Composite Software Allows Enterprises to Complete SOA Projects Faster, With Less Risk.

Composite Information Server (CIS) 4.0 Extends SOA Data Services Capabilities

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Composite Software, Inc., the leader in SOA Data Services, today announced a major release of the company's flagship product, the Composite Information Server (CIS). CIS 4.0 contains extended capabilities for building, publishing and maintaining service-oriented architecture (SOA) data services, a critical part of a fully functional SOA. For countless organizations seeking to deploy an SOA for greater business and IT agility, Composite's SOA data services offer the fastest path Co up to 50 percent faster Co for delivering existing data in the form of services to new applications.

"Until now, a major obstacle to achieving a full-scale SOA has been the complexity and difficulty of migrating existing applications and legacy systems to a new service-oriented environment because of the time, costs and risks involved," explains Robert Eve, vice president of Marketing at Composite Software. "Further, many companies know they need to move to an SOA environment, but they are concerned about the risk of such a complex deployment that can affect the very heart of their daily work. They also don't have the resources to develop reusable services. We get them on the fast track to an SOA environment with none of the risk and pain."

Seeking to address these challenges, CIS 4.0 builds on Composite's award-winning Enterprise Information Integration (EII) technology. New features include easier access of XML data within SQL, and improved metadata management functionality to allow users to import metadata models designed in third party modeling tools such as ERStudio and ERWin.

The latest version of CIS also improves the development environment by simplifying deployment, testing and publishing of arbitrary complex data sets using web services. Specifically, CIS 4.0 features XPath transformation mapping to allow users to establish arbitrary complex mapping of XML Schema elements into XML output, and the ability to store XML documents in SQL databases. Simply put, this allows flexibility in storing enterprise data and delivering it as business information.

As SOA data services make existing data more readily available for use by a greater number of people within an organization, protection of existing systems and access rules becomes critical. CIS 4.0 delivers improved caching functionality for dramatic platform performance improvements. In particular, CIS 4.0 offers caching of parameterized procedures and web-service calls as well as transaction caching to improve performance of procedure calls and web services operations. CIS 4.0 also adds auto DDL execution for database-based cache, which accelerates deployment of Composite's products.

In addition, CIS 4.0 extends support for SSL over HTTP, certificate-based authentication and WSS authentication to ensure secure data and credentials transfer for web-services based clients. Composite Software is also introducing support for RedHat Enterprise Linux on 64-bit architecture, and SuSe Enterprise Linux on 32- and 64-bit architectures.

"The Composite Information Server embedded within Cognos 8 BI provides additional data services that expand our reach into enterprise applications and modern data sources such as XML and web services," said Jennifer Francis, vice president of Market Development at Cognos, a world leader in business intelligence technology and a Composite Software partner. "Advancements in the CIS 4.0 release greatly improve our access to XML data and the performance of combining different data sources on-the-fly as needed by our customers to drive long-term value in performance management."

With the release of its CIS 4.0, Composite Software has renamed its popular Composite Application Views product line to "Composite Data Services." Composite Data Services provide access to complex packaged applications such as SAP, Oracle/Siebel/PeopleSoft and Salesforce.com, delivering pre-built data services for these applications. For example, Composite Data Services for SAP delivers common data services such as customers, orders and invoices from the R/3 system. These pre-built services serve as building blocks for any SOA project, accelerating delivery of tangible business applications.

CIS 4.0 is available now, and is priced according to project requirements.

About Composite Software

Composite Software, Inc.[R] is the SOA data services leader. Composite data services are the fastest path for delivering existing data to next-generation applications. With Composite's award-winning Enterprise Information Integration (EII) technology, high performance information server, easy-to-use data services development suite, and pre-built applications services, enterprises can build applications faster without worrying about data location and complexity. And only Composite lets users leverage existing data assets and reusable data services across both SOA and legacy environments, simplifying SOA migration and improving business responsiveness while lowering costs and SOA risks. Composite's products are proven at more than 100 large enterprises, including four of the top five US investment banks. Composite's technology is embedded by Cognos, Informatica, BMC, and others. Founded in 2002, Composite Software Inc. is a privately held, venture-funded corporation based in Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.compositesw.com.

Composite Software and Composite Information Server are registered trademarks or trademarks of Composite Software, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective companies. Copyright [c] Composite Software, Inc. 2006.