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Composite Software at the IAP

Composite Software is rolling out their EII appliance, called the Composite Discovery Appliance. It's for enterprise search and utilizes indexes and discovered relationships in the data sources that you train it on. The appliance is actually a blade. Composite Software is embedded into some other more popular large-vendor stack EII products in the market.

Composite attempts differentiation from enterprise search (i.e., Fast and Endeca) through its focus on structured data and their focus on unstructured data.

This is EII and subject to all the pros and cons of that method.

One thing I really liked about this presentation was that they shared the price! Sure, most of the vendors have good and interesting technology, but it's all only worthwhile at a price.

The Composite Discovery Appliance is $150,000 for full use or you can pay $7,500 up front plus $4,000 per month.

I find it interesting that data access is now getting wider. Different methods are emerging with ample, but not obscure, access capabilities. Whereas data access had been an inch wide and a mile deep, now I see some balance emerging in the marketplace (i.e., Composite, IBI) that are balancing that out.

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