It might surprise you to hear it, but Composite Software doesn't believe that the days of the data warehouse (DW) are numbered.
If this seems like a surprising disclosure, it's because Composite is best known as a purveyor of data virtualization (DV) software. By most lights, DV and data warehousing have had something of a rocky relationship, thanks chiefly to the way in which DV (in a former incarnation) used to be marketed. But this past is just that: past, argues David Besemer, chief technology officer with Composite: “There's always been this tension betw