Composite Software, Inc., the leading provider of data virtualization middleware, recently announced it has expanded its federal operations in response to accelerating government agency demand.  The company increased its federal team with key new hires in sales, sales engineering, and services, and solidified a new GSA partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corp., a government IT solutions provider, to build upon a second consecutive year of greater than 50 percent revenue growth.

Government agencies including the Business Transformation Agency (BTA), the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and the Department of Transportation (DOT), as well as several unnamed intelligence agencies, joined the ranks of Composite’s customer base in 2009.  Struggling to overcome siloed data spread across multiple source systems, these agencies have adopted Composite’s data virtualization to fulfill both project-level data federation and to share data across the enterprise in service-oriented architectures (SOAs), as well as extend their data warehouse investments.

“The federal government is maintaining many complex, heterogeneous and physically disbursed physical databases,” states David Linthicum, SOA and data integration expert from Washington, D.C.  “Data virtualization technology is able to leverage many physical databases in ways that are logical and productive for those building new architectures and applications for the government.”

To better serve its federal customers, Composite Software’s Reston, Va.-based federal division now boasts several key new hires, including: Mike Aube, formerly of Computer Associates, and David Heller, formerly of Metastorm Inc., who join as sales engineers; Mike Tinius, formerly of BEA, who joins as an enterprise architect; and Ed Anderson, who joins in Inside Sales.  Composite’s Federal professional services team also added two new senior-level consultants: Michael Gardner from Verizon Communications Inc., and Mike Shen, formerly with Northrop Grumman Corp.

Bolstering its internal team, Composite Software also entered into a new reseller partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corporation, to provide federal agencies with deep expertise in Composite and other leading software solutions, along with extensive procurement process assistance. 

According to Composite’s Federal Business Unit Director, Erin Hawley, “Federal IT teams are well aware of Carahsoft’s track record and value-add in aggregating best-of-breed vendors into complete solutions for the U.S. government.  With data virtualization’s emergence, Composite will play a big role in future Carahsoft offerings.”

SOURCE: Composite Software Expands its Federal Operations