships within enterprise data assets ; composite active cluster for scalability that maintains continuous availability of data services to fulfill service level agreements ; composite monitor to provide comprehensive coverage in a real time view for both systems management and data governance . customers edit composite software s data virtualization software is used in financial services companies pharmaceutical companies energy companies communications consumer and industrial companies and government agencies including the u.s. army and the environmental protection agency . citation needed post acquisition development at cisco edit composite software was incorporated into cisco as the data virtualization business unit . the composite data virtualization platform was renamed cisco data virtualization and composite information server cis became cisco information server cis . it continues to be sold to address the same use cases at large enterprise customers 5 and is also central to cisco s move into data and analytics 6 associated with the internet of things . 7 references edit ericson jim december 2007 . virtual reality . retrieved 2011 03 29 . information management cisco has acquired composite software . retrieved 2013 07 30 . cisco press release 2012 forrester wave report data virtualization . retrieved 2012 01 05 . forrester research bishop tony 2008 03 10 . information as a service . retrieved 2010 03 26 . infoworld cisco data virtualization . retrieved 5 april 2016 . redefining cisco as a big data analytics company . 9 october 2015 . retrieved 5 april 2016 . cisco video portal . october 2015 . retrieved april 2016 . check date values in access date help retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title composite software & oldid 714026096 categories software companies based in californiacompanies based in californiacisco systems acquisitionshidden categories cs1 errors datesarticles with topics of unclear notability from october 2013all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles with a promotional tone from october 2013all articles with a promotional toneall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 april 2016 at 05 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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