Composite Software announced record numbers of enterprises are buying and deploying its Composite Information Server and related technology. Since its inception, Composite has experienced more than 100 percent annual growth as new customers extended their virtualization from servers and storage to data, and as existing customers expanded their data virtualization usage across multiple business intelligence, master data management (MDM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications.

This increased adoption is similar to findings reported by Stamford, Conn.-based industry analyst firm, Gartner, in several recent publications, including the Hype Cycle for Business Intelligence and Performance Management, 2008 (July 22, 2008), the Hype Cycle for Data Integration, 2008 (July 7, 2008), and the Survey on Data Integration Practices Shows Move Toward Strategic Initiatives (June 4, 2008).

“Today’s tough economic times demand new approaches like ours,” says Composite’s CEO Jim Green. “It’s gratifying that, in our opinion, Gartner analysts, like our innovative customers, are recognizing the value of practical and proven solutions that deliver faster time to solution, lower development and maintenance costs, and help overcome existing IT complexity.”

Complementing its virtual data integration solutions, Composite introduced in June the Composite Discovery, an appliance that combines enterprise search with federated data query to enable business analysts and analytical professionals to more easily discover and analyze enterprise data across multiple data sources and geographies for the industry’s quickest path from business question to answer.